Kathie Lee Gifford forgets MARTIN SHORT wife is dead on Today Show: HUGE MISTAKE May 30 2012...
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- I think what bothered me most, is that she referred to his wife by name, as if she KNEW her, then asked "you're still in love?...How"?....This, is TRUELY PAINFUL.
"And you're still in love?"
"Madly in love."
Singlehandedly the sweetest and most heartbreaking moment of the interview...
I totally agree, how sad 🥺
Martin short starred in the short lived talk show the Martin short show
I really started crying. He is so full of emotion
@@TheodoreStAmantThat's pretty crazy news there.
You could see the pain in his face when he said they were still madly in love. He really meant it. He was a true gentleman and class act for not letting her know that his wife was gone.
he has citizenship in four countries.
I read someone comment who had also had their spouse pass away, that anytime this happens to them they like to play along, because they can pretend they're still here for a moment 😢
I said class act before I even read your comment.
@@alanmalcheski8882 What the fuck is the point of your comment
@@chuck8249😢😢
He talks about this in his book. He said he didn't want to say anything live because it would have embarressed her.
+kona1967 Very classy guy, gotta say.
I've also heard Barbara Walters made the exact same mistake but Martin Short quickly corrected her and moved on.
I was just listening to that on audio. I have to say he handled it well. there was no sign on his face of confusion from her question. He internalized all of it in order to spare her feelings and that was really sweet and could not have been easy.
@@ginabell694 And he knew that much of the banter on these shows isn't exactly well-researched. He knew she goofed, but understood.
@@andymattson7065* "...I MUST say" (if you're a Martin Short fan, you'll get that !!!) ...Lol
The pain he had to have felt when he said.. "madly in love" :(
I thought it was sweet, i'm sure it felt nice to express how madly in love he still is with his wife. Of course, thinking of her must have sadness in it for him but respectful talk of her as dead is the same thing except usual.
It was over 1.5y after her death, so he could have possibly been saying that without the attending pain.
You can still be in love with someone that has passed away.. think of older people who lose their partner.. they live with the fact that their love for that person will carry on.. because they know there no one else for them. That's how he's still in love.
He's a class act.
Makes him even more likeable. What a great guy.
It's so touching that he plays along as if she were still alive. It's like his loves continues on regardless. I'm overklempt!
they were live, he had to act like she was too.
It’s just “verklempt”.
@@andyoushouldfeelbad A dank!
Martin Short has a lot of class not to respond to Kathie Lee's comments. Kathie Lee should have done some homework!
With the comedy chops he has, he could have just ripped her to shreds with an intelligently sarcastic machine gun shower of comments.....but that is his job not his life......what a class act.
Are you kids saying you have never asked a high school or college classmate if they are still married and they say they are now divorced? Have you ever asked a friend about their parents and one of them is dead?.. is this the snowflake channel?
If you're appearing on live television, interviewing someone who has their own Wilkipedia page, doing homework on them is part of doing your job. Running into a high school classmate is a different situation.
She felt terrible about it. 8ts not like she meant any harm Jesus everyone needs to relax
@@JazzKeyboardist1 Exactly. I've made that mistake of asking someone how their SO was only to find out that they weren't together anymore.
He IS still in love with her 😢. Love that
Because is wife was a woman unlike these entitled WOMEN these days.
@@lordvader748 there have always been entitled women, talk to any 60 or 70 yo lady and there's a few bitches sprinkled in
Ranger Bob wait what?
Of course he is still in love with her she is his partner and confidant. They will reunite in heaven until then I’m sure she is watching over him and their family
If you're in love and they pass you'll ALWAYS love them. Even if you move onto a new relationship.
What grace he has to have made a split second decision to spare her from this...
Such a gracious man. You could see the pain when he talked about it.
Martin Short: True professional. Didn't miss a beat.
Did she just ask him why he and is wife are in love? Even if she was still alive, that would be such a dumb fucking question
PanteraAICtestament its not what you say its how you say it. she asked why as if ppl should be no longer in love after x amount of years
It's the Today Show. It's always been idiotic dreck.
Have you heard Martin Short kid Randy Quaid dozens of times about UBER? Most people that hate Kathy Lee are snowflakes.. I asked a high school friend about his wife this week and he said he was now divorced.. the horror? I love laughing at people on this channel
To be fair "a dumb fucking question" is kind of the M.O. of those kinds of morning shows.
cannedbollocks still a dumb question
Kathie Lee and Hoda drink openly on air no wonder why it happened
Martin Short is a class act.
Wow the class on this guy I would've just got up and walked off the show
Kay Bayarjargal Seriously, he played along like it was nothing, I wouldn't be able to keep it together
Hey kay and guitarman.. Are you saying you have never asked a high school or college classmate if they are still married to so and so and then they say they are divorced? or their parents are dead? I love laughing at snowflakes
JazzKeyboardist1 classmate..........vs........seasoned talk show host who is suposed to prepare for interviews and has an ear piece....what she says with that action is......I don't bother to prepare, specially for forgothen hasbeens like you mister short
kathly lee is not supposed to prepare for interviews.. She drinks wine before the show.. and you forgot to answer the question..
We all make mistakes sensitive one!!
I feel sorry for him. I think he is a good guy and deserves to be happy.
Martin Short is one of the most genuine actors alive. My cousin works in the film industry and had the pleasure of meeting him.
He definitely didn’t need a couple of cunts telling him that
Oh, his face when she said her name... :( It struck him so hard... Poor Martin and his children.
I'm so overwhelmed with tears at the beauty of Martin's response...how for that one moment, due to Kathy Lee, he lived one last time "in the moment" - "madly in love..."
Yes. The resolve of his reflection.
You're giving her CREDIT for that? 🙄
My God. I don't even know if I can stomach this due to the secondhand embarrassment. Props to him for handling it more gracefully than most of us could.
What a lovely man. I think his humor is brilliant and I must say that when you see him play the more serious role, he does that well too. All the best to you Martin.
who asks anyone, especially on national televison, "are you still in love?" What kind of idiotic question is that? What does she expect him to say (in this case, he should have floored her with, "yes, however she died two years ago")? Or maybe someone else could respond with something like, "no, we are no longer in love Kathie, in fact, we now sleep in separate bedrooms and barely acknowledge each other in passing; basically our relationship can be summed up as empty, cold indifference. Hey, it's so great to be here on your show, thanks for having me!"
JazzKeyboardist1 uhhh, yeah, I thought he was the Pope...so you are.suggesting it should not hurt if Gifford--the host of the show--was unaware that his wife died two years prior, and she.totally put this.guy on the spot? Comedy has nothing to.do.with it, she is an idiot who is.anything but.funny. Should.he.stay home.if he is in mourning? Who.says.he.is.still in mourning? I'm thinking it's rude to not know that.sort of publically-known stuff about the guests on your show, and then embarrass them on national TV
JazzKeyboardist1 dude you clearly.are looking to.argue and criticize what anyone on this thread has to say about Gifford's faux pas, get over yourself.
sorry, I thought you actually wanted answers to your questions.
Martin writes about the deaths of his older brother, his mother and father all by the time he was twenty years old in his auto bio..
JazzKeyboardist1 and? That has nothing to.do with Gifford being an idiot for embarrassing him, even though Short apparently handles these kinds of loss better than most.
+JazzKeyboardist the only thing you need to be sorry about are you asinine remarks on this thread. You are obnoxious.
Bro just unlocked a new level of respect from me
I feel so bad for him. I mean that must have been SO AWKWARD!
I don't know what's worse: Her not knowing or me watching this as I cringe and telling myself to turn it off. Either way: WOW Martin Short-- that response was incredible. I don't think anyone else would have responded so well. He's amazing.
He's a gentle being. She's always been an airhead, could never stand her on TV.
… and people wonder where he gets his Jiminy Glick material!
+CusterFlux right... that's exactly what I was thinking.
💐💐RIP Nancy Jane Dolman Short (September 26, 1951 - August 21, 2010) (aged 58) you will truly be missed and my prayers go out to you and your family. 💐💐
I have nothing...speechless.
'Except God bless Martin Short for handling this situation with such grace.
must of hurt to hear someone talk about her and not be able to tell them she's dead because you do not want to embarass the person, good man and i'm sorry for your loss.
Or he is genuinely in love and responds naturally. Some people believe deeply.
Everytime I see Martin Short, I am strongly impressed by his will and fabulous wit and persona to rise above all things and still fond a way to be funny along the way....
Martin Short epitomozes a true professional. The way he just rolled with it says a lot about him.
The magnanimity of the man to accommodate a human mistake of such personal proportions for him - to think of, facilitate and deflect from the other person's potential embarrassment - humbling to see such a huge heart
What a gentleman.
With what candor and decorum he dealt with something that was so painful.
My dad died in 2008 and mum is still devoted to his memory. There will never be another. Marty is still devoted now isn't he, I don't think he's ever moved on from Nancy 😢
encourage her to find love…
i like martin. real nice guy.
What a class act. Incredibly graceful. The pain in his eyes was evident but he was still conscious of embarrassing her. Knew there was a reason I love Martin Short so much.
Such grace. I love Martin Short!
To handle this with such grace and civility... isn't this a powerful lesson in composure and compassion?
The statement she said about his kids was rude (one smart one), I liked how he put her in her place (all my children are genuises)
He IS a comedian. You can riff with them that way. When people have great senses of humour, it is expected. Even my friends and I do it. One of their kids is the smart one while the other is "special". I'm not married. But, I asked one once if a buddy was happy in his marriage. Still in love. He said, "Only when I think about how hot she used to be ." To which I immediately replied, "Yeah, me too." Happens every day. BUT...she should have known his wife was dead.
He handled it amazingly well without embarrassing the reporter.
Gifford interrupted a guest repeatedly with her sidekick Hoda chirping in when Gifford took a breath. Finally their guest asked if he could please finish his sentence. Then they both glared at him, indignantly and Gifford quacked "your eyebrows are shabby!"
When musician singer MC Hammer was a guest on their show with his 11 year old son, Gifford asked Hammer's son if his Dad had talked to him about his severe financial problems. Hammer politely said that it wasn't an appropriate discussion...
Never knew Kathy could be such a b@tch.
I would have been mortified and stumbling over my words. I had this happen to me. I was on my phone setting up doc appointment while heading back to the house from the post office. When this man stopped me. Took me a second to recognize him. He was the morning jogger that happened by my house the morning my fur baby wondered off. Not long after that he passed away. I had to tell the man that after he asked how Eli was. With my 8 year old niece beside me and my docs office on the other end of the phone. Two months b4 my grandma had passed. I was living with her at the time and still live in her house. She's had the same lane line for years. People kept calling asking for her. It was agony having to repeat over and over that she was gone.
After I had lost my husband at a very young age. About 3 weeks after he died I was at the grocery store with our kids 8, 7 and 5. And we ran into a old friend of his. And he asked if my husband was in the store? And our middle daughter before I could stop her said. Noooo he’s not! And she broke down sobbing. Poor guy looked lost. And he mouthed what did I say. And I had to tell him that he had passed away at the age of 38 from a massive heartache. He just shuttered and stammered and walked away. Thankfully because money was still pretty tight after paying for the funeral arrangements and the burial expenses. I had taken the donation funds people had given. I was shopping with. And he sent his wife to find us and she apologized profusely and she stuck $500 dollars in my hand and she told me to use it on our groceries. I was so excited. I grabbed the money and we stocked up on EVERYTHING that I needed. My freezer was full of plenty of meat and frozen vegetables. Ingredients for preparing several meals. And of course some junk foods for the kids after school snacks. And our Christmas Dinner. And I got the food home and we were putting all $530 worth of groceries away. And all of a sudden a knock came on the floor. And it was 3 other of the couples we were friends with who didn’t know he had passed. And one of the couples bought their teenage daughter with to watch my kids. And they each gave me money. And they came with bags of toys that they thought the kids would like and gave me the receipts if they were things that they didn’t like. He died on November 20th 2003. So we had his funeral the day before Thanksgiving and we were going to have our first Christmas without him that year. So because of the fact I’m one of those people who shop all year round for gifts. Our kids were going to have a normal Christmas. But with those friends donating money and giving me a big stack of gifts for them. Our kids had a fabulous first Christmas without their Dad. But to be honest. Right before Christmas that year I got our first accidental death benefit check. I got a check every month for each kid until they turned 18 or they graduated from college. Things were tough not having him there. But the benefit checks at least made it easier for me to support them financially. Which was a huge relief. And my brothers and Dad and their grandpa and uncle on their Dad’s side were all great male role models and the people I counted on to teach our 2 boys how to shave and they were the ones who taught our boys about men’s health and what they need to do. And they gave them the sex talk and how to wear a jockstrap and my twin brother taught all 3 kids how to drive a car and they taught our youngest son how to ride a 2 wheel bike. And my brother in law taught my daughter self defense. And got her enrolled in karate classes. She’s a black belt and she works as a instructor at her Uncles Karate dojo.
This is brutal I cant watch it..
What a class act Martin Short was here. He could've called her out on live TV but chose not to. That's a true gentleman.
Martin handled this with such class. A true gentleman.
Martin was so sincere here. I read his book and he talks about this more in detail. He explains that he didn’t correct Kathy because he didn’t want to embarrass her, but once the cameras shut off and they went on a commercial break, he told her. Kathy should’ve done her homework, but Martin was a good sport about it.
What a genuine, professional, nice guy. Have you seen his Special on Netflix with Steve Martin? It’s a blast.
The media made such a huge deal of this, which I think was way more harmful to Martin and his family. It was an honest mistake. She didn’t know. The Short family were notoriously private. Why would he be offended? She was complimenting their long relationship. As a journalist, it’s incredibly important that you research all of your topics so that such mistakes won’t be made. But this is virtually impossible in live candid interviews. Mistakes will happen. I never understood why so many people tried to demonize her for such an honest, and I’m sure horribly embarrassing, mistake. But man … how absolutely lovely and classy is Martin? ❤️
She claimed they were friends ….. you would think she would know ….
Ok I looked it up and his wife had been dead for like 2 years….. she messed up bad. I hope she felt like shit.
From what I read in a newspaper article Martin Short told her that she passed away during a commercial break, and Kathy also on twitter apologized for it as well.
I think producers believe that Kathie Lee Gifford's renowned cluelessness has entertainment value which explains why she's had a career. It's unlikely that she ever knew about the death much less forgot it.
She's so surprised their still in love because her marriage is falling apart? Even in death love lives on my dear.
You would think she would know I mean after loosing Frank and all? Things that make ya go hmmm. He is a class act never missed a beat what a guy. I would have tore her a new one..
Why does she have a show? Seriously
she is like a train wreck that you have to watch because it is entertaining, envious people just need to find their own gimmick,
signed andy kaufman
Martin Short is a real gentleman and Kathy Lee is unprofessional. Didn't anyone on that set do research?
Remember that movie "Clifford?" Martin Short was so freakin funny in that.
Martin handled that so well.
He’s Canadian and therefore genetically incapable of causing an uncomfortable moment for another. He’s also a great guy.
Me: yeah she died of cancer three years ago.
Agonizing silence...
Only her body died. Our souls live in heaven forever and they will all be reunited one day. Until then she is watching over him and her family in heaven
SHE DOES!! LOVES THE WINE,it is her libation of choice. Martin Short is such a gracious,professional,his handling of those questions about his wife are proof of that.He and Kathy,obviously are not close friends,or she would have known,she should have done her homework first,before interviewing Martin, that is one of her job requirements,& if it is not,damn well should be!!
If I was Martin I would have got up and said In his Ed Grimley voice" My Wife Nancy Is actualy Deceased I must say"
How sad. What a class act Short is, for how he handled this, and for being so understanding of her gaffe later.
Martin Short is so funny, he handled this with class. Lee Gifford made a mistake, I don't think it's such a big deal, people aren't perfect and its just life and in this case... death too.
Martin Short is one class act. He's the best.
Martin Short seems like a genuinely good guy.
He showed a lot of class in how he dealt with that.
Nothing Short of a Class Act
I watched it live and I was like "Isn't his wife dead..." because she died while I was watching the season of Damages where he played the lawyer defending the Bernie Madoff character.
This happened on The View too with Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Stanley Tucci. Whoever is responsible for telling these people about their guests should be fired.
Kathie Lee has done this before; she didn’t know that James Taylor’s brother had passed.
Gonna look it up
This never gets less awkward...
what can you expect from someone so intelligent like kathie lee.
Breaks my heart, makes me cry: what a stupid mistake to make, and so much pain :((
Martin Short shows true class by not making a scene over her ignorance. Makes a Canadian proud when our people are out in the world and represent well.
She profusely apologized and he forgave her and bore her no ill-will. It was an honest mistake. I didn't know Martin's wife had passed until I'd read it in his book...and then I cried.😢
He didn’t say anything because he was such a gentleman, but he also realized it would have been a great SCTV skit…
I liked he played along with it and being kind, without turning into the Hulk or bawling out in front of everybody.
What a wonderful man
Martin Short is one of the nicest people in show biz.
You didn't include the clip after the commercial break where Kathie Lee apologized.
Shhh. That would hurt the narrative that she's a pure villain.
Well as much as I'm not a fan of Martin Short or Kathy, I think he handled this like a gentleman.
Interesting how the person directly affected by that huge mistake reacts more calmly and gracefully than what seems to be half the comment section.
Well said. I noticed that as well.
Martin Short is a class act. He could have embarrassed her - and she would have deserved it - and he didn’t
clockworkorange1986, thanks for your maturity and getting rid of trolls like jazzkeyboardist1.
+Jermaine Charles ....Funny you don't have the maturity to comment directly to me? I actually Like Martin Short but you are not smart enough to understand that
He's a gentleman...I feel sad just seeing his face when she asked...
unbelievable how well martin Short handled it. Could not have done it that way myself. true class act
I know we're all human and we ALL make mistakes but this is one that shouldn't be made. Her job is to know everything about who she's interviewing and something as important as the loss of his wife should NEVER have gone unnoticed. This was unnecessary pain that Martin should not have gone through. It's time for Kathie Lee to GO!!!
It also exposed the phoniness as well since she talked about he and his wife like they hung out together IRL all the time.
@@pplusttsyou would know phony wouldn’t ya?
I don't why I just like his voice 😭😭
Is it really that hard to do a minimum amount of research prior to interviewing someone!!??
Ugh. Makes me sick to my stomach. What a tough moment that must have been.
I remember watching this & was like 😳 !!!! Even I knew his wife passed how do you not do your research 🤦♀️
This is right up there with Regis talking about Vince Neil’s daughter after her passing.
ooooh myyyy!!!! I admire the self-control....
Thank you, I'm glad that is the only thing you took away from my post. By the way, nice gun.
This is just like the scene in Walk Hard. "Guess I didn't do my research!"
Martin Short is the epitome of class and grace here. Kathie Lee, on the other hand...
i'm just glad martin took it smoothly. he wasn't a jerk about it, even though deep down he was probably wanting to. they make the today show so much better on snl, than on the actual show.
Martian Short was very classy about it.
i dont know how he kept it together. i wouldve started bawling right then and there, and i dont even have a wife. Martin is more of a man than most
A true gentleman.