Martin Short recalls Edie Falco being 'really thrown' by his Jiminy Glick bit: 'It was so insane'

Martin Short is just too quick.

The legendary comedian recently recalled throwing Edie Falco for a loop when he interviewed her in his Jiminy Glick character on a 2002 episode of his Comedy Central series Primetime Glick.

“But the thing that was weird for me doing Jiminy Glick was that, because it was improvised, I would say things that even shocked me afterward," Short told Amy Poehler on a recent episode of her new Good Hang podcast. "Like I remember interviewing Edie Falco, and she was in the middle of an answer and I went, 'Shh, just because I asked you a question, does not mean that I need an answer.'"

It's typical Glick: surprising, cheeky, hilarious, a little mean. But it triggered something personal in Falco.

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"She said afterwards she was really thrown, because being shushed was her Achilles' heel as a kid. So you can see it in the thing she did there. And it was also so insane, so insane," Short said.

You can indeed see Falco's emotional reaction to being shushed during the interview. "I remember exactly where I was when I heard Tommy Lee and Pam split up. And you don't know who to believe in anymore, like I just heard the Tysons split up," Short oozes in Glick's typically boisterous lilt. Falco innocently asks, "Tyson split up with who?"

Glick shoots back, "Shh! I've got more questions," and casts a stern look in her direction. He then stares the way a disapproving father would at his disobedient child, condescendingly explaining, "If you keep interrupting me when I have more questions, how could I possibly double-task?" Falco attempts to apologize and is cut off again. "You expect too much from me, girl!" Short as Glick exclaims. It's clear that Falco appreciates the humor of the situation, which she tries to suppress with a faint smirk, but being shushed was intense enough to bring up with Short afterward.

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Short portrayed the impertinent interviewer for three years on Primetime Glick, and has reprised the character countless times since, on the 2004 film Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, his 2006-2007 one-man musical Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, as a recurring bit on The Martin Short Show, and most recently on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where he's interviewed celebrities like Melissa McCarthy and Bill Hader.

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Poehler told Short that Jiminy clips are what her "people" watch to "just get a huge serotonin boost. Like, it is Jiminy videos all the way. We, [Tina Fey] and I, all of us send each other those videos, almost every week."

Watch the rest of Short on Good Hang below.

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