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Long-lived, stogie-smoking Tin Pan Alley songwriter played by Martin Short. He would frequently ramble, name-drop Al Jolson and Sophie Tucker, and then tell an off-screen piano player to "gimme a C, a bouncy C!" and then ad-lib a song. | Long-lived, stogie-smoking Tin Pan Alley songwriter played by Martin Short. He would frequently ramble, name-drop Al Jolson and Sophie Tucker, and then tell an off-screen piano player to "gimme a C, a bouncy C!" and then ad-lib a song. | ||
| − | He first appeared on ''[[:Category:SCTV|SCTV]]'' (18 February 1983), and like [[Jackie Rogers Jr.]], Short took he character with him wherever he was working, like ''[[:Category:Saturday Night Live|Saturday Night Live]] | + | He first appeared on ''[[:Category:SCTV|SCTV]]'' (18 February 1983), and like [[Jackie Rogers Jr.]], Short took he character with him wherever he was working, like ''[[:Category:Saturday Night Live|Saturday Night Live]]''. |
==Appearances== | ==Appearances== | ||
Revision as of 14:03, 3 June 2018
Long-lived, stogie-smoking Tin Pan Alley songwriter played by Martin Short. He would frequently ramble, name-drop Al Jolson and Sophie Tucker, and then tell an off-screen piano player to "gimme a C, a bouncy C!" and then ad-lib a song.
He first appeared on SCTV (18 February 1983), and like Jackie Rogers Jr., Short took he character with him wherever he was working, like Saturday Night Live.
Appearances
- Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas, 1985, TV special
- "The Irving Who Came to Dinner," episode of The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, 3 Dec. 1988.
- episode 110 of Muppets Tonight, July 14, 1996
- episode of Primetime Glick, 25 July 2001
- I, Martin Short, Goes Home 2012, TV special
