Appearances Jiminy Glick

1 appearances

1.1 on martin short show
1.2 in primetime glick
1.3 other appearances

appearances
on martin short show

in show, glick famous television interviewer has been around hollywood long time. despite this, remains laughably ignorant pop culture , entertainment news, though considers himself opposite. example, ll cite celebrity whom interviewee apparently shares birthday (but in reality not) , ask how makes them feel. interviews stars characterized patronizing attitude, frequent bizarre questions obscure matters, awkward body language, , turning subject matter himself. extremely forgetful, , takes ginkgo biloba memory aid (although, points out, catch twenty-one [a play on words] doesn t remember take it). glick overweight, , during interviews aggressively stuff face junk food (which present on table on set) @ moment s notice. glick offer food guests, if reached without being offered, snatch away, growling, no! me! on top of many other eccentricities, glick has unforgettably peculiar voice, shifting within single sentence high, effeminate whine deep growl.

in primetime glick

on series, glick joined long-suffering, heavily made-up announcer , band leader, adrian van voorhees (michael mckean), resembles lawrence welk lawrence welk show. adrian plays full classical harp, leading band of scraggly-looking immigrants (they poor job of synching performance music playing). while adrian attempts conduct himself in professional manner, loses patience jiminy s idiocy , constant, unintentional put-downs. can heard muttering disgustedly jiminy ( fat...sloppy fat ) jiminy remains blissfully unaware of adrian s hostility.

prior role on primetime glick, adrian had been admiring jiminy afar many years, had been laid skin condition, putting him out of work. began send jiminy fan letters , asked him job saying, think need harp. however, typo , jiminy thought adrian said tarp. jiminy doing work on pool @ time, called adrian back. while waiting jiminy s response, adrian boarded cruise ship s.s.s. statadam, , conducted cruise s band while on board. after jiminy s search effort adrian upon ship s return, met him, exclaiming in interview, next thing know, van vorhees part of glick world.

glick assailed short s long-running, bette davis-esque drag character, miss gathercole, bitter, ancient woman regular in glick s studio audience (alongside increasingly short-tempered nurse) , freely offers commentary on glick s various failings , own latest adventures. said of short s long-running characters, elderly vaudevillian irving cohen executive producer glick s primetime show. mention span of single episode cohen suffers heart attack , presumed dead, jiminy offering video tributes him until calls studio informing jiminy s okay.

in addition interviews, show featured many second city tv-like parody commercials , glick reading storybook tales group of young children, appropriately called, lalawood fables. these stories hollywood babylon-like tales of tinseltown degradation, acted out puppets. however, of stories tend go right on young audience s heads. show had more fanciful side, when puppets apparently come life, such as, on 2 occasions when jiminy , jason alexander spent long in steamroom , emerged dwarf-sized, , when jiminy accidentally crushed robert downey jr., in jiminy s steamroom.

other appearances

in martin short: fame becomes me, glick interviews (through complete improvisation) audience volunteer tasked become show s new star after martin short struck lightning (a ploy allow short enough time don jiminy glick make-up).

martin short played character in episode of madtv. interactive, updated website kept jiminy glick [1] filled photos, video clips, commentary, blogs , postings on 9,320 friends of jiminy glick...and martin short.

short portrayed character week on whoopi goldberg-produced era of hollywood squares, during college tournament in 2001; finals of tournament filled in center square; other celebrities on panel had been center square, whoopi out sick week.

martin short made appearance character on april 16th, 2005 episode of saturday night live hosted tom brady. appeared guest on weekend update segment plugging fictitious best of jiminy glick dvd, including clip of glick interviewing snl creator lorne michaels (portrayed forte) supposedly shot in 1970s. glick forcibly kisses update anchor tina fey segment ends.

glick appears in maya & marty interviewing celebrities include larry david, kevin hart, jerry seinfeld , ricky gervais.

on april 28, 2017, episode of tonight show starring jimmy fallon, short reprised role of glick interviewing donald trump (portrayed jimmy fallon) after first 100 days in office.