From the mad sprite Ed Grimley to Oliver Putnam, the flamboyant, forever failing Broadway director he plays in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” — for which he’s nominated for an Emmy — Martin Short has a gift for playing colorful characters who take up a lot of space. This summer he’s become eligible for a different category of Emmy as well, as host of ABC’s “Match Game.” (Also big, also colorful.)

“You reach a point where you’ve done everything,” Short, 75, said by Zoom recently, about taking that job. “But you haven’t done that . It could be fun — or it could be a big mistake. And that kind of challenge is still provocative to me.”

You were nominated as lead actor in a comedy this year, but your co-star Steve Martin wasn’t. Did that occasion any interesting conversatio

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