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He has also acted in numerous films and television shows. Short was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in Short created the characters Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley. He has also had an active career on stage, starring in Broadway productions including Neil Simon 's musicals The Goodbye Girl and Little Me — The latter earned him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and the former a nomination in the same category.

In , Short started touring nationally with fellow comedian Steve Martin. Short and his siblings—three older brothers, David, Michael, and Brian, and one older sister, Nora [ 9 ] —were raised as Catholics. Encouraged by his mother in his early creative endeavours, [ 10 ] Short attended Westdale Secondary School and then graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work in 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.

As Short was about to graduate from McMaster University , rather than immediately pursuing a career in social work, he moved to Toronto with intention of temporarily giving acting a shot. Short subsequently found work in several Canadian television shows and theatrical productions. These included being cast for the role of a tough, sexually predatory prison inmate in the staging of John Herbert 's drama Fortune and Men's Eyes that had the upstart twenty-two-year-old actor commuting back to his hometown Hamilton, Ontario.

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In June , with Godspell winding down and Chicago's Second City improv comedy theatre starting up a sister company in Toronto, many of Short's Godspell peers his girlfriend Radner, in addition to Levy, Eastwood, and Salsberg as well as the rest of his social circle Valri Bromfield and Dan Aykroyd successfully joined the new troupe's first cast.

Produced by and aired on Global Television Network , broadcasting only to Southern Ontario as a newly launched regional grouping of television stations, the show lasted less than six months before being cancelled. Filmed throughout late winter and early spring in Banff National Park and Toronto, the film saw limited North American release in June and was met with lukewarm reviews and poor box office returns.

In , after working solely in Canada for the preceding seven years, Short landed a starring role in the American sitcom The Associates about a group of young novice lawyers working at a Wall Street law firm. Short appeared on SCTV in —