Stand-up comic and former Howard Stern head writer Jackie Martling has again opened his beachside home in Bayville for use as a TV-show location, this time for the Prime Video mystery-thriller "The Better Sister," which premieres all eight episodes Thursday. 

"One of the executive producers," says Martling, 77, "is Olivia Milch, the daughter of David Milch," the famed creator of HBO’s "Deadwood" and other shows. "And he was always a big Stern fan, so she couldn't have been more delightful when she showed up at the house to take a second look" after the location manager had initially scouted the roughly 2,800-square-foot, three-bedroom home between Long Island Sound and Mill Neck Creek.

The miniseries, based on the book by Alafair Burke, stars Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks as two sisters with a fraught relationship that grows even more strained when the husband of one is murdered. Corey Stoll, Kim Dickens, Maxwell Acee Donovan, Matthew Modine, Lorraine Toussaint, Gloria Reuben, Michael Harney and Janel Moloney also star.

"I wasn't there" when the production filmed at his home in late September or early October, says the Mineola-born and East Norwich-raised Martling. "I was in Florida, doing a gig in Clearwater. But there's some goings-on in my bedroom and they used a nice big room facing the water as a guy's office, and I think they shot on the property a little bit."

And unlike with four previous shoots at his home — episodes of Showtime’s 2014-19 drama "The Affair," the 2019-23 Comedy Central / HBO Max sitcom "The Other Two," the 2018-19 CBS police procedural "Instinct" and the season-13 finale of the CBS police drama "Blue Bloods" — this one offered Martling an on-screen role.

Olivia Milch, he recalls, "said, ‘Hey, my whole family's really huge fans and do you still act?’ And I said, ‘Well, yeah, I act, it’s just that the phone doesn't ring,’" he quips. "She said, ‘Well, I think I’ve got a role for you’" as a bar-owner. Martling read the role on an audition video, sent it to the producers "and next thing you know, I had my little dressing room and my little outfit for my three-second part. It's exciting." He recalls himself, Stoll and Varney "riding in this little bus on the way over to the set, laughin' our [butts] off."

His scene, filmed earlier in the June-to-October shoot, took place at Yer Man’s Irish Pub in Glendale, Queens. "They shot a lot here, around Bayville and in different places" on Long Island including Port Jefferson and the Hamptons, in addition to Manhattan and Broad Channel, Queens. "And so when they told me I was going to be a bar-owner, I was figuring, ‘Gee, I wonder which local bar I'm going to be the owner of?’ But then they wound up using a bar right near the studio," Broadway Stages, where non-location interior scenes were shot.

Has Martling, whose upcoming performances include a June 14 gig at McGuire's Comedy Club in Bohemia, ever fantasized about owning his own bar? “It’s funny,” he says, “because" I've been playing around with AI doing cartoons of me behind a bar telling jokes to, like, the Rat Pack and Albert Einstein and the Lone Ranger and Howdy Doody.” He laughs. “It's like a trip through my childhood!"