Martin Short: Classic or dud

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just found this site by accident. it seems nothing has yet been written about Martin Short here. why? i think he's classic - one of the most fabulously funny entertainers ever. hello by the way, my name's Denise and I live in the potters.

― Plunging Hen, Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:07 (twenty-three years ago)

hello denise. you'll fit in here. martin short is dud, though.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:45 (twenty-three years ago)

who?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:10 (twenty-three years ago)

He is a creepy man. I remember seeing some witless romcom on TV called Jack of Hearts or something with him in. It had one v.unexpected topless scene like they just wanted to get a 15 certificate to make it cooler. It wasn't Martin Short who was topless, but he was in it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I think perhaps i won't fit in here. I think, on reflection, that I'm possibly the antithesis of I Love Everything. sometimes I even think I only truly love my mum and dad, my horse, Mrs. Martinet (my classical guitar tutor) and Martin Short. (I'm not saying I hate that much either, but..) love is a very strong word.

― Plunging Hen, Thursday, 10 October 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, i'm only here because there's no "everything hates me" board.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

please can you stop discussing things on this thread now. i will go and i don't expect to see any more answers when i return. i mean it. the subject was Martin Short. he deserves better.

― Plunging Hen, Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

i got told off.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooooh nast-ee, we should all write something thats totally not about Martin whatever-his-name-is now - just to be mean

― Plinky (Plinky), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

and get told off like that again?! no chance, i can't take that kind of verbal onslaught twice in a day.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

luckily you caught me. i have fixed methods that's all. and they obviuosly don't tally with how things are done around here. you seem a gentle person, g-kit. and i don't know you Plinky, but you seem quite the dapper one. you both have the potential to be a leader, like Martin Short. but, some of your fellow contrubutors are filthy.

― Plunging Hen, Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm gentle as a kitten. i got no idea what's going on in this thread now.

who is Martin Short, anyway? and why doesn't he go topless?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm one of the filthy contributors, sorry.

Martin Short can be pretty hilarious, although I want to shake him for creating Jiminy Glick.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

He was fifth in my "Top 5 Mediocre Comic Actors of the Mid-To-Late 80s". Steve Guttenberg came top, obviously.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

that is disgusting! really. g-tik -- you don't need to stoop to the web cam antics of Andrew from australia. i've just read his thread, where he is taking photos of trivial things and the suggestion is always there that rude things could be next. Martin Short is clean.

Dan Perry -- you're so right. you seem nice. Though Jiminy Glick rocks! it's all i think about when i'm mucking out the stables.

― Plunging Hen, Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

hey! i greeted you, are you calling me filthy?

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, you meant N.'s creepy topless stuff? yeah, that's pretty filthy.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

damn, did i get told off again?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

If you stopped talking about topless MArtin Short, you probably wouldn't get told off, G-Kitty.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael -- you're not filthy, but you said dud and you have admitted in the past to going clubbing evry night. that needs sorting out. then you could be a leader, like Martin Short.

g-kit -- it's not unreasonable of me. as i think you'd find, if you thought about it for a second.

― Plunging Hen, Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't think it's unreasonable, i just wasn't sure. i confuse easily.

i know who Steve Guttenberg is, but not Martin Short. and i've seen Steve with his shirt off.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

jesus, have you googled me? :-0

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

anyway, i'm leaving now. you've had your chances. Ned Raggett seems nice. you could learn a lot from that upstanding man.

it's fine g-kit. i know you're sorry. just rent out those Martin Short movies, you here? clickety click.

― Plunging Hen, Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I just googled Martin Short and he's that annoying man that talks about 'Cak' a lot in that horrible film Father of the Bride 2. He is so totally, incredibly, completely dud!!!

― Plinky (Plinky), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i feel so empty. anyone name some Martin Short movies for me?

i never seen FotB2.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

less of the Jesus, Michael.

God googles everyone.

― Plunging Hen, Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

best post ever

― jones (actual), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

i just googled 'plunging hen martin short' and this is what i got:

Grahame C. Martin. HEADHUNTER. A sample from the ... Plunging into it he splashed his
way across ... A short stocky ugly man stood to his ... That is just a bush hen!' a ...

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

(heh i hate when i do that. that's the last time. forgive me i'm just waking up)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

...and then she was gone and the name martin short was never spoken of again except in hushed tones around the campfire by old-timers who remembered those dark days in october 2002.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 10 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

i still can't get over her calling me g-tik. that would just be silly.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 October 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

His skits on the Biography channel are horrid.

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 10 October 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic: most SCTV stuff (Ed Grimley and Jackie Rogers Jr. esp.). The short film from SNL with Harry Shearer about the first male synchronized swim duo. Pretty much destroyed that "sport". His appearances on the Letterman show are pretty funny.
Dud: Most of his movies, though my wife does like the Franck character from the Father of the Bride movies. Don't ask me why. Jiminy Glick is pointless.
I think a good many of you folks need more fibre in your diets.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 10 October 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I must be the only one who likes Jiminy Glick. Oh sure, it's uneven, but when it hits, good lord does it hit.
I'm looking forward to the movie even though I'm sure it will be a "bad movie".

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm looking forward to it, too, Huck!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Best thing about it...no long lines!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

An old co-worker used to quote Martin Short all the time, but really obscure SCTV skits, so I didn't even realize it was all stolen from Short until months later. They were frequently hiliarious, tho.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Classic for The Queen Haters alone (on SCTV)!

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Whither Plunging Hen

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Wow, this thread started in a really strange manner.

Anyway, I just fell down the Martin Short rabbit hole on youtube and found this one I'd never seen before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZsOfCOxek

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 19 December 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago)

A friend and I used to quote Irving Cohen incessantly--"the vaud-e-ville" and "Miss Sophie Tucker." I came across this guy a few months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHuG3iY9ZsE

― clemenza, Sunday, 19 December 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

A shame:

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/23/martin-shorts-wife-dies/

Martin Short's wife, Nancy Dolman, has died. She was 58.
Short's manager, Marc Gurvitz, said Monday that Short's wife of 30 years had died but provided no cause of death or any additional details. Short, best known for his comedic roles on "Saturday Night Live" and in the "Father of the Bride" franchise, married Dolman in 1980 after the pair met while working together in a production of "Godspell."
They have three children: Katherine, 27, Oliver, 24, and Henry, 20.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 May 2014 11:54 (eleven years ago)

this happened in 2010 btw. from vanity fair:

Short flatly described his wife’s death as “awful” and admitted that in the two years since her passing he has spent an inordinate amount of time on the road, taking sundry TV jobs and touring a one-man show—variously entitled Sunny von Bülow Unplugged, A Party with Marty, and If I’d Saved, I Wouldn’t Be Here—because “when you’re putting on your suit in Boston, Nancy wouldn’t have been there. So life is normal. It’s here that it’s not as normal.”

― slam dunk, Saturday, 17 May 2014 15:41 (eleven years ago)

five months pass...

His book came out last week. Anyone read it yet?

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:33 (ten years ago)

No.

He's been getting great reviews for his smallish part in Inherent Vice btw.

A friend and I used to quote Irving Cohen incessantly

This is the character directly based on Irving Caesar, right? "A bouncy C!"

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:37 (ten years ago)

he was entertaining (as usual) on letterman.

he is one of those guys that nobody has anything bad to say about IIRC.

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:44 (ten years ago)

If it turns out anyone hates Martin Short, I'll be very saddened.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 5:01 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I passively dislike him

― iatee, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 5:02 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:09 (ten years ago)

surprised this thread is still going after Plunging Hen laid down the law in 2002.

please can you stop discussing things on this thread now. i will go and i don't expect to see any more answers when i return. i mean it. the subject was Martin Short. he deserves better.
― Plunging Hen, Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:10 (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Brio2, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:18 (ten years ago)

So much Jiminy Glick hate. ;_;

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:23 (ten years ago)

he deserves better!

― Brio2, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:28 (ten years ago)

He's great on Mulaney. He's also the only tolerable thing on Mulaney. But it's worth watching just for him.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:40 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

If you like Martin and can tolerate Chris Hardwick, this is worth listening to: http://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/nerdist-podcast-martin-short/

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 December 2014 20:57 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

It just this second actually sank in that he inadvertently cannibalized a dude in Innerspace.

I don't know why I was thinking about Innerspace.

― I Do Dumb Things And Then I Cry (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 13:06 (nine years ago)

eight years pass...

Glick is back baby!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoUAp9HCUv0

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 06:43 (one year ago)

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