MARTY, LIFE IS SHORT-Long on Love, Laughs Martin Short's Doc. Is Just What the Dr. Ordered

I've been a huge fan of the immensely talented Martin Short since I first saw glimpsed Ed Grimley on SNL with chest-high pants and hair-slick. His irrepressible smile and glimmer in his eyes give him an elfin, impish quality that is impossible to resist.  Are some people just born with talent and the gift of lighting up a room?  Yes, of course, but you don't need to look any further than Marty's own backyard.  He grew up in a family love fest, the youngest of five; with "an angel of a mother" who was a concert violinist.  There's no dysfunction or resentment.  You'll only find a household built on love and enjoyment with one another.  His was and is a family that played together and has stayed together.  As Martin put it, "We lived to make each other laugh."  There is loss as his oldest, beloved brother died when Marty was 14 and his mother when he was 19.  Tragically, Marty's daughter died by suicide this past February at age 42.  While this doesn't factor into the doc. the loss of his wife, Nancy with whom he had been married for 30 years and shared three adopted children.  The film is as much, if not more, of a tribute to their endearing love story which only made me fall in love with the two of them.  They met and become a couple at the onset of both their careers in entertainment in the early 70s.  In 1977, Martin joined Second City in Canada which led to being asked to join SNL.  More notably, this led to life long friendships with a host of friends whose comedic careers were also starting out such as Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara and Andrea Martin. This hilarious and touching documentary reveals his early childhood through his rise to fame and fortune and the many steadfast friends along with his expanding, tightly-knit family plenty of with warmth and humor.  Interspersed with interviews from his A list celebrity friends such as Spielberg, Hanks, Martin and the recently deceased O'Hara that are testaments to Short's humor and humanity.  The clips from past movies, shows and interviews are laugh out loud funny.  In short, Short's philosophy of life resounds with joy, resilience and gratitude.  Comedian John Mulaney who co-starred with Short on a the Fox sitcom flop, "Mulaney" shared what he garnered from Short, "98% of it is failure.  This is what the job is," teaching Mulaney the wisdom to learn from "what doesn't work, until something works."  The home videos of holiday parties are filled with families of major stars mingling and entertaining each other were enviable.  In fact, I have only one gripe to pick with Ed Grimley and this bio-doc that mocks the silly pretense he and his dear friend Larry Kasdan making the doc. don't know each other.  It's I want to be friends with Martin Short, too.  It's hard being green.