
Steve Martin says that Martin Short acquired COVID-19 after showing on Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special.
“Maya [Rudolph] had Covid. Marty has Covid. I ponder why? The SNL fiftieth Covid curse is actual,” Martin, 79, wrote by way of Instagram alongside a photograph of Maya Rudolph and Quick, 74, sharing a pleasant kiss backstage at SNL 50: The Anniversary Special in New York on Sunday, February 16.
Martin introduced that due to Quick’s sickness, the pair have needed to delay the most recent stops on their Dukes of Funnytown Tour, which have been as a consequence of happen this weekend in Durham, North Carolina, and Knoxville, Tennessee.
“Sadly, we’ve to reschedule our offered out Durham and Knoxville dates to 10/17 Knoxville and 10/18 Durham. So sorry for the inconvenience. I believe we’ll be funnier then, anyway,” Martin wrote.
The Only Murders in the Building duo have been among the many A-list stars who attended Sunday’s SNL anniversary particular. Different stars included Meryl Streep, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively.
In the course of the Weekend Replace phase of the present, SNL common Colin Jost joked a couple of well being scare doubtlessly plaguing the particular.
“Well being specialists are going through elevated strain this winter within the face of outbreaks of COVID, the flu, RSV and norovirus, which they’re calling a quad-demic. So we did the good factor and packed each beloved entertainer over 60 into one tiny house,” Jost quipped.
In addition to attending the fiftieth anniversary particular, Quick and Streep have been additionally on the SNL50: The Homecoming Concert on Friday, February 14, the place they sat beside comic Amy Schumer.
“There’s actually nobody funnier to take a seat subsequent to than Marty Quick, who I acquired to take a seat subsequent to on the homecoming live performance the opposite night time,” Schumer, 43, told People.
“I believe that the tea is, I believe Marty is likely to be off the market. That’s what I’m seeing. I don’t know,” Schumer added, referring to the rumored romance between Quick and Streep.
Whereas Schumer didn’t identify the one who’s seemingly stolen Quick’s coronary heart, she teased, “Perhaps by similar to the best actor of our time, I don’t know.”
Schumer additionally gushed that sitting beside Quick and Streep, 75, on Friday “was a really enjoyable seat to be seated in.”