Martin Short is always getting into hijinks with Selena Gomez on Only Murders in the Building, and Selena’s real-life wedding to Benny Blanco was no different.
The Canadian comedian attended the nuptials alongside their Only Murders co-stars, Steve Martin and Paul Rudd. Everything was going swimmingly at the star-studded reception — until it wasn’t, at the hands of Marty.
Martin Short cut into Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco’s wedding cake
“The wedding was perfect and it was beautiful,” he told the audience on Wednesday’s edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. “Everything was perfect, except the night of the reception.”
“It was a big, big part, big tents and at the back of the tent, where these individual seating areas with couches and chairs, he continued. “We had a group, Only Murders in the Building [cast and crew], there was about 12 of us.”
“There was a wedding cake by our section, but it was a small wedding cake,” Marty added. “I just assumed there was a wedding cake for each section in the back. So after a few hours, they haven’t cut their wedding cake yet, Steve [Martin] said he was going to leave.”
This is where the trouble began. “Maybe I’d had a cocktail, I don’t know. So I said, ‘Oh Steve, you can’t leave’. I had a fork in my hand. ‘You can’t leave yet without a piece of wedding cake.’
“I cut the wedding cake, one side, cut it the other,” the comedian admitted. “Then all the people in our group scream, ‘MARTY!’”
“I tried to fix it with a fork. This was bad. This was about an hour before it was to be presented,” he revealed, adding that he turned to co-star Paul Rudd for help, quipping that perhaps they should make a quick exit.
“They called the wedding coordinator, and then the chef came out,” he explained. “He was like, ‘What the hell happened here?’”
In true Marty fashion, he turned the anecdote into a celebrity roast, Jiminy Glick-style. “Then they did surgery, but it ended up being like a Hollywood wedding cake, in that it was beautiful — but now it had a little work done.”
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