- He and Dan Rowan were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- When he was taping five game show episodes in one day (such as the later years of Match Game (1973)), he often didn't bother with the facade of changing his clothes for each show - he wore the same clothes through the taping, making it appear he was wearing the same outfit each day he appeared on the show.
- He had lost the use of one of his lungs from tuberculosis as a teenager. He used bottled oxygen for the rest of his life.
- Father, with first wife Peggy Connelly, of son Richard Martin.
- Best remembered by the public for working with Dan Rowan on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967).
- He and Dan Rowan formed the comedy team of Rowan and Martin.
- Father-in-law of Kim Steer.
- Born only 13 days after Betty White.
- Upon Martin's death, his body was cremated and his ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
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