Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life

The 72-minute special boasts an off-the-cuff nonchalance that emphasizes coziness over bite.

Martin holds it in, Short lets it out. It works.

It is aggressively affable and very broad, and sometimes that's just what you need.

The show format, the style, many of the premises and punchlines for the jokes they tell -- all of it is nostalgic. Martin and Short might as well embrace it, because their audience has.