Editing Martin Short (section)

== Early life and education ==
Short was born on March 26, 1950, in [[Hamilton, Ontario]], the youngest<ref name="Conan/Jabber/Short">{{cite web |last1=O'Brien |first1=Conan |author1-link=Conan O'Brien |title=Martin Short |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5lsYCEgqDA |website=Serious Jibber-Jabber {{!}} CONAN on TBS |access-date=1 September 2024 |date=20 September 2013 |via=[[YouTube]] |archive-date=September 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901214053/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5lsYCEgqDA |url-status=live }}</ref> of five children of Olive Grace (née Hayter; 1913–1968), a Canadian-born (of [[English people|English]] and [[Irish people|Irish]] descent) [[concertmistress]] at the [[Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra|Hamilton Symphony Orchestra]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/04/showbiz/martin-short-memoir/ |title=Martin Short stays sunny-side up |publisher=CNN |date=November 4, 2014 |first=Katie |last=McLaughlin |access-date=November 8, 2014 |archive-date=November 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109045955/http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/04/showbiz/martin-short-memoir/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and Charles Patrick Short (1909–1970), a corporate executive at the Canadian steel company [[Stelco]] who had emigrated from [[Crossmaglen]], [[County Armagh]], Ireland as a stowaway during the [[Irish War of Independence]].<ref>[http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/martin-short "Martin Short Biography"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924050310/http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/martin-short |date=September 24, 2015 }} ''Hello Magazine'', accessed August 26, 2013</ref><ref>[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/474238031.html?dids=474238031:474238031&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+22%2C+1988&author=Eirik+Knutzen&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=%5B+Three+tykes+dressed+up+as+Ed+Grimley+-+trousers+...%5D&pqatl=google "Profile"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107095224/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/474238031.html?dids=474238031:474238031&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+22,+1988&author=Eirik+Knutzen&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=%5B+Three+tykes+dressed+up+as+Ed+Grimley+-+trousers+...%5D&pqatl=google |date=November 7, 2012 }}, ''The Toronto Star''</ref> Short has spoken openly about his father's struggles with [[alcoholism]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fdztHeqwgU |title=Real Time with Bill Maher: Martin Short on Martin Short (HBO) |date=2014-11-17 |last=Real Time with Bill Maher |access-date=2024-07-10 |via=YouTube |archive-date=July 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710185817/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fdztHeqwgU |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":0" />

Short and his siblings—three older brothers, David, Michael, and Brian, and one older sister, Nora<ref>{{cite news|first=Olivia|last=Stren|title=Laugh Track|work=torontolife|url=http://www.torontolife.com/features/laugh-track|date=June 2006|access-date=June 9, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605201222/http://www.torontolife.com/features/laugh-track/|archive-date=June 5, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref>—were raised as Catholics.<ref name="time"/> His eldest brother, David, was killed in a car accident in [[Montréal]] in 1962 when Short was 12. 
 
Encouraged by his mother in his early creative endeavours,<ref name="time">{{cite magazine|author=Amy Lennard Goehner|title=10 Questions For Martin Short|magazine=Time|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1223360,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060814033739/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1223360,00.html|archive-date=August 14, 2006|date=August 6, 2006|access-date=June 9, 2008}}</ref> Short attended [[Westdale Secondary School]] and then graduated from [[McMaster University]] with a Bachelor of Arts [[academic degree|degree]] in [[Social Work]] in 1971.<ref>{{cite news|author=Carmela Fragomeni|title=Westdale grads found stardom|work=The Hamilton Spectator|url=http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/about_us/newsroom/v_2_0_1/news_detail.aspx?newsid=729|date=February 24, 2006|access-date=June 9, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605203507/http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/about_us/newsroom/v_2_0_1/news_detail.aspx?newsid=729|archive-date=June 5, 2008}}</ref> In the meantime, his mother died of cancer in 1968; his father died two years later, of complications from a stroke.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fame Becomes Martin Short|work=CBS News The Showbuzz|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fame-becomes-martin-short/|date=September 17, 2006|access-date=December 29, 2014|archive-date=September 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902001539/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fame-becomes-martin-short/|url-status=live}}</ref>

His brother, Michael, would go on to become a comedy writer, also spending time at [[Second City Television]] (SCTV), and is 17 time nominee and three time winner of an [[Emmy Award]] for comedy sketch writing.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael Short Awards and Nominations |url=http://www.emmys.com/bios/michael-short |access-date=December 3, 2015 |publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |archive-date=March 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308224809/http://www.emmys.com/bios/michael-short |url-status=live }}</ref>