00:00I don't know where to begin because to me you truly are a jack-of-all-trades.
00:06Jerk-of-all-trades.
00:09Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Martin Maul.
00:12People now may not know he was a big deal in the 70s.
00:19Music, acting, comedy, he can do everything.
00:22He toured the country, opened for the biggest rock acts on the planet.
00:26He was kind of like a strange friend of your parents.
00:30Like a vacuum salesman on your porch.
00:33Martin's act was completely different from any other.
00:35It was bizarre.
00:37And I was intimidated.
00:39Wait a minute, he guest-hosted The Tonight Show?
00:41Over 30 times.
00:43The people here at NBC have decided to bestow upon me the right to host The Tonight Show for $300.
00:50After that, I had another life as an actor.
00:53I was in countless films and television shows.
00:56Clue, Arrested Development, Grocery.
00:58We were the first gay marriage on television.
01:01I'm sure what every casting director said is, I want a Martin Maul type.
01:05And it ended up being Martin Maul eventually.
01:07Martin Maul was the absolute top of comedy.
01:11And that's not what he did best.
01:14You are a painter and a good painter.
01:16Thank you.
01:17That's my main thrust.
01:19You can call me a shitty actor, but please, this means something to me.
01:23This is who I really am.
01:26In my heart, there was a great divide between that which I did to put a roof over our heads
01:32and my painting.
01:33And it's been a battle trying to get that painter identity away from my being connected to show
01:38business.
01:39He would say to me, I only do this so that I can paint.
01:42I was like, wait, what?
01:45I'm going to become a painter.
01:47It's like more of my family.
01:48You're not.
01:49And I realized, if you're not putting your deepest, innerest parts into your work, then
01:55you're not doing your job.
01:56The prices just doubled and then tripled.
01:59One of the pieces went to the Whitney Museum in New York.
02:03Working in show business as well as doing this, one is a therapist for the other.
02:08Do you know how many shitty painters there are in SAG and AFTRA?
02:13Johnny Depp paints.
02:18Dare to dream we all have the long career that Martin has.
02:22I think that he's as unique a person as I've ever met.
02:26This is an artist who deserves to be better known as a painter.
02:30Who is Martin Long?
02:33And who gives a shit?
02:37I was a bit confused.
02:38I thought this was a roast.
02:40So I prepared several pages of really bad things to say.
02:45Now I realize it's more of a toast.
02:47Do you know what I want to know?
02:53You can see it then.
02:55I want to see it then.
02:56Are you sure you've got to becasual?
03:04Gracias.
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