Steve Martin & Martin Short Met While Filming “Three Amigos” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

guys I'm going to let you go because you. have wouldn't you like to get some uh. part of this interview that's. usable this is what you're you're a. young lad you haven't you've listened to. some of my I'm I'm GNA say this is my. favorite episode maybe ever this is my. of my certainly this is a spectacular. episode I'm just going back over why. we're doing it it's because of your. admiration for me and my this a very. very famous podcast I I understand that. I know that and so we should be.

to be part of it you couldn't get it you. couldn't say it with a straight face hey. I see after this let's you and me go and. cash our checks let's do it but we need. a big Bank yeah I mean not every I have. ID and maybe we'll get some cash and. some just a cashier's check yeah yeah. and I and I have a servant with me he. could carry the. bullion you know you guys have always. kept in touch that's what I like about.

you you never got in the bubble you're. out there oh I'm of the people it's. always kept in touch with whom what do. you mean you're just in touch with the. people you know what I mean you're going. to the bank you'll have probably have to. stop and get a. wheelbarrow but uh but you do it in a. humble way would you say that with. success you. changed I I'm. pausing uh you can't help but change but.

I I I'd say I have changed for the. better with success that's what I think. that's great yeah yeah I mean you. probably disagree I was gonna say I. can't can't wait to when did you did you. know Steve I mean you I met him uh on. Three Amigos 85 July yeah Jes yeah I did. and then we became great friends and. then you make that decision of whether. you're going to just have that to.

experience of making a movie and never. see someone again or not and I think we. both chose to keep hanging it's just. interesting you bring up Three Amigos. because you make that movie it it came. out and it you know did what it did but. then it goes on and I don't know when it. happened but within maybe 10 years of it. coming out there's this whole generation. that seizes that movie and says this is. one of our favorite movies and it has. grown since then in a way that I think.

is welld deserved but it's kind of. fascinating to me did you were you aware. of that happening that's what happens. with a lot of my movies except for the. 10e part where they like. it well I've always found that you never. know if a movie is a is a hit or success. till 10 years goes by CU some movies are. big hits when they come out and then you. never hear of them again right and then. some movies tend to grow I was surprised. in fact we got a call from a magazine in. London.

and they said we want to it was a film. magazine they said we want to put you. Marty and Chevy on the cover it was and. and we said why they said well it's the. 25th anniversary of Three Amigos I said. you care and that's when I started. noting that there was some kind of right. thing happening with it yeah it's got. this whole other life and I'm I don't I. can't tell you how many times I've seen. they'll ask various rock musicians. artists um you. know fleets just anyone politicians list.

favorite movies and then Three Amigos. keeps popping up in there which is. really great well Steve wrote. it well with Lauren Michaels and Randy. Newman that's right that's right but you. said you wrote the funniest parts I will. that's actually Randy Newman wrote my. favorite joke in the whole thing and. it's when El Guapo that's his birthday. and I all all his men are celebrating. and he opens a package and he goes it's. a sweater.

I love the canteen joke so much that. you're both you you know the the three. of you are running out of water oh Cen. the canteen and just there's there's you. barely enough and then just. luxuriating spit out yeah lip balm is so. fantastic my my favorite joke is that we. go into a saloon that's filled with uh. bad. guys and we're all in our spangly.

outfits and I go up to the bartend and. say excuse me we're not. Mexicans we're we're from out of. town was it fun to make yeah it was yeah. it was we were actually you know in. Arizona and on locations and building. these beautiful sets yeah it's just one. of those uh because sometimes I've known. when you're having a blast making. something I've I sometimes get worried.

if you're having a really good time. making something that this means it. won't be good one of my favorite lines I. just somebody reminded me of it too at. the end the very end I go up to Patrice. Martinez who's a beautiful actress who. played Karma and she passed away. unfortunately and there's supposed to be. like something between us and I go up. and we're about to ride off and I say to. her um I'll be back one day and she says. why.

well guys what's the plan for the rest. of the day I'm sure you've blocked out a. whole um chunk of time with me well it's. I'm I've got to do my. 5bx workout oh incredible going to say. you look amazing thank you and it's. today it's AB day so I'm going to work. on the. ABS and that's most of the day yeah I. just I hard for me for you when you say. that for me not to think of your role on. a rested Dev development where your.

uncle the yeah the bullet you know uh. shoot me shoot me and um my son adors. that show so the times that you've been. around as much as you've done you never. know what's going to get people and he's. you seen and really liked your other. work but but you as the bullet the. bullet whatever isn't that I was a guy I. was not so old I was their uncle that my. legs didn't work and I had to be carried. around strong man and we kept adding. jokes and at one point I said.

to the nuts and they put me down to. Jason bait's you know testicles and I. went Bridge mix Bridge mix and I me they. put me on a table to. eat but it's just so nice that you do. these different things you never know. what's going to catch with who and then. you know my son who now was 17 but at. the time he was seeing it he was like 12. and he was like well this is the. funniest thing I've ever seen and I'm. like well he's he's at the you know he's.

coming over tonight and it's just it's. lovely it's very nice gentlemen okay. thank you Conan I uh I want to let you. go thank you very much think about the. Cameo uh oh of course I will play a. small part M I have a tendency to shoot. the lens I look right into the lens wow. good how would it be um STK like monster. crushes Town people and then is arrested. for murder something like that okay but. I I like I go you why do I ask for more.

I like Conan's approach cuz most actors. try not to look into the lens yes I. would be have a small roll where I'm. literally carrying crab cakes in the. background at the nice Westside. apartment and I stop and I turn and look. right into the lens and freeze that's. what we're going to do oh Steve's taking. a call no no oh no I I'm looking at the. my plans for the rest of the day cuz you. asked and then I realize I have none. okay well perfect okay um thanks a thank. you very much uh guys um you both mean.

the world to me and this is uh like I I. don't know we will never top this. episode and I know that you being. self-effacing and saying we've killed. time this an absolute Joy absolute Joy I. bow to both love I bow to you well. that's not good question and obviously. we've both been influencers but which. one a little bit more oh me you can't. see everybody he's at me thanks Conan no.

anyway Steve your cars. here.