Martin was waiting until “he had his ducks in order.” And, after selling a script, he surprised her with a trip in November 2006 to Dublin, where he proposed. She did not think of marriage as a priority, but, “I began to think it would actually happen.” She thought that Mr. “A lot of men are competitive about being funny,” she said. It takes a confident guy to deal with a woman who is so out there.” On “MadTV,” she said, “mostly I just run around in my underwear and act like a ding-dong. Myrin saw in him a man secure enough to remain unthreatened by her work. He explained: “With Arden you never know what you are going to get.” He recalled finding her one afternoon “peacefully napping in bed after a long battle with insomnia, dressed to go jogging and clutching a spatula.”įor her part, Ms. Martin was increasingly drawn to what he describes as her fearlessness, selflessness and goofiness. “I figured he was hiding something.” It took her “months to trust that he was as nice and sweet as he seemed,” she said.Īs their relationship deepened, Mr. “He was so tall and handsome and he looked like every guy that had ever treated me badly,” she said. Myrin, she spent their first few dates wondering what was wrong with Mr. He used his military benefits to study creative writing at Arizona, but quit, he said, when he decided that “I wanted to write scripts, not short stories.” He bounced around Los Angeles, making his living as a dog-walker and a hotel concierge before finally earning a paycheck from his writing.Īs for Ms. Martin’s circuitous path to Los Angeles included dropping out of high school, joining the Air Force, marrying briefly, divorcing. Hunter described his friend as “courageous and adventurous” and “deep down, mad as a hatter.” “Arden’s zaniness is on the outside, her caring and sweetness within. Martin is “Arden in reverse” according to Ryan Hunter, his roommate at the University of Arizona. Soon she had an agent and a small role in Woody Allen’s “Deconstructing Harry.” Other movie roles (“What Women Want,” 2000 “Kinsey,” 2004 “Evan Almighty,” 2007) led her to Hollywood, where two years ago she landed a job as a cast member of “MadTV,” a show now in reruns because of the Writers Guild strike. After graduating from Colorado College, she dared herself to do stand-up at a comedy club in New York. Myrin, now 34, has always been focused on a stage career. When he found out otherwise, he returned to the club every week for a month before marshaling the courage to ask her out. But he just assumed that she was dating someone. Martin, now 36 and a writer for “Code Monkeys,” an animated series on the G4 cable television network, remembered being impressed by Ms. It took a while to get to that first date, however.
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