Overview
- Short, speaking with David Letterman and Paul Shaffer at Netflix Is a Joke on Thursday, May 7, called Radner “exactly as wonderful as you’d hope” and “hilarious and alive and warm.”
- He said they met and dated during the 1972 Toronto run of Godspell, which also featured future stars Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, and Victor Garber.
- The same production introduced him to Radner’s understudy, Nancy Dolman, whom he married in 1980 before her death from ovarian cancer in 2010.
- Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989 at 42, and Short has described their relationship as on-and-off, recalling a day he set a tennis date with Dolman as Radner tried to reconcile.
- The remembrance lands months after the family said in February 2026 that daughter Katherine had died at 42, giving Short’s comments a fresh note of grief.