With Grimley, his best-known original character, Martin Short's popularity on "SNL" proved to be the springboard to a long career in film and TV. He appeared as Ed Grimley in his 1985 Showtime special "Martin Short: Concert For the North Americas", at Comic Relief 1986, and in 1989's "I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood". Grimley became a cartoon character in Hanna-Barbera's 1988 animated series "The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley", featuring Second City colleagues Joe Flaherty (also reprising his "SCTV" character, Count Floyd), Catherine O'Hara and Andrea Martin as series regulars.