{"id":6157,"date":"2015-03-26T16:44:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T16:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2015-04-04T11:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T11:01:05","slug":"how-i-introduced-martin-short-to-steve-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=6157","title":{"rendered":"How I introduced Martin Short to Steve Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

LONDON \u2013 The memory of how I introduced Martin Short, who is 65 today, to Steve Martin still cracks me up but I\u2019ve discovered that I\u2019m the only one who thinks it\u2019s funny.<\/p>\n

It was backstage at the \u201cPee Wee Herman Show\u201d, long before the Tim Burton movie, at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles on May 5, 1981.<\/p>\n

My friend Anne Lockhart, who starred as Sheba in the original \u201cBattlestar Galactica\u201d, had invited me. She had worked with Herman on Steve Martin\u2019s third NBC TV special and when the show was over, she took me back to meet them.<\/p>\n

I was chatting with Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters when I noticed Martin Short nearby with Steven Kampmann, who would go on to co-star in \u201cNewhart\u201d.<\/p>\n

They had worked together in Canada on \u201cSCTV\u201d and at \u201cSecond City\u201d in Toronto where my friend and longtime colleague Bruce Blackadar, who covered nightlife amongst other things for The Toronto Star, had introduced me to Martin Short.<\/p>\n

I turned to say hello to Short and gathered that they hoped for an introduction. I beckoned them over and declared, \u201cSteve, Martin \u2013 Steve Martin\u2019. Still gives me a chuckle.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t run into either of them to see if they recall that moment but it\u2019s the way I remember it. I forgot to ask Steve Martin when I interviewed him at the Toronto film festival when he was there with \u201cAll of Me\u201d in 1984 and I haven\u2019t run into Short in my travels.<\/p>\n

He was in brilliant form when he was in Toronto and at \u201cSecond City\u201d he did the best impression you can imagine of Frank Sinatra among many sketches written and improvised.<\/p>\n

The films he\u2019s made with Steve Martin have been enjoyable but none better than the hilarious \u201cThe Three Amigos\u201d with Chevy Chase (pictured). Maybe someday someone will think my tale of three amigos is amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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