Movies Marty, Life Is Short examines why some can’t stand the comedian—and why others can’t get enough. Netflix Marty, Life Is Short , the new Netflix documentary about comedian Martin Short, begins with an incongruity: It’s Boxing Day in sunny California in the early 1990s. That a holiday celebrated across British Commonwealth countries on the day after Christmas should be marked in the U.S. feels curious, but suddenly a slew of stars arrive—from Tom Hanks and Steve Martin to Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara —the latter pair of whom are, like Martin Short, who’s filming this old home-movie footage, famously Canadian. It’s a fitting scene on which to begin given that for much of his career, Short has felt to many people like he doesn’t quite fit in Hollywood, that he is somehow alien and out of place. He’s too short (literally). Too strange. Too much .…