Heading into this year’s SAG Awards, Martin Short had five previous nominations. Sunday night, the veteran actor-comedian won his first SAG Award at the age of 74 in the Male Actor In a Comedy Series category for his role as Oliver Putnam on Only Murders In the Building.

You can thank SNL’s 50th anniversary show for keeping the two funnymen away from the SAG awards on a big night for 'Only Murders in the Building.'

The actor won Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for "Only Murders in the Building." Who could have predicted that Lorne Michaels assembling a rag-tag group of comedians for a little sketch comedy program in 1975 would eventually result in Martin Short being unable to accept his first SAG award?