Steve Martin Responds to Fans Asking Him to Star as Tim Walz on ‘SNL’

If Martin answers the call, it won’t be his first time on the comedy sketch show. He’s appeared on SNL at least 35 times, including serving as a host 16 times. Although never a cast member, Martin first appeared in 1976, and last hosted in 2022 alongside Only Murders in the Building co-star Martin Short.

Short and Martin, who became close friends on the set of Western comedy Three Amigos in 1986, have toured as a comedic duo for years, from the the two-sided interview stage show A Very Stupid Conversation to Netflix comedy special An Evening You’ll Forget for the Rest of Your Life (2018), which Rolling Stone called “wryly hip, cozily nostalgic but, also, unexpectedly touching.” Short and Martin are also on their “The Dukes of Funnytown” tour, which has dates through November and stops in cities like Nashville, Louisville, and Detroit.