![]() ![]() That created a determination to see each other, and then have dinners, and that evolved into taking family vacations together.” But Steve and I made each other laugh, and we’re clowns, so that’s a big seductive element. Short says: “You know, you make movies and you’re in each other’s lives for a few months, in Yugoslavia or wherever, and then you never see each other again. Martin and Short with Chevy Chase in Three Amigos. ‘We’re clowns, so that’s a big seductive element’. ![]() Then he and the man he calls “my closest fake showbiz friend” crack up. ![]() 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. ![]()
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