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<\/a>Martin Mull.<\/p><\/div>\n
Although I had not seen Martin and his wonderful wife, Wendy, in a while, we had been close friends back in the day. I very much regret losing touch now\u2014I always foolishly thought there would be more time.<\/p>\n
We have so many memories together, but I\u2019ll share just a few here. And I preface it all by telling you that he was as funny and quick-witted in person as he was in all his show business endeavors.<\/p>\n
I had first seen Martin Mull when I was just a teen-age audience member watching him perform on the stage of a local venue, Brooklyn College. I was not familiar with him at the time, but a date took me. And when Martin had us audience members take out two coins to randomly hit on the arms of our seats, which simulated music to accompany his guitar-playing, I was a fan forever after. (I still can\u2019t believe that I got to discuss that event with him decades later!)<\/p>\n
<\/a>Martin Mull when he first started performing.<\/p><\/div>\n
Fast forward to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar\u2019s glorious retirement party. I was sitting at a front table with my great friend Angie Dickinson, and strangers-to-me Robert Townsend, former Laker (and Klay Thompson\u2019s father) Mychal Thompson, and Martin and Wendy Mull. It was already a fabulous enough evening, and then Wendy told me that\u2026she and Martin loved my TV show! (My joke later was that Martin hit her under the table to tell her to not get started with me. But he swears that he did not.)<\/p>\n
When the party was over, I asked him if he would be a guest on my show. I rarely had guests on, but I knew immediately that Martin would be a super-fun one. And, luckily for me, he said yes!<\/p>\n
So a few days later, Martin, Wendy, Mr. X, and I went out to dinner, and then shortly after that, Martin Mull guested on my show, which I still cannot believe all these years later. I will never forget that on the air, Martin told me that, by the end of each episode, I \u201cpretty much have it all covered, in terms of the universe.\u201d [Note: I\u2019m sorry that I don\u2019t have any pictures of us to share here, but I haven\u2019t had time to look for that tape, nor for all the analog pix of us from back then.]<\/p>\n
We all had an absolutely wonderful time that night\u2014he and I doing the show, the studio audience who could not believe they got to see Martin in such an intimate atmosphere, and later everyone who watched the show, which was a massive LA audience in those days. I was so honored that he deigned to join me for it.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Martin Mull.<\/p><\/div>\n
From there, we were friends for several years. The four of us went out to eat a few times, we had a game night at Mr. X and my house, I swam in their pool on occasion, and Martin and I worked together one more time. It was doing the commentary for the Marina Del Rey Christmas Boat Parade together. (I would love to have that<\/em> audio now!)<\/p>\n One of my favorite times with the Mulls was when Mr. X was out of town shooting a movie during the Super Bowl. Martin loved sports as much as I do, so I went over to watch the game with them. I brought some snacks, but he and Wendy surprised me with an excellent professional meal. But there was just one for only me<\/em>! I asked why they were not joining me, and it turned-out that they had already eaten some not-fancy home-cooked lunch, (which, of course, I would have loved.) I assumed that they had just not made enough for me to join them, but it turns-out that my considerate friends thought that, as a restaurant critic, I would enjoy fancier<\/em> food, so Martin had gone out when I was on the way to their house, and picked-up a meal from a classy eatery for me!!! How incredibly kind and special, (and totally unnecessary, by the way,) was that??? But that\u2019s just how Martin Mull was.<\/p>\n By the way, that football game got so intense at the end that Wendy couldn\u2019t watch with us\u2014she went outside near the end to avoid witnessing my deep disappointment if my team had lost! (Never fear, though\u2014they won.) That remembrance still amuses me today.<\/p>\n