This Jean Smart and Martin Short Interview Will Make You Laugh Your Ass Off
variety.comJean Smart and Martin Short don’t just have names that might make them a perfect comedy-cabaret double act — they’re also both excelling in cross-generational comedy stories.
On HBO Max’s “Hacks,” Emmy defending champion Smart returned for a second season as stand-up queen Deborah Vance, who’s still in a rivalrous partnership with her writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder); on Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” Short and longtime creative collaborator Steve Martin teamed with Selena Gomez to solve sweetly melancholy mysteries in their Manhattan apartment complex. JEAN SMART: I just binge-watched your show, and I cannot tell you how much I love it.
There’s something about the style of the show that is so unique and so mesmerizing and so fun. I can’t put my finger on it. It’s not like anything else I’ve seen. MARTIN SHORT: Great creative people got together.
You know, it doesn’t happen very often.SMART: And you can’t wait to see the inside of people’s apartments. Ooh, I want to go into them.SHORT: It’s a very New York feel.
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