After hearing Martin Short being interviewed on Q ( the last Q podcast I would ever listen to after the whole J.G. scandal), I added his biography to my holiday wish list. I was pretty happy to find it under the tree!
Short shares tales of his childhood and family and recounts how some tragedies shaped him at a young age. He discusses his relationship with Gilda Radner and give some great inside stories into the 70s theatre and comedy lifestyle in Canada. I really enjoyed his annecdotes about the celebrities that he is friends with like Tom Hanks and Steve Martin. I felt like I got to know all of them as people.
The stories of Martin's family are what really stick with you after reading this book, and I dare you to get to the last page without getting a lump in your throat!! This book is also full of laughs and inspired me to look up many old SNL and SCTV skits on youtube so that I could appreciate the back story behind them. Two thumbs up!
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