Tonight's guest on the Daily Show is Martin Short and the panelists on The Nightly Show are Morgan Spurlock, Shannon Devido, Lavell Crawford, and Marianne Kirby and the topic will be obesity.
Martin Short is an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor, comedian, writer, singer, author, dancer, and producer. He is on tonight to discuss his latest book, a memoir titled
I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend
In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood’s favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the “comedian’s comedian.”
Martin Short takes you on a rich, hilarious, and occasionally heartbreaking ride through his life and times, from his early years in Toronto as a member of the fabled improvisational troupe Second City to the all-American comic big time of Saturday Night Live and memorable roles in movies such as ¡Three Amigos! and Father of the Bride. He reveals how he created his most indelible comedic characters, among them the manic man-child Ed Grimley, the slimy corporate lawyer Nathan Thurm, and the bizarrely insensitive interviewer Jiminy Glick. Throughout, Short freely shares the spotlight with friends, colleagues, and collaborators, including Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Gilda Radner, Mel Brooks, Nora Ephron, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Paul Shaffer, and David Letterman.
But there is another side to Short’s life that he has long kept private. He lost his eldest brother and both of his parents by the time he turned twenty, and, more recently, he lost his wife of thirty years to cancer. In I Must Say, Short talks for the first time about the pain that these losses inflicted and the upbeat life philosophy that has kept him resilient and carried him through. In the grand tradition of comedy legends, Martin Short offers a show business memoir densely populated with boldface names and rife with retellable tales: a hugely entertaining yet surprisingly moving self-portrait that will keep you laughing—and crying—from the first page to the last.
I was looking through many clips on Youtube, but it is hard to beat Martin Short and Muppets.
Morgan Spurlock is a documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter, and political activist, best known for the documentary film Super Size Me which is about the increasing spread of obesity throughout U.S. society.
Shannon Devido is an actress, comedian, singer, and writer.
Lavell Crawford is a standup commedian and actor known for his role as Huell in Breaking Bad.
Marianne Kirby is a writer and the Weekend Editor at xoJane.com.
My book, co-authored with Kate Harding and published by Penguin-Perigee, is quite a mouthful. It's titled (in the U.S.) Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body. In Australia and New Zealand, you can find it as Screw Inner Beauty: Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Trash the Diet and Self-Loathing and Get on with Your Life.
This Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
Tu 2/3: Bill Browder
We 2/4: Wes Moore
Th 2/5: Bob Odenkirk
I took a break from shoveling to write this up! Seriously whoever asked for snow for the Northeast can stop asking now. :D
A track from one of my favorite winter soundtracks.