Is the Only Murders in the Building star a comic genius or the most annoying actor on Earth?
I know that I’m not the only one who finds Ed Grimley—who finds, indeed, nearly all of the over-the-top characters that Martin Short has played in his long career—unbelievably annoying. Short himself acknowledges that some people love him and some people have always hated him. “You’re never gonna win those people over,” he said in. The one thing he knows about the people who hate him, he added, laughing, is that “if I had dinner with them, I’d be bored.
He didn’t. In 1977 he finally joined Second City Toronto, where he honed neurotic Ed Grimley. He joinedin the spring of 1982, just as the show, recently picked up by NBC, was becoming a critical and inside-comedy darling. In a cast that included such comic geniuses as Catherine O’Hara, Rick Moranis, John Candy, and Levy, Short immediately made his mark with a wild, unhinged impression of Jerry Lewis in Paris, shrieking, singing, and abusing his musical director.
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