It snuck up on us, didn't it? The end of SNL Season 38 brought along with it key staff changes, among them the upcoming departure of head writer Seth Meyers and the immediate departures of cast members Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and (unofficially) Jason Sudeikis. Few people have shaped SNL over the past 8 years more than these men — Meyers with his leadership in the writers room and charm as Weekend Update host, and Hader, Armisen and Sudeikis as the cast's workhorses and loadbearing performers. Indeed, many pegged Season 38 as a "transitional year" in the wake of Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg leaving the show a year ago, [...]
"Of all the people I have a fake show business relationship with, I feel fake closest to you," Martin Short tells Jimmy Kimmel at the top of this interview from last night. Later in the interview, Short also ranks his three best friends in show business (Steve Martin, Paul Shaffer, Eugene Levy). Martin Short interviews are always fun, but this one is especially so.
I don't think anyone is as big a fan of SNL as SNL itself. At every opportunity, Lorne Michaels reminds us of his show's elite status and cultural impact, whether in a tongue-in-cheek backstage bit with Paul Simon and a scotch, or in a more sincere soundbite from one of those now-dime-a-dozen behind-the-scenes specials NBC rolls out on Sunday nights. I can't really blame Lorne for perpetuating this "SNL dynasty" mystique; admittedly I find the show's history fascinating, and I believe the man has earned enough ego to occasionally place his show on a pedestal, especially by coyly likening it to a vain gentleman's club. SNL can get away with its [...]
Living comedy legend Martin Short is in talks to star alongside stand-up/SNL writer John Mulaney in his new untitled NBC pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Short is "wrapping up negotiations" to play the role of game show host Lou Cannon in the ensemble multi-cam comedy. Lou Cannon is the boss of Mulaney's character, who writes jokes for his game show. Mulaney created the show, and he's producing it alongside Lorne Michaels, Dave Becky (Louie), and 30 Rock producers David Miner and Andrew Singer. Besides Short's SNL appearances, this could be the first project he and Lorne Michaels have worked on together since The Three Amigos in 1986, [...]
To spite Michelle Obama, who got to see the premiere of Downton Abbey early, Stephen Colbert exclusively premiered this new show last night: Breaking Abbey. This should put the First Lady in her place.
Hit the jump for more highlights from last night's late night shows, including Martin Short on Fallon, a Conan sketch, and a big year-end musical performance on Colbert:
Living comedy legend Martin Short is set to star in his first movie in several years, and it's a pretty prestigious one. The Wrap reports that Short has been cast in Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie Inherent Vice, an adaptation of the 2009 Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as pothead private eye Doc Sportello, who's investigating the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend. Short joins a supporting cast that also includes Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, and Reese Witherspoon. Short's small role in the movie is being kept under wraps. He recently starred in Mulaney, SNL writer/stand-up John Mulaney's Lorne Michaels-produced sitcom that [...]
Here's Martin Short being as funny as ever on Letterman last night, singing a song about Carnival Cruise Lines to kick off his stint as the company's new singing and dancing spokesperson. This new John Mulaney/Martin Short sitcom can't come soon enough.
Justin Timberlake hosted Saturday Night Live for the fifth time this weekend, making him a member of the show's exclusive Five-Timers Club and warranting a big cameo-laden sketch. Some of the show's most frequent and beloved hosts like Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, Tom Hanks, Paul Simon, Chevy Chase, and Candice Bergen dropped by, as well as lowly Five-Timers Club staff Dan Aykroyd and Martin Short, making this one of the most impressive reunions of important SNL veterans ever.
Hit the jump for the original sketch that inspired this one, from Tom Hanks's monologue from his fifth time hosting in 1990:
Comedy legend Martin Short paid a visit to Conan O'Brien's TBS talk show last night. Amongst other things, Short shared how he came up with his Ed Grimley character, which he used to do while getting out of the shower nude to weird out his wife. I'm sure a lot of classic comedy characters were created the same way. Hit the jump for the other half of the interview, in which Short tells stories about his run-ins with Paul McCartney, George W. Bush, and Irish people.
Saturday Night Live has been home to over a hundred cast members throughout the past 36 years. In our column Saturday Night’s Children, we present the history, talent, and best sketches of one SNL cast member each week for your viewing, learning, and laughing pleasure.
Known best for his whimsy-infused, hyperactive, and over-the-top characters, Martin Short had already established himself as a TV comedy regular when he joined SNL's cast for a single-season stint in 1984-1985. SNL wasn't the dream gig to Short that it is for most new cast members — he joined almost reluctantly after the SCTV finale — but he still helped usher the show through [...]
Following a flurry of sitcom cancellations, NBC has opted not to pick up the pilot for SNL writer/stand-up John Mulaney's new sitcom Mulaney. An ensemble multi-camera show staring Mulaney, Martin Short, Elliott Gould, SNL's Nasim Pedrad, and stand-ups Griffin Newman and Seaton Smith and executive produced by Lorne Michaels, Mulaney seems like a slam-dunk on paper. I attended the pilot taping, and it was super funny, so it comes as a huge disappointment that NBC opted not to pick up the show. The pilots they did pick up had better be good.
Amy Poehler, Fred Armisen, and Martin Short are just some of the guest stars lined up for Hollywood Game Night, a new NBC game show hosted by Jane Lynch and produced by Sean Hayes. Deadline reports that in addition to those three amazing comedy people, Matthew Perry, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, Maya Rudolph, Minnie Driver, Kal Penn, Ellie Kemper, Kristen Chenoweth, Cheryl Hines, Molly Shannon, and Max Greenfield have all signed on to guest, with more expected to be added later. Hollywood Game Night is an hour-long show that will feature celebrities and non-celebrities participating in game nights in a cocktail party environment. NBC gave the [...]
With every update we get about SNL writer and stand-up John Mulaney's new NBC pilot, the show sounds more impressive. Deadline reports that Martin Short and Elliott Gould have signed on to co-star in the potential show, an untitled multi-cam comedy centered around a naive comedian named John (played by Mulaney) who lives with two roommates named Jane and Seymour and has a job writing jokes for a game show. Gould will play John's gay neighbor, and Short will play Lou Cannon, John's boss and the host of the game show he works on. We previously reported that Short was in talks for the role last month, [...]
This has been a lackluster season so far for SNL hosts. A stellar season premiere with Seth MacFarlane was followed by an overall downward slope of a season hosted by action movie stars who were, for the most part, a little awkward in sketches: Daniel Craig, Jeremy Renner, Jamie Foxx, and though many disagreed, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Experienced sketch comediennes Anne Hathaway and Christina Applegate gave above average performances, and Louis CK and Bruno Mars proved surprisingly confident, but since MacFarlane we have yet to be blown away by a host's appearance on the show.
That all changed last weekend, when Martin Short returned to the SNL stage to host [...]
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