![]() ![]() There’s a moment in My Little Buttercup when you can see Marty and me really look into each other’s eyes,” says Martin solemnly. Was it doing that duet – in which he and Short wiggle their backsides and give it their vaudevillian best – that made each of them think: “Yes, I have found my soulmate and comedy partner”? Short and Martin became friends while making Three Amigos. “That’s great,” says Short, even less convincingly. ![]() “Oh, I love that!” says Martin, making what can only be described as a mercy interruption. “‘My little buttercup has the sweetest smile …’” I begin. I told them that their duet from the 1986 comedy Three Amigos is what I sing to my two-year-old every night. ![]() But they knew what they were in for, given that I kicked off our interview by – oh God – singing one of their songs at them. Martin and Short nod back kindly, with the ever-so-slightly strained smiles of men who have been hearing their own jokes quoted at them clumsily for the past half a century. “And then you said this, Steve, and then, Marty, you made that face – and I loved that!” I burble. I t is when I hear myself quoting Steve Martin and Martin Short’s jokes back at the men themselves, from films they made decades ago, that I know for certain that I am not going to get through this interview with my dignity intact. ![]()
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