Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian comedian , actor , writer , singer and producer . He is best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live . He has also starred in several popular comedic films such as Three Amigos , Pure Luck , Jungle 2 Jungle , Mars Attacks! and Father of the Bride and also its sequel, Father of the Bride Part 2 .
Early life
Short, youngest of five children, was born in Hamilton, Ontario , Canada , the son of Olive (née Hayter), a violinist, and Charles Patrick Short, a corporate executive with Stelco , a Canadian steel company. Short's father came to North America as a stowaway Roman Catholic refugee from Crossmaglen , South Armagh, Northern Ireland, during the Irish War of Independence . His mother, who was the concertmaster of the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra, encouraged his early creative endeavours. His eldest brother, David, was killed in a car accident in 1962, when Short was 12 . His mother died of cancer when he was 17; two years later, his father died of complications from a stroke in 1970.
Short attended Westdale Secondary School and graduated in 1972 from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social work .
Career
Early career
When Short graduated from McMaster University, he intended to pursue a career in social work, but he became interested in acting once he was cast in a Toronto production of Godspell in 1972. Among other members of that production's cast were Victor Garber , Gilda Radner , Eugene Levy , Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin , with Paul Shaffer as musical director . He was subsequently cast in several television shows and plays, including an intense topical drama, Fortune and Men's Eyes. He worked solely in Canada from 1972 through 1979.
In 1979, Short starred in the TV sitcom The Associates about a group of young novice lawyers working at a Wall Street law firm. He then joined the cast of I'm a Big Girl Now , a sitcom starring Diana Canova in 1980. Canova was offered the sitcom due to her success playing Corinne Tate Flotsky on ABC's Soap , and left Soap in the fall of 1980 shortly before Short's newlywed wife Nancy Dolman joined it.
SCTV
Short was encouraged to pursue comedy by McMaster classmates Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas . He joined Levy and Thomas at improv troupe The Second City in 1977. Short came to public notice when the troupe produced a show for television, called Second City Television or SCTV, which ran for several years in Canada and the United States . Short was a cast member and performed several recurring characters. He was with SCTV for several years before moving on to Saturday Night Live for the 1984-1985 season. At SCTV, Short developed many characters which he later used at SNL:
- Talk show host Brock Linehan , based on the Canadian interviewer Brian Linehan .
- Aged songwriter Irving Cohen , loosely based on American composer Irving Caesar .
- Spurious albino entertainer Jackie Rogers, Jr.
- Current-events commentator Troy Soren
- Industrialist and art patron Bradley P. Allen
- Defensive attorney Nathan Thurm
- Oddball man-child Ed Grimley , later featured in his own animated television series , The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley.
Saturday Night Live
At SNL, Short helped revive the show with his many characters after Eddie Murphy left. Short's SNL characters included the Wheel of Fortune fan Ed Grimley which he borrowed from his SCTV days. The Grimley character became Short's best known original character. He also was recognized for his impersonations of celebrities, notably Jerry Lewis and Katharine Hepburn , and for the character of Nathan Thurm . SNL proved to be the springboard to a long career in film and TV.
Television
In addition to his revered work on SCTV and SNL, Short has starred in several television specials and series of his own. In 1985, Short starred in the 60 minute Showtime special, Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas. This is Short's first live concert, interspersed with studio sketches and a wraparound featuring Jackie Rogers Jr. Co-produced by the CBC, this aired as The Martin Short Comedy Special in Canada in March of 1986. In 1989, Short headlined another 60 minute comedy special, this time for HBO. I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood was Short's classic send-up of all things Hollywood. It featured many of Short's characters including: Lawrence Orbach, Ed Grimley, Jackie Rogers Jr, Bradley P Allen, Troy Soren and Dale O'Day (the dancing fence). This special was released on VHS, but is now out of print. Martin Short has had no less than three shows called The Martin Short Show, including a sitcom (The Martin Short Show, 1994), a sketch comedy show (The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show, 1995), and a syndicated talk show (The Martin Short Show, 1999). Short starred as Jiminy Glick on Comedy Central's Primetime Glick from 2001-2003. In addition to his own series, Short has guest starred on several shows including Arrested Development , Law & Order: SVU and most recently in a critically acclaimed turn as Leonard Winstone on FX's Damages .
Film
After doing sketch comedy for several years, Short focused on film roles, appearing in many films, including ¡Three Amigos! , Innerspace , The Big Picture , Captain Ron , Clifford , and the 1991 remake of Father of the Bride as well as the sequel . In 1996, he appeared in Tim Burton 's All star cast blockbuster sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks! as image obsessed, hormonally driven Press Secretary Jerry Ross. In 2004 he wrote and starred in Jiminy Glick in Lalawood , with Jan Hooks as his wife, Dixie Glick. Also in 1997 he appeared as Wall Street broker Richard Kempster in Jungle 2 Jungle which starred Tim Allen. He starred in another movie with Tim Allen in 2006, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause . Short was also in Pure Luck directed by Nadia Tass with Danny Glover and Sheila Kelley, and in Three Fugitives directed by Francis Veber with Nick Nolte and James Earl Jones. He also played Thimbletack the Brownie from the Spiderwick Chronicles.
On August 31, 2007, he appeared as the new host of O Canada! , a 360° Circlevision ® film premiering at Walt Disney World 's EPCOT theme park.
Stage
Short also resumed work in the theater, taking a role in the 1993 musical version of the Neil Simon work The Goodbye Girl , receiving a Tony Award nomination as well an Outer Critic Circle Award.
He had the lead role in the 1999 Broadway revival of the musical Little Me , which earned him a Tony Award and another Outer Celtic Circle Award.
In 2003, Short took to the stage once again in the critically acclaimed Los Angeles run of The Producers . Short played the role of the accountant, Leo Bloom, opposite Jason Alexander's Max Bialystock. Although the role of Leo Bloom was originated on Broadway by Matthew Broderick, it was in fact Short who Mel Brooks first approached about doing the part opposite Nathan Lane. On the subject, Short has stated in numerous interviews that while he was thrilled by the opportunity, the idea of having to move his family from their Los Angeles home to New York for a year was less than ideal and ultimately proved a deal-breaker.
Short performed in his satirical one-man show (with a full cast of six), Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway . The show toured several cities in the spring of 2006, began previews on July 29, 2006, opened on August 17 and closed on January 7, 2007. In it, he performed his aforementioned classic characters Grimley, Cohen, and Glick .
As Glick, Short brought a member of the audience (usually a celebrity) on stage and interviews him or her. Jerry Seinfeld was the guest on opening night and the subjects have included Bill Maher, Kristin Chenoweth, Tom Burg, Regis Philbin, Neil Simon, Diane Keaton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Kind, David Schwimmer, David Hasselhoff and many more. The show also featured parodies of many celebrities including Celine Dion , Katharine Hepburn , Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton , Tommy Tune , Joan Rivers , Britney Spears , Ellen DeGeneres , Renée Zellweger , Jodie Foster , Rachel Ray and Short's wife, actress Nancy Dolman . The cast album was released on April 10, 2007 and is availab
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