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Winnipeg Free Press
22-07-2025
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Free Press Head Start for July 22, 2025
Cloudy, with showers or thunderstorms beginning early this morning and ending this afternoon. Amount 10 to 15 mm. Widespread smoke late this afternoon. Wind becoming north at 30 km/h late this afternoon. High 21 C. Humidex 27. UV index 5 or moderate. What's happening today The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival continues in the Exchange District and at various locations throughout Winnipeg. For show reviews, click here. (Winnipeg Free Press files) Today's must-read A coalition is urging the Manitoba government to use some of its Big Tobacco settlement to set up a research and education foundation to prevent the next generation from being addicted to nicotine. 'We need to empower our kids and help them understand how dangerous nicotine is,' said epidemiologist Cynthia Carr, executive director of the Manitoba Tobacco Reduction Alliance. Ahead of the start of the claims process, Manitoba should prepare to invest some of its estimated $1.1-billion settlement toward prevention efforts targeting youth, she said. 'Punitive approaches don't work,' said Carr, who's with the non-profit whose members include the Canadian Cancer Society, Manitoba Lung Association, University of Manitoba, Pharmacists Manitoba. Carol Sanders has the story. (Jenny Kane / The Assciated Press files) On the bright side The questions were absurd, random and insulting. But that's how clueless, comically corpulent and cringe-inducing television celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick rolls. And for Winnipeg's mayor, who bore the unrelenting brunt of the bloated, fictitious character's improvised comedy chaos at Assiniboine Park Saturday evening, it was an over-too-soon dream come true. 'I've never been a part of anything like what I experienced Saturday night,' Scott Gillingham said Monday, still basking in the glow of the exquisite pain he endured sitting on stage opposite one of Canadian comic actor Martin Short's beloved over-the-top characters. Joyanne Pursaga has more here. Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham is interviewed by Martin Short character Jiminy Glick at the Great Outdoor Comedy Festival at Assiniboine Park Saturday. (Mike Peters photo) On this date On July 22, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Oklahoma pilot Wiley Post departed from Fairbanks, Alaska, flying to Edmonton, in continuation of his solo flight around the world; he had until the evening the following day to reach New York in time to beat the record of 172 hours and 31 minutes he and navigator Harold Gatty had set in 1931. The crash of prices in all stock and commodity markets continued as the most frenzied selling in four years hit Wall Street. Read the rest of this day's paper here. Search our archives for more here. Today's front page Get the full story: Read today's e-edition of the Free Press .
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18-03-2025
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Martin Short Says Jiminy Glick Has Always Been 100% Improvised — Except for When He Interviewed Steven Spielberg
Martin Short said his popular character Jiminy Glick, the entertainment journalist blowhard known for syaing whatever is on his mind and derailinghis interviews with Hollywood A-listers, was always completely improvised — except for the time he made exception for a segment with Stephen Spielberg. 'They didn't have a clue,' Short said of his improvisational nature with his roster of celebrity guests. Speaking with Amy Poehler on the second episode of her 'Good Hang' podcast, which premiered Tuesday,' the comedian revealed the only thing he ever scripted was with the director of 'Schindler's List' and 'The Fabelmans.' 'I said to Steven, 'At one point, I'm going to ask you to describe how you view the role of a director and kind of look off,'' Short said of his instructions to the filmmaker prior to their shoot. 'And so what we planned, and it was the only time we ever planned anything like this, he was talking, the cameras stayed with me and I slowly got down in the chair and crawled to craft services and took all the candies — put three donuts, put them in my pocket, crawled back up in the chair, I said, 'Oh, isn't that wonderful? Now …'' Watch Short's full 'Good Hang' appearance with Poehler below. He discusses Jiminy Glick around the 42-minute mark. Jiminy Glick is an entertainment reporter Short crafted for NBC sitcom 'The Martin Short Show' in 1999. The character went on to nab a spinoff on Comedy Central titled 'Primetime Glick,' which aired on the network from 2001 to 2003. The talk show parody featured celebrity guests as Glick's interviews, whom he typically knew nothing about or had no interest in. 'We love morons with power. We love people who — I mean, to me, the idea that Jiminy Glick was a guy who had a staff working for him and someone was afraid of screwing up the lunch order,' Short said as he broke into character. ''I said tuna when I say dijon mustard does not mean French's,' and they're quivering. It's kind of like, can you imagine the staff when they leave after delivering Trump his 48th thing of Kentucky Fried Chicken, what they're privately saying.' Short again breaks into character, this time a Trump impression: ''I don't call this hot.'' 'The thing that was weird for me doing Jiminy Glick was that, because it was improvised, I would say things that even shocked me afterwards,' Short said. 'Like, I remember interviewing Edie Falco and she was in the middle of an answer and I went, 'Shh, just 'cause I asked you a question does not mean that I need an answer, thank you.' And she said afterward she was really thrown because being shushed was her Achilles heel as a kid, so you can see it. And it was all so insane, so insane.' When Poehler told Short that she and Tina Fey exchange funny Jiminy Glick videos to this day, Short said he believes the interest in the character is rooted in how he is allowed to display the most unhinged and untamed behavior without any consequences. 'I think it is that ability to say the worst things and have no fingerprints on it,' Short explained, giving another example of his big Hollywood attendees. 'Like I said to Mel Brooks, 'What's your big beef for the Nazis?' And he just kind of goes, 'My big beef? My big beef?' I said, 'You're always knocking the Nazis. Ohh, it's time for Mel Brooks to knock the Nazis.' And he goes, 'I don't know, they're rude!'' Check out Short's original interview with Spielberg below. The post Martin Short Says Jiminy Glick Has Always Been 100% Improvised — Except for When He Interviewed Steven Spielberg | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
