Steve Martin & Martin Short Tell Conan How Their ‘SNL’ Monologue Took Three Years To Write – Watch
deadline.comSteve Martin and Martin Short hosted the highest rated episode of Saturday Night Live’s Season 48 in December. After highlighting how often they’ve each hosted – Martin 16 times and Short three times – and a bit of nostalgia when Martin showed a photo of him with John Belushi, Dan Akroyd and Mick Jagger, the pair gave each other their own eulogy. “You’re not going to live forever,” Martin said. “That is sad because you won’t be able to hear the wonderful things I’m going to say at your memorial.
So, I thought why wait? So, what I did was I wrote up your eulogy so you can hear it now.” “That is such a coincidence,” added Short. “I wrote your eulogy.” Nine months later, the pair opened up about their latest SNL experience, speaking on the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast (see video below).
The Only Murders In The Building stars had previously been on tour together – An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life shows. “That monologue, we worked on with the writers,” Martin told O’Brien. “We decided we were going to do a bit from our show, we’ll know we can trust it.
Afterwards, it went well and the ratings were sky high, it was the highest-rated show of the year, as far as I know. I said to Marty, ‘The monologue was great, the ratings were high, so there’s a chance that we’ll be asked back to host at some other time’.
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