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Daily Mail
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Alec Baldwin replaced by Martin Short as Match Game host after disastrous reality TV show
has been replaced as the executive producer and host of Match Game after ABC canceled the game show in 2022 following the tragic shooting of his Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The network announced on Tuesday that Martin Short will be taking over the Match Game revival, which is set to begin filming in Montreal this June and will air this summer on ABC/Hulu. The comedian is the fifth host the show has hired after Baldwin, Michael Burger, Ross Shafer, and Gene Rayburn on the fill-in-the-blank panel game show that originally debuted in 1962 on NBC. Alec and Martin worked together in February for the 16th taping of SNL50: The Anniversary Special which they both featured in. On December 21, Alec stood behind Martin as he was inducted into the prestigious Five-Timers Club on the long-running NBC sketch show. The duo also worked alongside one another in 2002 when Martin's fat-suited alter ego Jiminy Glick interviewed Baldwin for an episode of Comedy Central chat show, Primetime Glick. Jiminy ran through Alec's alleged list of famous lovers and accused him of having a 'fiery tempestuous reputation,' of being a 'Communist' and being so hairy that he's 'half ape.' Martin - who's rumored to be dating Meryl Streep - has been hard at work executive producing and reprising his role as Broadway director Oliver Putnam in the fifth season of Hulu's Only Murders In The Building. On Tuesday, Alec did not comment on Martin's new gig but he and second wife Hillary 'Hilaria' Baldwin shared a dancing video on what would've been the late Leslie Jordan's 70th birthday. The Baldwins's eight-episode reality series featuring their seven children concluded on April 13, and TLC has not announced that there will be a second season. The series has been blasted by critics as a 'snoozy infomercial' and 'a self-pitying attempt at image rehabilitation' as well as an 'outright offensive response' to the real-life tragedy of Hutchins. Alec's involuntary manslaughter trial was dismissed July 12 after he denied pulling the trigger on the revolver that fired a single bullet into Rust director Joel Souza's arm and punctured the Ukrainian DP's chest killing her, at age 42, in 2021. On January 9, he filed a civil lawsuit against the Rust case prosecutors, investigators, and commissioners for defamation and malicious prosecution and civil rights violations due to 'intentionally mishandling evidence.' Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has only six months remaining of her 18-month sentence in New Mexico Women's Correctional Facility due to the involuntary manslaughter conviction for her role in the shooting. Baldwin produced and stars in the controversial western Rust, which is set to premiere on digital and in select U.S. theaters this Friday. All of the proceeds of the action-packed flick, set in 1880s Kansas, will go to Halyna's widower Matthew Hutchins (who received an executive producer credit) and their 12-year-old son Andros.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
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.
