I Must Say
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At HarperCollins, bless you, David Hirshey, Kathy Schneider, Rachel Elinsky, Leah Wasielewski, Milan Bozic, and Sydney Pierce, and Emily Hirshey, for so seamlessly facilitating the journey of this memoir.
As far as the front and back covers of this book are concerned, photographer Sam Jones and his team of airbrushers are simply the best you can get—and again, thanks, Sam, for the bike.
To my beloved friends, there’s simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I’d look for new friends and get them.
Oh, dear, I’m sure I’m leaving people out. Again, it’s a horrible sort of list to have to come up with. Can you imagine? All right. Enough. I’m at my cottage as I type. I think it’s time for a swim.
—M.S., Snug Harbour, Summer 2014
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARTIN SHORT is an Emmy and Tony award–winning Canadian-born actor and comic, adored for his work on SCTV and Saturday Night Live, as well as such great comic movies as ¡Three Amigos! and Father of the Bride, not to mention dozens of memorable talk show, primetime, and theatrical appearances, from Damages to his one-man Broadway hit Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California.
DAVID KAMP is a longtime contributing editor for Vanity Fair and the author of The United States of Arugula, as well as several humor books. He lives in New York City.
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CREDITS
Cover photograph by Sam Jones
Cover design by Milan Bozic
COPYRIGHT
I MUST SAY. Copyright © 2014 by Martin Short. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
Excerpts from “Jackie Rogers Jr.’s $100,000 Jackpot Wad” and “Men’s Olympic Synchronized Swimming” © 1984 NBC Studios, LLC. Distributed by Broadway Video Enterprises. Courtesy of Broadway Video Enterprises and NBC Studios, LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Short, Martin
I must say : my life as a humble comedy legend / Martin Short ; with David Kamp.—First edition.
pages cm
1. Short, Martin 2. Television actors and actresses—Canada—Biography. I. Kamp, David. II. Title.
PN2308.S53A3 2014
791.4502'8092—dc23
[B]
2014028617
ISBN: 978-0-06-230952-5
EPub Edition NOVEMBER 2014 ISBN 9780062309532
14 15 16 17 18 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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