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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

EMMY NOMINEES: Steve Martin & Martin Short

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Since starring together in The Three Amigos in 1986, Steve Martin and Martin Short have worked together on the blockbuster Father of the Bride movies, toured the country making relentless jokes at each other’s expense, and now they’re starring in a hilarious series about three neighbors working together to solve a murder in their New York City apartment building. Willie Geist gets together with the two comedy legends to talk about their series Only Murders in the Building and their friendship lasting more three decades. (Original broadcast date September 12, 2021)

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down

0:05.3

Podcast. My thanks is always for clicking and listening along. This week

0:10.3

marks the Golden Globe Awards and we thought it would be a great time to bring back one of our all-time favorite conversations with two men who are nominated for Globes.

0:19.0

They are Steve Martin and Martin Short. Their hit series on Hulu only murders in the building

0:25.4

nominated as a show for a globe and both Steve and Marty are nominated for best

0:30.9

actor. We'll see which one of them wins. It's got to be one of the two of them.

0:34.3

It was one of our best conversations, our favorite conversations of the year, so we thought with the

0:38.6

Globes this week, what better time than to spend some time with Steve and Marty right now on the Sunday

0:44.6

Sit Down podcast. Guys, thanks for doing this. Great to see you. We're happy to see you.

0:49.5

Told you I just got caught up last night.'m through episode four yes so much fun I'm watching it

0:55.9

not with my wife but 14 and 12 year old wow and how are they into it totally

1:01.4

into it and let me ask your question.

1:03.0

Is it bothersome because of the F word?

1:05.8

We've crossed that bridge in our house, sorry.

1:07.8

We don't use it in the house, but in movies and media,

1:10.4

we're good.

1:11.6

We've missed that totally now. So Steve, take me back to the sort of

1:16.6

of genesis of this show, the idea for it, where it came from, and at what point Marty enters the picture?

1:23.0

Well, it's very hard for me to remember when I had this idea, but it was at least 10 years ago.

1:29.0

And it actually started, because you have this lengthy, I'm going to tell the whole story.

1:32.0

I was at a party with a very good friend of our

1:34.4

Sandy Galen and Sandy Galen was a great guy that both knew him and he he was a manager he

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