Steve Martin i Martin Short tribute to the deceased Catherine O’Hara hours later his death at the age of 71 and while performing in a comedy show.
“Catherine O’Hara and I met when I was 18,” Short, 75, said on stage at Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas, on Friday, Jan. 30, as he and fellow comedian Martin, 80, raised an afternoon drink. alone at home honor of the star.
“And all these years later, he’s been the biggest, brightest, kindest, sweetest angel we’ve ever worked with,” Short added, per the footage. shared via TikTok. As the crowd responded with applause, Short said, “God bless them.”
On Friday it was announced that the first The best of the show The star died at the age of 71.
New details are being revealed about Catherine O’Hara’s sudden death. O’Hara died at her home in Los Angeles “after a brief illness,” her agency, Creative Artists Agency, said in a statement to Us Weekly on Friday, January 30. No further details were immediately available. The development comes shortly after O’Hara’s manager confirmed to us that (…)
“Prolific multi-award winning actress, writer and comedian Catherine O’Hara died today at her home in Los Angeles after a brief illness,” O’Hara’s agency, Creative Artists Agency, said in a statement shared with Us Weekly at the time, confirming the actress’ death. “The family will hold a private celebration of life.”
Short worked with O’Hara at Toronto’s Second City improv theater in the 1970s, with O’Hara joining in 1975 after it ended. Gilda Radner left the group to appear Saturday night liveand Short joining in 1977.
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“I took the show home with me and I remember kissing her picture because I thought she was so adorable,” O’Hara once said. Vanity Fair of seeing Short appear in the original Toronto production of the play Godspell.
Martin and O’Hara worked together at NBC The New Showcreated by Lorne Michaels in 1984 during his time away from Saturday night live. The pair later starred in the 1994 comedy-drama A simple twist of fate. O’Hara’s surviving husband, Good Welchalso worked with Martin in 1991 Grand Canyon. (O’Hara and Welch shared two childrenMatthew and Luke.)
Shortly after the news of O’Hara’s death, many of her former co-stars on hit TV shows and movies like Schitt’s Creek i alone at home shared moving tributes to the actress through social networks.
“Ha-ha-HAAAA?!?! Her laugh was a perpetual ‘Yes, I’ challenging anyone who heard her to join in and be as delighted as she was.” Annie Murphywho played O’Hara’s daughter Schitt’s Creekhe wrote via Instagram on Saturday, January 31. “God, we were lucky to have her.”
She continued: “Never thought I’d call myself a teacher (too self-deprecating, too Canadian) but shit, I’ve been a student ever. Here’s a few notes from Coles for those who want to study too: Always laugh. Jokes first. How they look how they feel good in your bones. When you find the people you love and make you laugh, stick with the lovers in your community. (ideally) want to do something great: treat them as such, even if that means sometimes it doesn’t work.
O’Hara’s on-screen husband and longtime collaborator Eugene Levy he also cried loss of his dear friend.
“Words seem inadequate to express the loss I feel today. I had the honor of knowing and working with the great Catherine O’Hara for more than fifty years,” Levy, 79, said in a statement. we. “From our beginnings on the Second City stage, to SCTV, to the films we made Guest Christo our six glorious years later Schitt’s CreekI loved our working relationship, but most of all our friendship.”
He continued: “And I will miss her. My heart goes out to Bo, Matthew, Luke and the entire O’Hara family.”