JUST ANNOUNCED: STEVE MARTIN AND MARTIN SHORT AT MICHIGAN LOTTERY AMPHITHEATRE SEPTEMBER 11

(DETROIT – February 18, 2020) – Steve Martin and Martin Short bring “The Funniest Show in Town at the Moment” with special guests Paul Shaffer and Alison Brown & Fair Weather Friends to Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre as part of the Fifth Third Bank Concert Series on Friday, September 11 at 8 p.m.

Tickets (starting at $35 on the lawn) go on sale Friday, February 21 at 10 a.m. To purchase tickets in the Crest Ford pavilion, Ford Motor Company luxury seats and on the lawn, visit 313Presents.com,  LiveNation.com and Little Caesars Arena XFINITY box office or Ticketmaster.com. 

“Marty and I love touring, especially while we can still tolerate each other,” said Martin.  

“There are few people that I truly admire,” said Short “And Steve Martin is very close to being one of them.”

“The Funniest Show in Town at The Moment” is a show that redefines the form in unexpected and profound ways, from two of the funniest, most influential and acclaimed talents of the past century.  Their humor is often subversive, but it is always a joyous self-deprecating romp from two comedy masters driven to make each other laugh as much as the audience. The jokes come at you at a rapid-fire pace with little set-up and big punch lines as they mock Hollywood and the fickle nature of celebrity, but the comedy truly soars when they lovingly (and relentlessly) roast each other.  

In March, Martin and Short will bring the tour to audiences in the UK and Ireland for the first time, with shows at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on March 9; 3Arena in Dublin on March 11; SSE Arena in Belfast on March 12; and two nights at Royal Albert Hall in London on March 14 and 15.

The 2020 tour follows Martin and Short's celebrated sold-out tour “An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life,” which was filmed for a Netflix special that earned rave reviews and garnered four Emmy® nominations.  Fueled by comedic precision and anchored in a lifelong friendship, Rolling Stone called the special “wryly hip but unexpectedly touching,” with the New York Times describing it “gleeful and satisfying.”

Martin and Short's chemistry and timing on stage reflects a friendship forged over three decades which developed when they met for the first time on the set of the 1986 film Three Amigos. These two titans of comedy have been touring together since 2015, when they launched their first live show entitled “A Very Stupid Conversation.”