I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend

Overview

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.”

Short takes the reader 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 ...

See more details below
I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend

Available on NOOK devices and apps  
  • NOOK Devices
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 NOOK
  • NOOK HD/HD+ Tablet
  • NOOK
  • NOOK Color
  • NOOK Tablet
  • Tablet/Phone
  • NOOK for Windows 8 Tablet
  • NOOK for iOS
  • NOOK for Android
  • NOOK Kids for iPad
  • PC/Mac
  • NOOK for Windows 8
  • NOOK for PC
  • NOOK for Mac

Want a NOOK? Explore Now

Available for Pre-Order
This item will be available on November 4, 2014.
NOOK Book (eBook)
$16.99
BN.com price

Overview

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.”

Short takes the reader 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 from memorable roles in such movies as ¡Three Amigos! and Father of the Bride to Broadway stardom in Fame Becomes Me and the Tony-winning Little Me.

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, among them 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 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.

Read More Show Less

Editorial Reviews

From Barnes & Noble

"Hands down the funniest guy I have ever met" is how Larry David describes Martin Short. Others have praised him as "a natural wit and a gently congenital performer." Most of us know him as the exuberant impersonator who can transform himself in an instant into Katherine Hepburn, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane or the entire cast of Jersey Shore. In this soulful, sweetly funny autobiography, this beloved Canadian-born actor/comedian leaves behind those weird alter egos, but not his lilting wit or his ability to touch us with his word-portraits of loved ones.

Read More Show Less

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780062309525
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 11/4/2014
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 89560
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.12 (d)

Meet the Author

Martin Short is an Emmy and Tony Award–winning Canadian-born actor and comic, adored for his work on SCTV and Saturday Night Live, as well as in such great comic movies as ¡Three Amigos! and Father of the Bride, not to mention dozens of memorable talk-show, prime-time, and theatrical appearances, from TV’s Damages to his one-man Broadway hit Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California.

Read More Show Less

If you find inappropriate content, please report it to Barnes & Noble
Why is this product inappropriate?
Comments (optional)