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4.4
By Anonymous
A 2 hour laugh!
We were so impressed with the show, does NOT disappoint!
By 1Tazmo
Martin & Short were outstanding
Steve Martin & Martin Short were and are the best! So glad I went. The Paramount is a great venue. Only disappointment was they ran out of posters and I wanted one.
By BBWrinkles
Decent show, lots of laughs, but... not worth it?
We laughed pretty hard from start to finish. We were/are fans of Steve Martin. Time flew by. So why don't I recommend it? It felt staged. Like a well oiled machine that's been running for years. The funniest bits (to me) were the two jokes where they made fun of current events (Justice Kennedy retiring and something about Michael Cohen). They tried to poke fun of Seattle's legal marijuana laws with some lame joke about being too high to handle it when being told they were performing in Seattle - but it again felt like the kind of joke where "When they called to tell me we were playing in <city name>, I <insert joke about something city is known for>" was literally written in the script. Had it been two hours of the Steep Canyon Rangers playing (they played ~15 mins), I would've recommended the show SO highly. But as it was $350 for two of us to sit in the back row of the auditorium for ~1h40m watching a staged show pretend to be conversational and not pulling it off super well. They joked at the start about stretching an hour of material in to two... and only had about an hours worth of content interspersed by musical interludes, which made that joke a lot less funny. Again; we laughed, we enjoyed it, but this is definitely NOT a "Can't Miss" show. Nothing was specifically original or unique. We caught the 4pm, so maybe the 8pm show had different/better content? At $50/ticket, I would've recommended. At $175/ticket... I wish I'd spent my money elsewhere.
By attackmother
Such a disappointment
Have been Steve Martin fans forever and thought we were Martin Short fans but he was reaching to the bottom of the barrel for humor which totally shows that he has nothing actually funny to say - sexual humor is always good for a bit of laughter but it isn’t that funny when it’s so crass. Steve Martin showed more class with his material and the music was fantastic - complete with the best humor of the show. The fiddler and banjo player were fenomenol as was Steve on the banjo. This was the good redeeming part of the gig but didn’t last that long. Disappointed that Steve still swooped as did Martin to just degrading eachother as a grove to be funny...was not that funny. A little of that goes a long way - so the entire show being encased in it was a little tiring. The funniest segments of the show were the video clips they showed before the stars came on stage and the three audience participants having to come on stage and do the three amigos dance. . with the jacked high ticket prices felt very much like we were just all being required to pay for the history of these two making us laugh. I think they have enough money - what they really need is a more honest connection with the audience and have some fun with some new humor. I would imagine that Steve and Martin don’t feel very good about their performance either.
By release
Martin & Short deliver
Wonderful show! Super talented comedians! Oodles of laughs! Very fun show!
By DJJN
Atypical
Comedy is always a matter of taste. Martin & Short demonstrated the really funny (bits with Short as a ventriloquist dummy and contorting his face as a person with too much plastic surgery, Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers and the 3 Amigos) and the tasteless (Short stripping with the pianist) and banal (the collection of movie and video clips as the introduction, the closing song about contractual obligations). In point of fact, the show was much better than expected. The banter between them was generally excellent and the insertion of the Rangers broke the talk only possibilities.
By bellevueguy
Fun evening
Was a great date night for my wife and I. Both of these guys are fun and together they were great. ;-) Fun to think about all the great, silly, zany characters and slapstick comedy they represent.
By Jody1
Multi talented professional comedic act
Steve Martin and Martin short are an amazing twosome. They play off each other beautifully. I didn’t know what a great banjo and pianist Steve Martin is and what a great singer Martin short is. Outstanding! I wish everyone I knew was there to enjoy it and laugh!
By DaisyDana
A must see!
Hilarious, great entertainment from these 2 legends
By MitziRene
Excellent Show
It was so nice to go to a performance and laugh the entire time. Everyone in our group loved the show. It ran 1 hr. and 50 minutes and it was non-stop fun. I highly recommend this show, it worth the money.
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Steve Martin & Martin Short on Tour
As two titans of comedy, Steve Martin and Martin Short have conquered film, television, and the stage in the course of their long, dazzling careers. But the live shows that grew out of both their friendship and their undeniable comedic chemistry create something special enough to stand out even among the many achievements of these two show-biz veterans.
In 2015, they worked up a show that combined both of their quirky gifts and started taking it around the country. Even more people got a share of the laughs when one show was filmed for the 2018 Netflix special An Evening You'll Forget for the Rest of Your Life, where Short and Martin joke, jab, and jibe with each other and inject a little music into the mix as well. Martin showed off his Grammy-winning banjo prowess and Short displayed his Tony-winning vocal chops.
Later that year, the pair announced a new tour: Now You See Them, Soon You Won't. It presented an evening of all-new material and reunited them with Steve's Grammy-winning bluegrass compatriots — the Steep Canyon Rangers — for a couple of hot-picking musical moments in the bargain.
Steve Martin & Martin Short Background
Steve Martin debuted his offbeat brand of stand-up comedy in the 1960s, when he first reached a wide audience via the TV shows of the Smothers Brothers and Sonny & Cher. His appearances on Saturday Night Live in the mid '70s helped him become one of the most successful stand-up comedians on the planet. His idiosyncratic, often absurdist style translated to sold-out arena shows and platinum albums.
In short order he became a film star, with movies like The Jerk and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. It was on the 1986 film Three Amigos that he first worked with Martin Short, who had become famous for his outrageous characters and sketch comedy mastery on SCTV and SNL earlier in the '80s.
Short went on to plenty of big films himself, and the two teamed up again in 1991's Father of the Bride as well as its 1995 sequel. Short became a Broadway star in the '90s with shows like The Goodbye Girl and Little Me, and he inhabited the classic character Jiminy Glick in the '00s for his Comedy Central series Primetime Glick. But for all the many accomplishments lining both their legacies, when Martin and Short come together for their live performances, they create an utterly unique comedic force.