Martin Short Tickets

Martin Short tickets and a Hamilton start

Martin Short was born in 1950 in Hamilton, Ontario, and graduated from McMaster University with a degree in social work. A part in a 1972 production of Godspell launched his entertainment career, and he went on to join The Second City improvisational troupe. Canada's Walk of Fame records early television stints in Hollywood on The David Steinberg Show, The Associates and I'm A Big Girl Now before he returned to Toronto to replace Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis on SCTV.

SCTV, Saturday Night Live and a gallery of characters

SCTV brought Short his first Emmy in 1982 and caught the attention of the Saturday Night Live producers. In a single season on SNL he became a favourite for the excitable Ed Grimley, the lawyer Nathan Thurm and the "legendary songwriter" Irving Cohen. Another creation, the obnoxious talk show host Jiminy Glick, later got his own series, Primetime Glick, which launched in 2001.

From Three Amigos! to Father of the Bride

Short's first film was Three Amigos!, made alongside Steve Martin, and Innerspace, Three Fugitives, Clifford, Pure Luck and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! followed. His turn as Franck, the wedding planner in the remake of Father of the Bride, was popular enough that he reprised it in Father of the Bride Part II. Later credits include Frankenweenie, Madagascar 3 and Inherent Vice, and on television he hosted The Martin Short Show and co-hosted the NBC variety show Maya & Marty with Maya Rudolph.

Broadway and a one-man show

On stage, Short was nominated for a Tony for his Broadway debut in the musical version of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl. When Simon revived his 1962 musical Little Me, the lead had to juggle eight very different roles, and Short won the 1999 Tony for Best Lead Actor in a Musical for it. He then co-wrote and starred in Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, an autobiographical one-man show that played Broadway and began touring in 2006, bringing back Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley for live audiences. His memoir, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, followed in 2014.

Honours and the double act with Steve Martin

Short was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1994 and inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000. In 2014 he was one of five Canadian comedians featured on commemorative stamps from Canada Post, and the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards gave him a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award in 2017. For comedy fans, his Three Amigos! co-star Steve Martin shares the bill in the Netflix special Steve Martin & Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life, which earned Short 2018 Emmy nominations for writing and as an executive producer. Fans of his stage work can also browse musicals.

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