Martin Short and Steve Martin saluted Catherine O’Hara at the duo’s Friday night show in Austin, Texas, just hours after the news of the Home Alone actress’ death.
With a photo of O’Hara projected behind them, Short and Martin encouraged the crowd to raise their drinks for the actress, who Short called “the greatest, most brilliant, kindest, sweetest angel any of us worked with.”
As Short told the crowd, he had known O’Hara since she was 18 years old; both Canadian, they first performed together with Toronto’s legendary comedy group The Second City, and briefly overlapped on the cast of the SCTV sketch comedy series.
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The pair later reunited for Short’s 1989 comedy special I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood and his Jiminy Glick series, as well as voice actors on Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie. Additionally, O’Hara and Steve Martin starred together in the 1994 dramedy A Simple Twist of Fate.
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The star of Home Alone and a comedic legend, O’Hara died Friday following “a brief illness.” An outpouring of remembrances from fans and celebrities across Hollywood were shared following news of O’Hara’s death. Macaulay Culkin, who famously played her son, Kevin McCallister, in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, was among the tributes. “Mama,” Culkin wrote on a social media post, sharing a photo of them in the 1990 Christmas classic. “I thought we had time. I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you. But I had so much more to say.”
O’Hara’s Schitt’s Creek co-star Eugene Levy, also an SCTV vet alongside Short and O’Hara, said in a statement, “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 over fifty years. From our beginnings on the Second City stage, to SCTV, to the movies we did with Chris Guest, to our six glorious years on Schitt’s Creek, I cherished our working relationship, but most of all our friendship. And I will miss her. My heart goes out to Bo, Matthew, Luke, and the entire O’Hara family.”
From Rolling Stone US
