Steve, you won your Emmy in 1969, for writing on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. We were still doing the show, and we had to go back to Toronto and start writing again, so it was a great people-hadn’t-seen-each-other-all-summer kind of thing. The whole cast was together, and we were all in tuxes. When you won in 1983, Marty, all five nominees in that Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series category were Second City Television episodes. Let’s reminisce about your first Emmy wins. Martin: I said, “Do you mind?” And he said, “Absolutely not.” Short: But that’s a perfect example: Comedy must win out. One of the great lines in “The Buddy Song” is Steve saying, “Let’s count the awards that you have won: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, none.” Which, of course, isn’t true, because when it comes to Emmys, Marty actually has two to your one, Steve. Martin: That was the Netflix bonus Emmy money - best decision I ever made in my life. Short: You’re building up the confidence, Steve, for the reader. They said, “What song do you want to nominate?” And I said, “What are you talking about?” “Well, there are songs in there, nominate them.” And I said, “There’s no way, ever, in the history of the world, that one of these songs would be nominated for an Emmy.” They said, “Well, what song anyway?” And I said, “Okay, ‘The Buddy Song.’” I’ll tell you one thing: Before the nominations, I got a call. In fact, I can’t believe Steve didn’t volunteer that. If you had known that it would nab an Emmy nomination, would you have asked Steve to put your name on it as well? I’m from Second City, originally, and there’s an adage in Second City that the reaction can be funnier than the action, so for me to just react to all these subtle slights is a dream. Martin Short: I thought it was hysterical. Marty, what did you think the first time you heard “The Buddy Song”? A lot of times in the show we’re doing jokes and one-liners, which we really like to do, but there are certain bits we also do that are more acted, I guess you might say, and that’s one of them. “The Buddy Song” is me trying to hog the limelight and tricking Marty into saying wonderful things about me. Now we have a new closer, “Send in the Clowns,” so we are very, very happy. We love “The Buddy Song.” We’ve taken it out of the show now, but the only reason we’ve taken it out is because it was on Netflix and is our closer, so we didn’t want to close with the exact same thing. Steve, in the Netflix special, you say you wrote “The Buddy Song” that day.
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