Steve Martin And Martin Short To Star In True Crime Comedy On Hulu

Steve Martin And Martin Short To Star In True Crime Comedy On Hulu

By Ben Pearson/Jan. 17, 2020 4:15 pm EST

Martin co-created the show with John Hoffman (Grace & Frankie, Looking), and those two will executive produce the untitled series alongside Short and the This is Us duo of Dan Fogelman and Jess Rosenthal.

As for previous collaborations, Martin and Short co-starred in the 2018 Netflix special An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest Of Your Life, which came and went with little fanfare. But they also shared the screen in the aforementioned Three Amigos, which is a beloved comedy classic for a certain generation. (Could the third stranger in this show be their Three Amigos co-star Chevy Chase? Perhaps a deal wasn’t quite worked out yet and Hulu wanted to make this announcement now anyway?) They also teamed for the Father of the Bride movies, which were a very big deal in the 1990s.

Individually, Short’s recent credits include The Morning Show and the animated Addams Family film from last year. Martin hasn’t been in much in a while; he’s occasionally popped up on Saturday Night Live, but his last movie role was in the little-seen 2016 Ang Lee film Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.