Tributes to David Letterman, Part 20 of 31: Martin Short 1982, 2015

To commemorate the 5th anniversary of Dave retiring from late night television (his last show was on May 20, 2015), I've put together a series of "first and last" appearances, the latter paying tributes in their own ways to the last giant of late night (h/t Jason Zinoman).
Part 20. Martin Short
1. December 3, 1982
2. May 6, 2015
The 2015 guest appearance comes from Andrew Lynch's superb TH-cam upload, linked here: • Video
Regarding Marty's "first appearance" card: As he correctly pointed out, that photo comes from his second Late Night appearance on April 29, 1983.

[@jukeboxwiz]

Fantastic. Marty talks about his first appearance here often and it’s great for me to finally see it with the fake ending!

[@dongiller]

I previously put up his first appearance four years ago - th-cam.com/video/vJeheKIi9Zc/w-d-xo.html

[@spuzzlightyeartoo]

After watching all of these, Mr. Short is the man I'd love to see the full retrospective of... someday!

[@riggermorpus]

Definitely top guest material is Marty Short. He definitely honed his comedy craft as a guest on all the late night talk shows.

[@thegiftedone]

Don🫡thank you once again for doing God’s work and putting these fabulous and rare compilations of 📺 television rare gems…….and thank you Marty for being the real only one man show and quite frankly the greatest performer on any stage! Thank God you are still killing it out there….,.and I can’t wait to finally meet ya and we can have a Jerry Lewis battle off! Donuts!!!!!!!

[@Rob_Kates]

Short was one of Dave's funniest guests, over the 33 years in late night TV.

[@IvanRodriguez-hl4pg]

As I have said in the TH-cam comments in the past, I collect handshakes and the only SCTV handshake in my collection is Andrea Martin's.

[@kangfesher]

Don you are sucking up hours of my day with these videos. Thank you! :D

[@ineedausernamenow999]

How fun is this young Martin Short?! He’s so awkward, this is a whole different person, I don’t know this Short

[@scottmace2002]

Can anyone point me to the full Martin Short segment commemorating the one-year anniversary of Dave’s bypass? I saw part of it, equally hilarious

[@dongiller]

All of Marty’s Letterman appearances are included in my multipart compilation of SCTV cast members on Dave.

[@shawnuel]

On his original appearance he kept calling the host of that show, Norm Cosby.

[@billythemountainbear]

My very favorite talk show guest since 1988.

[@donaldbucher472]

I have watched the Dave Rest In Peace song so many times. Today I was listening to Mel Torme and my wife said, “That guy sounds like Martin Short!”

[@NormAppleton]

haha

[@zenarcher_awats]

That’s funny

[@katiezee2]

oooh the Hollywood and the Stars theme in part 2!

[@GR_BackingTracks]

All hail The Donz..

[@duchampsrook]

Notify the affiliates! LMAO!

[@bobrk]

What happened to the sound when Marty was introduced the first time?

[@JohnLane-w9z]

Marty is a funny man

[@hicks727]

0:59 Don...bass players name please. is that Will

[@dongiller]

Neil Jason, who subbed for Will many times.

[@hicks727]

thanks

[@eunoiavision7567]

I'm confused. Short was on SNL for 84-85. Dave says here he joined and the tag for this is clip 82. What am I missing?

[@dongiller]

Dave said that Marty had recently joined the cast of SCTV, not SNL.

[@Swonder1972]

The picture text said it was his first appearance in '82. Short corrected him and said that picture was from SNL several years later