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Let Jiminy Glick moderate the debates!
This was apopularsentimentonline leading up to and following last nightsdisastrous presidentialAlien vs. Predatoreventon CNN.
Its a genuine delight.
He goes, Ill do a couple of pre-taped interviews, and we can sprinkle them throughout the week.
We didnt want to push him in case he changed his mind, but he was into it.
After deciding to do Glick, how do you make that come to life?
Was hair and makeup freaking out?Marty brought in his Glick glam team specifically to do that stuff.
I think somebody came out of retirement to do it.
It was the people who did it forPrimetime Glickand who have done it for years.
The process yesterday was really interesting.
It takes about two or three hours to get fully into the makeup.
So all of our writers meetings were with him in the makeup chair in various stages of prosthesis.
The staff was dying laughing when he walked in.
It was like comedy-nerd fantasy camp, getting to write Jiminy Glick questions.
It was one of the cooler experiences of my career.
All the writers were just so happy all week to be working with Marty but specifically with Glick.
It was like writing dialogue for your favorite cartoon character.
We pitched Marty a ton of stuff.
And obviously he improvises a ton in the moment, too.
Glicks whole bit is asking inappropriate, sometimes offensive questions.
That helped us focus our writing.
I think he said the questions we were writing at first were a little toodirectlymean.
So anything that was mean or off-color, we wrote it from a place that hes just misinformed.
That wasnt going to be possible with Glick for a number of reasons.
It was a bit of a gamble.
When we do those bits, were trying to get people to lie on camera about things theyve seen.
Marty gave it his all, but we ended up scrapping that.
It was like if the pope invited you over for dinner.
No one turns down the pope.
Jiminy Glick is the comedy pope, I guess.
Bill and Sean agreed immediately and came in just to do that.
They had nothing to promote.
He was so excited to come on and be insulted by Jiminy Glick.
Melissa flew in from New York to do Glick and then, I believe, went right back.
Thats how much people love Martin Short and love this character.
It is amazing to watch.
He is a force of nature in every way.
His work ethic is unparalleled, and his instincts are great.
What were Bill Hader and Sean Hayess reactions to the experience after taping?They just loved it.
I think they saw it as an honor that they would be picked by Marty to do this.
He cant hurt my feelings.
Nothing is over the line.
I want Marty to give me the full Jiminy Glick experience.
Thats why the bit works so well.
Its funny … We do a show every day, and we work hard to make it good.
It kind of feels like it drifts away into the ether sometimes.
But I have gotten more texts about Jiminy Glick this week than I do about almost anything.
I cant believe you guys got him to do that!
It feels like something broke through in a really fun way.
When he was hosting as himself, wed go in with monologue revisions and just talk them through.
Glick is like an instrument Marty knows how to play.
I sent it without context.
Jimmy had no idea what was going on, and he just wrote back, That looks really fun.
