Here they go again — again! Steve Martin and Martin Short added another project to their long list of collaborations when they brought back their iconic Father of the Bride characters on Saturday Night Live.“This is our home: 24 Maple Drive.
We bought it when Annie was in grammar school. She even got married here. So many memories,” Martin, 77, said during the Saturday, December 10, episode, in which he reprised his role as George Banks from the 1991 flick.Martin’s George then learned that eldest daughter Annie (played by Heidi Gardner) was getting married for the eighth time. “Annie, what makes you think I can afford an eighth Nancy Meyers-style wedding?
I’m financially drained,” the Cheaper By the Dozen star quipped.The Texas native initially played patriarch George Banks in 1991’s Father of the Bride and 1995’s Father of the Bride Part II, both directed by Nancy Meyers, opposite Diane Keaton (Nina Banks), Kimberly Williams-Paisley (Annie Banks), Kieran Culkin (Matty Banks), George Newbern (Bryan MacKenzie) and Short (Franck Eggelhoffer), now 72.
The Banks family had enlisted the outlandish Franck to plan Annie’s nuptials to Bryan (and baby shower in the sequel).Short’s Franck returned in Saturday’s episode “doing an accent that I think is still OK,” per an SNL voiceover.
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