Martin Hayter Short (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, singer and writer. He is known for his work on SCTV television programs and Saturday Night Live. He has starred in comedy movies, such as Three Amigos (1986), Innerspace (1987), Three Fugitives (1989), Bride (1991), Pure Luck (1991), Captain Ron (1992), Father of the Bride Part II ( 1995), Mars Attack! (1996), and Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), and created the characters, Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley. In 1999, she won the Tony Award for her main appearance in Broadway revival Little Me.
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Short was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the youngest of five children from Olive Grace (nÃÆ'  © e Hayter; 1913-68), a concertmistress of the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra, and Charles Patrick Short (1909-70), a corporate executive with Stelco, the company Canadian steel. He and his brothers were raised as Catholics. He has three older brothers, David (now dead), Michael, and Brian, and one older sister, Nora. Short's father was an Irish Catholic emigre from Crossmaglen, South Armagh, who came to North America as a dark passenger during the Irish Independence War. Short's mother is of British and Irish descent. He encouraged his early creative efforts. His eldest brother, David, was killed in a car crash in Montrà © al, QuÃÆ'  © bec, in 1962 when Short was 12. His mother died of cancer in 1968, his father two years later suffered complications from a stroke.
Short attended Westdale High School and graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work in 1971.
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Careers
Initial career
When Short graduated from McMaster University, he intends to pursue a career in social work; However, he became interested in acting once he was cast in the production of Toronto Godspell in the same year. Among the other members of the production players were Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, and Andrea Martin; Paul Shaffer is the music director. He was later cast on several television shows and dramas, including the drama Fortune and Men's Eyes (1972). He worked alone in Canada until 1979. In 1979, Short starred in the US sitcom The Associates about a group of young lawyers working at Wall Street law firms. In 1980, he joined the cast I am the Great Girl Now , a sitcom, starring Diana Canova and Danny Thomas. Canova was offered a sitcom because of his success in playing Corinne Tate Flotsky on ABC Soap and leaving Soap shortly before Nancy's new wife Nancy Dolman joined.
SCTV
Short was encouraged to pursue comedy by McMaster classmates Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas, whom he joined in the improvised group The Second City in Toronto, Ontario in 1977. He came to public notice when the group produced an event for television, Second City of Television or SCTV , which lasts for several years in Canada, then the United States. Shortly appeared in SCTV in 1982-83. At SCTV, Short developed some characters before moving to Saturday Night Live for the 1984-85 season:
- Talk show host Brock Linehan, based on Canadian interviewer Brian Linehan
- Old songwriter Irving Cohen, generally considered loose based on American composer Irving Caesar and/or Irving Berlin, but actually (according to Short in his autobiography) was inspired by Sophie Tucker
- Entertainer Jackie Rogers, Jr.
- Current adviser Troy Soren
- Industry artist and patron Bradley P. Allen
- Defense lawyer Nathan Thurm
- Boys Oddball Ed Grimley, later featured on SNL and in his own short animated television series in 1989 titled The Fully Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley , which is just a serial animations adapted from the SCTV character and the Saturday Night Live character.
Saturday Night Live
Short joined Saturday Night Live for the 1984-85 season. She helped revive the show with much of her character for season ten (the last one produced by Dick Ebersol). "Short appearances on SNL help to revive the event fanbase, which has been marked after Eddie Murphy's departure, and in turn, will launch a successful career in film and television." The characters SNL include some relics from their SCTV days. He also performs celebrity shows like Jerry Lewis and Katharine Hepburn.
Television
In addition to his work on SCTV and SNL, Short has starred in several television specials and his own series. In 1985, Short starred in a special Showtime hour, Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas. This is Short's first live concert, interspersed with studio sketches and covers featuring Jackie Rogers Jr. Co-produced by CBC, it was aired as The Martin Short Comedy Special in Canada in March 1986. In 1989, another one-hour comedy short headline, this time for HBO, I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood , classic Short shipping of all things in Hollywood. It featured many characters including Ed Grimley and Jackie Rogers Jr.
Short has had three television shows called The Martin Short Show, including the sitcom, The Martin Short Show, 1994; a comedy sketch show, The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show , 1995; and the Martin Short Show syndicated talk show, which runs from 1999 to 2000.
Short starring as Jiminy Glick at Comedy Central PrimeTime Glick (2001-03). He interviewed players and celebrities as Jiminy Glick's character. The New York Times in 2002 called the character "the most unexpected and cute comic creations with no obstacles to hit TV since Bart Simpson was in the diapers."
In addition to his own series, Short has guest stars at several events including Arrested Development (episodes titled "Ready, Aim, Marry Me", 2005), Muppets Tonight (1996)), Legal & amp; Order: Special Victim Unit , and Weed . He joined the drama FX Damage as Leonard Winstone's lawyer in 2010.
Short voiced Cat in the Hat in the animated TV series Cats in the Hat Know a Lot About That! , which airs in the U.S., Canada and the UK from 2010 to 2013. He then voiced his character in a number of related TV specials in 2014 and 2016.
She shoots a new comedy for television in Toronto in September 2011. In particular, I, Martin Short, Goes Home follows Martin's return to his native Hamilton, Ontario and has cast members including Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Joe Flaherty, and Fred Willard. Featured on CBC Television on April 3, 2012, and collected short nominations for Best Actor in Comedy Program or Series at the First Canada Screen Awards. In 2011 Short joined the cast of How I Met Your Mother for his seventh season, playing Marshall Eriksen's boss maneuvers and being the first season and the only Canadian Got Talent >> (2012).
He, along with Steve Martin and Chevy Chase, appeared on the episode of Saturday Night Live as part of the "Five-Timers Club", on March 9, 2013, which included actors who have held five events or more. However, Short appears as a waiter, as he only hosts twice.
From 2014 to 2015, he starred in Fox's sitcom, Mulaney , like Lou Cannon, boss and show host John Mulaney's title character.
On May 31, 2016, Martin Short debuted on a new variety show on NBC, Maya & amp; Marty In his early performances, Martin revived his Jiminy Glick character, his person, Maya Rudolph, forged American cooking and in a play that ridiculed American politics, Miley Cyrus sang "I'm the Man" followed by a duet with Rudolph from "I'm a WOMEN." The show ended with a performance by the dance troupe Shuffle Along . Movies
After sketching comedy for several years, Short star in Three Amigos, Innerspace, The Big Picture, Captain Ron , Clifford , Three Fugitives (1989), directed by Francis Veber, with Nick Nolte and James Earl Jones, remake of 1991 Father of the Bride and the sequel, and in Pure Luck (1991), directed by Nadia Tass, with Danny Glover and Sheila Kelley.
In 1996, he appeared in sci-fi comedy Tim Burton Mars Attack! as Jerry Ross's lowly Secretary of Press. In 1997, he appeared as Richard Kempster's Wall Street broker at Jungle 2 Jungle, with Tim Allen.
In 2004, he wrote and starred in Jiminy Glick in Lalawood with Jan Hooks as his wife, Dixie Glick. In 2006, he starred in other films with Tim Allen, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause .
Shortly also vote out some animated movie characters, such as Stubbs at We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993), Hubie in The Pebble and the Penguin (1995), Huy in The Prince of Egypt (1998) Hotep), Ooblar in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), BEN at Treasure Planet (2002), Thimbletack the Brownie in The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), Stefano the sea lion at Madagascar 3: Most Most Searched In Europe (2012), Kurokawa in England dubbed Hayao Miyazaki's
Short is the host of Walt Disney World attractions, O Canada! , the Circle-Vision 360Ã, ™ film at the Walt Disney World Epcot theme park. She also hosts the now-defunct "The Making of Me" event at Epcot's Wonders of Life Pavilion, a 15-minute film about how pregnancy occurs.
Stage
The short work continued in the theater, playing a leading role in the 1993 musical version of the movie Neil Simon The Goodbye Girl , on Broadway, receiving a Tony Award nomination and the Outer Critics Circle Award.
She has a major role in the Broadway 1999 musical awakening Little Me, where she received the Tony Award and Outer Critical Round Award.
In 2003, Short went on stage once more in Los Angeles which was critically acclaimed by The Producers. Short played the role of accountant, Leo Bloom, against Max Bialystock Jason Alexander. Though Leo Bloom's role comes from Broadway by Matthew Broderick, Mel Brooks first approached Short about doing a passage opposite Nathan Lane. On this issue, Short had stated in interviews that, when he was happy with the occasion, the idea of ​​moving his family from Los Angeles to New York for a year was less than ideal and ultimately proved to be a transgressor..
Short was done in a one-man satire show, with six players, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, at Bernard B. Jacobs Theater on Broadway. The show toured several cities in the spring of 2006, before opening on Broadway in August 2006; The show closed in January 2007. In it, it featured classic characters Grimley, Cohen, and Glick.
As Glick, Short takes a member of the audience (usually a celebrity) on stage and interviews him. Jerry Seinfeld was a guest on the opening night. The show also featured a parody of many celebrities including Celine Dion, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Tommy Tune, Joan Rivers, Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres, Renà © © Zellweger, Jodie Foster, Rachael Ray, and Short's wife, actress Nancy Dolman. The cast album was released on April 10, 2007, and is available from Ghostlight Records, a recording of Sh-K-Boom Records.
Short goes on tour in his one-man show, featuring many of his most beloved characters and sketches. In addition to Fame Becomes Me , some of the short titles used for his one-man show include Stroke Me Lady Fame , If I Save, I Will Never Get Here , and Sunday in the Park with George Michael .
In short, memoir of his 40-year career in the show business, I Must Say: My Life As A Humble Comedy Legend , was released on November 4, 2014.
Personal life
Family
Short met Canadian comic actress Nancy Dolman in 1972 during running Godspell . The couple married in 1980. Dolman retired from show business in 1985 to become a home-stay mother and raise his family. Short and Dolman adopted three children: Katherine (born 1983), Oliver (b 1986), and Henry (born 1989). Dolman died on August 21, 2010, due to ovarian cancer.
Brief and his family made their home in Pacific Palisades, California. He also owns a house on Lake Rosseau in Ontario. He is a naturalized US citizen.
Short has two stars on Canada's Walk of Fame. His brother, Michael is a comedy writer and two-time Emmy Award winner for comedy sketch writing.
Family width
Dolman's older brother, screenwriter/director Bob Dolman, (who was part of the Emmy SCTV winning team team with Short), married his close friend and colleague Andrea Martin, also in 1980. Dolman and Short are aunt and uncle of this couple. son, Jack and Joe. Bob Dolman and Martin have since divorced. Short is Clare Short's cousin, a former member of the British Parliament and a former UK cabinet minister.
Philanthropy
Short appeared in an episode of 2001 at Celebrity Who Own to Be a Millionaire hosted by Regis Philbin, winning $ 32,000 for charity, Loyola High School.
Short has been actively campaigning for the Women's Cancer Research Fund, and he received a "Courage Award" on behalf of his late wife in gala 2011 by the group.
Short is also a member of the Canadian Charity Against Racism.
Politics
Short is known for being critical of US President Donald Trump. In an interview for The Daily Beast, he said that Trump's presidency was not even a presidency and that was a "typo". He likens Trump to former US Senator Joseph McCarthy and his McCarthyism.
Movieography
Movies
Television
Comedy Special
Video game
Theater
Books
- I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Comedy (2014, autobiography)
Awards and honor
- 1982: Nelly Award: Extraordinary Writing, SCTV Comedy Network
- 1983: Emmy Award for Extraordinary Writing in Variety or Music Program, SCTV Comedy Network
- 1993: Outer Critics Circle Award: Best Actor in Musical, Goodbye Girl
- 1993: The World Theater Award
- 1993: Nominated for Tony's Award for Best Actor in Musical, Goodbye Girl
- 1994: Members of the Order of Canada
- 1995: Earl Gray's Lifetime Achievement Award
- 1999: Sir Peter Ustinov award awarded at Banff Television Festival
- 1999: Outer Critics Circle Award: Best Actor in the Musical, Little Me
- 1999: Tony Award for Best Actor in Musical, Little Me
- 2000: Canadian Walk of Fame
- 2001: Win a Literary Doctor of Honor from McMaster University
- 2002: Gold Medal of Jubilee Queen Elizabeth II
- 2010: Nominated for Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in Drama Series, Damage
- 2010: Nominated for Satellite Award for Best Actor in Supporting Role in Serial, Damage
- 2011: Nominated for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Viewer In Animated Program, Cats in Hat Know A Lot About It!
- 2012: Medal of Queen Jubilee Queen Elizabeth II
- 2015: Stamps published by the Canada Post
- 2016: Canada Screen Lifetime Award
- 2017: Canadian Screen Awards: Best Appearance in program or animated series, Cats in Hat Know A Lot About Camping!
Footnote
Further reading
David Camp, "The Cat's Meow: Martin Short never brought a hit movie or an old sitcom Initially, he was desperate to be abandoned by friends like Paul Shaffer, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray, but at age 62 he stands alone on the comedic horizon, adored by the Hollywood elite as the funniest, most fun, best of all, "Vanity Fair, January 2013.External links
- Martin Short at National Public Radio in 2004
- Martin Short on Broadway Internet Database
- Martin Short on the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Martin Short on IMDb
- Martin Short at Godspell.ca
- North Star: Martin Short
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