Jiminy Glick

Jiminy Glick is a fictional character portrayed by Martin Short in the TV series Primetime Glick (2001–2003), the subsequent film Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, and Short's Broadway show Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. He began as a recurring character on The Martin Short Show. When that show was cancelled, he was spun off into his own series, Primetime Glick, which ran for three seasons.

When Short hosted Saturday Night Live in the 1996 season, he played a character named Pinky Nye who seems to have been a proto-Glick: similar physique, voice, and attention span, and forever forgetting to take "ginko bilobo" (as both Nye and Glick pronounce it). Some people say Short's character, Jiminy Glick was based upon Skip E. Lowe, a lesser known host of the public access show, Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood. He also shares some characteristics with celebrity journalists such as Sam Rubin and George Pennachio.

The final episode of The Monkees features Rip Taylor playing a villain named Glick, whose character attributes are strikingly similar to those of Short's Glick.

Born Malcolm Glickman March 12, 1948, in Akron, Ohio (although he has claimed to have been born in Omaha, Nebraska, or Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Jiminy Glick was the middle child of 10 children of Omar and Isabella Glickman. Glick, who describes himself as a Tibetan-American, was often a loner and would be made fun of regularly because of his obesity at a young age. He was also very sickly until he was 13, when doctors discovered that he had a small Tonka truck stuck in his duodenum. As a child, while riding his bike and listening to the song Michael Row the Boat Ashore, he lost his virginity when he fell on the "boy bar." Glick claimed his real name is Malcolm and he never liked the name. He says he was given the nickname "Jiminy" as crickets laid eggs in his anus. However, Glick confirms to Larry David that Jiminy is his real name, given to him because his parents "were from the Bahá'í faith."

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