Martin Short

At 74 years old, Martin Short has this physical status:

Martin Hayter Short (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, singer, and writer.

He is best known for his appearances on television shows SCTV and Saturday Night Live.

He has appeared in comedies such as Three Amigos (1986), Innerspace (1987), Three Fugitives (1989), Father of the Bride (1991), Captain Ron (1991), Father of the Bride Part II (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006).

Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley created the characters.

He received a Tony Award in 1999 for his lead role in the revival of Little Me on Broadway.

Early life

Short was born in Hamilton, Ontario, on March 26, 1950, the youngest of five children of Olive Grace (née Hayter), 1913-1968), a Canadian steel company, and Charles Patrick Short (1990-1970). He and his siblings were raised as Catholics. David (now deceased), Michael, and Brian, as well as Nora, his older sister. Short's father was an Irish Catholic migrant from Crossmaglen, South Armagh, Northern Ireland, who immigrated to North America as a stowaway during the Irish War of Independence. Short's mother was of English and Irish descent. She supported his early creative endeavors. David Short, his eldest brother, was killed in a car crash in Montréal in 1962 when he was 12. In 1968, his mother died of cancer, and his father died from stroke two years later.

Short attended Westdale Secondary School and graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work in 1971.

Personal life

During the run of Godspell, Short met Canadian comedian Nancy Dolman in 1972. In 1980, the couple married. Dolman moved from show business to be a stay-at-home mother and raise their family. Katherine, Oliver, and Henry were three of Short and Dolman's children. On August 21, 2010, Dolman died of ovarian cancer.

Short and his family live in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. He also has a home on Lake Rosseau, Ontario. He is a naturalized United States citizen.

On Canada's Walk of Fame, Short has two actors. Michael's brother, Michael, is a comedy writer and twice winner of the Emmy Award for comedy sketch writing.

Nancy Dolman's brother, screenwriter/director Bob Dolman (who was also on SCTV's Emmy-winning writing staff alongside Short), married Andrea Martin, a close friend and colleague who met in 1980. Jack and Joe, the couple's two sons, are short. Since being divorced (2004), Bob Dolman and Andrea Martin have been divorced. Clare Short, a former British Parliament member and former British cabinet minister, is Short, a first cousin of Clare Short.

Short appeared in Regis Philbin's 2001 film Celebrity Wants to Be a Millionaire, winning $32,000 for his charity Loyola High School.

Short has actively campaigned for the Women's Research Cancer Fund, and he has presented a "Courage Award" on behalf of his late wife at a 2011 gala by the organization.

Short is also a member of Artists Against Racism, a Canadian charity that supports artists against racism.

Short is a huge fan of his hometown team, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League, and is a huge fan of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

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Career

Short planned to pursue a career in social work when he was raised in a Godspell production in Toronto that same year. Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, and Andrea Martin were among the cast members of the production; Paul Shaffer was the musical director. Short said in the film Love, Gilda, that he and Gilda Radner dated each other on and off during that time.

He appeared on several television shows and plays, including the drama Fortune and Men's Eyes (1972). He worked solely in Canada from 1979 to 1979. Short appeared on the US sitcom The Associates in 1979 about a group of young novice lawyers at a Wall Street law firm. In 1980, he appeared on I'm a Big Girl Now, a sitcom starring Diana Canova and Danny Thomas. Canova was given the sitcom after she's success on ABC's Soap and left Soap shortly before Short's newlywed wife Nancy Dolman joined it.

Short was encouraged to pursue comedy by McMaster colleagues Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas, who formed the experimental group The Second City in Toronto, Ontario, in 1977. When the company produced a show for television, Second City Television (SCTV), it took place in Canada for many years, then the United States, he came to public notice. Short appeared on SCTV from 1982 to 1983. Short developed several characters on SCTV before moving on to Saturday Night Live for the 1984-85 season: Short developed many characters before moving on to Saturday Night Live for the 1984-1985 season.

Short appeared on Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 1984-85. With his numerous characters from season ten (the last one made by Dick Ebersol), he helped revive the show. "Short's appearance on SNL helped to resurrect the show's fanbase after Eddie Murphy's departure, which had dipped." In many film and TV show parodies, his SNL characters included several holdovers from his SCTV days, most notably his Ed Grimley character, depicted as a sardonic everyman obsessed with Wheel of Fortune, leads the triangle, rather than a miscast bad actor. He has performed impressions of Jerry Lewis and Katharine Hepburn.

Since then, he has appeared on several shows, including on the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special in 2015.

Short has appeared in several television specials and series of his own in addition to his appearances on SCTV and SNL. Short appeared in the one-hour showtime special Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas in 1985. This was Short's first live concert, interspersed with film scripts and a wraparound featuring Jackie Rogers Jr. This special was co-produced by the CBC in Canada in March 1986. Short's classic Hollywood show-up in 1989, Short headlined another one-hour comedy special, this time for HBO, I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood, Short's classic send-up of all things Hollywood. Ed Grimley and Jackie Rogers Jr. were among his characters included in the show.

Short has had three television shows named The Martin Short Show, including a sitcom, The Martin Short Show, 1994; a sketch comedy series, The Martin Short Show, 1995; and a syndicated talk show The Martin Short Show, which lasted from 1999 to 2000.

Jiminy Glick appeared on Comedy Central's Primetime Glick (2001-2003). Jiminy Glick, the actor and actress, appeared on television and film as the character Jiminy Glick. In 2002, the New York Times described the character as "the most unpredictable and uninhibited comedy creation to reach television since Bart Simpson was in diapers."

Short has appeared on many shows, including "Read, Aim, Marry Me," 2005), Muppets Tonight (1996), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Weeds, in addition to his own film. Leonard Winstone, a lawyer on FX, was a member of the FX drama Damages as a lawyer.

In the animated TV series The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, which aired from 2010 to 2013. In a series of closely related television specials in 2014 and 2016, he later appeared in a variety of related television specials.

In September 2011, he shot a new comedy special on television in Toronto. I, Martin Short, Goes Home follows his return to Hamilton, Ontario, and stars Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Joe Flaherty, and Fred Willard. Short was named for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Program or Series at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards on April 3, 2012. Short appeared on How I Met Your Mother's seventh season as a judge in Ottawa's Got Talent (2012).

On March 9, 2013, he, along with Steve Martin and Chevy Chase appeared on a Saturday Night Live segment as part of the "Five Times Club" franchise, which also included those actors who had appeared on the show five or more times. Short, on the other hand, appeared as a waiter, as he had only hosted twice.

Lou Cannon, the boss and show host of the title character John Mulaney, appeared on Fox sitcom Mulaney from 2014 to 2015.

Short's debut on NBC, Maya & Marty, which also starred Maya Rudolph, appeared on NBC on May 31, 2016.

His most recent work is Only Murders in the Building, a Hulu comedy film in which he stars and executive produces with Steve Martin and Selena Gomez. He received his 13th Emmy award for his role in Only Murders in the Building in July 2022.

Short appeared in Three Amigos, Innerspace, Captain Ron, Clifford, Three Fugitives (1989), directed by Francis Veber; and in Pure Luck (1991), directed by Nadia Tass, with Danny Glover and Sheila Kelley.

He appeared in Tim Burton's sci-fi film Mars Attacks in 1996. Jerry Ross, the scoffish Press Secretary, is on the lamsie for this. Richard Kempster, the Wall Street broker, appeared in Jungle 2 Jungle in 1997. Tim Allen appeared as Wall Street broker Richard Kempster.

In 2004, he wrote and appeared in Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, with Jan Hooks as his wife, Dixie Glick. Tim Allen appeared in another film in 2006: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause.

In We're Back!, Short included the voices of many animated film characters, including Stubbs. Hubie in The Pebble and the Penguin In The Prince of Egypt, Ooblar in Jimmy Neutron, a Dinosaur's life. B.E.N. Preminger of Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper, Thimbletack the Brownie, Thimbletack the Brownie in The Spiderwick Chronicles, Monte Leibowsky's The Wind Rises, and The Jester in Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return to Oz, Peter Brownie's Return to Oz.

Short was the host of the defunct Walt Disney World attractions O Canada!, a Circle-Vision 360° film in the Epcot theme park's Canada pavilion, and "The Making of Me," a 15-minute film about pregnancy.

As the impolite father, Short appeared in the Netflix original The Willoughbys (2020).

Shorted resumed work in theatre, appeared in the 1993 Broadway adaptation of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl, receiving a Tony Award nomination and an Outer Critics Circle Award. He was the lead actor in the 1999 Broadway revival of Little Me, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and another Outer Critics Circle Award.

Short appeared on stage once more in The Producers' critically acclaimed Los Angeles run in 2003. Leo Bloom, the accountant, appeared in Short's Leo Bloom, which was opposite Jason Alexander's Max Bialystock. Although Matthew Broderick's role on Broadway was conceived by Matthew Broderick, Mel Brooks first approached Short about playing Nathan Lane. Short has stated in numerous interviews that, although he was excited by the opportunity, the prospect of having to relocate their family from Los Angeles to New York for a year was less than desirable and ultimately was a deal breaker.

Short performed in his satirical one-man performance in the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway, with a cast of six actors, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Thousands of people were touring several towns in the spring of 2006, before the show's debut on Broadway in August 2006; it closed in January 2007. He starred his classic characters Grimley, Cohen, and Glick in this film.

As Glick, Short brought a member of the audience (usually a celebrity) on stage and interviewed him or her, she did not know him or her. Jerry Seinfeldt was the guest on opening night. In addition, Celine Dion, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Tommy Tune, Joan Rivers, Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres, Rachael Ray, and Short's wife, actress Nancy Dolman were among the parodies on the program, including Celine Dion, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, John Burton, Tommy Tune, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, The cast album was released on April 10, 2007, and it is available from Ghostlight Records, a Sh-K-Boom Records imprint.

Short has continued to tour in his one-man show, which includes many of his best-loved characters and sketches. Short has used several names for his one-man exhibition, including Stroke Me Lady Fame, If I'd Saved, I Wouldn't Be Here, and George Michael's Sunday in the Park. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend was published on November 4, 2014, Short's memoir, which chronicles his 40-year career in show business.

Short has performed with fellow comedian Steve Martin since 2015. They also had a Very Stupid Conversation in 2015, An Evening You Would Forget for the Rest of Your Life in 2017), and The Funniest Show in Town at the Time in 2021. It was filmed for Netflix as a special on its 2017 tour and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.

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