NORM FUCKING MACDONALD

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SANTA CRUZ ISLAND, Calif. (AP) _ Norm Macdonald rises each
morning with the sun, grabs his .223-caliber rifle and slips into
the passenger seat of a tiny, doorless helicopter for another day
of shooting pigs.

rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

hey, ya got any gum?

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Can't he be sent back to Canada? Wouldn't his gambling problem be enough to revoke his alien resident status?

Leonard Thompson (Grodd), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link

so dope

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

HEY I CUT MY EAR. I WAS TRYING TO CUT MY EAR HAIR WITH A STRAIGHT RAZOR AND I CUT MY EAR THERE.

COCK.

Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

haha i was going to tell that story

Andre Dawson (deangulberry), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

i think this would be the right time for me to locate that picture where i'm drunkenly rubbing laurie metcalf's back

Andre Dawson (deangulberry), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"Oh come on. You know the president's a murderer, right?"

Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

i think this would be the right time for me to locate that picture where i'm drunkenly rubbing laurie metcalf's back
-- Andre Dawson (power.strik...), May 2nd, 2005.

FUCKIN A.

ddb (ddb), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

UHHH... GOT AANY GUM

cutty (mcutt), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

search on p2p: dennis miller live norm macdonald smoking

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

caitlin, cutty otm

mark p (Mark P), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

he was splitting my sides so hard on that bob saget roast

andrew m., Friday, 23 October 2009 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link

<3 Norm.

bear say hi to me (ENBB), Friday, 23 October 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link

saw him a month ago and he was as great as ever

richard belzer (jeff), Friday, 23 October 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

norm's on conan wednesday

game over drunk man (jeff), Monday, 23 November 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link

nice

also, keep mistaking that cd for this one, which it is not

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/020/0000002074_350.jpg

iiiijjjj, Monday, 23 November 2009 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link

four years pass...

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/normcore-norm-macdonalds-quest-to-host-the-late-late-show-20140602

Hope this actually happens. He's hilarious on talk shows.

Dreamland, Sunday, 8 June 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link

eleven months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mhUIIhcTb8

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:58 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/norm-macdonald-book-snl.html

Dude is ice cold damm

yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Saturday, 24 September 2016 04:49 (eight years ago) link

http://imgur.com/a/gpSOl

del griffith, Saturday, 24 September 2016 04:58 (eight years ago) link

don't even know how to do the imgur anymore, feel old, feel out of touch, feel like Norm

http://i.imgur.com/YJknJe5.jpg?1

del griffith, Saturday, 24 September 2016 04:59 (eight years ago) link

i like norm a lot but the idea that there is a big mystery around why he never hit it big post-snl isnt really that much of a mystery. like i would think of this as peak norm but how the hell would this fit into a sitcom or whatever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9czoezm2vqw

ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 24 September 2016 07:47 (eight years ago) link

i love this guy so much

you can't drowned a duck (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 September 2016 07:53 (eight years ago) link

so much i ripped off half my posting persona from him

you can't drowned a duck (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 September 2016 07:53 (eight years ago) link

very strange moving to canada and finding his brother is the washington correspondent for the cbc and has a significant family resemblance

ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 24 September 2016 07:56 (eight years ago) link

seems strange he never became the crux of an adult swim cartoon
well, i mean there's the mike tyson thing but he's not the crux i guess

thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 26 September 2016 03:37 (eight years ago) link

his sitcoms weren't great but were better than a handful of sitcoms that have made it. totally the wrong format for him, though.

rewatched Dirty Work a couple weeks ago and it held up better than expected, with the exception of some truly 90s musical cues

dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Monday, 26 September 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link

love this, on being on Fallon same night as Trump:

Did you meet him?
Well, what happened was, after the show, he came out and was just standing there. So I said, "Mr. Trump, a picture?" And he said, "You betcha. Just give me a minute." Then he turns and walks down the hall, all the way to the other end, and gets on the elevator. "Just give me a minute," and then he leaves the building. It was hilarious, like a Buster Keaton movie or something.

andrew m., Monday, 26 September 2016 14:14 (eight years ago) link

in light of the new Sully movie I rewatched his appearance on Conan where he gets the early rights to the movie and holy hell is that funny

frogbs, Monday, 26 September 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

“So, anyways, the guy dies, and then Chekhov continues the story. They put him in a kind of duffelbag, a sack, and throw him overboard. He sinks in the ocean, his dead body. And one fish grazes against him, rips the sack, and his body tumbles out, and a bunch of minnows come and eat little bits of him. And a big fish comes and takes away his legs, and that’s the end.” (Some of these details are not in the original.)

nice

frogbs, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:47 (eight years ago) link

“That bird almost hit me in the face, like Fabio on the roller coaster,” he said.

rolling auto-loon (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:53 (eight years ago) link

And I like bleakness, because I grew up in a bleak area,” he said. (In Quebec, then Ontario.)

huh. Quebec was once ONtario?!

andrew m., Tuesday, 11 October 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link

four months pass...

his show is on amazon prime now.

removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 6 March 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link

four months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-jfLIssw0E

Wes Brodicus, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link

Excited about this, was there any explanation why it just disappeared after two episodes last year?

devvvine, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link

apparently it's the obvious answer of funding:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NormMacdonald/comments/6moz6n/lets_hear_it_for_daniel_kellison_master_negotiator/dk4tr5n/

devvvine, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqECl-5BiA4

i found this to be a very unique and interesting interview. he goes really in-depth into spirituality and philosophy. cool stuff, some of it ends up in his work. there was a bit towards the end of his Netflix special where he talks about his love for his dog that i found very profound.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

What is wrong with Norm, he seems very very slow lately.

rip van wanko, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 10:03 (seven years ago) link

the true damage caused by Louis CK and podcast creating this world where we take nightclub comedians seriously as big philosophers cannot be calculated. if that wasn't Norm you'd be lil lol my Uncle Steve on Facebook get a load of this

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 12:16 (seven years ago) link

yeah, Louis CK was the first comedian ppl thought might have something interesting to say.

circa1916, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 12:23 (seven years ago) link

There was a question on Reddit yesterday (maybe deleted, I can't find it), which said that comedians are often philosophers. They said three names, but I only remember that two of them were Bill Hicks and George Carlin. I don't even think Hicks is a comedian, but ymmv - but these are the guys whose fault it is.

Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 13:29 (seven years ago) link

Lenny Bruce? Not stand-up, but some of Chaplin's film stuff? Comedy as a kind of "truth telling" is old as dirt.

circa1916, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link

Good comedy is useful hence.....

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link

Pryor

i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link

roy 'chubby' brown

frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link

Also court jesters, Shakespearean clowns, all that jazz - I think ums is talking about them being taken seriously as big philosophers outside of the context of their comic roles tho

streeps of range (wins), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link

What is wrong with Norm, he seems very very slow lately.

― rip van wanko, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 3:03 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he does seem strangely slow. very prematurely aged in that he's only in his late 50s, but comes off about 70 and not too sprightly. he doesn't have any drink or drug problems which might explain this iirc - his main vice seems to be his addiction to gambling.

-_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link

he's always been slow and cranky old man-ish that's his thing

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link

Are you sure urc because I always presumed this guy was on everything going, and plenty of it

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link

the time of nightclub comedians taken seriously as big philosophers is definitely more a pre-podcasting than post-podcasting phenomenon, i would say. norm's youtube thing seems less to do with podcasting comedians trying to self-promote in an age of netflix specials off rogan appearances and without the power of morning radio and more about recreating golden age broadcasting and talking to his old buddies.

XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link

he's always been slow and cranky old man-ish that's his thing

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 9:24 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he literally reminds me of senile septuagenarian relatives of mine though is the thing!

-_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link

i know there are ten million articles about amy schumer being our finest philosopher and praising aziz ansari and steven crowder's debate as the 2017 buckley vidal.

like

In his 2008 stand-up special "Chewed Up," Louis CK explains the intricacies of white privilege. In his latest hour-long stand-up special, Aziz Ansari criticizes creepy dudes on the street. On "The Daily Show," Trevor Noah investigates whether all police officers are racist.

It's a radical approach to humor: Rather than find a larger (typically absurd) sense of meaning in a minor observation — What's the deal with flip flops? — today's comedians begin with a complex topic and see what humor they can draw out.

...

The ideas aren't necessarily novel — formal philosophers have been wrestling with feminist and racial thought for decades. The innovation lies in the way those ideas get packaged and distributed.

that's questionable though

XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link

Are you sure urc because I always presumed this guy was on everything going, and plenty of it

― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 9:24 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe he is, he will claim in interviews that he's not a big drinker and doesn't do drugs or whatever but he tends to bullshit in interviews

-_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link

the true damage caused by Louis CK and podcast creating this world where we take nightclub comedians seriously as big philosophers cannot be calculated

nah this absolutely predates podcast culture - Mort Sahl, Pryor, Bruce etc as noted

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link

Norm does sound more and more like Larry Flynt.

pplains, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link

i too have noticed that he appears to have aged during these past decades

👁 (am0n), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link

something's definitely happened to his face - he really looks like he got a bad facelift, which in turn makes him look a bit older than he really is

frogbs, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link

what is the deal with flip-flops tho

frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link

I officially retract my statement as historically inaccurate, though maintain that it sucked before and the Internet made it worse

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link

what can't you say that about though

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link

websites

👁 (am0n), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link

word on the street is he's got an insatiable appetite for the flavor of xanax

del griffith, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 19:50 (seven years ago) link

the one where he goaded a peanut-eating Mike Tyson into saying the n-word was... something

del griffith, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 19:52 (seven years ago) link

word on the street is he's got an insatiable appetite for the flavor of xanax

― del griffith, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 12:50 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see, this i could believe. ol' norm, geeked up off them bars

-_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link

ty bizarro for making the post I was thinking of, I was on the road a long time this afternoon and unable to post

mh, Thursday, 31 August 2017 00:27 (seven years ago) link

i mean there's a marked difference in just the past couple of years. Compare an episode of Norm MacDonald Live from a couple of years ago (Adam Sandler for example, 2014) against the new one with Jerry Seinfeld.

I keep seeing the xanax rumor.

rip van wanko, Thursday, 31 August 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuldL1m6FAs

in a different mode here, maybe recorded last year?

XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

What is wrong with Norm, he seems very very slow lately.

― rip van wanko, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 6:03 AM (one month ago) Bookmark

Apparently all he needed was a few sips of Jim Carrey's hyper intense coffee blend.

billstevejim, Thursday, 5 October 2017 05:07 (seven years ago) link

great interview, Carrey's comic spirit remains the same but he's more mild mannered

Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link

three months pass...

[–]golightlys
What has been the biggest obstacle you’ve had to overcome in your career?

[–]ImNormMacdonald
Due to multiple herniated discs, my pain level on a normal day is through the roof.

[–]MikePGS
Is that from carrying SNL all those years?

Wes Brodicus, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link

two years pass...
one year passes...

:(
R.I.P. - huge bummer

tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:32 (three years ago) link

oh shit :(

aegis philbin (crüt), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link

That sucks 🥲

DJI, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link

remember the good times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SSVIg4Noqc

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link

I still have vivid memories of his early Letterman/Conan appearances; I had never seen comedy like that on TV

tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link

Damn

cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link

what the fuck

frogbs, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link

Fuck this

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:51 (three years ago) link

idk what to say. he was one of the funniest dudes on the planet. I used to spend hours just marathoning his Conan appearances. shit. I want to cry.

frogbs, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link

this is fucking me up

Clay, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link

i can't believe this.

"HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link

you got any gum :(

certified juice therapist (harbl), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/ARiKLMS.jpg

"HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link

His politics may have been ehhhhh but he was a very funny fellow. One of my favorites, always makes me laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-9wo_apQ1s

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link

Very weird I was thinking about him just today

He’s not really a name at all in the uk, & a number of years ago a friend told me I had to watch the roast of Bob saget (who also isn’t) & I was watching thinking this is fucking dire, just total dogshit, why the fuck did he think I should see this, and then Norm’s bit came on and i absolutely died laughing. & I’m glad to have watched the rest of the show just for the context of the kind of shit that was expected

Have watched a handful of clips of talk show appearances &c but no real sense of what he’s known for, will appreciate digging in to RIP clips

siffleur’s mom (wins), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link

gut punch. he was like the jordan or gretzky of talk show guests, just operating on a totally different level from everyone else

grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link

His SNL Weekend Update was a cornerstone of my teen years. And pretty easily the best thing about SNL for many of those years.

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link

that Bob Saget roast was really the moment he became my favorite comedian. idk who else could've pulled that off.

frogbs, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link

I'll say it again

aaaaarrrghhh

RIP

Sorry, but that is how I feel (Ste), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link

i hate comedians but i loved Norm

RIP you cunt

cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link

What's the best clip I can show to my kids, 11 and 16, to explain who he was

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link

The Scrabble story might be where I realized how great he is.

jmm, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link

simply no one funnier. very sad. strongly recommend his bonkers youtube talkshow to those who havent seen it, which (imho) achieves the impossible by successfully bottling the gidddy dgaf energy of his talkshow guest appearances. it didnt really translate when he switched over to netflix, but some of those youtube episodes are the hardest ive laughed in my adult life, like the culmination of all the different things he was good at: being a chaotic foulmouthed talkshow guest, long shaggy dog stories, weekend update-style non sequitur jokes. idk if its even still up or if it got wiped from the net, but worth searching for.

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link

I think about his very funny mildly racist appearance hosting the mtv vma red carpet a while back often

his older movies are all completely awful, I like the concept of the dude being around but it also doesn't bother me that he's dead, like in a way he represents something that had to die

Bongo Jongus, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A848xpsDJbw

Bongo Jongus, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link

this moth joke is 100% the Norm Brand™️

(to me anyway)

The Norm Macdonald "moth Joke," one of the greatest jokes every told on television. pic.twitter.com/daC9oPVPsU

— Lights, Camera, Pod (@LightsCameraPod) September 14, 2021

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link

What's the best clip I can show to my kids, 11 and 16, to explain who he was

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, September 14, 2021 2:45 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The roast clip I posted and that everyone is talking about is the cleanest roast panel ever. They're just corny old-timey jokes. It's all about his delivery.

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link

this is going to be the funniest and happiest celebrity death mourning in recent memory, though. i've already cried from laughing multiple times today

"HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link

I gotta say, I’ve laughed a lot from all these clips people are sharing but

RIP

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link

the moth joke is a deserved classic

grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link

This is still unlike anything I’ve ever seen, just a flatly extraordinary moment. On his Comedians In Cars.. episode Seinfeld says he’d never known a set on tv get such a positive reaction among fellow comedians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFjEvl43zYY

piscesx, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link

this clip is so perfect

pic.twitter.com/g1o0PLsUyj

— Wyatt Duncan Idaho (@WyattDuncan) September 14, 2021

frogbs, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link

"I didn't even know he was sick" loool

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link

Dude had a pretty big rep among stand up comedians and they all seem to have at least one wild and weird story about Norm McDonald. Like some other comedians, far to weird and crazy to actually cash in as going for the joke would derail many of his attempts in Hollywood etc.

One of my favorite things he did in TV/movies was his bit role with John Cullum playing Neil Flynn's brother and dad on The Middle. Those three should have been a show.

earlnash, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link

i *love* how much he loves to deliver that corny-ass punchline - weekend update, the saget roast, his panel appearances, everything

like there is a twinkle in his eye and a glee for just how terrible it is as he stares down the camera or the host or the audience, just locked in … and i could not love him more for like, just that quality alone.

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link

it's his little archaic asides that slay me like in the Bob Saget roast where he says "Now Bob's no big fan of sports....I don't think I'm telling tales out of school here"

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link

xp Yeah, his sense of humor always reminded me of a few guys I grew up with… that undercurrent of good-natured irony, like “I know this is dumb, and so do you, and that’s why it’s so great”

(which is what a lot of alt comedy is, but he didn’t bother playing it straight)

tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link

He was also super quick on his feet, as you can see in those clips where interrupts other guests on the Conan couch. We saw him perform in a club in SF, in the early 2000s, and I remember how effortlessly sharp his crowdwork was.

tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n54L1Kx8apU

aegis philbin (crüt), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link

i loved the dostoevsky-esque names he gives the characters in his moth story, russian names he can hardly pronounce just make it that much more awkward

grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link

Watching the Conan clip where he calls Carrot Top a "retard." I don't think that would really fly these days

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link

yeah idk if today's youths would really buy the concept of "carrot top"

grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link

lol

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link

he still makes me laugh and obviously he was very gifted but ultimately i'm just not that into what his thing was anymore, the dadliest of dads but ironic. there's a whiff of masculine self-regard about his thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for or care for. maybe i just don't like any professional comedians at all idk. the r word or the occasional anti trans joke or whatever is part of that as were his politics. not pretending that there wasn't plenty of that on tv at the time, just saying that it isn't out of line with his persona. though it seems like he did soften as he got older, got more classicist with his jokes, lost some of the cool guy snark, but there was always a smidge of the reactionary in him.

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link

as far as absurdist comedians go i much prefer mitch hedberg and if i were as old as i am now when he died i'd be really gutted about it.

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link

even the stuff he wrote for other shows was gold

Norm MacDonald was a writer on Roseanne and he was responsible for Jackie's iconic "Dad's dead" moment, inspired by an experience in his own life. pic.twitter.com/nSflQ8d6qU

— Kevin Daly (@kevinddaly) September 14, 2021

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link

Wow, I didn't know that

tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link

pic.twitter.com/jNzAvA6zWb

— mr. toilet (@boring_as_heck) September 14, 2021

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link

His book was good. RIP.

maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link

xpost lmao god he was so good

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 01:04 (three years ago) link

Currently enjoying this Cameo from Norm someone uploaded to youtube. Norm was asked to wish someones dad a happy retirement, Norm ends up going on for 8 full minutes, tells an extremely longwinded dirty joke, and advises the dad to walk into the ocean.

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 13:10 (three years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUH1G6j0RAQ

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 13:10 (three years ago) link

just saw this clip of the mangrate saga on his show and despite the presence of andy dick i completely lost my shit https://mikepepsi.tumblr.com/post/662346085393678336/norm-macdonald-kept-losing-sponsors-on-his-podcast

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 13:15 (three years ago) link

"Your Dad's alive?"

"No"

"Fuck!!"

frogbs, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 13:23 (three years ago) link

"that's what makes english the world's toughest language"

"it is the toughest language? to me it's the easiest"

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link

hahahaha that cameo is incredible

mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link

"you know what might be a good hobby for you, Richard? Ventriloquism."

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link

"All I could see was the angry eyes of Alan Thicke."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhdV4vxpZSg

jmm, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link

I love how all the SNL guys do impressions of each other.

pplains, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link

its been a real joy seeing all these clips of Norm pop up on Twitter. there's so much I haven't seen, dude was so naturally hilarious that pretty much any random podcast appearance could be gold

the Bob Saget roast clip is blowing up again and as much as I love it, it's kind of weird to see it divorced from context - I actually watched it as it aired and Norm's set was 3x funnier when it followed an hours worth of comedians trying to out-Andrew Dice Clay each other

frogbs, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link

I love when he goes full Canadian in the Jacques de Gatineau and Kitchener Leslie stories.

jmm, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link

frogbs otm re the Saget roast
the shift in gears was so jarring & great, and watching everyone else who had been up just losing it in the background

it reminded me, weirdly, of seeing Neil Hamburger open for Faith No More. The way the performer is doing something other than what the audience wants, and the highwire aspect of just seeing where that goes, when you know that bombing is part of the plan.

obv norm is a different performer. but it feels, passionately vaudevillian? to commit to a performance where there’s a good chance you are the only oerson enjoying it. like tiny tim. i dunno.

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:48 (three years ago) link

Neil Hamburger is actually a really good point of reference. Norm's roast reminds me of Neil's appearances on Jimmy Kimmel (which sadly seem to have vanished from the internet), where much of the audience is silent and clearly baffled and maybe even a little angry while a handful of people on panel are losing their shit.

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link

Ladies and gentlemen, this man is for the birds vs Apparently they want to murder you in a well

think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link

Birds is the one I've attempted in the company of friends and my partner, to their bafflement.

thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link

hamburger at the FNM show was pretty incredible. i had seen him do standup before in a comedy club setting, and at a festival… it was wild to see him with an audience who had no frame of reference & did not get him at all, and to see how much hamburger loved it. like i would swear he got taller lol

meanwhile mr veg & I were max-cady-in-cape-fear-laughing from the back row

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link

"There's no room that says scoundrel on it"

The solemn delivery absolutely kills me.

jmm, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:32 (three years ago) link

the Bob Saget roast clip is blowing up again and as much as I love it, it's kind of weird to see it divorced from context - I actually watched it as it aired and Norm's set was 3x funnier when it followed an hours worth of comedians trying to out-Andrew Dice Clay each other


This context def made the payoff that much funnier the first time but as far as circulating a clip goes watching an hour of total garbage first is kind of a big ask

siffleur’s mom (wins), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link

Neil opening for FNM was so good

the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 22:50 (three years ago) link

"Ladies and gentlemen, Faaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

-mous comedian, Neil Hamburger"

the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link

:D so good

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link

my favorite was when he was opening for Tenacious D and he went “And now, I’m proud to introduce…….TENNNNNN more jokes!l” to a chorus of boos

frogbs, Thursday, 16 September 2021 00:11 (three years ago) link

great piece by Kaleb Horon in RS

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/norm-macdonald-tribute-appreciation-1226839/

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 September 2021 00:20 (three years ago) link

latest episode of Conan's podcast is a tribute

balance transfer eligible (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 17 September 2021 03:26 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

lmao this clip just popped up on my feed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emUhplJxmD0

something I find interesting about Norm is that through all his shows, podcasts, talk show appearances, interviews etc. he was pretty much "on" as a comedian nonstop, barely stopped for a minute to say anything serious, and you could assume all his stories were at least partially made up. but on Twitter, at least the last few years, he was almost exclusively philosophical & matter of fact. for a lot of entertainers it's exactly the opposite.

frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

Lovs Norm, but its so weird to see a comedian caring about things like this.

Thinking about when Norm MacDonald would not stop attacking Bret Easton Ellis for attacking Alice Munro, God bless him pic.twitter.com/iDQwfp4i1A

— Rory McCarthy (@roryisconfused) July 5, 2023

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:40 (seven months ago) link

patriotic Canadian right there

symsymsym, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:49 (seven months ago) link

norm was otm

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:03 (seven months ago) link

You know what's weird? Finding out Alice Munro died from a Norm Macdonald thread.

jaymc, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:37 (seven months ago) link

Norm McDonald died!?

A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:47 (seven months ago) link

wait the thread killed her?

RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:49 (seven months ago) link

she is the queen of the shaggy dog story with melancholy/longing/internal voices, so I see how Norm would be on her side <3

fpsa, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 23:45 (seven months ago) link

Okay, but tweet #2 and #3 there are actually really funny

H.P, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 00:07 (seven months ago) link

#4 gets my vote

beard papa, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 04:36 (seven months ago) link

The kicker was that Norm made those tweets on his own birthday

A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:13 (seven months ago) link

that list skips my favorite one:

http://i.imgur.com/RBJa157.jpeg

waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:39 (seven months ago) link

Those tweets were so satisfying because the Guy Who Calls Things Overrated is a type that deserves ridicule

A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:41 (seven months ago) link

weirdest bit is complimenting alice munro by comparing her to lee iacocca

norm what

Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 19:31 (seven months ago) link

That’s the best one imo

your dog is fed and no one cares (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:20 (seven months ago) link

it's certainly the most "norm mcdonald" out of all of them

Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:44 (seven months ago) link


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