Martin Short to perform in Walnut Creek to raise funds for homeless
The first time Martin Short left his native Canada for the United States was when he and his mother visited his sister, a nurse in San Francisco. It was 1965 and although the 15-year-old didn’t know it at the time, that trip would foreshadow Short’s future career.
One of their first stops was the heart of the city’s legendary ’60s club scene, where cabaret singers mixed with jazz greats and a slew of future legends of comedy, including Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen.
“We went to the hungry i to see Frances Faye. We also saw Carmen McRae and, I think, Joan Rivers,” says Short, by phone from Los Angeles, where he lives. “They dressed me up to look older and we were getting away with it. Then the waitress came by and I tried ordering a rum and Coke. That blew everything.”
The all-around funnyman, known for his stage work as well as his characters from stints on two of North America’s best sketch comedy shows, “SCTV” and “Saturday Night Live,” is back performing less than a year after cancer took the life of Nancy Dolman, his wife of 36 years.
“Sometimes working or being funny is an escape,” he says. “You’re trying to figure out what passions emerge. You wonder, what do you do now — go to India? You continue and try to be a role model for your kids. It’s like flying the plane with one engine.”
Short returns to the Bay Area on Friday to perform his multifaceted act at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts in a benefit
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