Steve Martin & Martin Short Met While Filming “Three Amigos” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Steve Martin shares his theory that you can’t understand a film’s success until 10 years after its release.


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[dbc]

There's something tremendously comforting about seeing these two actors who starred in one of the favourite films of my youth, and realizing they're still good buddies and even funnier IRL than they were in the movies. And we all need a little comfort these days.

[jeffspicoli]

I was 10 years old and we skated to a random theatre in Milwaukee and saw the Three Amigos. I played a couple rounds of the arcade game Double Dragon in the lobby... I remember it like it was yesterday. I miss those days being a kid in the 80's. I love all of Steve's and Martin's movies.

[danielmooney]

My favourite line has to be when Rosita says to Chevy - ‘we could take a walk and you could kiss me on the veranda’…Chevy responds ‘on the lips would be fine’.

Absolutely legendary film and the most talented trio✌️

[Demion]

Steve Martin had so many great movies out during my peak VCR renting years as a kid. 3 Amigos, Roxanne, Parenthood, Little Shop of Horrors, Planes trains and Automobiles, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Jerk... these were all staples I must have watched 40 times each. I actually didn't learn to love Martin Short until later, when "Glick" showed up, but now consider him one of the funniest guys ever.

[danielmarkfroggatt]

I was born in 1989 and my dad played us Three Amigos a lot during the nineties. We'd recite the lines and do the moves on holiday. It's still one of my favourite films to this day. Whenever I'm at the gym, pulling wires always reminds me of Steve Martin in the prison cell. Comedy gold ❤

[gusmc]

I say "It's a sweater!!" every time I open a present. Literally....every. time.

[nebakanezer]

My little buttercup, has the sweetest smile…

[DarthStone]

To this day, I still think The Three Amigos is one of the funniest movies EVER MADE. I grew up in my Mexican household with my mom & dad forever watching those classic Mexican charro movies from the 40’s & 50’s (sometimes called the Mexican Golden Age of Cinema) and this movie hits every single trope made in those films. An under-appreciated gem, I start laughing at this film even before the title card is on screen. These men are GENIUSES and I will forever love them for doing that movie.

[matthewadair]

The friendship between these two comedians is really enduring. It will stand the test of time.

[philipyazbak]

2:25 Steve's reaction to realizing it has been 38+ years gone by. That's a pretty universal human feeling.

[hollymeyer]

The Three Amigos, by far one of my favorite movies of all time. I can still hear my 21 year old son giggle when Martian Short falls on the table right after El Guapo has his snarky 'gringos falling out of the sky" line. Was thrilled to visit Old Tucson where some of the movie was shot. I even bragged to my sister and took copious photos. Thank you to all who made that movie so fun.

[thejonathandoan]

I am so grateful for Three Amigos. One of my all-time favorites, and these two chaps are certainly a huge part of that. It's so awesome that this world includes people like them!

[frankb]

I live 10 minutes from Old Tucson Studios where Three Amigos was shot (in part) and I couldn't be prouder. Such a fantastically funny and endearing film, and one of our all time favorites! Finally got to meet El Guapo in 2017! Such a lovely man

[Mybestfriendlivesinboston]

In 2011 or 2012 I got to meet Martin short after a show, I was so nervous to ask but I asked if we could pose for a pic doing part of my little buttercup dance, he was happy to do it with me and the pic is a life treasure ❤ he was so humble and kind

[hunter]

Everyone’s been saying it much better, but man the comfort and laughs these two still bring after all these years is so healing and bright.

[MatthewHarrold]

My family has just binge-watched the first 2 seasons of Only Murders in the Building. It took a while to convince my wife it wouldn't be slapstick panto with old-bloke jokes. As fans of the new Perry Mason series, Knives Out, and other modern murder mysteries, (and a repellant father who constantly makes bad dad jokes), we started last week, averaged 4 episodes a day, and loved the Nathan Lane and Jane Lynch characters ... actually love all the cast. Can't wait for Friday night. We will start season 3 then.

[DoYouFeelLucky]

Three Amigos is one of my favourite comedies of all time. It's what I like to call a "mini masterpiece". I adore that movie and always have since I was about 5 years old, and it's one of those rare ones that every time I go back to it, it always still hold up completely. It's so tightly written, brilliantly performed, amazing music, pure fun, adventure and hilarity and even has a little sneaky depth to it while never once being remotely pretentious. Oh, and dare I say it, the finest costumes ever created! I'd love to sit down with these guys and hear some stories, even if it were just Martin Short as Ned boring me to death with his tales of Dorothy Gish!

I love the moment in Three Amigos when the three of them come to eat the humble meal the townspeople have prepared for them in gratitude for coming to save the town. They sit down. Chevy looks up to the girl and says "Excuse me, do you have anything besides Mexican food?"

[Novastar.SaberCombat]

Dude... Steve Martin's films are LITERALLY some of the best things ever. "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"... "ALL OF ME"(!), "Roxanne", "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (where Glenn Headley was BRILLIANT), "A Simple Twist of Fate", "Father of the B", "3A", etc.

And omg... the SNL monologue. "If I had one wish this holiday season..." 😂🤣😂

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[jburdsinfuse]

"Only Murders" is one of the very best shows out right now...these guys are amazing