Is Martin Short the greatest ever talk show guest?

The New Yorker

Short might be the best-ever, says Ian Crouch, because "his talk-show persona is the purest, the most attuned to and at ease with the restrictions and comedic traditions of the genre. Nobody tells a vacation story, or a holiday story, or an awards-show story, or a recollection of some industry folly better than Short does. He sings; he dances; he does broad physical comedy; he tells the best one-liners."