His character is Marshall's boss at Honeywell … Short will play a recurring role … @hallekiefer. HIMYM season 7 martin short. With Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris. Directed by Pamela Fryman. LOS ANGELES — Comedian Martin Short will join the cast of the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” next season, New York magazine reported Tuesday. Lily and Marshall throw a housewarming party where Ted nearly comes to blows with Marshall's boss; Barney hits on a crazy divorcee. Comedian Martin Short will join the cast of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" next season, New York magazine reported Tuesday. Martin Short Joins How I Met Your Mother as a Semi-Regular. Martin Short played Garrison Cootes on How I Met Your Mother for three episodes in 2011 and 2012. Martin Short cracks up here on the set of How I Met Your Mother. My first thought upon reading the headline was, what if it turns out that Martin Short … I, Martin Short, Goes Home Martin Short / Martin Short age 17 (2012) How I Met Your Mother Garrison Cootes (2011-2012) ... serving as a judge on Canada’s Got Talent, doing multi-episode guest spots on such TV shows as How I Met Your Mother … The sitcom How I Met Your Mother was about Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) telling the story of his search for his soulmate in his 20s and 30s to his teenage children. The timing couldn’t have worked out better for the HIMYM cast and crew, either. Martin Short has never carried a hit movie or a long-running sitcom. He guest stars as Marshall's new boss. The interviewee was Kids in … In the show, Ted and his friends met a lot of different people in its nine-season run, a lot of whom were romantic interests for Ted, Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders), and Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris), respectively. Martin Short signs on for multiple episodes of CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother. How I Met Your Mother ended last season with Jason Segel's Marshall being interviewed for his dream job at an environmental law firm. By Halle Kiefer.