It’s a Match made in heaven! Playful Emmy, Tony, and SAG Award-winning comedy king Martin Brief is lending his unbridled, typically offhand hilarity to ABC‘s newest reboot of Match Recreation.
Taking up as host following Alec Baldwin‘s five-season run from 2016 to 2021, Brief is about to supervise a season full of top-notch superstar friends, together with his Solely Murders within the Constructing podcast accomplice Selena Gomez, attempting to match the solutions of contestants taking part in for piles of money. Right here, he provides us his tackle this primetime replace on the boozy TV chestnut.
You simply wrapped Season 5 of Solely Murders and jumped straight into this, proper?
Martin Brief: The hustle is actual. I do know! It’s actual and possibly pathetic, however that’s me. [Laughs]
Selena is among the friends you’ve got coming in, however no Steve Martin? Is he too good for sport exhibits?
Yeah, he’s too good for a sport present. You nailed it. [Laughs] However Selena is all sport and completely enjoyable…in Steve’s case, we did simply end taking pictures, so why I’m doing it’s the madness.
You’ve carried out sitcoms, sketch comedy, animation, drama — your activate Regulation & Order: SVU folks nonetheless discuss — you’ve hosted a chat present and carried out Broadway. So fill within the clean: The one job I haven’t been provided but is _____.
I suppose porn star. [Laughs] Nobody approached me on that one. And naturally I’d by no means hosted a sport present earlier than. There you go! This was the primary time I’ve carried out it.
And the way do you prefer it?
I just like the looseness of it, but additionally there’s hazard in doing one thing that you just don’t know [about]. You solely discover out on the finish of the expertise whether or not it was a very good choice or not. That’s all the time thrilling to me.
How a lot of the present is definitely scripted?
It’s fairly free-form. Definitely the questions are written and the sport itself is structured, however all the pieces else is within the second.
Do you get to make use of that iconic skinny microphone that Gene Rayburn used on the unique Match Recreation?
No, that’s gone. That was ’62.
It’s such a cool look. The thin mic, the ashtrays, and the consuming on set have been what made that authentic so wild.
Properly, in the event that they allow them to have ashtrays and smoking, I’ll get the mic! [Laughs]
Match Recreation, Sequence Premiere Wednesday, July 23, 9/8c, ABC