Steve Martin & Martin Short: "The Dukes Of Funnytown!" Featuring Jeff Babko And The Steep Canyon Rangers To Perform At The Fox Theatre Saturday, November 2

(DETROIT – May 6, 2024) – Steve Martin and Martin Short’s “The Dukes of Funnytown!” 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. Produced by Live Nation, the show will be at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, November 2 at 8 p.m. Comerica Bank is the exclusive presenting partner of the Fox Theatre.

Tickets go on sale Friday, May 10 at 10 a.m. at 313Presents.com, LiveNation.com and Ticketmaster.com.

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. 

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.”

About Steve Martin
Steve Martin is one of the most well-known talents in entertainment. His work has earned him an Academy Award®, five Grammy® awards, an Emmy®, the Mark Twain Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors. 

Martin began his career on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-1969), for which he earned his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music in 1969. In the mid-1970s, Martin shone as a stand-up on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Martin’s films are widely popular successes and are the kind of movies that are viewed again and again: The Jerk (1979), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), Roxanne (1987), Parenthood (1989), L.A. Story (1991), Father of the Bride (1991), and Bowfinger (1999). Steve Martin is also an accomplished Grammy Award-winning, boundary-pushing bluegrass banjoist and composer. The song “California” is Martin's newest collaboration with the Grammy-winning North Carolina-based Steep Canyon Rangers following the release of their albums, The Long-Awaited Album in 2017 and Rare Bird Alert in 2011. Martin, who has released five albums of original American roots music since 2009, also collaborated with Edie Brickell on So Familiar in 2015 and Love Has Come For You in 2013, which won a Grammy ® for "Best American Roots Song" for the title track and inspired their Tony award nominated musical Bright Star. 

As an author, Martin’s work includes the novel An Object of Beauty, the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, a collection of comic pieces, Pure Drivel, a bestselling novella, Shopgirl, and his memoir Born Standing Up. His play Meteor Shower premiered on Broadway in 2017 in a production starring Emmy Award-winner Amy Schumer, Keegan-Michael Key, Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti; and Alan Tudyk, and directed by four-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Zaks. Steve Martin’s 2018 Netflix special with Martin Short titled An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life received four Emmy nominations in 2018. In 2019, Martin and Short launched the “Now You See Them, Soon You Won’t” tour, which visited major venues across the U.S. and Australia for the first time and launched a new comedy tour in 2020 called “The Funniest Show in Town at the Moment.” The duo is currently on their new tour, “You Won't Believe What They Look Like Today!” 

Martin and Short also star together in Hulu’s most-watched comedy series, Only Murders in the Building.  Selena Gomez co-stars in the Emmy-winning series that will premiere its fourth season this fall. Steve Martin’s book Number One Is Walking is an illustrated memoir of Martin's legendary acting career with stories from his most popular films with artwork by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss. The book was released in November 2022 via Celadon and is filled with anecdotes from film sets, exploits with co-stars, moments of inspiration, and other stories. The book is the follow up to Martin & Bliss’s #1 New York Times Best Selling book, A Wealth of Pigeons. Steve’s new audio-biography, SO MANY STEVES: Afternoons with Steve Martin is out now and is a series of candid conversations recorded over many afternoons at Steve’s home with his friend and neighbor, writer Adam Gopnik. Steve! (Martin) a documentary in 2 pieces was directed by Academy Award winning director Morgan Neville and is out now on Apple TV+.

About Martin Short
Martin Short, a celebrated comedian and actor, has won fans and accolades in television, film and theater since his breakout season on Saturday Night Live over 30 years ago. Short won his first Emmy in 1982 while working on Canada’s SCTV Comedy Network, which brought him to the attention of the producers of SNL. He became an SNL fan-favorite for his portrayal of characters such as Ed Grimley, lawyer Nathan Thurm and “legendary songwriter” Irving Cohen. His popularity and exposure on SNL led Short to cross over quickly into feature films. He made his debut in Three Amigos and followed with Innerspace, Three Fugitives, Clifford, Pure Luck and Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks. One of Short’s most memorable roles was in the remake of Father of the Bride as Franck the wedding planner, a role he reprised a few years later in Father of the Bride Part II. Short lent his voice to the animated film Madagascar 3 and Tim Burton’s Oscar-nominated Frankenweenie.

An accomplished stage actor, Short won a Tony, Theatre World Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for his role in the revival of Little Me. He was also nominated for a Tony and took home an Outer Critics Circle Award for the musical version of Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl. Short co-wrote and starred in Fame Becomes Me, prompting The New York Times to describe Short as “a natural for live musicals, a limber singer and dancer who exudes a fiery energy that makes you want to reach for your sunglasses.” Short most recently appeared on Broadway in Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play. A two-time primetime Emmy winner and multi-nominated for both primetime and daytime Emmys, Short returned to television in 1998 for the miniseries Merlin and host of The Martin Short Show. In 2001, he launched the popular comedy Primetime Glick and in 2010 received critical acclaim for his role in FX’s drama series Damages. Short has also returned to SNL as host four times, most recently co-hosting with Steve Martin in December, and performed in the series’ landmark 40th anniversary special in February 2015. Other recent television credits include Big Mouth, The Morning Show, Hairspray Live! Maya & Marty, Mulaney, How I Met Your Mother and the critically acclaimed PBS series Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That. 

Short’s New York Times bestselling memoir, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, was published in 2014. 

In 1994, Short was awarded the Order of Canada – the Canadian equivalent to British knighthood. He was also inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame in June 2000. In 2017, he received a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award from the Governor-General of Canada. Short’s 2018 Netflix special with Steve Martin titled An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life received four Emmy nominations in 2018. In 2019, Short and Martin launched the “Now You See Them, Soon You Won’t” tour, which visited major venues across the U.S. and Australia for the first time and launched a new comedy tour in 2020 called “The Funniest Show in Town at the Moment.”  The duo is currently on their tour, “You Won't Believe What They Look Like Today!” Martin and Short also star together in Hulu’s most-watched comedy series, Only Murders in the Building, along with Selena Gomez.