1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 3 00:00:09,843 --> 00:00:11,594 [Marty] It's Boxing Day, 4 00:00:12,971 --> 00:00:16,891 and it's a very beautiful day today… 5 00:00:20,020 --> 00:00:22,230 in sunny California. 6 00:00:26,443 --> 00:00:27,944 [tranquil music plays] 7 00:00:30,196 --> 00:00:33,324 -Hello, Nancy. Happy Boxing Day. -Hi, sweetie. 8 00:00:44,753 --> 00:00:47,881 -[knocking] -[Marty] Oh, someone's at the door. 9 00:00:48,673 --> 00:00:50,216 Oh, it's Tom! 10 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:53,678 -Hey, Merry Christmas! -[Marty] Oh God! Merry Chri… 11 00:00:53,762 --> 00:00:54,804 Oh, mistletoe. 12 00:00:54,888 --> 00:00:56,598 -Oh, where? -[Marty] Right here. 13 00:00:56,681 --> 00:01:00,894 How many Christmases would this be? '72, '92. Twenty years. 14 00:01:01,853 --> 00:01:02,729 -[Marty] Oh. -Whoa! 15 00:01:02,812 --> 00:01:05,106 -[Marty] Too bright? -Not for your wrinkles. 16 00:01:05,190 --> 00:01:07,942 [Marty] Then there's Dave Thomas and Harrison Thomas. 17 00:01:08,026 --> 00:01:09,986 He's plugging his ears. Why? 18 00:01:10,487 --> 00:01:11,613 Could it be you? 19 00:01:11,696 --> 00:01:14,407 [Marty] Oh, I loved you in Home Alone! 20 00:01:14,491 --> 00:01:16,868 You were wonderful! 21 00:01:17,744 --> 00:01:19,329 Steve, how do you do? 22 00:01:19,412 --> 00:01:21,956 I'm really having fun here, Marty. I mean that. 23 00:01:25,668 --> 00:01:27,670 [Steve] I'll tell you something about Marty. 24 00:01:27,754 --> 00:01:29,964 Let's say you're gonna host a dinner party, 25 00:01:30,757 --> 00:01:31,966 and you invite Marty. 26 00:01:32,467 --> 00:01:34,052 [laughter] 27 00:01:34,135 --> 00:01:36,596 And then it turns out Marty can't come. 28 00:01:37,430 --> 00:01:39,015 You cancel the party. 29 00:01:39,516 --> 00:01:41,059 [chuckles] 30 00:01:41,142 --> 00:01:43,019 [man] Look at… Look at Marty! 31 00:01:44,395 --> 00:01:46,397 [indistinct chatter] 32 00:01:55,115 --> 00:01:57,951 [laughter] 33 00:01:59,619 --> 00:02:03,456 [Marty] It's gonna be one of those hatchet awful things that I won't promote. 34 00:02:05,750 --> 00:02:06,751 [music fades] 35 00:02:08,461 --> 00:02:11,673 It is hilarious that we have to pretend we don't know each other. 36 00:02:11,756 --> 00:02:13,383 [man chuckles] Not at all. 37 00:02:13,466 --> 00:02:16,302 -This is based on us knowing each other. -It is. 38 00:02:16,386 --> 00:02:17,679 [man] You and I have talked-- 39 00:02:17,762 --> 00:02:21,141 Larry and I, we have had one million dinners. 40 00:02:21,641 --> 00:02:23,810 -One million lunches. -[Larry] That's right. 41 00:02:23,893 --> 00:02:26,604 One million passionate lunches. 42 00:02:26,688 --> 00:02:29,190 [Larry] This is continuing the conversation. 43 00:02:29,274 --> 00:02:30,358 That's right. 44 00:02:30,441 --> 00:02:31,276 [audience laughter] 45 00:02:31,359 --> 00:02:36,114 In my business, there's a traditional career path. 46 00:02:36,698 --> 00:02:39,075 TV, movies, 47 00:02:39,159 --> 00:02:40,910 then Broadway, your own special, 48 00:02:41,536 --> 00:02:45,331 reality show host, Chabad telethon, dinner theater, The Palm Springs Follies, 49 00:02:45,415 --> 00:02:46,708 and then this show. 50 00:02:46,791 --> 00:02:48,793 [laughter] 51 00:02:49,460 --> 00:02:51,671 [Marty] There was no expectation to be a star. 52 00:02:52,255 --> 00:02:53,298 There was no, 53 00:02:53,798 --> 00:02:55,800 "Mama, it's happened!" 54 00:02:55,884 --> 00:02:57,302 There was none of that. 55 00:02:57,385 --> 00:03:00,930 It's just, "There's a mortgage." 56 00:03:02,390 --> 00:03:03,975 "There are kids." 57 00:03:04,809 --> 00:03:08,438 "I'm in the greatest profession in the world. I'm so damn lucky." 58 00:03:08,521 --> 00:03:10,106 "How do I keep it going?" 59 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:11,065 [knocking on door] 60 00:03:11,649 --> 00:03:13,359 Why am I holding this knife? 61 00:03:14,402 --> 00:03:17,280 [laughter] 62 00:03:17,363 --> 00:03:18,740 [Marty] I work in comedy. 63 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,618 And I do a particular kind of comedy. 64 00:03:22,118 --> 00:03:25,747 -Here comes Uncle Jack. Shoot me! -Agh! 65 00:03:25,830 --> 00:03:28,124 [Marty] It's sketch-oriented, character-oriented. 66 00:03:29,125 --> 00:03:29,959 Not many jokes. 67 00:03:30,043 --> 00:03:31,085 If you were to read a script that I've written, 68 00:03:31,169 --> 00:03:32,629 there's not many jokes in it. 69 00:03:32,712 --> 00:03:34,923 It's all… You just have to trust me. 70 00:03:35,006 --> 00:03:38,801 Master Bonks, I do this for a loving, you know? Trust me. 71 00:03:39,302 --> 00:03:42,388 Where I like my career the least is when I feel like I'm doing something 72 00:03:42,472 --> 00:03:44,140 that 200 other actors could do. 73 00:03:44,224 --> 00:03:46,059 That's where I feel I'm wasting my time. 74 00:03:46,142 --> 00:03:49,437 When I'm doing my… my unusual little art, 75 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,190 and it may not be good art, but it's art because it's specific, 76 00:03:52,273 --> 00:03:54,400 then I'm very happy. 77 00:03:55,610 --> 00:03:57,153 Let the party begin! 78 00:03:57,237 --> 00:03:59,280 The characters he has played, 79 00:03:59,364 --> 00:04:02,450 they're not just parodies of a type. 80 00:04:03,660 --> 00:04:09,540 It's actually quite hard to make a completely bizarre character real. 81 00:04:10,708 --> 00:04:11,876 That's what he does. 82 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,212 And this is a book about what? 83 00:04:14,712 --> 00:04:17,257 It's… it's… it's a love letter, really, I suppose, 84 00:04:17,340 --> 00:04:20,760 with a… with a dash of hatred, in an almost mocha kind of swirl, 85 00:04:20,843 --> 00:04:21,928 if you'll have it. 86 00:04:22,011 --> 00:04:24,889 It's like seeing your best friend in the world, 87 00:04:24,973 --> 00:04:27,725 who happens to be the weirdest person ever. 88 00:04:27,809 --> 00:04:31,479 -[Nancy] How's that character coming? -Oh, the Mad Hatter is coming fine. 89 00:04:33,398 --> 00:04:35,525 I don't know. I haven't figured him out yet. 90 00:04:35,608 --> 00:04:37,068 It might be low and English. 91 00:04:37,151 --> 00:04:39,946 Hello. Any more strawberries down there, Dormy? 92 00:04:40,029 --> 00:04:43,366 Any spoilt sandwiches? I do love spoilt sandwiches, don't you? 93 00:04:43,866 --> 00:04:45,660 -Might be that. -[Nancy] I like the lisp. 94 00:04:45,743 --> 00:04:48,871 Yes, okay. I overslept! Slept! 95 00:04:48,955 --> 00:04:50,748 -[Nancy] You… you over what? -Slept! 96 00:04:50,832 --> 00:04:52,625 -[Nancy] I like that. -[chuckles] 97 00:04:53,209 --> 00:04:55,712 Have you any more food down there, Dormy? 98 00:04:55,795 --> 00:04:58,506 Any spoilt sandwiches or strawberries? 99 00:04:58,589 --> 00:05:00,967 I love strawberries, don't you? [laughs] 100 00:05:01,050 --> 00:05:05,805 You don't realize how much energy it takes 101 00:05:05,888 --> 00:05:09,475 to do what he does. 102 00:05:09,559 --> 00:05:11,561 [upbeat music plays] 103 00:05:13,604 --> 00:05:15,481 [shrieks] 104 00:05:15,565 --> 00:05:19,527 ♪ Won't you stay a while? ♪ 105 00:05:20,194 --> 00:05:24,449 He hasn't exhausted himself by second-guessing a decision, 106 00:05:24,532 --> 00:05:27,618 by being frightened that he made the wrong decision. 107 00:05:27,702 --> 00:05:32,373 You know how many hours in the day you'd have if you didn't have that? 108 00:05:32,874 --> 00:05:35,209 I'd have 23 more hours. 109 00:05:35,918 --> 00:05:38,921 ♪ Hallo! Who are you? ♪ 110 00:05:39,547 --> 00:05:40,631 ♪ Get away! ♪ 111 00:05:41,257 --> 00:05:43,176 ♪ I don't like what you say ♪ 112 00:05:43,259 --> 00:05:44,385 Now… 113 00:05:47,764 --> 00:05:51,142 [Marty] Oh my God, that's horrible. Not the eyebrow work. That's fantastic. 114 00:05:53,853 --> 00:05:55,355 Ron-Ron, run up to yourself. 115 00:05:55,438 --> 00:05:57,857 I don't think you should start that story with… 116 00:05:58,566 --> 00:06:01,486 If it makes you feel better, you can also be my, uh, Life Alert 117 00:06:01,569 --> 00:06:02,445 in case I fall, 118 00:06:02,528 --> 00:06:04,989 and we can have colonoscopies together. 119 00:06:07,950 --> 00:06:10,078 Hello. How are you? 120 00:06:10,161 --> 00:06:12,580 I didn't notice there was a camera on me. 121 00:06:12,663 --> 00:06:14,582 This is so weird. 122 00:06:15,124 --> 00:06:17,710 I'm not used to being photographed. I'm kind of shy. 123 00:06:21,589 --> 00:06:24,008 -Good morning, sir. -[Marty] Good morning! 124 00:06:24,092 --> 00:06:28,429 I would say my career has been 80% failure, 125 00:06:28,930 --> 00:06:30,723 and I think those are pretty good odds. 126 00:06:31,724 --> 00:06:34,769 Show business is talent, luck, and endurance. 127 00:06:34,852 --> 00:06:37,397 But you can have talent, you can have tenacity, 128 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:38,606 you can take the hits, 129 00:06:38,689 --> 00:06:41,317 but if you don't have the confidence to get up there and fail, 130 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:42,443 then you can't do it. 131 00:06:42,527 --> 00:06:44,487 I'm gonna go down to the set. [laughs] 132 00:06:46,781 --> 00:06:48,991 -[Marty exhales] Hey! -[Steve] Hey! 133 00:06:49,075 --> 00:06:50,993 -Can I come with you to the funeral? -Yeah! 134 00:06:51,077 --> 00:06:53,329 Please, God, yes. We… we need you. 135 00:06:53,413 --> 00:06:56,874 You're the glue. You're the Mabel in the Charles/Oliver sandwich. 136 00:06:56,958 --> 00:06:59,168 Without you, we're two pieces of stale white bread. 137 00:06:59,252 --> 00:07:00,753 Exactly. Come on. 138 00:07:04,465 --> 00:07:06,426 We have that scene, but we know that scene. 139 00:07:06,509 --> 00:07:07,343 [Steve] Yeah. 140 00:07:07,427 --> 00:07:10,680 I'm starting to feel very comfortable now 141 00:07:10,763 --> 00:07:13,224 with the lines for the rest of the season. 142 00:07:13,724 --> 00:07:15,184 [Marty] I'm gonna get dressed. 143 00:07:16,686 --> 00:07:18,271 -[Steve] See ya. -[Marty] Bye. 144 00:07:18,354 --> 00:07:19,730 [chuckles] You let them in. 145 00:07:19,814 --> 00:07:21,858 Hey, there's Ron Howard. 146 00:07:21,941 --> 00:07:23,818 -[laughter] -[Steve] Oh boy. 147 00:07:23,901 --> 00:07:25,820 -[chuckles] -Now the fun begins. 148 00:07:25,903 --> 00:07:28,573 So… so let me… let me ask some incisive questions. 149 00:07:28,656 --> 00:07:30,366 -Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. -[laughs] 150 00:07:30,450 --> 00:07:33,578 Like, why? Why do you continue to push yourself? 151 00:07:34,078 --> 00:07:37,874 Well, I don't know. I think I just love the sound of applause. 152 00:07:37,957 --> 00:07:39,792 -I have a different question. -Yeah. 153 00:07:39,876 --> 00:07:41,085 Why do you continue? 154 00:07:41,169 --> 00:07:43,671 [laughs] 155 00:07:43,754 --> 00:07:47,675 I just think it's important, um, if you're "gifted…" 156 00:07:47,758 --> 00:07:48,801 [Ron laughs] 157 00:07:49,552 --> 00:07:51,596 -…to share that gift… -Of course. 158 00:07:51,679 --> 00:07:54,098 …with… with people, I don't know, like you. 159 00:07:54,182 --> 00:07:55,725 [laughs] And we're grateful. 160 00:07:55,808 --> 00:07:57,143 -I know you are. -Forever grateful. 161 00:07:57,226 --> 00:07:59,437 Have you ever thought… What have you done? 162 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:00,771 [laughs] 163 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,067 [Marty] Yes, it's Whitton Road. 164 00:08:05,776 --> 00:08:07,778 I wonder who that lady is. 165 00:08:10,865 --> 00:08:12,408 That was my bedroom. 166 00:08:14,911 --> 00:08:19,540 It's false for me to say that comedy came from some space of pain. 167 00:08:19,624 --> 00:08:20,708 It's the opposite. 168 00:08:20,791 --> 00:08:24,003 It came from my whole life. People were funny in my family. 169 00:08:24,504 --> 00:08:26,589 You know, I was this youngest of five. 170 00:08:26,672 --> 00:08:28,758 There was five years between the fourth and the fifth. 171 00:08:28,841 --> 00:08:31,594 And I think I got so much attention and so much love, 172 00:08:31,677 --> 00:08:34,263 and everyone told me I was so great, and so funny, 173 00:08:34,347 --> 00:08:36,474 and so fabulous my whole life 174 00:08:36,557 --> 00:08:39,769 that I just boomed into my, uh, uh, teen years 175 00:08:39,852 --> 00:08:42,855 without any kind of concern that I, you know… 176 00:08:42,939 --> 00:08:45,983 I could look like, uh, Bill Schlechman 177 00:08:46,067 --> 00:08:49,070 with pimples and hairdo and, "Hi, lady," and go up, 178 00:08:49,153 --> 00:08:52,823 and somehow, if she didn't ask me, if she didn't say she'd go out with me, 179 00:08:52,907 --> 00:08:55,076 I'd say, "What's her problem?" 180 00:08:55,159 --> 00:08:56,160 And believe it. 181 00:08:57,328 --> 00:08:59,956 I profited from trickle-down comedy. 182 00:09:01,332 --> 00:09:05,545 My brother Michael is a multi-Emmy, Golden Globe winner 183 00:09:05,628 --> 00:09:09,882 from everything from SCTV to MADtv to Schitt's Creek. 184 00:09:09,966 --> 00:09:13,261 The thing that was really encouraged was to make everyone laugh. 185 00:09:13,344 --> 00:09:15,846 -That was always encouraged in our family. -Right. 186 00:09:15,930 --> 00:09:19,892 If you could make someone laugh, even if you hurt a couple of people-- 187 00:09:19,976 --> 00:09:20,893 Along the way. 188 00:09:20,977 --> 00:09:22,061 [both laugh] 189 00:09:23,729 --> 00:09:26,732 [Marty] My father was general sales manager of the Steel Company of Canada, 190 00:09:26,816 --> 00:09:27,858 very high position. 191 00:09:28,359 --> 00:09:31,654 Really funny, very sarcastic, 192 00:09:31,737 --> 00:09:34,699 slight Irish accent, came over at 21. 193 00:09:34,782 --> 00:09:36,325 "Hello, Marty." 194 00:09:37,243 --> 00:09:39,912 He was a bit of a handful, you would agree. 195 00:09:39,996 --> 00:09:41,205 Mm-hmm. 196 00:09:41,289 --> 00:09:43,791 [Michael] He would have occasional gin. 197 00:09:44,625 --> 00:09:47,628 -[Marty] Yeah. -Occasional subbing for the word constant. 198 00:09:47,712 --> 00:09:49,255 [Marty laughs] 199 00:09:49,338 --> 00:09:53,134 [Michael] He would be snarky, but it was all meant in… to be funny. 200 00:09:54,302 --> 00:09:56,971 [Charles] Marty, my son, 201 00:09:57,471 --> 00:10:02,435 who has no possible chance in hell to ever develop into a singing voice. 202 00:10:03,185 --> 00:10:05,688 But… but… but the point is that he is interested. 203 00:10:05,771 --> 00:10:09,275 And the person that has a distinctive voice 204 00:10:09,358 --> 00:10:11,319 is the one that's remembered. 205 00:10:11,402 --> 00:10:14,155 Marty was, uh, uh, tremendously talented. 206 00:10:15,031 --> 00:10:18,492 He started doing comedy when he was, like, five. 207 00:10:18,576 --> 00:10:22,872 He was doing jokes, and doing bits, and singing all the time. 208 00:10:22,955 --> 00:10:25,333 You did shows in the attic, literally, did you not? 209 00:10:25,416 --> 00:10:26,959 I used to do the Martin Short Show. 210 00:10:27,043 --> 00:10:31,672 We were on at, uh, Tuesday at 8:30 opposite Andy Williams. 211 00:10:31,756 --> 00:10:35,051 In my mind. I would, uh, type up things. 212 00:10:35,134 --> 00:10:37,178 "Marty will sing… Marty's guests will be…" 213 00:10:37,261 --> 00:10:39,430 I would perform, and I'd be killing upstairs, 214 00:10:39,513 --> 00:10:42,058 someone would call "dinner," and we'd stop and tape later. 215 00:10:42,933 --> 00:10:45,645 Yeah! Thank you, darling. 216 00:10:45,728 --> 00:10:48,564 ♪ Broadway, Broadway, Broadway ♪ 217 00:10:48,648 --> 00:10:50,858 Kids are playing road hockey, and I'm up in my attic. 218 00:10:50,941 --> 00:10:54,445 -♪ Weather-wise, such a cuckoo day ♪ -Yeah. 219 00:10:54,528 --> 00:10:57,782 People are protesting the Vietnam War, and he's doing Sinatra. 220 00:10:57,865 --> 00:11:02,536 [Marty] ♪ Tell you about Broadway ♪ 221 00:11:02,620 --> 00:11:05,873 [Marty exhales] 222 00:11:05,956 --> 00:11:08,626 What Marty does now, he was doing back then. 223 00:11:09,293 --> 00:11:11,545 Please welcome the 100-million-dollar man himself, 224 00:11:11,629 --> 00:11:14,173 my best friend, Eugene Levy. 225 00:11:14,256 --> 00:11:15,341 Eugene Leevy. 226 00:11:15,424 --> 00:11:17,218 -Levy. -Whatever. Please sit. 227 00:11:18,511 --> 00:11:19,929 Look at them over there. 228 00:11:20,012 --> 00:11:22,264 You'd think they'd known each other for years. 229 00:11:22,348 --> 00:11:24,225 [gentle music plays] 230 00:11:24,308 --> 00:11:26,811 [Marty] Truthfully, he's my oldest and dearest friend. 231 00:11:28,521 --> 00:11:30,314 We were roommates together for a while. 232 00:11:31,148 --> 00:11:33,150 We dated for a period of time, but the point is-- 233 00:11:33,234 --> 00:11:34,193 Yeah. 234 00:11:34,276 --> 00:11:36,445 You're Canadian. Has that been a burden? 235 00:11:36,529 --> 00:11:39,740 [laughter] 236 00:11:39,824 --> 00:11:41,575 No. No, it has not been a burden. 237 00:11:41,659 --> 00:11:44,412 You understand everything I'm saying? I don't need to speak slower? 238 00:11:44,495 --> 00:11:46,038 [laughter] 239 00:11:46,122 --> 00:11:47,456 We have the same language. 240 00:11:47,540 --> 00:11:49,917 Where do Canadians go when they need to get away? 241 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,003 Do they just go to the border and look and peer and wish? 242 00:11:53,087 --> 00:11:55,297 [laughter] 243 00:11:55,381 --> 00:11:57,091 Marty is my best friend. 244 00:11:57,174 --> 00:11:58,843 -[Jimmy] Is your best friend? -Yes. 245 00:11:58,926 --> 00:12:02,596 I met Marty in 1970 at McMaster University 246 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:04,348 when we were in school together. 247 00:12:04,432 --> 00:12:05,891 It looks like he's an actor 248 00:12:05,975 --> 00:12:08,853 trying desperately hard to get dramatic work. 249 00:12:08,936 --> 00:12:10,688 -Yeah, he does. -[laughter] 250 00:12:10,771 --> 00:12:14,275 Well, I started out in pre-med, and I switched to social work 251 00:12:14,775 --> 00:12:16,652 because I felt that would be easier. 252 00:12:17,570 --> 00:12:19,613 In high school, I never did any theater. 253 00:12:19,697 --> 00:12:23,868 It wasn't till I switched to social work that I had time and I got more involved. 254 00:12:23,951 --> 00:12:26,829 And I'm doing everything that I can theatrically. 255 00:12:28,122 --> 00:12:30,958 It still did not seem realistic to be an actor. 256 00:12:31,459 --> 00:12:33,627 Eugene Levy was the one who said, 257 00:12:33,711 --> 00:12:37,047 "You should try to do this professionally. Come to Toronto." 258 00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:40,342 So I literally gave myself a one-year contract. 259 00:12:40,426 --> 00:12:42,219 I thought, "I'll give it a year, 260 00:12:42,303 --> 00:12:43,721 and if nothing happens, 261 00:12:43,804 --> 00:12:47,641 then I can apply and go back to university." 262 00:12:47,725 --> 00:12:49,226 [Eugene] Post-graduate work? 263 00:12:49,310 --> 00:12:50,603 No, high school. 264 00:12:50,686 --> 00:12:54,190 I'm having some degree of difficulty getting through high school. 265 00:12:54,273 --> 00:12:56,692 -I see. Well, good to have you-- -[Marty] But I'll do it. 266 00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:57,860 I'm sure you will. 267 00:12:57,943 --> 00:13:01,405 Because I have certain goals in life I feel compelled to complete. 268 00:13:01,489 --> 00:13:02,573 [Eugene] Very good. 269 00:13:02,656 --> 00:13:05,451 One of which is becoming a circuit court judge. 270 00:13:05,534 --> 00:13:06,869 Good. Good to have ambition. 271 00:13:06,952 --> 00:13:10,122 [Marty] I don't think you're ever aware that you're in a particular group 272 00:13:10,206 --> 00:13:11,582 or a particular time. 273 00:13:11,665 --> 00:13:13,834 Toronto certainly had a creative boom. 274 00:13:14,627 --> 00:13:19,673 Is this coincidental, or is there some Canadian comedic sensibility 275 00:13:19,757 --> 00:13:22,593 that particularly appeals? 276 00:13:22,676 --> 00:13:27,681 Well, I do think that Canada, uh, Toronto particularly, it's, uh, at a hub. 277 00:13:27,765 --> 00:13:31,060 You know, we would get the Pythons before the States got the Pythons. 278 00:13:31,894 --> 00:13:33,938 Eugene Levy and I shared a house, 279 00:13:34,021 --> 00:13:36,482 1063 Avenue Road in Toronto. 280 00:13:36,565 --> 00:13:38,692 And this house had more parties. 281 00:13:39,318 --> 00:13:41,737 Paul Shaffer would get up and play the piano, 282 00:13:41,821 --> 00:13:43,239 and people would sing, 283 00:13:43,322 --> 00:13:46,951 and everyone kind of dated each other, and partied with each other, 284 00:13:47,034 --> 00:13:48,452 and worked with each other. 285 00:13:48,536 --> 00:13:52,498 It was really kind of fantastic, when you think of it. 286 00:13:52,581 --> 00:13:54,250 We all were performers, 287 00:13:54,333 --> 00:13:57,044 and we all loved to laugh. 288 00:13:58,045 --> 00:14:00,965 There was a lot of enthusiasm and fun, 289 00:14:01,048 --> 00:14:05,052 and a great love of performing. 290 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:08,931 [Paul] At the Catskills in these summer resorts, 291 00:14:09,014 --> 00:14:10,641 there was a guy called the tummler. 292 00:14:10,724 --> 00:14:13,227 In Yiddish, that means a guy who causes a tumult, 293 00:14:13,310 --> 00:14:15,020 gets action going. 294 00:14:15,104 --> 00:14:18,440 I don't think Marty was in the Catskills, but he sure is, you know… 295 00:14:18,524 --> 00:14:21,151 He is the tummler of… of our dreams. 296 00:14:22,486 --> 00:14:27,074 [Eugene] Everything was there with Marty. His voice was there. His comedy was there. 297 00:14:27,658 --> 00:14:29,785 I said, "There's a show opening, Godspell." 298 00:14:29,869 --> 00:14:33,205 "You should come in and audition for it 'cause it's a big musical." 299 00:14:34,248 --> 00:14:35,791 We went to the callback together, 300 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:38,878 and that's where I introduced Marty to Andrea. 301 00:14:39,587 --> 00:14:42,631 Godspell was looking for people that weren't acting. 302 00:14:42,715 --> 00:14:46,594 That were just genuinely, um, effervescent, 303 00:14:46,677 --> 00:14:49,263 uh, comedic, uh, warm. 304 00:14:50,097 --> 00:14:52,850 -♪ Day by day ♪ -♪ Day by day ♪ 305 00:14:52,933 --> 00:14:53,934 ♪ Day by day ♪ 306 00:14:54,018 --> 00:14:56,228 [Marty] Gilda Radner, it was the first time she'd worked, 307 00:14:56,312 --> 00:14:59,231 and Andrea Martin and Eugene Levy and Victor Garber 308 00:14:59,315 --> 00:15:01,191 and Jayne Eastwood and a lot of-- 309 00:15:01,275 --> 00:15:04,028 -[man] An amazing cast. -Yeah. Paul Shaffer was the piano player. 310 00:15:04,111 --> 00:15:06,822 [man] Right, right. You dated, uh, Gilda. 311 00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:10,117 [Marty] Yes, I did. Everyone fell in love with Gilda. She was adorable. 312 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,787 She was so funny, and she was just so self-deprecating. 313 00:15:13,871 --> 00:15:17,833 First day, she came up to me and went, "Hi, my name's Gilda. Nice to see you." 314 00:15:17,917 --> 00:15:20,753 She had a pimple here, and she kept holding it and talking to me. 315 00:15:21,378 --> 00:15:23,172 -Everyone fell in love with Gilda. -[man] Yeah. 316 00:15:23,255 --> 00:15:25,007 [Marty] It's a safe thing to say. 317 00:15:25,966 --> 00:15:28,344 You later fell in love with her understudy and married her. 318 00:15:28,427 --> 00:15:31,764 Yes, I… Uh, Nancy Dolman, who was, uh, Gilda's understudy. 319 00:15:31,847 --> 00:15:33,349 That's true. In Godspell. 320 00:15:33,432 --> 00:15:35,976 [Larry] Apparently, you had decided, "Anyone who plays that part, 321 00:15:36,060 --> 00:15:38,228 I'm gonna get involved with." Uh, is that… 322 00:15:38,312 --> 00:15:40,648 [chuckles] That was… Yes, that was my decision. 323 00:15:40,731 --> 00:15:43,484 ["You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio" by Joni Mitchell plays] 324 00:15:44,401 --> 00:15:48,030 [Nancy] When I came into Godspell, I was auditioning as understudy. 325 00:15:49,740 --> 00:15:53,369 I came in. It was very difficult for me because the group was already set. 326 00:15:53,452 --> 00:15:54,912 They were all best friends. 327 00:15:54,995 --> 00:15:58,749 And there was Gilda, and she was just so spectacular. 328 00:15:58,832 --> 00:16:00,876 And Andrea Martin, who I was in awe of. 329 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,419 All these… You know, Marty… 330 00:16:02,503 --> 00:16:05,714 Marty, I wasn't that keen on at first, actually. 331 00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:09,343 ♪ You turn me on, I'm a radio… ♪ 332 00:16:09,426 --> 00:16:10,678 [Marty] And Nancy was 333 00:16:11,762 --> 00:16:13,639 drop-dead beautiful. It was insane. 334 00:16:13,722 --> 00:16:18,435 ♪ I'm a wildwood flower, waving for you… ♪ 335 00:16:18,519 --> 00:16:20,521 And she owned an antique clothing store. 336 00:16:21,355 --> 00:16:24,858 She had smuggled clothes in from Detroit through the border. 337 00:16:24,942 --> 00:16:27,820 And it was the era… You know, that Joni Mitchell… 338 00:16:27,903 --> 00:16:31,156 And she had a Joni Mitchell look. It was long, blonde hair. 339 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,534 ♪ When you're loving and kind ♪ 340 00:16:33,617 --> 00:16:37,621 And she'd come in with a velvet cape and sign in, "Hi." 341 00:16:38,122 --> 00:16:39,498 And the guys'd go, 342 00:16:40,290 --> 00:16:43,961 "Yeah, okay then." But it didn't bother me 'cause I was with Gilda. 343 00:16:44,044 --> 00:16:45,671 [music fades] 344 00:16:45,754 --> 00:16:48,841 We'd broken up a few times, and we'd now had a fight. 345 00:16:48,924 --> 00:16:50,259 We'd broken up again. 346 00:16:50,342 --> 00:16:53,012 And I go to The Pilot bar, 347 00:16:53,095 --> 00:16:54,680 and there's Nancy Dolman. 348 00:16:55,514 --> 00:16:58,559 She was funny and had edge. 349 00:16:58,642 --> 00:16:59,810 And we got talking. 350 00:16:59,893 --> 00:17:02,604 She'd just broken up with her boyfriend, but that wasn't… 351 00:17:02,688 --> 00:17:05,107 I just, "Oh. Yeah, I just broke up with Gilda." 352 00:17:06,817 --> 00:17:10,571 I was doing a play, and Nancy came. It was the summer. 353 00:17:10,654 --> 00:17:13,449 And she was wearing short shorts and a halter top. 354 00:17:13,532 --> 00:17:16,410 And I was wearing short shorts and a T-shirt. 355 00:17:16,493 --> 00:17:18,662 And we went to the Four Seasons Hotel. 356 00:17:18,746 --> 00:17:22,541 And I said to the guy, "My wife and I would like a room, please." 357 00:17:23,042 --> 00:17:27,087 And even he started laughing because we looked about 12. 358 00:17:28,839 --> 00:17:31,050 And that was it. That was it. 359 00:17:32,676 --> 00:17:35,387 ♪ From this moment on ♪ 360 00:17:35,471 --> 00:17:37,222 -What? -Hi, this is my wife, Nancy. 361 00:17:37,306 --> 00:17:40,184 [indistinct singing] 362 00:17:40,267 --> 00:17:42,269 [gentle music plays] 363 00:17:48,984 --> 00:17:50,444 Beauteous Duchess. 364 00:17:51,987 --> 00:17:55,324 Who is presently listening to the cast album of The Goodbye Girl. 365 00:17:56,867 --> 00:17:59,411 Is that Nancy, or is that Bo Derek? 366 00:18:00,412 --> 00:18:02,289 I'm listening to your song. 367 00:18:04,166 --> 00:18:05,751 ♪ So perverse ♪ 368 00:18:06,543 --> 00:18:08,253 ♪ Better call a nurse ♪ 369 00:18:08,337 --> 00:18:09,713 [woman] Marty and Nancy. 370 00:18:09,797 --> 00:18:11,673 Yeah, what a team, eh? 371 00:18:11,757 --> 00:18:14,051 I keep saying they're an amazing team, but they really were. 372 00:18:16,345 --> 00:18:18,097 He's very outer child. 373 00:18:18,180 --> 00:18:20,057 And… [laughs] And she was very outer adult. 374 00:18:20,140 --> 00:18:21,100 Oh my… 375 00:18:21,183 --> 00:18:23,268 [Marty laughs] 376 00:18:24,394 --> 00:18:27,064 My husband and I went through a rough patch in our marriage. 377 00:18:27,147 --> 00:18:29,983 We went to therapy, and one of the questions she asked is, 378 00:18:30,067 --> 00:18:32,486 "Do you have friends, do you know a couple, 379 00:18:32,569 --> 00:18:36,115 whose relationship you would love to have, or you'd love to emulate?" 380 00:18:36,198 --> 00:18:38,909 We said, "Oh, we have these friends, Marty and Nancy." 381 00:18:38,992 --> 00:18:40,119 And she said, 382 00:18:40,744 --> 00:18:43,288 "I can't tell you how many people have named them…" 383 00:18:43,372 --> 00:18:44,331 [laughs] 384 00:18:44,414 --> 00:18:45,958 "…when I've asked this question." 385 00:18:47,751 --> 00:18:49,002 Hi, sweetie. 386 00:18:50,879 --> 00:18:53,966 -My darling, how are you? -[Marty] I'm fine, darling. How are you? 387 00:18:54,049 --> 00:18:56,176 Are we having a romantic time together? 388 00:18:56,260 --> 00:18:57,886 [Marty] Yes, we are. 389 00:18:58,387 --> 00:18:59,888 After all these years. 390 00:19:00,389 --> 00:19:01,557 We really are, you know. 391 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,350 [Larry] This is slightly relevant. 392 00:19:03,433 --> 00:19:04,601 It's about time. 393 00:19:05,102 --> 00:19:05,978 [Larry chuckles] 394 00:19:06,061 --> 00:19:09,106 [Larry] Tell me what led to the break that changed your life. 395 00:19:09,815 --> 00:19:11,733 The thing about Canadian entertainment then, 396 00:19:11,817 --> 00:19:13,277 it was you got to do everything. 397 00:19:14,153 --> 00:19:17,656 It was like being at a consistent university of show business. 398 00:19:17,739 --> 00:19:20,784 So in Canada, you could do Shakespeare and radio, 399 00:19:20,868 --> 00:19:22,536 and you might do a voice commercial. 400 00:19:23,036 --> 00:19:25,122 On sale for just $39.95. 401 00:19:25,706 --> 00:19:27,749 And then you'd do your cabaret show. 402 00:19:27,833 --> 00:19:32,629 ♪ I'll never love again ♪ 403 00:19:32,713 --> 00:19:36,091 ♪ I'm so in love with you ♪ 404 00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:38,677 In the summer of 1973, 405 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,139 Second City, the legendary improvisational group from Chicago, 406 00:19:42,222 --> 00:19:44,766 formed its first sister company in Toronto. 407 00:19:46,935 --> 00:19:50,397 [Andrea] Gilda Radner worked there. Dan Aykroyd worked there. 408 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,275 It was kind of the… the cool place where you'd meet. 409 00:19:54,067 --> 00:19:56,195 [Marty] Everyone auditioned for it, and everyone got in. 410 00:19:56,278 --> 00:20:00,032 Andrea and Catherine and Joe and Eugene and Dave and John Candy. 411 00:20:00,657 --> 00:20:01,909 I did not audition. 412 00:20:02,951 --> 00:20:06,205 I didn't like the idea of being funny on demand 413 00:20:06,288 --> 00:20:08,081 'cause I was basically afraid of it. 414 00:20:08,165 --> 00:20:09,208 I wanted to be Sinatra. 415 00:20:09,291 --> 00:20:11,418 I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be an actor. 416 00:20:11,501 --> 00:20:13,462 ♪ I've got to be ♪ 417 00:20:13,545 --> 00:20:16,506 ♪ Where my spirit can run free… ♪ 418 00:20:17,007 --> 00:20:21,720 But I was now starting to feel like I'm behind everyone. 419 00:20:22,221 --> 00:20:24,681 I have limited myself, 420 00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:27,935 and I'm going in a kind of circle. 421 00:20:28,018 --> 00:20:30,020 I don't feel momentum. 422 00:20:31,355 --> 00:20:38,362 ♪ Of the sky ♪ 423 00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:42,199 I remember going down to the subway in Toronto. 424 00:20:42,282 --> 00:20:44,993 Every time I went down there, the subway was leaving. 425 00:20:45,911 --> 00:20:47,663 I would run toward the subway. 426 00:20:47,746 --> 00:20:50,582 I'd walk really slow. It was leaving. 427 00:20:50,666 --> 00:20:53,961 And I thought, when the subway's pulling in, my luck will change. 428 00:20:54,044 --> 00:20:56,880 But right now, the subway is pulling away. 429 00:20:59,132 --> 00:21:02,719 Nancy had a record deal in LA, so I was gonna join her. 430 00:21:02,803 --> 00:21:05,305 [announcer] Now, Miss Nancy Dolman. 431 00:21:05,389 --> 00:21:06,890 [upbeat music plays] 432 00:21:06,974 --> 00:21:08,475 ♪ This is it ♪ 433 00:21:09,393 --> 00:21:11,436 ♪ This time I know it's the real thing ♪ 434 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:16,441 [Eugene] And she really broke through and was on national television prime time, 435 00:21:16,525 --> 00:21:17,609 even before Marty. 436 00:21:18,777 --> 00:21:20,696 She was the whole package. 437 00:21:21,613 --> 00:21:25,742 A beautiful voice, perfect pitch with perfect diction, 438 00:21:25,826 --> 00:21:29,830 looks like a movie star, and the nicest person. 439 00:21:29,913 --> 00:21:34,626 [sings] 440 00:21:35,961 --> 00:21:38,380 [Marty] There's a moment I call Breakdown Corner. 441 00:21:38,463 --> 00:21:42,134 Paul Shaffer and Bill Murray were staying in LA. 442 00:21:42,217 --> 00:21:45,429 ♪ Did he scare you As much as he scared me? ♪ 443 00:21:45,512 --> 00:21:46,346 [shrieks] 444 00:21:46,430 --> 00:21:49,182 [Marty] At that time, Bill Murray had already been a big hit 445 00:21:49,266 --> 00:21:51,643 and just started on SNL that year. 446 00:21:51,727 --> 00:21:53,562 …my seventh winter up here! 447 00:21:53,645 --> 00:21:57,316 ♪ Star Wars ♪ 448 00:21:58,317 --> 00:22:02,321 [Marty] And Paul said, "Bill and I are going to dinner, so you and Nancy join us, 449 00:22:02,404 --> 00:22:04,865 and we'll swing at my place, the Sunset Marquis." 450 00:22:04,948 --> 00:22:07,617 And Nancy and I are walking there. 451 00:22:08,952 --> 00:22:10,579 And I just was overwhelmed with, 452 00:22:10,662 --> 00:22:13,373 "I can't. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't." 453 00:22:13,457 --> 00:22:16,251 I'm out of work now. Hadn't worked for a couple of months, 454 00:22:16,335 --> 00:22:19,379 had no prospects, and didn't really know where I was going. 455 00:22:19,463 --> 00:22:23,759 And I said, "I can't go and pretend to be happy for Bill 456 00:22:25,385 --> 00:22:27,179 because I don't know what I'm doing." 457 00:22:27,971 --> 00:22:29,639 "I need to sit down." 458 00:22:31,016 --> 00:22:32,017 [man] Son, 459 00:22:33,852 --> 00:22:36,480 why are you sitting here all alone? 460 00:22:36,563 --> 00:22:40,609 Why aren't you outside having fun and joining in? 461 00:22:41,485 --> 00:22:43,695 -Well, I just don't feel like it, sir. -Ah. 462 00:22:44,196 --> 00:22:47,032 I guess I'm kind of down in the dumps. 463 00:22:47,115 --> 00:22:49,451 We sat there for about ten minutes and didn't speak. 464 00:22:49,534 --> 00:22:50,786 Finally, Nancy said, 465 00:22:51,286 --> 00:22:53,413 "How long are we going to stay here?" 466 00:22:53,914 --> 00:22:56,541 I said, "I don't know." 467 00:22:57,709 --> 00:22:59,503 So we went back to the apartment, 468 00:23:00,128 --> 00:23:01,755 and I woke up in a funk. 469 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:07,511 And then we saw War Babies, who were an improvisational group. 470 00:23:07,594 --> 00:23:11,014 I was… It was so funny. It was so fresh. It was inspiring. 471 00:23:11,098 --> 00:23:13,934 I felt inspired just witnessing it. 472 00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:17,771 It was like a… The… the light bulbs went off. 473 00:23:17,854 --> 00:23:19,606 "Of course this is what I should be doing." 474 00:23:19,689 --> 00:23:22,651 I phoned Andrew Alexander the next morning and said, 475 00:23:22,734 --> 00:23:24,528 "I wanna go into Second City." 476 00:23:24,611 --> 00:23:27,114 He said, "All right." 477 00:23:27,197 --> 00:23:29,199 [gentle music plays] 478 00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:34,413 Marty Short was so strong, like, immediately when he came in the cast. 479 00:23:34,496 --> 00:23:36,540 Most people… When he joined the cast. 480 00:23:36,623 --> 00:23:40,085 Most people would come in and sort of try to find their place. 481 00:23:40,585 --> 00:23:44,172 When you come in in the middle of the show, coming into someone else's roles, 482 00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:48,051 most people would basically try to imitate the person whose roles they're doing. 483 00:23:48,135 --> 00:23:52,514 He just immediately put his own ridiculously strong characters 484 00:23:52,597 --> 00:23:54,683 into these scenes and, like, just… 485 00:23:55,684 --> 00:23:58,562 Just such great self-confidence, and so funny. 486 00:23:59,563 --> 00:24:04,151 [Marty] I always figured if you walked on stage and you look totally insane, 487 00:24:04,234 --> 00:24:05,360 you'd get a laugh. 488 00:24:05,444 --> 00:24:07,195 And then you were halfway there. 489 00:24:07,988 --> 00:24:12,159 All these characters, I think, come from people you know, 490 00:24:12,242 --> 00:24:13,952 or combinations of people you know. 491 00:24:14,035 --> 00:24:16,955 And it's kind of good that they do, because that creates… 492 00:24:17,038 --> 00:24:19,124 even though there might be absurdist characters, 493 00:24:19,207 --> 00:24:21,084 it creates a three dimension to them. 494 00:24:21,168 --> 00:24:22,961 Just the thought of it makes my heart beat 495 00:24:23,044 --> 00:24:26,089 like a distant little jungle drum, I must say. 496 00:24:26,882 --> 00:24:30,051 I'll do Grimley, but I'm not sure if they want me to. 497 00:24:30,135 --> 00:24:31,219 No, they would… 498 00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:33,263 [audience cheers] 499 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:39,769 Oh my goodness. 500 00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:42,647 Oh, give me a break! 501 00:24:42,731 --> 00:24:46,067 I couldn't be more excited being on the David Letterman show, I must say. 502 00:24:47,652 --> 00:24:51,156 [Catherine] There was a scene about a man and a woman applying for a job. 503 00:24:51,239 --> 00:24:54,242 And the woman is beyond experienced and educated. 504 00:24:54,326 --> 00:24:57,496 And the… the guy is the biggest dumbass in the world. 505 00:24:58,079 --> 00:25:00,332 -Now, Barbara, maybe you'd like to begin. -[Catherine] All right. 506 00:25:00,415 --> 00:25:03,335 [man] Why don't you tell me about your educational background? 507 00:25:03,418 --> 00:25:07,589 Uh, well, I have my bachelor degree in mathematics from Columbia University. 508 00:25:07,672 --> 00:25:12,385 And I have my master's in business administration from Stanford. 509 00:25:12,469 --> 00:25:15,972 Oh. Um, now, Ed, how about your work experience? 510 00:25:17,224 --> 00:25:18,808 F… for the past several years, 511 00:25:18,892 --> 00:25:21,478 I've been employed by the Union Oil Company. 512 00:25:21,561 --> 00:25:23,980 Really? Uh, in what capacity, Ed? 513 00:25:24,064 --> 00:25:27,359 I work at Al 76 at the corner of Cahuenga and Melrose, you know? 514 00:25:28,276 --> 00:25:29,819 [Catherine] He'd done it in the improvs, 515 00:25:29,903 --> 00:25:32,447 but it was the first time he put Ed in a scene. 516 00:25:32,531 --> 00:25:34,866 And he just blew the scene apart. 517 00:25:35,367 --> 00:25:37,410 In a good way. In the best way. 518 00:25:37,911 --> 00:25:39,788 Made it just ridiculously funny. 519 00:25:39,871 --> 00:25:41,706 It allowed me to play too. 520 00:25:41,790 --> 00:25:45,794 Like, this is insane that I'm losing to this guy. 521 00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:50,757 [man] Ed Grimley always wore the same shirt. 522 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,676 It was my shirt from 11th grade. 523 00:25:52,759 --> 00:25:54,553 [laughter] 524 00:25:54,636 --> 00:25:57,430 I knew a guy in high school who always talked… 525 00:25:57,514 --> 00:25:59,391 He wanted to be a photographer. 526 00:25:59,474 --> 00:26:01,101 He was going to, um… 527 00:26:01,184 --> 00:26:03,436 He was always taking slides. 528 00:26:03,937 --> 00:26:08,984 And, um, uh, often, he wouldn't always develop them 529 00:26:09,067 --> 00:26:12,070 because he knew what they looked like 'cause he'd taken them. 530 00:26:13,113 --> 00:26:16,575 [low drawl] I got a brother-in-law, Ralph. And Ralph talks like this. 531 00:26:17,075 --> 00:26:19,452 "Hey, babe, how are you doing? Get you a drink?" 532 00:26:19,536 --> 00:26:22,622 So I kind of combined, uh, the voices. 533 00:26:22,706 --> 00:26:25,083 Next, I was talking like this, I must say. 534 00:26:25,166 --> 00:26:28,128 Peter Aykroyd said, "Marty…" I greased my hair a little bit. 535 00:26:28,795 --> 00:26:32,299 He said, "Boy, that hair is standing taller every performance." 536 00:26:32,382 --> 00:26:35,594 So as a joke to make him laugh, I put it in a point. 537 00:26:36,970 --> 00:26:38,847 And one night, I just did this. 538 00:26:39,848 --> 00:26:41,016 And the audience laughs. 539 00:26:41,099 --> 00:26:43,852 What if someone asks you to play your triangle at the reception? 540 00:26:43,935 --> 00:26:46,479 It could happen. I'd best practice in preparation. 541 00:26:46,563 --> 00:26:47,564 [laughter] 542 00:26:47,647 --> 00:26:49,649 [classical music plays] 543 00:26:52,777 --> 00:26:55,739 Ed is always fascinated by life. 544 00:26:55,822 --> 00:26:58,742 That's very seductive because it's a great quality. 545 00:27:02,370 --> 00:27:05,540 I remember him doing, and still doing, that dance, 546 00:27:05,624 --> 00:27:07,917 the Ed Grimley dance, from when I first met him. 547 00:27:08,668 --> 00:27:11,796 [Marty] That show was a revelation, doing Second City, 548 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,467 because I now, for the first time, was creating characters. 549 00:27:15,550 --> 00:27:17,135 [laughter] 550 00:27:17,218 --> 00:27:18,178 [man] So… 551 00:27:21,765 --> 00:27:26,061 I thought, "If I look, I'm gonna laugh." So I looked just slightly off of his face. 552 00:27:26,144 --> 00:27:29,064 Then he would do this, trying to get into my eyeline. 553 00:27:29,147 --> 00:27:31,149 [laughter] 554 00:27:32,067 --> 00:27:35,654 And am I madly in love with Catherine? Yes, and always have been. 555 00:27:35,737 --> 00:27:37,113 But every guy was. 556 00:27:37,197 --> 00:27:38,657 -No. I love Marty. -It's true. 557 00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:40,867 When someone makes you laugh, that's the sexiest thing. 558 00:27:40,950 --> 00:27:43,119 -[Marty] Absolutely. -You're all making each other laugh. 559 00:27:43,203 --> 00:27:46,748 You think, "We're laughing. We are so connected. We gotta try dating." 560 00:27:46,831 --> 00:27:49,626 -Yeah, didn't everybody love each other? -Yeah, absolutely. 561 00:27:50,126 --> 00:27:52,712 I used to be able to, in the Godspell picture, go, 562 00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:54,547 ♪ Day by day ♪ 563 00:27:55,048 --> 00:27:57,092 ♪ Day by day ♪ 564 00:27:57,175 --> 00:27:58,468 -♪ Oh dear Lord ♪ -[Catherine] No! 565 00:27:58,551 --> 00:28:00,553 -Oh yeah. -Wait, but you did all those women? 566 00:28:00,637 --> 00:28:01,471 No, I didn't do all those-- 567 00:28:01,554 --> 00:28:03,139 I was just saying everyone who had done each other. 568 00:28:03,223 --> 00:28:05,225 [gentle music plays] 569 00:28:06,184 --> 00:28:10,563 I just left Second City. I just left two weeks ago after being there… 570 00:28:10,647 --> 00:28:11,564 [audience groans] 571 00:28:11,648 --> 00:28:12,565 …for two years. 572 00:28:12,649 --> 00:28:15,610 I mean, it really is true that it's the best place 573 00:28:15,694 --> 00:28:17,404 to learn a great deal of information. 574 00:28:17,487 --> 00:28:20,365 Then, once you learn it, you have to do something with it. 575 00:28:20,448 --> 00:28:23,076 You just can't stay there. So that's why I moved on. 576 00:28:23,159 --> 00:28:25,036 And since then, I… I've… I've 577 00:28:25,620 --> 00:28:27,664 done really nothing with it, but I… I'm… 578 00:28:27,747 --> 00:28:29,874 I would do guest spots on Taxi, 579 00:28:29,958 --> 00:28:31,793 but it was getting a little sparse. 580 00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:35,213 Hi, do you remember me? I'm the guy in television. 581 00:28:35,296 --> 00:28:38,925 Then I got a call. Would I join SCTV? 582 00:28:40,427 --> 00:28:44,097 [announcer] We interrupt this program to bring a special SCTV News announcement. 583 00:28:44,180 --> 00:28:46,349 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Guy Caballero. 584 00:28:46,433 --> 00:28:48,268 Owner and president of SCTV. 585 00:28:48,351 --> 00:28:50,478 And this is my station manager, Edith Prickley. 586 00:28:50,562 --> 00:28:51,771 Hello, how's it hanging? 587 00:28:51,855 --> 00:28:52,772 [chuckles] 588 00:28:52,856 --> 00:28:55,859 And the consensus at the CBC is it's going to be gangbusters. 589 00:28:55,942 --> 00:28:57,777 Well, how couldn't it be? It'd have to be, wouldn't it? 590 00:28:57,861 --> 00:29:01,072 It was on fire with creativity. 591 00:29:01,156 --> 00:29:04,284 I don't know what the ratings were, but from a critical standpoint, 592 00:29:04,367 --> 00:29:06,703 and if you were in comedy and show business, 593 00:29:06,786 --> 00:29:08,997 the perception of it couldn't have been higher. 594 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:10,248 [funky music plays] 595 00:29:10,331 --> 00:29:12,459 How do you parody Canadian television, 596 00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:16,087 make it at all interesting to Americans, 597 00:29:16,171 --> 00:29:18,298 who don't know what you're parodying? 598 00:29:22,177 --> 00:29:23,970 [Larry] Tell me about when Marty entered. 599 00:29:24,053 --> 00:29:26,473 Do we have to? We're… we're on such a roll. 600 00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:32,771 Marty came in with, of course, this energy that became infectious. 601 00:29:33,938 --> 00:29:36,274 But at a certain point, we started to despise the energy. 602 00:29:36,357 --> 00:29:37,609 -We did. -Enough's enough. 603 00:29:37,692 --> 00:29:40,570 [announcer] The crowd is literally buzzing with excitement 604 00:29:40,653 --> 00:29:42,947 as Mr. Rodgers enters the ring. 605 00:29:43,031 --> 00:29:44,449 Oh, look out there, Fred. 606 00:29:44,532 --> 00:29:45,950 [announcer chuckles] 607 00:29:46,034 --> 00:29:48,661 Rodgers is chasing her around the ring. 608 00:29:48,745 --> 00:29:50,079 She's running in terror. 609 00:29:50,163 --> 00:29:54,709 Coq au vin or no coq au vin, this woman is in trouble. 610 00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:57,003 Ladies and gentlemen, the Queen Haters. 611 00:29:57,086 --> 00:29:58,087 [punk music plays] 612 00:29:58,671 --> 00:30:00,423 [sings in style of punk rocker] 613 00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:06,846 [Marty] It was thrilling to be in it, but it was also a little daunting 614 00:30:06,930 --> 00:30:08,598 because I knew everyone in the cast. 615 00:30:08,681 --> 00:30:10,850 Andrea Martin was my sister-in-law. 616 00:30:11,392 --> 00:30:13,603 Boy, are you stupid! 617 00:30:14,896 --> 00:30:16,272 I like that in a man. 618 00:30:16,773 --> 00:30:18,858 My brother Michael was one of the writers. 619 00:30:18,942 --> 00:30:20,944 [easy listening music plays] 620 00:30:24,322 --> 00:30:25,740 I knew these people, 621 00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:29,035 so their accomplishments so far made it daunting. 622 00:30:30,203 --> 00:30:31,287 [music fades] 623 00:30:31,371 --> 00:30:35,083 Your play is deemed by critics unadulterated trash. 624 00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:38,169 But now, less than two years later, 625 00:30:38,253 --> 00:30:41,464 the lady has bounced back with courage and chutzpah 626 00:30:41,548 --> 00:30:43,883 to direct herself in her own film. 627 00:30:43,967 --> 00:30:46,803 What intrigues me is one word. 628 00:30:47,303 --> 00:30:48,388 Motive. 629 00:30:49,138 --> 00:30:50,932 You really struck a nerve, Brock. 630 00:30:52,475 --> 00:30:55,019 [Marty] What SCTV was doing was creating characters. 631 00:30:55,603 --> 00:30:58,773 And everyone's instinct from Second City training 632 00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:01,276 was to give it kind of a three dimension. 633 00:31:01,985 --> 00:31:05,446 Even if it was an abstract, broad character, 634 00:31:05,530 --> 00:31:07,615 it still was grounded in some kind of truth. 635 00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:09,117 What have you been up to? 636 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,538 You know, just playing around, babe. Trying to get things happening. 637 00:31:14,038 --> 00:31:15,999 Everybody, smiles tonight now. 638 00:31:16,082 --> 00:31:18,084 Hollywood party! 639 00:31:18,167 --> 00:31:19,502 Everybody's… 640 00:31:19,586 --> 00:31:22,922 And suddenly, your whole world was just these people. 641 00:31:23,006 --> 00:31:25,091 The demon dad of Fleet Street. 642 00:31:25,174 --> 00:31:26,843 ♪ Doo, du-doo-loo, du-doo-du-doo ♪ 643 00:31:26,926 --> 00:31:28,678 ♪ Don't come near me ♪ 644 00:31:28,761 --> 00:31:30,430 [Marty] ♪ Doo-loo, du-doo-loo, du-doo ♪ 645 00:31:30,513 --> 00:31:32,223 ♪ I'll cut you up and eat you ♪ 646 00:31:32,307 --> 00:31:34,475 -Are these talkies or… -[Marty] These are talkies. 647 00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:37,729 -Are these still… JVC still photos? -[Marty] No, they aren't. 648 00:31:37,812 --> 00:31:39,230 -Impressive unit. -[Marty] Thank you. 649 00:31:39,314 --> 00:31:42,525 It's the McKenzies! They're together. I just panned back. 650 00:31:42,609 --> 00:31:44,777 We can't be together unless the price is right. 651 00:31:44,861 --> 00:31:45,820 Sorry. You gotta be… 652 00:31:45,904 --> 00:31:48,239 [Marty] Now, SCTV was a massive hit. 653 00:31:48,990 --> 00:31:50,658 And we won an Emmy for writing. 654 00:31:50,742 --> 00:31:52,243 It was fantastic. 655 00:31:52,327 --> 00:31:55,997 Quickly, our careers became our families. 656 00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:00,293 And, uh… And that's actually a literal, uh, truth. 657 00:32:00,376 --> 00:32:02,378 [upbeat music plays] 658 00:32:02,962 --> 00:32:06,883 [Marty] Nancy and I got married on the 22nd of December in Toronto. 659 00:32:06,966 --> 00:32:07,967 And then five days later, 660 00:32:08,051 --> 00:32:11,304 Andrea got married to Nancy's brother, Bob. 661 00:32:11,387 --> 00:32:13,431 [sings] 662 00:32:14,515 --> 00:32:18,561 [Marty] The great strength of that group was that they were friends and close, 663 00:32:18,645 --> 00:32:20,146 and some of them related. 664 00:32:21,814 --> 00:32:24,984 [Andrea] We spent every holiday together. 665 00:32:25,485 --> 00:32:28,363 There was just a hub of activity, and nobody was thinking, 666 00:32:28,446 --> 00:32:31,240 "Am I gonna make it? Is he gonna make it? Is that person going to get it?" 667 00:32:31,324 --> 00:32:33,534 I don't ever remember any of that. 668 00:32:36,162 --> 00:32:38,998 Am I getting paid for this? I'm a pay-or-play. 669 00:32:39,082 --> 00:32:41,167 [gentle music plays] 670 00:32:41,250 --> 00:32:42,961 Would you stop, please? 671 00:32:43,044 --> 00:32:46,422 It's quite a group of people, isn't it? From Godspell and Second City. 672 00:32:46,506 --> 00:32:47,840 [Marty] Hi, Harold. 673 00:32:47,924 --> 00:32:49,884 [Andrea] They're just being themselves. 674 00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:52,804 Goofing off and talking, like you are with friends. 675 00:32:55,223 --> 00:32:58,559 [woman] Nancy and I lived on the same street growing up in Toronto. 676 00:32:58,643 --> 00:33:03,231 And I first heard of Nancy through my brother and his goofy friends. 677 00:33:03,314 --> 00:33:06,901 They were goo-goo and ga-ga over her because she was so beautiful. 678 00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:10,863 We were very good friends before. 679 00:33:10,947 --> 00:33:14,659 But then, when I started dating Eugene, we became family. 680 00:33:20,456 --> 00:33:22,250 Hi, honey. How you doing? 681 00:33:22,333 --> 00:33:24,085 -Is it on? -[Marty] Yes, it is. 682 00:33:24,627 --> 00:33:26,838 Well, we've had a wonderful morning. 683 00:33:26,921 --> 00:33:28,381 [Marty] Some relationships 684 00:33:28,464 --> 00:33:31,676 just keep getting stronger and stronger and stronger. 685 00:33:33,594 --> 00:33:36,597 We were stunned. Suddenly, we couldn't get pregnant. 686 00:33:37,098 --> 00:33:38,141 That was… 687 00:33:39,225 --> 00:33:41,644 Th… that… We hadn't even considered that. 688 00:33:43,563 --> 00:33:46,190 And then we found out that Nancy had endometriosis. 689 00:33:46,274 --> 00:33:49,360 So she had to go on drugs. And your moods are heightened. 690 00:33:49,444 --> 00:33:53,322 So one night, she was cleaning. I'd made a peanut butter and jam sandwich. 691 00:33:53,406 --> 00:33:55,408 "Look, when you clean the sandwich, 692 00:33:55,491 --> 00:33:58,536 you've got to wipe the peanut butter off this counter." 693 00:33:58,619 --> 00:34:01,205 I said, "Okay, you have to stop those drugs." 694 00:34:01,289 --> 00:34:02,957 "And we're gonna adopt a baby." 695 00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:05,209 "Can we?" You know. 696 00:34:05,293 --> 00:34:08,254 And out the drugs went. And we adopted Katherine. 697 00:34:09,047 --> 00:34:11,174 And then Oliver. And then Henry. 698 00:34:12,425 --> 00:34:15,887 Oh, my baby. I just have to kiss my baby. One second. 699 00:34:17,722 --> 00:34:18,556 Dada. 700 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:20,475 ♪ Dada-da-da-da ♪ 701 00:34:20,558 --> 00:34:26,064 [Andrea] To see him as a father is so, uh, genuine, 702 00:34:26,147 --> 00:34:28,816 authentic to who he is. 703 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,861 My next-best girlfriend to my wife. 704 00:34:32,361 --> 00:34:36,324 It's as fluid and as genuine as… as his breath. 705 00:34:36,407 --> 00:34:38,493 That's how much he loves being a dad. 706 00:34:38,576 --> 00:34:39,619 [music stops] 707 00:34:40,495 --> 00:34:42,455 [Marty] I never would have left SCTV. 708 00:34:42,997 --> 00:34:44,207 But it was canceled. 709 00:34:44,290 --> 00:34:45,917 [howls] 710 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,296 Then I got a call saying, "We'd like you to join Saturday Night Live." 711 00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:54,092 [announcer] It's Saturday Night Live 712 00:34:54,175 --> 00:34:56,427 with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 713 00:34:57,303 --> 00:34:59,263 Harry Shearer, 714 00:35:00,389 --> 00:35:02,266 Martin Short. 715 00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:06,395 The first two pieces I worked on were with Harry Shearer. 716 00:35:06,479 --> 00:35:08,106 [dramatic music plays] 717 00:35:08,189 --> 00:35:09,232 [laughter] 718 00:35:16,197 --> 00:35:18,199 [man] Oh, it's… it's not gonna be easy. 719 00:35:18,282 --> 00:35:19,826 I don't swim. 720 00:35:19,909 --> 00:35:20,993 He doesn't swim. 721 00:35:21,077 --> 00:35:22,495 So, I mean, no, of course not. 722 00:35:22,578 --> 00:35:25,248 Nobody is just gonna walk up and hand us a gold medal, 723 00:35:25,331 --> 00:35:29,460 especially since men's synchro isn't even in the '88 Olympics yet. 724 00:35:29,544 --> 00:35:32,171 That's okay 'cause we could use the time. 725 00:35:33,005 --> 00:35:36,676 'Cause I'm… I'm not that strong a swimmer. 726 00:35:36,759 --> 00:35:38,427 [laughter] 727 00:35:38,511 --> 00:35:42,557 The next piece we shot was Lifestyles of the Relatives of the Rich and Famous. 728 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,643 [announcer] …Central Park, New York's tree-lined melting pot, 729 00:35:45,726 --> 00:35:46,936 sits the hot dog stand 730 00:35:47,019 --> 00:35:50,690 managed by Katharine Hepburn's maternal third cousin, Nelson. 731 00:35:51,190 --> 00:35:53,025 We caught up with him recently. 732 00:35:53,526 --> 00:35:56,237 We don't communicate at all. Never did. 733 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,447 I tried through letter, 734 00:35:58,531 --> 00:36:01,659 through phone call, anonymous sometimes, and she'd hang up. 735 00:36:01,742 --> 00:36:04,162 One time, she stopped by here, 736 00:36:04,245 --> 00:36:06,873 and I said, "Kate, don't you know me?" 737 00:36:06,956 --> 00:36:10,543 She just looked at me, and she said, "More mustard, please." 738 00:36:10,626 --> 00:36:12,253 And after the first show, 739 00:36:12,336 --> 00:36:14,088 my manager came up and said, 740 00:36:14,172 --> 00:36:17,341 "Well, your stock just went up 3,000%." 741 00:36:17,425 --> 00:36:19,427 [applause] 742 00:36:19,510 --> 00:36:24,098 It was an amazing year. But I remember it was grueling. 743 00:36:25,516 --> 00:36:28,561 Saturday Night Live, it's very intense. A long schedule. 744 00:36:28,644 --> 00:36:32,273 Especially if you're, uh, writing and performing. 745 00:36:32,940 --> 00:36:37,737 I like to write with, you know, Mike there, Dick Blasucci, Paul Flaherty, 746 00:36:37,820 --> 00:36:39,447 and a tape recorder going. 747 00:36:39,530 --> 00:36:41,240 And I would get up and improvise. 748 00:36:41,324 --> 00:36:44,702 And when I was doing SNL, I was just by myself in the office. 749 00:36:44,785 --> 00:36:46,412 -[Michael] You hated it. -Oh, I hated it. 750 00:36:47,205 --> 00:36:49,707 I went into Dick Ebersol's office 751 00:36:49,790 --> 00:36:52,043 and said, "I would like to quit." 752 00:36:52,543 --> 00:36:56,339 He said, "Look, first of all, you have a contract, 753 00:36:56,422 --> 00:36:59,383 but this must be a pretty goddamn tough place 754 00:36:59,467 --> 00:37:01,719 if a good guy like you wants to leave." 755 00:37:02,845 --> 00:37:04,013 "I'll tell you what, 756 00:37:05,598 --> 00:37:07,600 if you feel this way at Christmas, 757 00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:09,852 I'll let you out of your contract." 758 00:37:10,353 --> 00:37:12,480 Because he knew, as he later said, 759 00:37:13,564 --> 00:37:16,567 that by Christmas, I'd see the light at the end of the tunnel, 760 00:37:16,651 --> 00:37:20,488 and I also would have figured out how to do this from week to week. 761 00:37:20,571 --> 00:37:21,948 [man] You seem defensive. 762 00:37:22,031 --> 00:37:24,700 I'm not being defensive. You're the one who's being defensive. 763 00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:28,037 Why is it always the other person who's being defensive? 764 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,039 [laughter] 765 00:37:30,122 --> 00:37:32,667 Have you ever asked yourself that? Why don't you ask yourself that? 766 00:37:33,334 --> 00:37:36,587 If you make them three-dimensional in some sort of human connection, 767 00:37:36,671 --> 00:37:38,047 then you can really go. 768 00:37:38,130 --> 00:37:41,676 Mr. Thurm, we appreciate your willingness to talk with us tonight. 769 00:37:41,759 --> 00:37:43,052 What do you mean by that? 770 00:37:43,135 --> 00:37:44,220 [laughter] 771 00:37:44,303 --> 00:37:48,683 Mr. Thurm, as you are well aware, your critics, and there are many-- 772 00:37:48,766 --> 00:37:49,600 No, there aren't. 773 00:37:50,893 --> 00:37:53,229 How do you come up with a character like that? 774 00:37:53,312 --> 00:37:55,147 It was so incredibly original. 775 00:37:55,231 --> 00:37:59,819 There was a… a makeup artist that year on SNL, Marion Siebert. 776 00:37:59,902 --> 00:38:03,322 She was the most defensive human being 777 00:38:03,406 --> 00:38:05,533 you had ever met in your life. 778 00:38:05,616 --> 00:38:07,118 You'd sit in her chair. 779 00:38:07,201 --> 00:38:09,495 And she'd dab. "Look at me." 780 00:38:10,746 --> 00:38:13,541 "Your features don't match. This is tough for me." [mutters] 781 00:38:14,041 --> 00:38:15,251 She's dabbing. 782 00:38:15,334 --> 00:38:18,462 I'd say, "Gee, I look pale. Don't I, Marion?" 783 00:38:18,546 --> 00:38:20,673 She'd say, "I know that. You don't think I know that?" 784 00:38:20,756 --> 00:38:22,758 "I'm a makeup artist. I would know that." 785 00:38:22,842 --> 00:38:25,011 Harry Shearer said, "You should do that character." 786 00:38:25,094 --> 00:38:26,887 I said, "But she's gonna actually be there." 787 00:38:26,971 --> 00:38:29,765 "Oh, that'll be the fun of it," said Harry. And, uh… 788 00:38:30,266 --> 00:38:34,186 And every time we did the piece, I was afraid I would get caught. 789 00:38:34,270 --> 00:38:36,272 I know that. Why wouldn't I know that? 790 00:38:36,355 --> 00:38:38,441 It's my company. I'm quite aware of that. 791 00:38:38,941 --> 00:38:39,775 [scoffs] 792 00:38:40,484 --> 00:38:41,485 Is it me? 793 00:38:42,153 --> 00:38:43,321 It's him, right? 794 00:38:43,404 --> 00:38:44,280 [laughter] 795 00:38:44,363 --> 00:38:46,574 And she never found out until the very end. 796 00:38:46,657 --> 00:38:48,701 Her assistant was drunk at the wrap party. 797 00:38:48,784 --> 00:38:51,495 "Don't you know who Nathan Thurm is?" 798 00:38:52,163 --> 00:38:54,248 "How dumb are you?" 799 00:38:54,790 --> 00:38:56,876 "You're Nathan Thurm!" 800 00:38:57,752 --> 00:39:00,629 She said, "I know that. You don't think I know that? I know that. I would--" 801 00:39:00,713 --> 00:39:02,340 [laughter and applause] 802 00:39:03,466 --> 00:39:05,343 What about Saturday Night Live? Are you going back? 803 00:39:05,426 --> 00:39:07,595 -No. No, I'm not. -[woman] Why? 804 00:39:08,095 --> 00:39:12,516 Because it's a very tough show to do, and it takes your total concentration. 805 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,771 So your family has to kind of wave goodbye most of the year. 806 00:39:16,854 --> 00:39:18,773 [Marty coos] 807 00:39:21,442 --> 00:39:22,401 Hi, Mommy. 808 00:39:23,319 --> 00:39:24,278 Hi, Dad. 809 00:39:25,279 --> 00:39:27,031 You've seen these thighs, haven't you? 810 00:39:29,367 --> 00:39:33,662 ♪ …my home And I don't give a damn about tomorrow ♪ 811 00:39:33,746 --> 00:39:34,914 ♪ I love my little house ♪ 812 00:39:34,997 --> 00:39:36,582 ♪ It's Toronto ♪ 813 00:39:36,665 --> 00:39:37,625 Welcome 814 00:39:38,250 --> 00:39:40,044 to 590 Indian Road. 815 00:39:41,337 --> 00:39:43,631 And this is Martin Short's wife. 816 00:39:44,757 --> 00:39:47,093 The controversially misunderstood 817 00:39:48,177 --> 00:39:49,595 Nancy Dolman. 818 00:39:50,096 --> 00:39:51,931 Or otherwise known as… 819 00:39:52,681 --> 00:39:54,016 [Marty] The Duchess of Dolman. 820 00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:56,018 ♪ Bum-bum-bum-ba ♪ 821 00:39:59,897 --> 00:40:01,482 [Marty] Martin Short. 822 00:40:02,942 --> 00:40:04,402 He's the one in the middle. 823 00:40:06,529 --> 00:40:08,489 That is Martin at age 824 00:40:09,156 --> 00:40:10,199 nine. 825 00:40:12,284 --> 00:40:14,829 That's Martin, second from the left. 826 00:40:15,329 --> 00:40:18,791 [Nancy] Martin, would you like to pick up a dish towel and give me a hand here? 827 00:40:18,874 --> 00:40:24,171 This is a heavier-set Martin Short in the summer of 1963. 828 00:40:24,255 --> 00:40:26,257 [gentle music plays] 829 00:40:37,476 --> 00:40:41,105 There was a very, very great deal of love in that house. 830 00:40:45,568 --> 00:40:48,320 I was the youngest of five, and everyone was hysterical. 831 00:40:49,321 --> 00:40:52,825 Parents and all the kids, so I just… That was all I knew. 832 00:40:54,785 --> 00:40:56,579 I mean, we would do recordings. 833 00:40:56,662 --> 00:40:57,580 [piano plays] 834 00:40:57,663 --> 00:41:00,958 [woman] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Good evening too. 835 00:41:01,041 --> 00:41:04,044 [Marty] People would sing at the piano, make fun of each other. 836 00:41:04,128 --> 00:41:06,255 Nora, you start being funny. 837 00:41:08,257 --> 00:41:10,176 [Nora] My name is, um… 838 00:41:10,718 --> 00:41:12,595 [Marty] Get a lot of laughs with this name? 839 00:41:12,678 --> 00:41:15,639 [Michael] Why are you trying to get over you can't get a laugh with a name? 840 00:41:15,723 --> 00:41:16,974 [Nora] You want my last name? 841 00:41:17,057 --> 00:41:18,267 [Marty] Might be funny. 842 00:41:18,350 --> 00:41:19,185 [Nora laughs] 843 00:41:19,268 --> 00:41:20,519 [Nora] Jenny Cardinal. 844 00:41:20,603 --> 00:41:22,396 [all laugh] 845 00:41:23,022 --> 00:41:24,190 [Nora] Got a laugh! 846 00:41:24,690 --> 00:41:26,942 [Marty] There was verbal freedom in our house. 847 00:41:27,026 --> 00:41:29,445 So you could talk back to your father, 848 00:41:29,528 --> 00:41:32,698 and he would overpower you with his Irish intellect. 849 00:41:32,781 --> 00:41:34,325 Take the microphone, Dad. 850 00:41:34,825 --> 00:41:36,160 Take the microphone. 851 00:41:36,243 --> 00:41:37,703 Just take it. Sing something. 852 00:41:37,786 --> 00:41:40,831 [Olive] Dad, would you come and sing before he goes crazy? 853 00:41:41,415 --> 00:41:44,335 [Charles] ♪ There will come a day ♪ 854 00:41:44,418 --> 00:41:46,837 ♪ And youth will pass away ♪ 855 00:41:46,921 --> 00:41:52,551 ♪ Everyone will say, "I love you" ♪ 856 00:41:53,135 --> 00:41:54,929 [man] Now, let's meet Olive Short, 857 00:41:55,012 --> 00:41:57,932 concert mistress of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. 858 00:41:58,015 --> 00:41:59,725 She is also the wife of a Stelco-ite, 859 00:41:59,808 --> 00:42:03,729 CP Short, the general sales manager, screw products division. 860 00:42:03,812 --> 00:42:06,815 [Marty] She was the first female concert mistress, they used to call it, 861 00:42:06,899 --> 00:42:11,654 in North America from 1952 to '62, at Hamilton Philharmonic. 862 00:42:11,737 --> 00:42:13,739 [classical music plays] 863 00:42:17,451 --> 00:42:22,122 My mother was a sweet angel of a person. 864 00:42:22,623 --> 00:42:25,376 My father had so much edge. 865 00:42:25,459 --> 00:42:27,419 I think that with any family, 866 00:42:27,503 --> 00:42:33,008 if you have one grounded, sweet, angelic person, 867 00:42:33,092 --> 00:42:36,303 whether the mother or the father, then that balances everything out. 868 00:42:41,642 --> 00:42:42,768 [music fades] 869 00:42:43,352 --> 00:42:47,648 -[man] You had three brothers, one sister? -[Marty] Three brothers, one sister. 870 00:42:47,731 --> 00:42:50,776 [man] Your brother, David, you were very fond of him, were you not? 871 00:42:50,859 --> 00:42:52,403 [Marty] Yeah, he was my hero. 872 00:42:52,486 --> 00:42:54,029 [man] He was your hero. Why? 873 00:42:54,113 --> 00:42:56,740 [Marty] Because he was, I guess, the eldest brother, 874 00:42:56,824 --> 00:42:58,909 and because he was phenomenal. 875 00:42:58,993 --> 00:43:02,288 I mean, he died when I was 12, so sometimes out of that comes legend, 876 00:43:02,371 --> 00:43:05,457 but the legend in this case was really very deserved, I think. 877 00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:09,878 David was handsome. 878 00:43:10,963 --> 00:43:12,423 He was funny. 879 00:43:12,923 --> 00:43:16,260 He was so sweet, ridiculously sweet, 880 00:43:16,343 --> 00:43:17,428 and adored. 881 00:43:17,928 --> 00:43:20,472 Trumpet player, cool guy. 882 00:43:22,182 --> 00:43:23,475 He was 14 years older. 883 00:43:23,559 --> 00:43:26,687 When he came home, probably at four in the morning, 884 00:43:26,770 --> 00:43:28,397 and now it's 7:30, 885 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,107 I would go up to his room. 886 00:43:30,190 --> 00:43:34,903 A lot of 19-year-olds would say, "Get out. I'm sleeping." 887 00:43:35,613 --> 00:43:37,865 David would let me get in bed with him, 888 00:43:38,365 --> 00:43:39,867 but he would play giant, 889 00:43:40,367 --> 00:43:43,412 where I had to try to steal his pillow 890 00:43:44,622 --> 00:43:48,417 while the giant was sleeping, so it allowed him to continue to sleep. 891 00:43:48,917 --> 00:43:52,254 But as I got the pillow just far out, his arm would come around me, 892 00:43:52,338 --> 00:43:54,048 and the giant would capture me. 893 00:43:54,131 --> 00:43:55,215 That's who he was. 894 00:43:57,801 --> 00:44:00,012 One day, I was at Camp Juaniquita, 895 00:44:00,095 --> 00:44:04,433 and I remember waking up depressed. 896 00:44:06,477 --> 00:44:09,897 The counselor said, "Your brother's been in an accident, 897 00:44:11,398 --> 00:44:12,775 and it killed him." 898 00:44:12,858 --> 00:44:14,068 That's how he put it. 899 00:44:14,151 --> 00:44:16,820 And I said, "Is he okay?" 900 00:44:18,572 --> 00:44:19,865 "No, it killed him." 901 00:44:19,948 --> 00:44:21,950 [poignant music plays] 902 00:44:24,745 --> 00:44:27,081 I mean, it was like nothing made sense. 903 00:44:27,790 --> 00:44:31,293 And then I had a dream. 904 00:44:32,294 --> 00:44:36,674 And I'm telling you, I can see it right now, and it was in Technicolor. 905 00:44:38,217 --> 00:44:42,930 And I was sitting by a stream in the woods, 906 00:44:43,013 --> 00:44:44,556 and David came up. 907 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,183 He looked handsome. 908 00:44:46,266 --> 00:44:48,644 He was wearing this beautiful Ban-Lon shirt. 909 00:44:49,144 --> 00:44:50,729 And he said, 910 00:44:52,648 --> 00:44:56,026 "I'm fine. Everything is wonderful." 911 00:44:56,110 --> 00:44:57,778 "And I'll see you in a minute." 912 00:44:59,405 --> 00:45:00,948 And I woke up. 913 00:45:02,574 --> 00:45:04,451 And a cloud had lifted. 914 00:45:10,124 --> 00:45:13,544 At the funeral, Mom developed a cough. She started coughing at the funeral. 915 00:45:14,753 --> 00:45:18,841 She had had breast cancer in 1957, which I never knew about. 916 00:45:19,925 --> 00:45:24,638 And by the end of that year, she is really going downhill. 917 00:45:25,305 --> 00:45:28,851 Nora tells a story that she was nursing in California. 918 00:45:28,934 --> 00:45:30,686 She knew Mom was going down, 919 00:45:30,769 --> 00:45:33,439 so she flew back to be her nurse. 920 00:45:33,522 --> 00:45:36,692 And Nora was present when the doctor came in and said, 921 00:45:36,775 --> 00:45:38,694 "Olive, you've got three months to live." 922 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,449 And Mom's response was, after he left, 923 00:45:43,532 --> 00:45:46,243 "This can't happen. I have another child to raise." 924 00:45:46,326 --> 00:45:48,746 So she said to Nora, "Pass me the grapes." 925 00:45:48,829 --> 00:45:51,790 And that became a… a symbol of courage in our family, 926 00:45:51,874 --> 00:45:53,167 "Pass me the grapes." 927 00:45:56,503 --> 00:45:58,213 And then she came home 928 00:45:58,714 --> 00:46:04,386 and went into this remarkable, you-can't-explain-it remission, 929 00:46:05,345 --> 00:46:07,681 and was in perfect health for the next two years. 930 00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:14,146 But by the time I was in grade 13, she died. 931 00:46:18,942 --> 00:46:21,779 Mom died, and Dad's health went fast. 932 00:46:22,654 --> 00:46:25,616 It was just strokes that diminished him, 933 00:46:26,116 --> 00:46:29,119 from being the most powerful guy that walked in the room 934 00:46:29,203 --> 00:46:31,455 to just quieter, quieter. 935 00:46:34,625 --> 00:46:37,961 He and I took a world cruise for five weeks, the two of us. 936 00:46:39,505 --> 00:46:43,383 But even when we were in Ireland, he didn't want to see his siblings 937 00:46:43,926 --> 00:46:46,261 because he was not in great shape. 938 00:46:47,596 --> 00:46:49,598 He had arteriosclerosis. 939 00:46:50,098 --> 00:46:51,725 He drank gin and ginger, 940 00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:55,270 but it was the two packs of smokes that he had every day. 941 00:46:57,898 --> 00:46:59,900 You had to handle tragedy when you were a lad. 942 00:46:59,983 --> 00:47:01,735 -[Marty] Right. -You lost a brother. He died. 943 00:47:01,819 --> 00:47:04,154 I lost my brother David when I was 12. 944 00:47:04,238 --> 00:47:06,782 My mother when I was 18. My father when I was 20. 945 00:47:07,741 --> 00:47:09,910 Tough, being the youngest in the family as well. 946 00:47:09,993 --> 00:47:13,205 Right. At that age, or any age, when you lose someone in your family, 947 00:47:13,288 --> 00:47:15,332 you have a choice. You actually have a choice. 948 00:47:15,415 --> 00:47:16,917 "How do I handle this?" 949 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,044 -This is a life lesson. -[man] Right. 950 00:47:19,127 --> 00:47:22,923 And so, do I… do I collapse? Do I become defeated forever? 951 00:47:23,006 --> 00:47:27,010 Or do I actually kind of learn that life is short, 952 00:47:27,094 --> 00:47:30,097 and have a glass of wine and laugh and fun, 953 00:47:30,180 --> 00:47:32,683 and appreciate these people, and never let them go? 954 00:47:32,766 --> 00:47:33,934 See, that's, I think, the great secret. 955 00:47:34,017 --> 00:47:37,521 If you never let them go from your life, then they're always with your life. 956 00:47:37,604 --> 00:47:39,898 Because before you know it, you know, you'll be with them. 957 00:47:40,774 --> 00:47:42,776 [gentle music plays] 958 00:47:44,444 --> 00:47:47,656 My family adores each other to this day. 959 00:47:50,492 --> 00:47:53,829 I think Uncle Mike is probably the most similar to my dad. 960 00:47:54,621 --> 00:47:56,206 They worked a lot together. 961 00:47:56,290 --> 00:47:57,249 -Ugh! -[Marty] What? 962 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,002 [Oliver] Uncle Brian and Aunt Nora, I think, are a little more alike 963 00:48:00,085 --> 00:48:03,088 and probably more like their mother, a little more sweeter. 964 00:48:03,797 --> 00:48:07,551 There's certainly always the laughter and the jokes. 965 00:48:07,634 --> 00:48:10,137 [laughs] 966 00:48:10,220 --> 00:48:12,681 Who do you think is the meanest one in the family? 967 00:48:12,764 --> 00:48:15,559 You. And everyone would agree with that. 968 00:48:15,642 --> 00:48:18,270 -You wouldn't even hesitate for a second? -[Marty] Not a second. 969 00:48:18,353 --> 00:48:20,898 And if you asked Nora, she'd say, "Michael." 970 00:48:20,981 --> 00:48:22,482 Nora has no credibility. 971 00:48:22,566 --> 00:48:25,152 -Brian would say the same. -Brian has no credibility. 972 00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:27,195 Okay, so no one has credibility. 973 00:48:27,279 --> 00:48:30,198 But the answer is, you're the most like Dad, 974 00:48:30,824 --> 00:48:32,659 and everyone agrees. 975 00:48:34,536 --> 00:48:36,038 The four of us get together. 976 00:48:36,121 --> 00:48:39,708 We have hilarity, drink rum and Cokes, 977 00:48:39,791 --> 00:48:43,587 laugh, insult each other, and like nothing's changed. 978 00:48:43,670 --> 00:48:45,172 Very close family. 979 00:48:48,091 --> 00:48:51,303 [Michael] We used to call it "Maintaining the merry theme of life." 980 00:48:51,386 --> 00:48:52,930 And that was it. 981 00:48:53,013 --> 00:48:56,224 And sometimes, it gets hard to do, you know? 982 00:48:56,308 --> 00:49:00,479 But, you know, you have to admire someone that… that continues to do that. 983 00:49:00,979 --> 00:49:04,107 And I think this is why people, uh, really like Marty so much, 984 00:49:04,191 --> 00:49:08,111 'cause he is always trying to maintain the merry theme of life. 985 00:49:08,195 --> 00:49:09,112 [laughter] 986 00:49:09,196 --> 00:49:11,323 -Did you get-- -Yes, it's the four Shorts. 987 00:49:11,406 --> 00:49:14,034 -Yes, it's… -Group… Group hug, group hug. 988 00:49:14,117 --> 00:49:16,536 And here we are, Ken, after so many years. 989 00:49:16,620 --> 00:49:18,080 -What's she doing? -I don't know. 990 00:49:18,163 --> 00:49:20,123 -Group hug! -Group hug, group hug, group hug! 991 00:49:20,207 --> 00:49:23,126 We all came from the same womb. 992 00:49:23,210 --> 00:49:26,171 -Group hug, group hug, group hug! -Group hug! 993 00:49:27,255 --> 00:49:29,591 There once were five, and now there's only four. 994 00:49:29,675 --> 00:49:30,717 Group hug, group hug! 995 00:49:30,801 --> 00:49:32,386 Misery, misery… 996 00:49:32,469 --> 00:49:34,221 We had a bad eight years. 997 00:49:34,304 --> 00:49:36,264 -That was not a good eight years. -[Michael] Yeah. 998 00:49:36,348 --> 00:49:38,183 [Marty] We had speed dial to the funeral parlor. 999 00:49:38,266 --> 00:49:40,644 -Yes. -But there were laughs during those years. 1000 00:49:40,727 --> 00:49:42,980 -[Michael] Yes. -But that's the point. 1001 00:49:49,194 --> 00:49:53,031 We're having trouble breaking through that wall of conversation, Larry. 1002 00:49:54,366 --> 00:49:56,618 -Steve might join us for dinner. -[Larry] All right. 1003 00:49:58,203 --> 00:50:00,247 [Marty] All right, I'll make you coffee. 1004 00:50:03,875 --> 00:50:06,336 Eleven, twelve, 1005 00:50:08,296 --> 00:50:09,297 thirteen. 1006 00:50:10,090 --> 00:50:13,885 As I pour, I'll do my Richard Burton impersonation. Ready? 1007 00:50:14,636 --> 00:50:15,929 For God's sake, 1008 00:50:16,596 --> 00:50:19,182 let us tell sad stories of the death of kings. 1009 00:50:19,683 --> 00:50:23,770 How some have been deposed, some slain in war, 1010 00:50:23,854 --> 00:50:28,775 some poisoned by their wives, all murdered. 1011 00:50:29,401 --> 00:50:31,111 All right. I'm ready, Lawrence. 1012 00:50:35,115 --> 00:50:37,701 What do you want in your coffee? Mustard? 1013 00:50:38,243 --> 00:50:41,788 A couple of years ago when you came here, you were just off of SCTV, 1014 00:50:41,872 --> 00:50:43,665 then part of Saturday Night Live. 1015 00:50:43,749 --> 00:50:47,127 The last three or four times you've been here, you're a leading man. 1016 00:50:47,210 --> 00:50:49,421 You're in major, big budget films. 1017 00:50:49,921 --> 00:50:52,215 -Pretty good deal. -Yeah, it's good. It's good. 1018 00:50:52,299 --> 00:50:57,304 Although I do feel that it's possible for it to just end. 1019 00:50:57,387 --> 00:50:59,306 [dramatic music plays] 1020 00:51:06,271 --> 00:51:09,191 The first movie I made was Three Amigos. 1021 00:51:11,276 --> 00:51:12,319 [music fades] 1022 00:51:12,402 --> 00:51:16,490 It was equal billing, but they were two big, big stars. 1023 00:51:16,573 --> 00:51:18,158 [laughs] 1024 00:51:18,241 --> 00:51:20,577 -I'm Lucky Day. -I'm Ned Nederlander. [laughs] 1025 00:51:20,660 --> 00:51:22,704 I'm Dusty Bottoms. Together, we're… 1026 00:51:22,788 --> 00:51:24,831 [all] The Three Amigos! 1027 00:51:25,957 --> 00:51:27,709 -[all grunt] -[donkey brays] 1028 00:51:27,793 --> 00:51:29,002 I was aware of Marty. 1029 00:51:29,086 --> 00:51:31,463 He was… To me, he was known. 1030 00:51:31,546 --> 00:51:33,882 He always calls himself "The Cheap Amigo." 1031 00:51:33,965 --> 00:51:37,219 For people watching who might not know, I think each of us should say our name. 1032 00:51:37,302 --> 00:51:38,595 Martin Short. 1033 00:51:41,848 --> 00:51:44,392 We did bond very quickly over laughter. 1034 00:51:44,476 --> 00:51:46,311 [cheering] 1035 00:51:47,687 --> 00:51:50,357 Now, that was a terrific scene you just did with me. 1036 00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,526 It was fabulous, and I'll tell you why. 1037 00:51:52,609 --> 00:51:55,654 It's because you managed to blend into the background 1038 00:51:55,737 --> 00:51:57,781 and not stick out and not try and be funny. 1039 00:51:57,864 --> 00:52:00,742 That's important when you're in a scene with me, is to do that. 1040 00:52:00,826 --> 00:52:03,328 Because if you're out there trying to be funny, 1041 00:52:03,411 --> 00:52:05,288 the audience is going to hate you for it. 1042 00:52:05,372 --> 00:52:09,292 Because I'll be on the screen, and they'll know my aura will extend out. 1043 00:52:09,376 --> 00:52:12,504 You don't want to ever interfere with my aura of comedy. 1044 00:52:12,587 --> 00:52:15,632 When you're doing the scene with Chevy, that's when I would go big. 1045 00:52:15,715 --> 00:52:16,758 [Marty] Really mug… 1046 00:52:16,842 --> 00:52:22,097 Mug, big, and try to take. What is it when you're in a scene with me? 1047 00:52:22,180 --> 00:52:23,890 Underplay, go into the background. 1048 00:52:23,974 --> 00:52:24,975 With Chevy? 1049 00:52:25,058 --> 00:52:27,686 -Mug, mug, mug. -Great. Terrific. Great. 1050 00:52:27,769 --> 00:52:29,646 -Thank you, Steve. -It's okay. Aw. 1051 00:52:29,729 --> 00:52:31,565 -It's nice. Thank you. -[Steve] It's okay. 1052 00:52:35,610 --> 00:52:37,320 [Marty] We'd play Scrabble a lot. 1053 00:52:37,404 --> 00:52:39,781 I remember I passed Chevy a note that said, 1054 00:52:39,865 --> 00:52:43,368 "I'll let you ball my wife Nancy for an E or a Q." 1055 00:52:43,952 --> 00:52:47,706 And Chevy, that fit into his wheelhouse of what he thought was funny. 1056 00:52:47,789 --> 00:52:51,168 He said, "I'm gonna pick you up. You and I will drive to work every day." 1057 00:52:51,251 --> 00:52:54,129 And so very quickly, we all bonded. 1058 00:52:54,713 --> 00:52:56,548 [applause] 1059 00:52:56,631 --> 00:52:59,426 In life, sometimes you hit a green light. 1060 00:53:00,969 --> 00:53:03,388 And sometimes, for no reason, it's a red light. 1061 00:53:03,889 --> 00:53:06,266 Is there something out there that is really so bad? 1062 00:53:06,349 --> 00:53:08,476 I can't really recommend Three Amigos. 1063 00:53:08,977 --> 00:53:12,772 [audience jeers] 1064 00:53:13,481 --> 00:53:17,611 [Marty] Three Amigos opened second to Golden Child with Eddie Murphy. 1065 00:53:18,737 --> 00:53:24,201 But it's become so revered by, particularly, boys in their forties. 1066 00:53:24,701 --> 00:53:28,997 It's interesting how he feels about failures. You know? It, um… 1067 00:53:29,497 --> 00:53:33,460 Uh, Lorne, Steve, and Marty, 1068 00:53:33,543 --> 00:53:35,712 if you bring up Three Amigos, 1069 00:53:35,795 --> 00:53:39,132 only recently will they embrace that people like it. 1070 00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:42,010 When I first met Marty and told him how much it meant to me, 1071 00:53:42,093 --> 00:53:45,513 he went, "Yeah, but it didn't open. It lost to Golden Child." Like that. 1072 00:53:46,014 --> 00:53:50,185 I remember Justin Timberlake telling him how much Three Amigos meant. 1073 00:53:50,268 --> 00:53:52,187 Over time, it started to sink in. 1074 00:53:52,270 --> 00:53:57,400 Like, "Hey, we… we don't remember that it lost to Golden Child." 1075 00:53:57,484 --> 00:54:00,612 "We just think it's a great movie and you need to accept that." 1076 00:54:02,030 --> 00:54:05,742 [Marty] But at that time, no one's saying Marty Short's a movie star. 1077 00:54:05,825 --> 00:54:07,244 Then we make Innerspace. 1078 00:54:07,327 --> 00:54:09,496 Innerspace is a very, very good movie. 1079 00:54:09,579 --> 00:54:10,872 [suspenseful music plays] 1080 00:54:12,874 --> 00:54:14,584 It's testing through the roof. 1081 00:54:15,085 --> 00:54:17,337 And you don't know anything about the experiment? 1082 00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:18,380 [Marty] What experiment? 1083 00:54:18,463 --> 00:54:20,632 [man] I've been miniaturized. 1084 00:54:20,715 --> 00:54:24,052 I was supposed to be injected into the body of a laboratory rabbit, 1085 00:54:24,135 --> 00:54:26,888 and somehow, I got inside you instead. 1086 00:54:26,972 --> 00:54:29,516 And then no one goes to see Innerspace. 1087 00:54:30,183 --> 00:54:31,601 [groans] 1088 00:54:33,561 --> 00:54:35,105 We make Cross My Heart. 1089 00:54:35,188 --> 00:54:39,943 If the next five guys that you go out with are worse than me, 1090 00:54:40,860 --> 00:54:41,987 will you give me a call? 1091 00:54:43,321 --> 00:54:44,364 [sighs] 1092 00:54:47,158 --> 00:54:48,076 [sighs] 1093 00:54:50,370 --> 00:54:52,122 No, I don't think so. 1094 00:54:55,166 --> 00:54:58,211 [Marty] I don't know if you've looked at the receipts of that one. 1095 00:54:58,712 --> 00:55:02,132 You make movies with a bunch of people for three months, 1096 00:55:02,215 --> 00:55:03,883 then you never see them again. 1097 00:55:04,884 --> 00:55:08,388 You and I made it a determination, you were the executive producer, 1098 00:55:08,471 --> 00:55:10,974 that we would continue on in a relationship. 1099 00:55:11,725 --> 00:55:13,184 That was 40 years ago. 1100 00:55:14,602 --> 00:55:18,815 [Larry] People regret things their whole life. But I don't ever get that from you. 1101 00:55:18,898 --> 00:55:23,695 No, I'm… I… I… I kind of adhere to the, uh, Sinatra lyric… 1102 00:55:23,778 --> 00:55:27,741 ♪ Regrets I've had a few But then again, too few to mention ♪ 1103 00:55:27,824 --> 00:55:30,118 That's kind of the philosophy I like to go with. 1104 00:55:32,537 --> 00:55:34,622 I feed the chickens. 1105 00:55:35,248 --> 00:55:37,417 And I gather the eggs. 1106 00:55:37,500 --> 00:55:38,710 Big boat. 1107 00:55:38,793 --> 00:55:39,711 The big boat? 1108 00:55:39,794 --> 00:55:40,754 Yeah. 1109 00:55:41,421 --> 00:55:42,297 Did you hear it? 1110 00:55:42,380 --> 00:55:43,923 -I hear it. -Yeah. 1111 00:55:45,633 --> 00:55:50,388 I remember, in 1987, Nancy and I bought our house. 1112 00:55:51,264 --> 00:55:54,476 And it was based on two movies I was about to make. 1113 00:55:55,060 --> 00:55:57,896 The second I signed the mortgage, one movie fell through. 1114 00:56:00,148 --> 00:56:03,151 I thought, "I don't deserve this." You know, "I'm 37." 1115 00:56:03,234 --> 00:56:07,280 "I don't deserve to look at the ocean from my living room." 1116 00:56:09,074 --> 00:56:12,619 I'd say to Nancy, "What if we can't keep this?" 1117 00:56:12,702 --> 00:56:14,788 "What if we can't sustain it?" 1118 00:56:14,871 --> 00:56:18,375 She said, "Well, then we'll move." [chuckles] 1119 00:56:18,458 --> 00:56:21,461 It's like, "We're the… we're the gimmick." 1120 00:56:21,961 --> 00:56:22,837 Us. 1121 00:56:22,921 --> 00:56:26,299 And as you can see in his career, something fails… 1122 00:56:26,383 --> 00:56:27,967 Sorry, it's the truth. 1123 00:56:28,051 --> 00:56:30,261 And he just, the next day, steps right up to the plate 1124 00:56:30,345 --> 00:56:31,846 and invents something else. 1125 00:56:32,514 --> 00:56:37,143 [Marty] In 1992, I did my first Broadway musical, with Bernadette Peters. 1126 00:56:37,894 --> 00:56:40,522 -♪ Paula ♪ -♪ That name has a ring to me ♪ 1127 00:56:40,605 --> 00:56:44,692 -♪ I'm gaga over Paula ♪ -♪ I tingle when you sing to me ♪ 1128 00:56:44,776 --> 00:56:48,863 I get complete satisfaction of doing a great take in front of a camera. 1129 00:56:48,947 --> 00:56:53,618 But to be in opening night and finishing a big production number 1130 00:56:53,701 --> 00:56:56,663 and have the audience cheering, that's out of the movies. 1131 00:56:56,746 --> 00:57:01,960 ♪ You have a chip on your shoulder The size of the Empire State ♪ 1132 00:57:02,043 --> 00:57:04,796 [David Letterman] How do you get a Broadway show? How does that happen? 1133 00:57:04,879 --> 00:57:07,590 Well, the… the… I was doing a film in San Juan. 1134 00:57:07,674 --> 00:57:10,176 -[Letterman] How does that happen? -[laughter] 1135 00:57:11,094 --> 00:57:13,638 [Marty] I sing, for example, but I'm in comedy. 1136 00:57:13,721 --> 00:57:16,558 If you sing in comedy, you can't legitimately sing. 1137 00:57:16,641 --> 00:57:19,936 Because people are waiting for the sandbag to drop on you. 1138 00:57:20,019 --> 00:57:22,272 I've seen him before, but never knew he could sing. 1139 00:57:22,355 --> 00:57:24,524 -I never knew he could sing. -I didn't know. 1140 00:57:24,607 --> 00:57:25,942 I knew it all along. 1141 00:57:26,443 --> 00:57:28,027 The world finds out tonight. 1142 00:57:28,111 --> 00:57:29,446 It's gonna change your life. 1143 00:57:29,529 --> 00:57:32,407 Well, it's certainly a dream I always had wanted to do. 1144 00:57:32,490 --> 00:57:36,536 I think that, uh, every actor has to do a stage experience in New York 1145 00:57:36,619 --> 00:57:39,497 or he's not truly, truly fulfilled as an actor. 1146 00:57:42,333 --> 00:57:47,589 There are so, um, many, many people that I… I really must thank 1147 00:57:47,672 --> 00:57:49,799 and should, but 1148 00:57:50,550 --> 00:57:53,845 the reality is I did it all myself. 1149 00:57:54,471 --> 00:57:56,473 [laughter and applause] 1150 00:57:56,556 --> 00:57:58,892 He has a new motion picture, uh, opening up now 1151 00:57:58,975 --> 00:58:02,270 all over the country with Steve Martin, entitled Father of the Bride. 1152 00:58:02,353 --> 00:58:03,354 Martin… 1153 00:58:03,438 --> 00:58:04,564 [audience cheering] 1154 00:58:04,647 --> 00:58:06,608 People tell me you're a standout in this film. 1155 00:58:06,691 --> 00:58:08,318 That you steal the motion picture. 1156 00:58:08,401 --> 00:58:11,654 Well, no, I wouldn't say that's true, but it's a very funny film. 1157 00:58:11,738 --> 00:58:14,073 Uh, how would you describe Father of the Bride? 1158 00:58:14,157 --> 00:58:16,493 -Well, I think it's a touching film. -Uh-huh. 1159 00:58:16,576 --> 00:58:20,622 I think it's a comic film. I think it has very moving emotional moments. 1160 00:58:20,705 --> 00:58:24,042 And it has the high comedy, and it has the low comedy. 1161 00:58:24,125 --> 00:58:26,127 -[women chuckle] -Hello! 1162 00:58:26,211 --> 00:58:29,339 I apologize for keeping you waiting. I'm Franck. A pleasure to meet you. 1163 00:58:30,465 --> 00:58:33,426 [Steve] It's another example of being so extreme, 1164 00:58:34,177 --> 00:58:35,637 and pulling it off. 1165 00:58:36,262 --> 00:58:37,972 [Marty] The idea was that Franck 1166 00:58:38,056 --> 00:58:42,185 symbolized for Steve Martin his alienation from the process. 1167 00:58:43,186 --> 00:58:46,105 We have problem. Hanck does not now want to prep a chicken. 1168 00:58:46,189 --> 00:58:47,482 He doesn't what? 1169 00:58:47,565 --> 00:58:50,693 Kimberly Williams and Diane could understand him, 1170 00:58:50,777 --> 00:58:51,903 and I couldn't. 1171 00:58:52,403 --> 00:58:55,740 But to what degree? What degree? 1172 00:58:56,449 --> 00:58:57,534 Start. 1173 00:58:57,617 --> 00:58:59,285 You have not made up your list yet, 1174 00:58:59,369 --> 00:59:02,664 but you know you want a wedding at home on January 6th, right? 1175 00:59:02,747 --> 00:59:05,750 The executives, they were apprehensive about this character. 1176 00:59:05,833 --> 00:59:09,337 You have not made up your list yet, but you want a wedding at home on January… 1177 00:59:09,420 --> 00:59:11,673 And we would keep dialing it down. 1178 00:59:12,257 --> 00:59:14,300 So... you have not made up your list yet, 1179 00:59:14,384 --> 00:59:17,512 but you know you want a wedding at home on January 6th, right? 1180 00:59:17,595 --> 00:59:18,680 Finally, I remember Steve saying, 1181 00:59:18,763 --> 00:59:21,849 "Guys, there's no joke here. I understand it perfectly." 1182 00:59:21,933 --> 00:59:24,811 Please, with all due respect, welcome to the '90s. 1183 00:59:24,894 --> 00:59:29,524 [laughs] 1184 00:59:29,607 --> 00:59:33,194 You can't understand anything you say. Are you saying anything when you speak? 1185 00:59:33,278 --> 00:59:36,239 I said to Charles, it's fabulous to be here, you know. 1186 00:59:36,322 --> 00:59:37,865 You look very handsome in the tie. 1187 00:59:37,949 --> 00:59:40,451 I wouldn't go with that color tie, but that shirt's nice. 1188 00:59:40,535 --> 00:59:41,369 Right. 1189 00:59:41,452 --> 00:59:43,997 Now, Steve plays the father of the bride, 1190 00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:47,500 and, uh, do you like Steve more than you like me? 1191 00:59:48,126 --> 00:59:49,711 I'll… I'll tell you this, 1192 00:59:49,794 --> 00:59:53,339 and, um, this is going to make me sound shallow, and it shouldn't 1193 00:59:53,423 --> 00:59:55,592 because if it is, then I'm being misinterpreted. 1194 00:59:55,675 --> 00:59:58,177 Steve can do more for me than you. 1195 00:59:58,261 --> 00:59:59,345 [chuckles] 1196 00:59:59,429 --> 01:00:02,599 Can you just act like a human boy for one minute here? 1197 01:00:03,182 --> 01:00:04,726 Look at me like a person. 1198 01:00:05,226 --> 01:00:08,646 You can't do it for more than a few seconds. Look at me like a human boy! 1199 01:00:09,147 --> 01:00:10,440 Don't mess around with me. 1200 01:00:11,024 --> 01:00:12,817 You're gonna be back on that plane. 1201 01:00:13,610 --> 01:00:14,694 You understand me? 1202 01:00:15,194 --> 01:00:17,238 I understand that I love you. 1203 01:00:17,739 --> 01:00:20,366 I was 40 when I played a ten-year-old named Clifford. 1204 01:00:21,159 --> 01:00:23,745 Marty Short is a great actor, 1205 01:00:23,828 --> 01:00:25,705 and because he does comedic characters, 1206 01:00:25,788 --> 01:00:27,832 possibly people don't recognize that as much, 1207 01:00:27,915 --> 01:00:30,418 but, you know, comedic characters aren't easier. 1208 01:00:30,501 --> 01:00:31,544 They're harder. 1209 01:00:33,421 --> 01:00:35,923 [Larry King] Are you… are you a comedian who acts, Martin, 1210 01:00:36,007 --> 01:00:38,343 or are you an actor who likes comedy? 1211 01:00:38,426 --> 01:00:41,554 I guess I'm an actor who does comedy, 1212 01:00:42,472 --> 01:00:44,557 or anything you have. 1213 01:00:44,641 --> 01:00:45,600 [man chuckles] 1214 01:00:45,683 --> 01:00:48,227 Kind of impatient for a big-time headshrinker, aren't you? 1215 01:00:49,228 --> 01:00:51,272 How about you let me explain it my way, okay? 1216 01:00:51,356 --> 01:00:52,857 Thanks, that'd be great. 1217 01:00:53,358 --> 01:00:55,860 [Larry] What makes a movie attractive to you? 1218 01:00:55,943 --> 01:00:57,528 It's not the money… 1219 01:00:57,612 --> 01:00:59,781 Mm-hmm. It's money. 1220 01:00:59,864 --> 01:01:01,616 [upbeat music plays] 1221 01:01:01,699 --> 01:01:03,326 May I have the camera, please? 1222 01:01:04,786 --> 01:01:05,953 Yeah, sure, boss. 1223 01:01:07,246 --> 01:01:12,335 [Marty] Well over 90% of my career was a total and utter commercial failure. 1224 01:01:13,002 --> 01:01:17,507 But I was in enough successful things to keep the wheels spinning. 1225 01:01:17,590 --> 01:01:20,593 You mean they can read our thoughts? 1226 01:01:20,677 --> 01:01:22,303 I don't know you. 1227 01:01:22,387 --> 01:01:23,513 I don't know your work. 1228 01:01:24,097 --> 01:01:27,475 But I think that you are a very, very talented young man, 1229 01:01:27,558 --> 01:01:29,560 and I'm never wrong about these things. 1230 01:01:30,603 --> 01:01:32,397 I… I've never had a big game plan. 1231 01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:36,567 I… I've never been necessarily commercially, uh, savvy. 1232 01:01:37,318 --> 01:01:38,152 Asshole. 1233 01:01:38,236 --> 01:01:39,570 Yes? 1234 01:01:39,654 --> 01:01:40,947 I've had lots of things fail. 1235 01:01:41,030 --> 01:01:42,365 I've never then looked in the mirror and said, 1236 01:01:42,448 --> 01:01:45,284 "I am not worthy. I've been… I've been put in my place." 1237 01:01:45,368 --> 01:01:47,870 You are actually a predator. 1238 01:01:48,871 --> 01:01:50,832 People are gonna want you to own that. 1239 01:01:55,253 --> 01:01:56,963 As opposed to… 1240 01:01:59,257 --> 01:02:01,426 What are you exactly, Mitch? 1241 01:02:02,009 --> 01:02:07,056 I think it's insane if someone says, "Oh, I had a horrible time making that movie." 1242 01:02:07,140 --> 01:02:10,560 "I hated making that movie, but please let it be successful." 1243 01:02:10,643 --> 01:02:13,521 If it's only gonna be successful at the box office, 1244 01:02:13,604 --> 01:02:15,773 that's very unlikely. 1245 01:02:16,357 --> 01:02:20,194 The experience you can have in your soul is the experience of doing it. 1246 01:02:20,278 --> 01:02:23,823 Was it creative? Was it fun? Did you have fun dinners? 1247 01:02:23,906 --> 01:02:25,950 Was the hang good? 1248 01:02:27,326 --> 01:02:28,286 What's that? 1249 01:02:28,369 --> 01:02:29,662 Aha! 1250 01:02:29,746 --> 01:02:33,458 ♪ Entertainment tonight! ♪ 1251 01:02:33,541 --> 01:02:37,545 ♪ Entertainment tonight! ♪ 1252 01:02:38,045 --> 01:02:40,047 [birds chirp] 1253 01:02:53,561 --> 01:02:56,606 We're staging a breakfast. I've already eaten. 1254 01:02:57,899 --> 01:03:00,026 Oh my God, am I hungry. 1255 01:03:01,319 --> 01:03:03,279 [exhales] Famished. 1256 01:03:03,988 --> 01:03:05,364 Oh boy. 1257 01:03:07,867 --> 01:03:09,702 Mm, it's so good. 1258 01:03:15,958 --> 01:03:17,293 It's Snug Harbour, 1259 01:03:17,376 --> 01:03:20,838 and I'm having my first vodka tonic of the season. 1260 01:03:21,339 --> 01:03:23,883 For, you see, it's the first day of summer. 1261 01:03:23,966 --> 01:03:25,635 I s… I s… 1262 01:03:26,135 --> 01:03:27,094 I say… 1263 01:03:27,637 --> 01:03:30,139 I… I say it's the first day of summer, Henry. 1264 01:03:30,223 --> 01:03:32,350 -[Nancy] Are you happy to be here, Daddy? -Yes. 1265 01:03:33,476 --> 01:03:36,938 [Marty] Our fabulous cottage that we own in Canada… 1266 01:03:37,021 --> 01:03:38,564 [Katherine] Mom, watch how high I go. 1267 01:03:38,648 --> 01:03:40,608 [Marty] …was bought by Nancy, 1268 01:03:41,108 --> 01:03:43,194 sight unseen by me. 1269 01:03:43,277 --> 01:03:44,904 And those are the children. 1270 01:03:45,738 --> 01:03:47,740 I remember standing at the counter 1271 01:03:47,824 --> 01:03:50,076 while she told Marty that she had bought the cottage. 1272 01:03:51,035 --> 01:03:52,912 I said, "Nancy, has he seen the cottage?" 1273 01:03:52,995 --> 01:03:54,539 "No, he hasn't seen it." 1274 01:03:54,622 --> 01:03:58,835 And I'm thinking, "God, I… Could I do that? Maybe I should do that." 1275 01:04:00,378 --> 01:04:01,921 [Catherine] I always did whatever Nancy told me. 1276 01:04:02,004 --> 01:04:03,464 That's part of Nancy's character. 1277 01:04:03,548 --> 01:04:06,926 "Larry, why don't you go get those, and pick them up and bring them here?" 1278 01:04:07,009 --> 01:04:10,388 "Yes, Nancy." Wouldn't you just do whatever she told you to do? 1279 01:04:10,888 --> 01:04:14,141 She had such… loving authority. 1280 01:04:14,225 --> 01:04:15,059 [laughs] 1281 01:04:15,142 --> 01:04:16,936 [Nancy] Hey, say something funny. 1282 01:04:17,019 --> 01:04:19,063 Oh… Oh, uh… 1283 01:04:19,564 --> 01:04:21,315 Here… Here with the guys… 1284 01:04:21,399 --> 01:04:22,316 [imitates choking] 1285 01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:24,402 [gentle music plays] 1286 01:04:25,570 --> 01:04:28,364 It is one of those places that when you come here, 1287 01:04:28,447 --> 01:04:32,493 even if you haven't been here for a year, you feel like you haven't left. 1288 01:04:34,203 --> 01:04:37,415 I always thought it was like if heaven existed, 1289 01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:42,962 then maybe heaven is your favorite place in eternity. 1290 01:04:44,505 --> 01:04:46,632 And that would be this place. 1291 01:04:46,716 --> 01:04:47,967 [music fades] 1292 01:04:51,220 --> 01:04:52,722 There's Meg Kasdan. 1293 01:04:53,222 --> 01:04:54,348 [Nancy] Let go, Ollie. 1294 01:04:54,432 --> 01:04:55,725 Hi, Marty. 1295 01:04:55,808 --> 01:04:59,645 -[Marty] Hello. Welcome to Snug Harbour. -Thank you. It's quite fabulous. 1296 01:04:59,729 --> 01:05:01,731 [Marty] And there, of course, 1297 01:05:02,899 --> 01:05:04,025 Larry Kasdan. 1298 01:05:04,108 --> 01:05:05,234 Hello, Martin. 1299 01:05:05,318 --> 01:05:06,444 [Marty] Hi, Lar. 1300 01:05:06,527 --> 01:05:10,448 It's so great here. Congratulations to you on this fabulous place. 1301 01:05:10,531 --> 01:05:14,160 [Marty] Thank you. Well, I couldn't have done it without Cross My Heart. 1302 01:05:14,243 --> 01:05:15,202 [Meg laughs] 1303 01:05:15,286 --> 01:05:17,705 -Well, I feel re… -[Marty laughs] 1304 01:05:17,788 --> 01:05:19,415 Responsible for some of it. 1305 01:05:21,375 --> 01:05:23,002 [laughs] 1306 01:05:23,085 --> 01:05:27,214 [Paul] From the moment that you get there, it's full-on Marty's world. 1307 01:05:27,298 --> 01:05:30,301 [cheering] 1308 01:05:30,384 --> 01:05:31,594 [gentle music plays] 1309 01:05:31,677 --> 01:05:34,180 [indistinct chatter] 1310 01:05:35,973 --> 01:05:38,809 [Marty] Excuse me, Andrea. What are you playing, kids? 1311 01:05:38,893 --> 01:05:39,852 Monopoly. 1312 01:05:40,853 --> 01:05:42,188 Burgers on the barbecue. 1313 01:05:42,271 --> 01:05:45,107 We got some Canadian produce being cut up in the kitchen 1314 01:05:45,191 --> 01:05:49,695 that Catherine O'Hara is graciously preparing. 1315 01:05:49,779 --> 01:05:50,696 [Marty] Wow. 1316 01:05:50,780 --> 01:05:51,656 Welcome... 1317 01:05:51,739 --> 01:05:54,575 Oh, thank you so much for letting us enjoy… 1318 01:05:54,659 --> 01:05:56,994 -[Marty] to Dolshor Manor. -…the beauty of Snug Harbour. 1319 01:05:57,495 --> 01:06:00,873 [Marty] It is good. Does your agent know you're here? 1320 01:06:02,875 --> 01:06:06,754 Oh, my agent's not interested in where I am at any time. 1321 01:06:08,923 --> 01:06:10,925 [Nancy] Have you had any pie since you've been here? 1322 01:06:11,008 --> 01:06:12,051 Lots of pie, yeah. 1323 01:06:12,134 --> 01:06:14,971 -I… I don't… -Well, I'm... I look like Gleason. 1324 01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:19,266 And he gives you this drink that he found in Jamaica. 1325 01:06:20,059 --> 01:06:24,188 Ting. Now I'm gonna make you a drink. 1326 01:06:24,689 --> 01:06:25,606 Ow. 1327 01:06:25,690 --> 01:06:27,316 [jaunty music plays] 1328 01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:29,527 Oh, yeah. That's right. You have an alcohol problem. 1329 01:06:30,027 --> 01:06:30,945 There we go. 1330 01:06:31,028 --> 01:06:32,738 We use the ice. 1331 01:06:32,822 --> 01:06:35,616 And by the way, I feel that bathing is for suckers, 1332 01:06:35,700 --> 01:06:37,618 so I haven't washed these for a while. 1333 01:06:37,702 --> 01:06:39,328 Then you open the Ting. 1334 01:06:42,123 --> 01:06:44,208 Ooh. Ooh. 1335 01:06:44,291 --> 01:06:45,126 [Larry laughs] 1336 01:06:45,209 --> 01:06:47,503 Ooh. There you go. 1337 01:06:47,586 --> 01:06:49,588 [indistinct chatter] 1338 01:06:53,551 --> 01:06:55,511 [shrieking] 1339 01:06:55,594 --> 01:06:56,595 [laughter] 1340 01:06:56,679 --> 01:06:59,432 This is my little girl. My little… 1341 01:06:59,932 --> 01:07:01,434 [Marty] Come on, Tom. Yes. 1342 01:07:01,517 --> 01:07:02,435 -Sixty… -[woman] 73! 1343 01:07:02,518 --> 01:07:05,604 Sixty-nine! O sixty-nine! 1344 01:07:06,772 --> 01:07:09,775 Oh, Marty. Me with my extra weight. 1345 01:07:10,609 --> 01:07:12,028 [boy] Try not to hit it too hard. 1346 01:07:12,111 --> 01:07:13,904 Hello? Hi. 1347 01:07:13,988 --> 01:07:16,157 [Marty] Yes, it's Snug '96. 1348 01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:18,242 -What happened, honey? -I don't know. It's my groin. 1349 01:07:18,325 --> 01:07:19,952 Must be something I did last night. 1350 01:07:20,036 --> 01:07:22,371 [Marty cackles] 1351 01:07:22,455 --> 01:07:24,331 -[Marty] Oh boy. -There she goes. 1352 01:07:25,791 --> 01:07:29,128 [Eugene] He's the most connected man here in Hollywood. 1353 01:07:29,628 --> 01:07:34,800 He knows everybody from the top to the very bottom of the top. 1354 01:07:34,884 --> 01:07:36,886 [plays lively tune] 1355 01:07:38,220 --> 01:07:40,139 [Marty] We're as happy as we've ever been. 1356 01:07:41,766 --> 01:07:43,726 This is our eldest son, Tom. 1357 01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:47,104 Tom, are you ever gonna get a job? 1358 01:07:47,188 --> 01:07:50,232 Uh-uh, Daddy. I just love the Canadian woods. 1359 01:07:51,275 --> 01:07:52,902 [Marty] We love him, though. 1360 01:07:53,569 --> 01:07:57,948 [Tom] When we first met Marty, he got up and did a Tony Bennett imitation 1361 01:07:58,032 --> 01:08:00,743 of singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." 1362 01:08:00,826 --> 01:08:03,829 I had that moment of realizing 1363 01:08:03,913 --> 01:08:09,460 I'm gonna hang around with this guy at every opportunity I… I can muster. 1364 01:08:09,543 --> 01:08:10,669 [Marty] Tommy! 1365 01:08:11,754 --> 01:08:13,172 I love when you mug. 1366 01:08:13,255 --> 01:08:15,216 [Rita] Our kids were the same age, 1367 01:08:15,299 --> 01:08:20,971 so we would do these big family barbecues and dinners. 1368 01:08:21,055 --> 01:08:23,140 And we would just hang out together 1369 01:08:23,224 --> 01:08:27,103 because, I mean, who doesn't want to be around Marty anyway? 1370 01:08:27,186 --> 01:08:29,188 [indistinct chatter] 1371 01:08:30,898 --> 01:08:34,151 -[Walter] Anyone gonna like some red wine? -[man 2] I'd love some. 1372 01:08:34,235 --> 01:08:36,320 We were in similar points in our lives. 1373 01:08:36,403 --> 01:08:37,988 -Mm-hmm. Yeah, we were. -Yeah. 1374 01:08:38,072 --> 01:08:39,740 [Kate] We have Miss Nancy Short. 1375 01:08:39,824 --> 01:08:41,408 Happy Mom's Day, Kate. 1376 01:08:41,492 --> 01:08:45,329 [Kate] A mom that I truly admire. And we have Oliver. 1377 01:08:45,412 --> 01:08:46,747 Mr. Henry Short. 1378 01:08:47,248 --> 01:08:50,709 Tom and I go way back with Rita and Kate. 1379 01:08:51,794 --> 01:08:55,631 [Tom] We all had kids of the same age. That was a big deal. 1380 01:08:55,714 --> 01:08:58,050 So a lot of times, you just work it some way, 1381 01:08:58,134 --> 01:09:01,762 "Let's throw these rugrats all together so maybe we can have a conversation." 1382 01:09:03,472 --> 01:09:05,766 I think all of us together probably had, 1383 01:09:05,850 --> 01:09:08,644 I don't know, 17, 15… It was a lot of kids. 1384 01:09:09,228 --> 01:09:10,521 [girl] Pass that to me. 1385 01:09:10,604 --> 01:09:15,317 I think the real tell about Marty's heart is how much my kids love Marty. 1386 01:09:15,818 --> 01:09:17,236 And from very, very young ages, 1387 01:09:17,319 --> 01:09:19,697 how my kids just wanted to be with Marty, 1388 01:09:19,780 --> 01:09:22,408 wanted to walk over during a dinner and sit with Marty 1389 01:09:22,491 --> 01:09:24,785 and talk to Marty and show off for Marty. 1390 01:09:24,869 --> 01:09:26,537 Take that off you, Sawyer! 1391 01:09:26,620 --> 01:09:29,415 -That's mine! -Now wait a second. Lucy, Ethel? 1392 01:09:29,498 --> 01:09:31,417 Lucy! Ethel! 1393 01:09:31,500 --> 01:09:33,210 ♪ I will still be… ♪ Oh! 1394 01:09:33,294 --> 01:09:35,963 ♪ Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da If you're ever… ♪ 1395 01:09:36,046 --> 01:09:37,673 That's exactly what Ricky did. 1396 01:09:38,507 --> 01:09:40,217 [Nancy] Who must they love, darling? 1397 01:09:40,301 --> 01:09:42,720 It is my birthday, don't you see? 1398 01:09:42,803 --> 01:09:45,931 Well, my request is "Love only me." 1399 01:09:47,016 --> 01:09:49,518 Not your stupid parents. 1400 01:09:49,602 --> 01:09:51,353 Tom and Rita. 1401 01:09:51,854 --> 01:09:53,314 Boring! 1402 01:09:53,397 --> 01:09:55,482 [kids laugh] 1403 01:09:55,566 --> 01:09:58,194 And Steven and Kate. Been there, done that. 1404 01:09:58,277 --> 01:09:59,486 [kids laugh] 1405 01:10:00,196 --> 01:10:03,574 He holds friendship right after family as the most important thing. 1406 01:10:04,366 --> 01:10:08,579 We're talking about a dynamic that is not easy to pull off, 1407 01:10:08,662 --> 01:10:14,001 where I'm best friends with the men, and Steven's best friends with the women. 1408 01:10:14,084 --> 01:10:16,253 -So it made it really… -Mm-hmm. 1409 01:10:16,337 --> 01:10:19,423 Didn't you make a movie about that, Larry? 1410 01:10:19,924 --> 01:10:22,384 Marty! Marty! Come on, you gotta do this dance. 1411 01:10:22,468 --> 01:10:24,470 [upbeat music plays] 1412 01:10:28,682 --> 01:10:29,808 Now just like… 1413 01:10:29,892 --> 01:10:33,270 [Steven] I could never keep up with the repartee 1414 01:10:33,354 --> 01:10:37,650 between Tom and Marty and Walter. 1415 01:10:37,733 --> 01:10:41,528 So what I resorted to was my video camera. 1416 01:10:41,612 --> 01:10:44,865 These are the bloody footprints from the last dive. 1417 01:10:44,949 --> 01:10:46,408 Look at the evidence. 1418 01:10:46,492 --> 01:10:48,702 Marty and Tom got this idea. 1419 01:10:48,786 --> 01:10:53,082 "Hey, let's do that scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." 1420 01:10:56,877 --> 01:10:59,880 This is very sad, I must say, 'cause we're gonna be killed, you know. 1421 01:10:59,964 --> 01:11:02,216 Just get ready to shoot the bad guys. 1422 01:11:02,299 --> 01:11:05,177 There's only one way out. So we should jump, I must say. 1423 01:11:05,261 --> 01:11:06,887 I know, we'll get shot. 1424 01:11:06,971 --> 01:11:07,930 So let's go. 1425 01:11:09,807 --> 01:11:11,517 -I'll jump first. -Nope. 1426 01:11:12,059 --> 01:11:13,477 -Then you jump first. -No, I said! 1427 01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:16,146 -What's the matter with you? -I can't swim! 1428 01:11:18,148 --> 01:11:23,112 [laughs] 1429 01:11:24,029 --> 01:11:27,074 What, are you crazy? The fall will probably kill ya. 1430 01:11:27,157 --> 01:11:31,996 Mama always said jumping off cliffs is like a box of chocolates. 1431 01:11:32,079 --> 01:11:35,040 -You never know what you might get. -...might get. Yeah, you're right. 1432 01:11:35,124 --> 01:11:37,668 -Come on, Forrest. -I can't swim. 1433 01:11:38,168 --> 01:11:39,962 [Marty laughs] 1434 01:11:40,045 --> 01:11:41,588 Oh, that's very funny. 1435 01:11:41,672 --> 01:11:45,050 For heaven's sakes, the fall will kill us, I must say. 1436 01:11:45,134 --> 01:11:46,927 [Butch and Sundance yell] 1437 01:11:47,011 --> 01:11:48,971 Oh shit! 1438 01:11:49,054 --> 01:11:51,765 -Oh shit! -Oh shit! 1439 01:11:51,849 --> 01:11:53,726 [Steven giggles] 1440 01:11:54,518 --> 01:11:57,354 [laughter] 1441 01:12:00,524 --> 01:12:03,902 [announcer] Now we go out and about with Jiminy Glick. 1442 01:12:04,570 --> 01:12:08,907 We have a wonderful full-fledged icon to interview. 1443 01:12:08,991 --> 01:12:11,493 Steven Spielberg's with us. Hi, Steven. 1444 01:12:11,577 --> 01:12:14,413 -Hello, Jiminy, nice to see you. -Have you won an Oscar? 1445 01:12:14,913 --> 01:12:16,498 -Yes, sir. -How come? 1446 01:12:17,082 --> 01:12:21,003 And then… And you've made so many films. When are you gonna do the big one? 1447 01:12:22,004 --> 01:12:24,965 Wow. How… What do you mean, big one? 1448 01:12:25,049 --> 01:12:27,134 Something that clicks with the public. 1449 01:12:27,217 --> 01:12:29,595 Yeah. I'd love to see it 'cause I think you're good. 1450 01:12:29,678 --> 01:12:30,929 [applause] 1451 01:12:31,013 --> 01:12:33,974 [Larry King] Jiminy Glick, a legend in his own mind. 1452 01:12:34,058 --> 01:12:36,894 An interviewer far beyond interviewers. 1453 01:12:36,977 --> 01:12:40,272 He asks questions nobody wants to answer. 1454 01:12:40,773 --> 01:12:42,608 -Would you like a donut? -I would love a donut. 1455 01:12:42,691 --> 01:12:43,525 [sneezes] 1456 01:12:44,276 --> 01:12:45,778 [sniffs] Oh! 1457 01:12:45,861 --> 01:12:47,488 Stupid COVID! 1458 01:12:47,571 --> 01:12:48,655 Here you go. 1459 01:12:48,739 --> 01:12:53,786 You know, the premise is bad interviewer who doesn't know much about the person. 1460 01:12:53,869 --> 01:12:55,913 You're confusing me with the actor Michael Keaton, 1461 01:12:55,996 --> 01:12:58,123 who is an acquaintance of mine, who is also a very good actor. 1462 01:12:58,207 --> 01:13:01,919 In fact, your styles are totally different because Keaton is very realistic. 1463 01:13:02,503 --> 01:13:05,589 And you tend to do that kind of, "Oh, say what?" 1464 01:13:05,672 --> 01:13:08,425 Which is wonderful. Hold on, please. Someone's… 1465 01:13:08,926 --> 01:13:09,802 Hello? 1466 01:13:10,594 --> 01:13:11,637 Oh, hi, Dixie. 1467 01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:15,182 He can be that fearless in saying negative things 1468 01:13:15,265 --> 01:13:17,101 that are close to home, 1469 01:13:17,184 --> 01:13:20,104 and the people he's interviewing can be laughing. 1470 01:13:20,187 --> 01:13:21,730 Just 'cause the eyes are so dull 1471 01:13:21,814 --> 01:13:25,943 doesn't mean that there's not a machinery of wheels clicking away. 1472 01:13:26,026 --> 01:13:27,903 I was hoping for an A-lister, 1473 01:13:27,986 --> 01:13:31,240 but I'm thrilled to have you, Bill… Hader. 1474 01:13:31,323 --> 01:13:34,618 -It's not really a star's name, is it? -No. 1475 01:13:34,701 --> 01:13:37,704 -No, like Leo DiCaprio captures you. -Yes. That's true. 1476 01:13:37,788 --> 01:13:40,624 But Bill Hader sounds like a guy who would do inside windows. 1477 01:13:40,707 --> 01:13:42,000 [laughs] 1478 01:13:42,084 --> 01:13:45,921 You really see what Marty thinks of a career in show business. 1479 01:13:46,004 --> 01:13:48,382 -[Marty] When does the film come out? -July 11th. 1480 01:13:48,465 --> 01:13:49,842 Oh, I'm gonna be away. 1481 01:13:49,925 --> 01:13:52,136 You get a lot of bad reviews. 1482 01:13:52,219 --> 01:13:55,889 How does that make you feel and how do you handle it, Steve Martin? 1483 01:13:55,973 --> 01:13:58,308 Well, first of all, you know, a lot of people get bad reviews. 1484 01:13:58,392 --> 01:14:00,227 Charlie Chaplin got bad reviews. 1485 01:14:00,310 --> 01:14:01,437 Mm-mm. 1486 01:14:02,020 --> 01:14:03,522 Buster Keaton got bad reviews. 1487 01:14:03,605 --> 01:14:07,401 No, not really. Not… not… not on the level you get them. 1488 01:14:07,901 --> 01:14:11,113 I was always fascinated by morons with power. 1489 01:14:11,196 --> 01:14:14,741 You flip around daytime television, and there's a person with a show. 1490 01:14:14,825 --> 01:14:17,202 They've got assistants, and that assistant's sweating 1491 01:14:17,286 --> 01:14:19,580 because their tuna fish sandwich was late. 1492 01:14:19,663 --> 01:14:22,040 And, "What kind of tuna fish is this?" 1493 01:14:22,124 --> 01:14:23,417 Wonderful. Call you back. 1494 01:14:23,500 --> 01:14:26,587 -Hi. Leah, and how are you doing? -[Leah] How are you today, Mr. Glick? 1495 01:14:26,670 --> 01:14:29,923 Yellow highlighters I don't like because they're not fun. 1496 01:14:30,007 --> 01:14:32,593 I wanted to create a character who would go to junkets. 1497 01:14:33,510 --> 01:14:35,137 I'd made a film called Pure Luck 1498 01:14:35,220 --> 01:14:38,891 where I was stung by a bee and I had a reaction. 1499 01:14:39,516 --> 01:14:43,020 And I remember Nancy was on the set, saying, "I cannot see you in there." 1500 01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:44,980 And I loved that. 1501 01:14:45,063 --> 01:14:46,773 And the Emmys were coming up. 1502 01:14:47,274 --> 01:14:48,650 Hi, this is Jiminy Glick 1503 01:14:48,734 --> 01:14:50,736 of Jiminy Glick's Lalawood. 1504 01:14:50,819 --> 01:14:53,572 And I am so excited to be at the Emmy Awards. 1505 01:14:53,655 --> 01:14:57,576 I wanted to go out and honestly… And not be seen as myself. 1506 01:14:57,659 --> 01:15:00,245 I'm talking with John Legworth… Lig… Lock… 1507 01:15:00,329 --> 01:15:02,039 -John. Just John. -Lockwo… 1508 01:15:02,122 --> 01:15:03,540 You used to do circus work. 1509 01:15:03,624 --> 01:15:05,125 I was a freak for a while. 1510 01:15:05,209 --> 01:15:07,669 And often people wear stilts doing that, but you didn't need them. 1511 01:15:07,753 --> 01:15:10,589 I didn't need them. I'm a big, gangly freak. And what… 1512 01:15:11,173 --> 01:15:13,592 That tastes actually nice. What's on that? 1513 01:15:13,675 --> 01:15:16,512 It's great to see you again. You look like you've lost a lot of weight. 1514 01:15:16,595 --> 01:15:19,348 Well, I've had liposuction from every possible opening. 1515 01:15:19,431 --> 01:15:23,852 I feel like he could improvise Jiminy Glick to eternity. 1516 01:15:23,936 --> 01:15:24,895 Couldn't he? 1517 01:15:24,978 --> 01:15:26,438 -You… -[Julia Louis-Dreyfus] Yes? 1518 01:15:26,522 --> 01:15:27,648 …are a special spirit. 1519 01:15:27,731 --> 01:15:29,816 -Thank you very much. -[laughs] 1520 01:15:29,900 --> 01:15:31,985 Oh, I hadn't heard the laugh yet. 1521 01:15:32,486 --> 01:15:35,572 He's got his highs, and then he's got his lows. 1522 01:15:36,073 --> 01:15:41,078 And he never fails to come up with the right word 1523 01:15:41,161 --> 01:15:44,164 when he hits his lows. 1524 01:15:44,248 --> 01:15:46,583 You know? Kinko-Belobo. 1525 01:15:46,667 --> 01:15:48,418 Oh my God, I don't think that's true. 1526 01:15:48,502 --> 01:15:50,546 [John Mulaney] It's real Dada entertainment. 1527 01:15:50,629 --> 01:15:54,383 It's real, like, this is all bullshit, 1528 01:15:54,466 --> 01:15:58,554 and our career is sitting across from a buffoon like this. 1529 01:15:58,637 --> 01:16:00,472 -Thanks. -Interview over, man. Done deal. 1530 01:16:00,556 --> 01:16:02,182 Oh my God. 1531 01:16:02,266 --> 01:16:03,892 Someone phone a replacement. 1532 01:16:03,976 --> 01:16:06,562 It's a really punk rock character. 1533 01:16:07,145 --> 01:16:09,565 What's your big beef with the Nazis? 1534 01:16:10,566 --> 01:16:12,109 What's my big beef? 1535 01:16:12,192 --> 01:16:15,112 -[Marty] It seems you're always knocking-- -What's my big beef? 1536 01:16:15,195 --> 01:16:17,030 You're always knocking the Nazis. "Oh, let's…" 1537 01:16:17,114 --> 01:16:21,159 It's… it's time for Mel Brooks to knock the Nazis, it seems. 1538 01:16:21,660 --> 01:16:23,495 You don't want the headlines, do you? 1539 01:16:23,579 --> 01:16:26,498 I don't want it, and yet, when I'm home and I see… 1540 01:16:26,582 --> 01:16:27,416 When I'm-- 1541 01:16:27,499 --> 01:16:28,625 [laughter] 1542 01:16:28,709 --> 01:16:30,961 But there's such subtlety 1543 01:16:32,004 --> 01:16:33,338 with… with Jiminy too. 1544 01:16:33,422 --> 01:16:36,341 That soft side, that empathetic side, 1545 01:16:36,425 --> 01:16:38,802 and… and just the… the levels. 1546 01:16:38,885 --> 01:16:41,888 Every level of comedy is there with Jiminy. 1547 01:16:41,972 --> 01:16:44,975 [Marty] You have to keep constantly making it interesting for yourself. 1548 01:16:45,058 --> 01:16:47,603 What you have to do is just say, "This will be fun to me." 1549 01:16:47,686 --> 01:16:50,480 "I look forward to doing this. This will make me want to work." 1550 01:16:50,564 --> 01:16:53,442 "I wanna show my friends this show." That's what you want to do. 1551 01:16:53,942 --> 01:16:56,445 This has been absolutely so much fun. 1552 01:16:56,528 --> 01:17:01,325 This is the craziest fucking interview I've ever done in my life. 1553 01:17:01,408 --> 01:17:02,284 [laughs] 1554 01:17:08,999 --> 01:17:12,461 [Marty] It's Christmas 2003. 1555 01:17:13,670 --> 01:17:17,090 Fourteen-year-old Henry Short has done the tree basically this year. 1556 01:17:17,841 --> 01:17:18,842 [Henry] Yeah, looks good. 1557 01:17:19,343 --> 01:17:20,969 -Like that? -[Henry] Uh-huh. 1558 01:17:22,387 --> 01:17:23,722 [Marty] We always have a Christmas party at our house, 1559 01:17:23,805 --> 01:17:25,265 and people get up and perform. 1560 01:17:25,349 --> 01:17:30,896 ♪ It's the most wonderful time Of the year ♪ 1561 01:17:32,272 --> 01:17:35,776 ♪ It's the hap… happiest season of all ♪ 1562 01:17:35,859 --> 01:17:37,152 Is anybody else here? 1563 01:17:37,653 --> 01:17:40,656 Marty, who's doing his thing to open the show, 1564 01:17:40,739 --> 01:17:45,202 and then commenting on what you did when you left, 1565 01:17:45,285 --> 01:17:47,037 as if you didn't feel bad enough. 1566 01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:48,789 [Marty] Who remembers Home Alone? 1567 01:17:48,872 --> 01:17:50,749 [cheering] 1568 01:17:50,832 --> 01:17:52,793 And I'm sure there's been others. 1569 01:17:52,876 --> 01:17:54,252 [laughter] 1570 01:17:54,336 --> 01:17:56,338 ["Sleigh Ride" plays] 1571 01:17:58,006 --> 01:17:58,882 [music stops] 1572 01:17:58,965 --> 01:17:59,841 [rhythmic slapping] 1573 01:17:59,925 --> 01:18:01,176 [jaunty music resumes] 1574 01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:05,097 Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Danny Aykroyd. 1575 01:18:05,597 --> 01:18:07,474 And I'm Glenn Frey, the happy Eagle. 1576 01:18:07,557 --> 01:18:08,892 [laughter] 1577 01:18:08,975 --> 01:18:11,353 ♪ The bells will be ringin'… ♪ 1578 01:18:11,436 --> 01:18:12,646 [cheering] 1579 01:18:12,729 --> 01:18:15,774 ♪ The sad, sad news ♪ 1580 01:18:16,775 --> 01:18:18,151 Sally Field, ladies and gentlemen. 1581 01:18:18,819 --> 01:18:20,237 -[Tom] Oh! -[Marty] There we go. 1582 01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:22,072 [laughter] 1583 01:18:22,155 --> 01:18:23,240 There we go. 1584 01:18:23,323 --> 01:18:24,950 Sally Field, ladies and gentlemen. 1585 01:18:25,033 --> 01:18:28,829 Well, we have the ultimate jerk here. Steve Martin is with us. 1586 01:18:29,329 --> 01:18:31,248 [Steve] It was a little bit of work. 1587 01:18:31,331 --> 01:18:35,460 One time, I spent six months learning how to play "Auld Lang Syne" on the banjo. 1588 01:18:35,544 --> 01:18:38,171 Well, now, I gotta think of a fucking song to sing. 1589 01:18:38,255 --> 01:18:41,049 I just can't go and have some macaroni and cheese 1590 01:18:41,133 --> 01:18:42,926 like normal people. 1591 01:18:43,009 --> 01:18:45,011 I gotta hire a vocal coach. 1592 01:18:45,095 --> 01:18:47,681 [women sing] 1593 01:18:47,764 --> 01:18:49,474 ♪ May your days… ♪ 1594 01:18:49,558 --> 01:18:53,562 [Rita] The Christmas party had become so popular, it got too big for their house. 1595 01:18:53,645 --> 01:18:57,065 I said, "Nancy, how are you gonna cull the list?" 1596 01:18:57,149 --> 01:19:01,069 She goes, "Honey, if they don't know my kids' names, they ain't coming." 1597 01:19:01,153 --> 01:19:05,991 ♪ Christmases be white ♪ 1598 01:19:07,492 --> 01:19:08,952 [Marty] The storm is coming. 1599 01:19:13,749 --> 01:19:14,750 [door bangs] 1600 01:19:17,544 --> 01:19:19,963 [thunder crashes] 1601 01:19:20,672 --> 01:19:22,340 It's… it's coming. 1602 01:19:26,970 --> 01:19:28,096 Did you hear that? 1603 01:19:28,847 --> 01:19:29,806 [door closes] 1604 01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:32,184 Should I pick the kids up? 1605 01:19:32,976 --> 01:19:35,270 [Nancy] Yeah, I don't want Ollie driving now. 1606 01:19:35,771 --> 01:19:36,813 [Marty] Yeah, okay. 1607 01:19:37,981 --> 01:19:39,483 [Nancy] So you better phone. 1608 01:19:40,275 --> 01:19:42,569 Well, maybe we should just have dinner at the club then. 1609 01:19:42,652 --> 01:19:45,530 -[Marty] Let's do that. -All right. Can you phone and see? 1610 01:19:45,614 --> 01:19:46,823 [Marty] Oh my God! 1611 01:19:47,324 --> 01:19:50,952 Oh my dear Lord in heaven. I… 1612 01:19:51,036 --> 01:19:52,954 This isn't really what I look like. 1613 01:19:53,038 --> 01:19:54,790 -[phone ringing] -[Marty] Nancy. 1614 01:19:54,873 --> 01:19:56,750 [Nancy] Get the phone! [squeals] 1615 01:19:57,667 --> 01:20:00,879 I… I heard a shrink talk once that said certain couples 1616 01:20:01,546 --> 01:20:03,757 relate directly to each other. 1617 01:20:04,257 --> 01:20:07,093 And certain couples relate through things. 1618 01:20:08,303 --> 01:20:10,639 And they just relate in a different way. 1619 01:20:11,348 --> 01:20:13,141 And they related like this. 1620 01:20:14,851 --> 01:20:18,188 She thought everything he said was hilarious. 1621 01:20:18,730 --> 01:20:21,817 And it was a sincere laughter. 1622 01:20:21,900 --> 01:20:23,401 [laughter] 1623 01:20:23,902 --> 01:20:25,737 It wasn't like a wife doing it. 1624 01:20:25,821 --> 01:20:28,240 It was like a person laughing. 1625 01:20:28,323 --> 01:20:30,116 You know, "Tell that story again." 1626 01:20:32,035 --> 01:20:34,204 [Andrea] She was his biggest fan. 1627 01:20:34,287 --> 01:20:38,625 Nothing is more touching when you look back at the videos that he has. 1628 01:20:39,292 --> 01:20:43,088 And the camera looks at her watching him, 1629 01:20:43,588 --> 01:20:46,341 and her laughing uncontrollably. 1630 01:20:47,092 --> 01:20:48,385 Not to fill his ego. 1631 01:20:48,468 --> 01:20:51,388 Just because she felt he was genuinely 1632 01:20:51,888 --> 01:20:53,640 the best in her book. 1633 01:20:54,683 --> 01:20:56,309 [gentle jazz music plays] 1634 01:20:56,393 --> 01:20:58,520 [Marty] It's mother doing the daddy dance. 1635 01:20:59,104 --> 01:20:59,980 [chuckles] 1636 01:21:01,773 --> 01:21:03,608 I can't do it like you. What's the other one? 1637 01:21:03,692 --> 01:21:04,693 What's the other one? Oh. 1638 01:21:05,318 --> 01:21:06,152 [laughs] 1639 01:21:06,236 --> 01:21:09,489 [Marty] In 2007, she thought she had a hernia. 1640 01:21:09,573 --> 01:21:10,907 She went to a doctor, and he said, 1641 01:21:10,991 --> 01:21:14,286 "I think it's a hernia, but we should have it s… scanned." 1642 01:21:14,369 --> 01:21:17,998 And it was scanned, and it turned out to be an ovarian cyst. 1643 01:21:18,081 --> 01:21:21,585 Of course, then someone picked up a phone and phoned the National Enquirer. 1644 01:21:21,668 --> 01:21:23,503 So it was all in the National Enquirer. 1645 01:21:23,587 --> 01:21:26,256 Bernie Brillstein phoned me up, my manager, and said, 1646 01:21:26,339 --> 01:21:28,592 "Hey, kid, two things. Um…" 1647 01:21:29,092 --> 01:21:31,511 "Bad news is it's on page three of the Enquirer." 1648 01:21:31,595 --> 01:21:33,138 "Good news. It's a very nice picture." 1649 01:21:34,973 --> 01:21:37,976 A couple of days later, we had a scan. It was proved to be cancer. 1650 01:21:41,771 --> 01:21:43,148 [poignant music plays] 1651 01:21:43,231 --> 01:21:45,191 He was doing some work during that time. 1652 01:21:45,275 --> 01:21:48,153 And the family and Nancy and everybody says, 1653 01:21:48,236 --> 01:21:51,364 "You're not gonna stop doing your work because this thing is going to… 1654 01:21:51,448 --> 01:21:54,993 this malady is going to, uh, you know, do its damage." 1655 01:21:55,744 --> 01:21:58,663 [Marty] At one point, I did have to go and shoot Damages. 1656 01:21:58,747 --> 01:22:01,041 My clients aren't guilty of anything. 1657 01:22:01,124 --> 01:22:04,794 No one knew what was going on. And Glenn would say, "Marty's here!" 1658 01:22:04,878 --> 01:22:08,381 I'd go, "Yeah, just give me a second in the dressing room." 1659 01:22:08,465 --> 01:22:10,008 [breathes deeply] 1660 01:22:12,844 --> 01:22:14,554 [Catherine] They came over for dinner at our cottage. 1661 01:22:15,138 --> 01:22:17,599 And Nancy said, "Come into the bedroom. I wanna talk to you." 1662 01:22:17,682 --> 01:22:20,727 So of course, I went… [laughs] …into my bedroom with Nancy 1663 01:22:20,810 --> 01:22:21,978 'cause she told me to. 1664 01:22:22,062 --> 01:22:26,191 And she said, "Well, I have cancer." And told me what was going on. 1665 01:22:26,733 --> 01:22:29,819 "Okay." "And it's gonna be fine." And just told me the facts. 1666 01:22:29,903 --> 01:22:32,447 "Okay, I just wanted you to know." "Okay." 1667 01:22:32,530 --> 01:22:34,074 Then we go back to dinner. 1668 01:22:35,283 --> 01:22:38,536 You're kind of hoping everything works out. 1669 01:22:38,620 --> 01:22:42,582 At the time, we didn't know in the very beginning. 1670 01:22:43,083 --> 01:22:44,542 At a certain point, 1671 01:22:44,626 --> 01:22:47,170 we kind of knew that it wasn't gonna work out. 1672 01:22:50,632 --> 01:22:52,550 [Andrea] To Nancy's credit, 1673 01:22:52,634 --> 01:22:56,429 just because she was the way she was, 1674 01:22:56,513 --> 01:22:58,807 fearless, deter… 1675 01:22:58,890 --> 01:23:01,059 You know her. Determined. 1676 01:23:02,644 --> 01:23:03,520 Um… 1677 01:23:04,062 --> 01:23:05,271 A fighter. 1678 01:23:05,772 --> 01:23:08,650 The chick could do anything, okay? She could do anything. 1679 01:23:08,733 --> 01:23:10,193 Her attitude was, 1680 01:23:10,276 --> 01:23:14,364 "Cancer, whatever. This is how I'm gonna live my life." 1681 01:23:15,740 --> 01:23:18,451 [Andrea] Through a lot of pain, she was playing tennis. 1682 01:23:18,535 --> 01:23:20,787 I was up at Snug Harbour when it was… 1683 01:23:21,705 --> 01:23:25,166 It was the summer where she died in September. [clears throat] 1684 01:23:25,667 --> 01:23:27,460 -Hi, darling. -[Marty] Hey, baby. 1685 01:23:27,544 --> 01:23:29,337 -We're having fun. -[Marty] Beautiful. 1686 01:23:29,421 --> 01:23:31,631 [Deb] We just tried to work off her vibe. 1687 01:23:31,715 --> 01:23:34,134 She set the tone, and we followed. 1688 01:23:34,926 --> 01:23:37,220 [Marty] She tended to be positive in general. 1689 01:23:37,721 --> 01:23:40,974 So when she got sick, her approach was, "I can fight it." 1690 01:23:41,057 --> 01:23:44,769 And if they'd give her… She'd be on a new cocktail of chemo. 1691 01:23:44,853 --> 01:23:46,896 She'd say to everyone, "I'm cured." 1692 01:23:46,980 --> 01:23:49,566 She went to the Internet once, read about it, and said, 1693 01:23:49,649 --> 01:23:51,151 "I'm not gonna do that anymore." 1694 01:23:51,234 --> 01:23:52,652 [Andrea] She didn't wanna know. 1695 01:23:52,736 --> 01:23:56,948 She just wanted to just keep going until she couldn't. 1696 01:23:57,532 --> 01:24:00,910 And he was a perfect partner because he let her. 1697 01:24:00,994 --> 01:24:03,288 It was extraordinary to watch. 1698 01:24:03,788 --> 01:24:06,624 ["Unforgettable" by Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole plays] 1699 01:24:07,876 --> 01:24:09,044 [Marty] Sing it, Nan. 1700 01:24:09,127 --> 01:24:11,880 ♪ Ooh, unforgettable… ♪ 1701 01:24:11,963 --> 01:24:14,299 ♪ Unforgettable ♪ 1702 01:24:14,382 --> 01:24:17,135 [recording] ♪ In every way… ♪ 1703 01:24:17,218 --> 01:24:20,680 ♪ In every way ♪ 1704 01:24:21,181 --> 01:24:23,391 [recording] ♪ And forever more… ♪ 1705 01:24:23,475 --> 01:24:26,144 ♪ And forever more ♪ 1706 01:24:26,227 --> 01:24:28,104 [recording] ♪ That's how you'll stay… ♪ 1707 01:24:28,188 --> 01:24:32,233 ♪ That's how you'll stay ♪ 1708 01:24:32,317 --> 01:24:38,907 [recording] ♪ That's why, darling It's incredible ♪ 1709 01:24:39,407 --> 01:24:44,037 ♪ That someone so unforgettable ♪ 1710 01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:50,460 ♪ Thinks that I am unforgettable ♪ 1711 01:24:50,543 --> 01:24:55,548 ♪ Too ♪ 1712 01:25:01,012 --> 01:25:02,430 [music fades] 1713 01:25:05,225 --> 01:25:10,021 [woman] Steve Martin wrote a melody for Nancy Short, who died a year ago. 1714 01:25:10,105 --> 01:25:13,650 I, uh, dedicated it to my friend Marty Short's… 1715 01:25:16,277 --> 01:25:17,737 [woman] I'm sorry. It's okay. 1716 01:25:17,821 --> 01:25:18,655 Sorry. 1717 01:25:19,155 --> 01:25:20,448 Come on, I'll play it for you. 1718 01:25:21,074 --> 01:25:23,159 [plays "The Great Remember"] 1719 01:25:31,292 --> 01:25:37,298 Like any family, it's just a simple fact that loss is something to negotiate. 1720 01:25:38,216 --> 01:25:40,969 It's going to happen to all of us, and we must celebrate 1721 01:25:41,052 --> 01:25:43,888 and continue that voice and never let it go. 1722 01:25:45,849 --> 01:25:49,978 I couldn't imagine Marty without Nancy. 1723 01:25:50,061 --> 01:25:51,229 Yeah. 1724 01:25:51,312 --> 01:25:53,690 How's he gonna be able to go on without her? 1725 01:25:53,773 --> 01:25:55,775 How's he gonna be able to be funny without her? 1726 01:25:58,736 --> 01:26:01,990 He first threw himself into his children's lives. Into his family. 1727 01:26:02,073 --> 01:26:03,992 Then he threw himself into his work. 1728 01:26:06,828 --> 01:26:08,663 [Michael] I looked at Marty, and I thought, 1729 01:26:08,746 --> 01:26:11,666 "He's going through it again. Jesus Christ." 1730 01:26:12,417 --> 01:26:13,585 "Give me a break." 1731 01:26:14,836 --> 01:26:17,297 [Deb] We'll have full-on conversations about Nancy now. 1732 01:26:17,380 --> 01:26:19,799 I mean, we… we don't skirt around her. 1733 01:26:19,883 --> 01:26:22,927 Sometimes when he's on the phone and he'll be talking about it, 1734 01:26:23,011 --> 01:26:26,890 and I won't agree with him, and I'll say, "Put Nancy on the phone," you know. 1735 01:26:27,390 --> 01:26:30,059 "'Cause you know what? She'd have a different opinion here." 1736 01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:34,355 [Catherine] He handled it with a sense of humor, looked for the laughs. 1737 01:26:34,981 --> 01:26:37,692 I hope you're telling everyone how important laughter is. 1738 01:26:37,775 --> 01:26:39,527 [poignant music plays] 1739 01:26:39,611 --> 01:26:43,406 I was trying to help him. You try to make sure they're okay. 1740 01:26:44,032 --> 01:26:45,158 Hi, video. 1741 01:26:45,241 --> 01:26:47,577 Until they can stand on their own two feet. 1742 01:26:48,536 --> 01:26:49,829 [Walter] I remember he was working a lot. 1743 01:26:49,913 --> 01:26:51,956 ♪ Holiday time ♪ 1744 01:26:52,457 --> 01:26:54,042 What are you doing? 1745 01:26:54,542 --> 01:26:57,212 [Walter] He did share that when he was on the road, 1746 01:26:57,295 --> 01:27:00,006 that's when he was without Nancy normally. 1747 01:27:00,506 --> 01:27:03,509 So the loss actually was a little less tangible 1748 01:27:03,593 --> 01:27:04,886 when he was out there working, 1749 01:27:04,969 --> 01:27:07,222 as opposed to being home and being home alone. 1750 01:27:07,305 --> 01:27:09,974 I don't know what he would do if he wasn't on the move. 1751 01:27:10,058 --> 01:27:15,313 I think he would think it'd be a disservice to Nancy if he went down. 1752 01:27:15,396 --> 01:27:17,398 I was gonna have this meeting with him. 1753 01:27:17,482 --> 01:27:20,276 And I wasn't really aware that he had lost his wife 1754 01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:22,779 within the past few years at that time. 1755 01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:27,283 You're… you're looking at someone's true half gone. 1756 01:27:27,367 --> 01:27:31,371 That's how Lorne Michaels explained to me what kind of a loss that was. 1757 01:27:31,454 --> 01:27:34,999 I was trying to do one of those stupid live audience sitcoms, 1758 01:27:35,083 --> 01:27:36,834 but in a weird way. 1759 01:27:36,918 --> 01:27:39,462 And border on corny, 1760 01:27:39,545 --> 01:27:40,797 but not be. 1761 01:27:40,880 --> 01:27:41,798 [laughter] 1762 01:27:41,881 --> 01:27:45,802 My decorator was going for feng shui, but I just wanted to Wang Chung. 1763 01:27:45,885 --> 01:27:47,387 [audience laughs] 1764 01:27:47,470 --> 01:27:49,472 [laughs awkwardly] 1765 01:27:50,139 --> 01:27:53,017 She lives! She's alive! 1766 01:27:53,101 --> 01:27:54,602 Sometimes I'd write for him. 1767 01:27:54,686 --> 01:27:56,771 He'd say to me, "Well, this is stupid." 1768 01:27:56,854 --> 01:28:00,483 I'd be like, "Isn't the smartest thing to do something really stupid?" 1769 01:28:00,566 --> 01:28:04,737 He'd go, "Well, why don't I just put on a big red wig and run in circles?" 1770 01:28:04,821 --> 01:28:07,615 And some part of me was like, "Oh, would you do that?" 1771 01:28:08,283 --> 01:28:10,994 Something about what I was trying to do didn't translate. 1772 01:28:11,077 --> 01:28:16,165 I think I ran into him in the hall when reviews and numbers were not good. 1773 01:28:16,249 --> 01:28:20,712 And he just grabbed me and said, "John, this is what it is." 1774 01:28:20,795 --> 01:28:23,673 He goes, "98% of it is failure." 1775 01:28:24,257 --> 01:28:27,885 And he meant it sincerely. Like, he goes, "This is what the job is." 1776 01:28:28,761 --> 01:28:31,306 Nothing works, then something works. 1777 01:28:31,889 --> 01:28:37,895 Marty is busier and in more demand now than he ever has been. 1778 01:28:37,979 --> 01:28:39,272 [applause] 1779 01:28:39,856 --> 01:28:44,527 He's responsible for this thing that has made streaming television history. 1780 01:28:44,610 --> 01:28:48,406 He goes off and has these shows that he puts on with Steve. 1781 01:28:48,489 --> 01:28:49,449 [laughter] 1782 01:28:49,532 --> 01:28:53,411 That is not coming out of a desire to stay on top, 1783 01:28:53,911 --> 01:28:57,290 or to fill his coffers, or to stay relevant. 1784 01:28:57,373 --> 01:28:58,833 It's got none of that. 1785 01:28:58,916 --> 01:29:00,084 Marty is doing it 1786 01:29:00,168 --> 01:29:03,212 because the opportunity is there to have a blast. 1787 01:29:03,296 --> 01:29:05,298 [cheering and applause] 1788 01:29:08,009 --> 01:29:09,886 Stop loving me! 1789 01:29:10,803 --> 01:29:13,931 Thank you. I'm your guest host for the week, Martin Short. 1790 01:29:14,015 --> 01:29:14,932 [cheering] 1791 01:29:15,016 --> 01:29:16,893 Oh, hi there. 1792 01:29:17,894 --> 01:29:20,313 I'm actor, comedian, philanthropist, 1793 01:29:20,396 --> 01:29:23,566 and award-winning adult film star Martin Short. 1794 01:29:24,067 --> 01:29:27,820 People always ask me, "Marty, how do you have so much energy?" 1795 01:29:27,904 --> 01:29:31,532 Usually I tell those people, "Get the f*** away from me! Thanks." 1796 01:29:34,118 --> 01:29:35,912 [phone rings] 1797 01:29:36,412 --> 01:29:38,081 I'm putting you on speaker. 1798 01:29:38,831 --> 01:29:41,501 -[Steve] Yeah? -Hey, it's Steve Martin, everyone. 1799 01:29:41,584 --> 01:29:42,752 [Steve] Hi, Marty. 1800 01:29:42,835 --> 01:29:43,795 Hi, Steve. 1801 01:29:43,878 --> 01:29:47,173 [Steve] I'm calling to say I don't like you 1802 01:29:47,256 --> 01:29:49,717 or the people you hang around with. 1803 01:29:49,801 --> 01:29:51,719 [Marty laughs] 1804 01:29:53,429 --> 01:29:56,057 And you felt you had to phone and tell me that? 1805 01:29:56,140 --> 01:29:58,726 [Steve] No, and I'm telling you, I hope you're not recording this. 1806 01:29:58,810 --> 01:30:00,686 No, no, we're not. Absolutely not. 1807 01:30:00,770 --> 01:30:02,522 Okay, enough. We're bombing, by the way. 1808 01:30:03,022 --> 01:30:04,524 -[Steve] Yeah, we're bombing. -I know. 1809 01:30:05,733 --> 01:30:08,111 [Steve] We all know, whether you're in show business or not, 1810 01:30:08,194 --> 01:30:10,363 that you can have a friend you don't see for a year, 1811 01:30:10,446 --> 01:30:13,157 and you get back together and it's just like butter. 1812 01:30:13,241 --> 01:30:14,325 [Marty] Congratulations. 1813 01:30:14,909 --> 01:30:16,536 Remember what we did in that movie? 1814 01:30:17,912 --> 01:30:19,372 Gee, do you think it could work? 1815 01:30:19,455 --> 01:30:20,790 It's got to work. 1816 01:30:20,873 --> 01:30:23,751 [Steve] We did this comedy festival where we interview each other. 1817 01:30:23,835 --> 01:30:24,669 I have a question. 1818 01:30:24,752 --> 01:30:27,213 You do something I don't. You do impressions and… 1819 01:30:27,713 --> 01:30:29,674 [laughter] 1820 01:30:32,969 --> 01:30:36,764 We thought, "Why don't we do it again?" And I knew Marty had a solo show. 1821 01:30:37,765 --> 01:30:42,311 And I had a… a show with a band. A comedy music show. 1822 01:30:42,395 --> 01:30:45,106 And I thought, "Maybe we'll try it. We'll blend it." 1823 01:30:45,189 --> 01:30:48,651 Steve and I called this show, If We'd Saved, We Wouldn't Be Here. 1824 01:30:48,734 --> 01:30:49,569 [laughter] 1825 01:30:49,652 --> 01:30:52,697 You know what I love about touring around with Marty Short? 1826 01:30:52,780 --> 01:30:54,115 No paparazzi. 1827 01:30:54,198 --> 01:30:56,492 [laughter] 1828 01:30:56,576 --> 01:31:00,997 Is there any trepidation at all when you come out and start the show? 1829 01:31:01,581 --> 01:31:02,665 -None. -None. 1830 01:31:02,748 --> 01:31:03,666 [all laugh] 1831 01:31:03,749 --> 01:31:05,376 Isn't that a boring answer? 1832 01:31:05,460 --> 01:31:09,297 I'm a little more, uh, nervous than Marty is. Marty is extremely relaxed. 1833 01:31:09,380 --> 01:31:12,925 -And the reason he is more nervous-- -I care. 1834 01:31:13,009 --> 01:31:14,760 -I'm relaxed… Same joke. -Yeah. 1835 01:31:14,844 --> 01:31:18,306 Which has kept me out of the big money because Steve actually cares. 1836 01:31:18,389 --> 01:31:20,892 When I think of Steve, and it's not often, 1837 01:31:20,975 --> 01:31:22,602 but when I do, 1838 01:31:22,685 --> 01:31:25,730 the one thing that strikes me more than anything else about you 1839 01:31:25,813 --> 01:31:29,484 is how unbelievably pale you are in person. 1840 01:31:29,567 --> 01:31:30,776 [laughter] 1841 01:31:30,860 --> 01:31:32,570 Like I'm being haunted, you know? 1842 01:31:32,653 --> 01:31:36,032 You look like Anderson Cooper froze to death on New Year's Eve. 1843 01:31:36,532 --> 01:31:37,950 [applause] 1844 01:31:38,034 --> 01:31:41,162 [Steve] You know that sort of insult premise that we have? 1845 01:31:41,245 --> 01:31:43,789 He was the first one to do that. 1846 01:31:44,415 --> 01:31:48,503 And I thought, "Oh, that's kind of fun." 1847 01:31:49,587 --> 01:31:52,965 And so I'd start to learn to do it back, and he'd do it. 1848 01:31:53,049 --> 01:31:57,678 And… and that became a way to converse. 1849 01:31:57,762 --> 01:32:00,556 And then I noticed, when we started doing Only Murders in the Building, 1850 01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:03,809 and we're working with Selena, who's a person we didn't know… 1851 01:32:04,310 --> 01:32:07,271 Marty and I have this little rapport thing going on 1852 01:32:07,355 --> 01:32:10,858 to sort of kill time between setups. 1853 01:32:11,359 --> 01:32:15,238 And a couple of years go by, and then I notice Selena starts doing it. [chuckles] 1854 01:32:17,156 --> 01:32:19,825 -Oh, how did you get here? -It was open. 1855 01:32:19,909 --> 01:32:21,494 I don't lock my door. Never have. 1856 01:32:21,577 --> 01:32:23,120 -That's insane. -It's neighborly. 1857 01:32:23,204 --> 01:32:25,289 A murderer probably lives in the building. 1858 01:32:25,373 --> 01:32:29,252 But I guess old white guys are only afraid of colon cancer and societal change. 1859 01:32:29,835 --> 01:32:30,670 Sad. 1860 01:32:31,170 --> 01:32:34,090 Marty says, "I can't believe that we get to do this." 1861 01:32:34,173 --> 01:32:36,551 "I get to go hang out with funny people 1862 01:32:36,634 --> 01:32:39,595 and laugh all through all rehearsals." 1863 01:32:40,096 --> 01:32:45,101 [Marty] Steve feels that this is a moment. 1864 01:32:45,184 --> 01:32:46,602 So much for the moment. 1865 01:32:46,686 --> 01:32:48,145 [chuckling] 1866 01:32:48,229 --> 01:32:49,981 [man] Come around to yourself now, Marty. 1867 01:32:51,232 --> 01:32:53,359 -I was covering the camera. -[Steve] Camera was covered. 1868 01:32:53,442 --> 01:32:56,320 Marty and I like honing in on a… a joke 1869 01:32:56,404 --> 01:32:58,155 to get it more and more precise. 1870 01:32:58,239 --> 01:33:01,284 So it's almost exact. 1871 01:33:01,367 --> 01:33:04,453 And then within that exactness, there are variations. 1872 01:33:04,537 --> 01:33:05,371 Huh? 1873 01:33:05,871 --> 01:33:07,707 Oh my God, Mayberry. 1874 01:33:09,333 --> 01:33:11,294 -Well, that's not bad. -[Steve] Yeah, yeah. 1875 01:33:11,794 --> 01:33:15,339 -You know, to say something-- -[Steve] R.F.D. 1876 01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:17,258 [chuckles] 1877 01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:21,345 Well, what about, "Oh My God, Opie?" Or… 1878 01:33:22,305 --> 01:33:23,598 Richie Cunningham? 1879 01:33:24,390 --> 01:33:25,975 That was his character in Happy Days. 1880 01:33:26,058 --> 01:33:29,020 But I think it… it steps on your Ollie and Ron-Ron. 1881 01:33:29,103 --> 01:33:31,272 I'll just go, "Huh?" 1882 01:33:32,189 --> 01:33:33,858 [Marty] The A-lister. You did it. 1883 01:33:33,941 --> 01:33:35,192 -Yeah. -[Marty] Okay. 1884 01:33:35,693 --> 01:33:37,903 -From the top. -[Marty] Really? 1885 01:33:38,487 --> 01:33:40,239 I'm just thinking of this poor man. 1886 01:33:40,323 --> 01:33:41,198 I know. 1887 01:33:41,282 --> 01:33:43,284 [gentle music plays] 1888 01:33:44,410 --> 01:33:47,038 You know, we're gonna be friends to the end. 1889 01:33:47,538 --> 01:33:50,166 Oh, God. I'm fine. You don't need to say anything nice about me. 1890 01:33:50,249 --> 01:33:52,668 Especially not while making eye contact. 1891 01:33:52,752 --> 01:33:55,004 What if we went behind our menus? 1892 01:33:55,504 --> 01:33:58,174 That… that c… That could work, yeah. 1893 01:33:58,841 --> 01:34:00,509 [Marty] If it would make you feel better, 1894 01:34:00,593 --> 01:34:04,013 you can be my Life Alert contact in case I fall. 1895 01:34:04,096 --> 01:34:06,265 And we can get colonoscopies together. 1896 01:34:07,725 --> 01:34:09,477 I can't ever imagine stopping. 1897 01:34:10,394 --> 01:34:13,439 And I'd like to think I was the best version of myself 1898 01:34:13,522 --> 01:34:15,399 on the last day of my life. 1899 01:34:15,483 --> 01:34:16,692 Marty really showed me 1900 01:34:16,776 --> 01:34:19,612 that, um, it's very important how you carry yourself 1901 01:34:19,695 --> 01:34:21,822 through all of these experiences. 1902 01:34:21,906 --> 01:34:23,741 Marty is good at life. 1903 01:34:23,824 --> 01:34:25,868 [exhilarating classical music plays] 1904 01:34:31,457 --> 01:34:32,291 [child squeals] 1905 01:34:32,375 --> 01:34:35,378 [child laughs] 1906 01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:39,298 In this business, in the world of comedy, there's nobody faster. 1907 01:34:39,799 --> 01:34:42,051 There's nobody smarter. There's nobody funnier. 1908 01:34:42,551 --> 01:34:47,556 He's just been born with an ability to connect. 1909 01:34:47,640 --> 01:34:52,395 You just write the word J-O-Y, joy, and it's a steady state. 1910 01:34:52,478 --> 01:34:56,691 You know, it's like… it's like a constant. It's the… It's the speed of light. 1911 01:34:56,774 --> 01:34:59,944 Marty operates at the speed of joy. 1912 01:35:00,945 --> 01:35:02,279 [chuckles] 1913 01:35:03,781 --> 01:35:05,741 ["Let 'Em In" by Paul McCartney and Wings plays] 1914 01:35:05,825 --> 01:35:07,743 [kids speak indistinctly] 1915 01:35:07,827 --> 01:35:08,953 [laughter] 1916 01:35:09,036 --> 01:35:10,413 [Marty] Hi, baby. 1917 01:35:11,080 --> 01:35:12,707 What a glorious day! 1918 01:35:13,999 --> 01:35:16,877 [Marty] Michael and Brian Short. 1919 01:35:19,046 --> 01:35:20,756 [Nancy] Watch out for the puddles. 1920 01:35:22,883 --> 01:35:25,136 [Marty] Yes, the Levys are at Snug Harbour. 1921 01:35:26,178 --> 01:35:27,763 Wow. You know what? 1922 01:35:28,389 --> 01:35:29,849 I'm damn impressed. 1923 01:35:31,475 --> 01:35:33,728 ♪ Someone's knocking at the door ♪ 1924 01:35:34,228 --> 01:35:36,397 ♪ Somebody's ringing the bell… ♪ 1925 01:35:37,273 --> 01:35:38,858 -Hi, Marty. -[Marty] Hi, Andrea. 1926 01:35:38,941 --> 01:35:43,362 ♪ Open the door and let 'em in ♪ 1927 01:35:43,946 --> 01:35:45,239 ♪ Ooh, yeah… ♪ 1928 01:35:46,198 --> 01:35:48,117 -Hi, honey. -[Marty] Hi, honey. 1929 01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:50,995 -You're taping me, but I'm taping you! -[Marty] Oh! 1930 01:35:53,330 --> 01:35:55,750 So this is a press conference, kids. 1931 01:35:55,833 --> 01:35:57,752 And they all love me. 1932 01:35:57,835 --> 01:35:59,086 [laughter] 1933 01:35:59,170 --> 01:36:00,379 ♪ Do me a favor ♪ 1934 01:36:00,880 --> 01:36:03,048 ♪ Open the door and… ♪ 1935 01:36:03,132 --> 01:36:05,384 What are you doing? Are you doing that face? 1936 01:36:05,468 --> 01:36:08,721 ♪ Yeah, let 'em in… ♪ 1937 01:36:08,804 --> 01:36:11,348 -[Marty] Hello, Danny. -Hello. 1938 01:36:11,432 --> 01:36:13,267 -[Marty] Well, hi, captain. -[laughs] 1939 01:36:13,934 --> 01:36:17,897 [Marty] There's the fabulous Catherine O'Hara. Go, baby. 1940 01:36:20,566 --> 01:36:21,859 Wow! 1941 01:36:24,570 --> 01:36:25,404 Hey, ese. 1942 01:36:25,488 --> 01:36:27,114 [Marty] Oh, Dave. Grow up. 1943 01:36:27,907 --> 01:36:30,785 -Andrea, look at the ass on mother. -So fat. 1944 01:36:30,868 --> 01:36:32,578 How's your vacation, Stevie? 1945 01:36:32,661 --> 01:36:34,121 Innkeeper, more wine. 1946 01:36:34,205 --> 01:36:35,873 ♪ Brother John ♪ 1947 01:36:36,916 --> 01:36:38,626 ♪ Martin Luther ♪ 1948 01:36:39,293 --> 01:36:41,212 ♪ Phil and Don ♪ 1949 01:36:42,338 --> 01:36:43,923 ♪ Brother Michael ♪ 1950 01:36:44,924 --> 01:36:46,759 ♪ Auntie Gin… ♪ 1951 01:36:48,135 --> 01:36:51,388 I don't think dogs like me, Marty. I don't know why. I just don't think they like me. 1952 01:36:51,472 --> 01:36:53,390 -[Marty] Really? -Yeah, I don't really think so. 1953 01:36:53,474 --> 01:36:55,309 [Marty] Well, maybe you… Let me see. 1954 01:36:57,895 --> 01:36:59,188 Go, baby, go! 1955 01:36:59,897 --> 01:37:01,857 ♪ Somebody's ringing the bell… ♪ 1956 01:37:02,566 --> 01:37:06,987 [Marty sings nonsense words] 1957 01:37:08,113 --> 01:37:09,573 ♪ Do me a favor… ♪ 1958 01:37:10,074 --> 01:37:11,784 Happy Thanksgiving. 1959 01:37:11,867 --> 01:37:12,785 [laughs] 1960 01:37:12,868 --> 01:37:13,702 [laughs] 1961 01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:16,413 ♪ Ooh, yeah, yeah… ♪ 1962 01:37:16,997 --> 01:37:17,832 [Marty] Stop it. 1963 01:37:19,041 --> 01:37:21,460 ♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo ♪ 1964 01:37:21,544 --> 01:37:24,129 [indistinct singing] 1965 01:37:24,213 --> 01:37:25,214 Camera on. 1966 01:37:26,632 --> 01:37:30,386 That's all the news. It is the news. Talk to you later. 1967 01:37:31,136 --> 01:37:33,639 -And, uh… Uh… -[laughter] 1968 01:37:33,722 --> 01:37:35,641 So until then. 1969 01:37:36,642 --> 01:37:39,144 -[Nancy] Are you happy now, Dad? -Yes. 1970 01:37:39,228 --> 01:37:40,354 [music fades] 1971 01:37:43,482 --> 01:37:47,695 [Larry] Jiminy, you've interviewed so many people. Like, everybody. 1972 01:37:47,778 --> 01:37:50,197 But you've never interviewed Martin Short. 1973 01:37:50,698 --> 01:37:52,825 No. I don't find him interesting. 1974 01:37:52,908 --> 01:37:56,453 I find people who push too hard 1975 01:37:56,537 --> 01:37:58,664 and are desperate for the approval 1976 01:37:58,747 --> 01:38:02,084 without really presenting any reason for the approval, 1977 01:38:02,167 --> 01:38:03,836 I find it offensive. 1978 01:38:03,919 --> 01:38:06,422 [Larry] Did you hear they were making a documentary about him? 1979 01:38:06,922 --> 01:38:09,425 Yeah, well, they're making a documentary on everyone. 1980 01:38:09,508 --> 01:38:11,760 You know, they're making a… a documentary. 1981 01:38:11,844 --> 01:38:16,181 Literally every human being that existed. 1982 01:38:16,265 --> 01:38:19,643 This is what I think. I think that Martin Short, he… 1983 01:38:19,727 --> 01:38:24,523 There's, like, basically, three voices, two hairstyles, and four dance moves. 1984 01:38:24,607 --> 01:38:28,277 And you can't build an empire on that. Although somehow, he has. 1985 01:38:28,360 --> 01:38:30,946 But I don't buy it. I don't like it. 1986 01:38:52,551 --> 01:38:54,553 [gentle music plays] 1987 01:39:38,472 --> 01:39:39,431 [music fades]