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BrianS81177

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Second video has Artie Lange's bare ass in it so no watching at work

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BrianS81177

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His PG, Full House style roast of Bob Saget was absolutely hilarious once you realize what he was actually doing. 

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Matt D

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Norm had a fairly big impact on my sense of humor as a teenager when he was on Weekend Update but probably not nearly as much as Kevin Nealon did and I'm honestly pretty glad for that twenty+ years later.

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Gonzo

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God damn it. Norm MacDonald was so great. Gone way too soon.

His opening monologue at the 1998 ESPYs is pretty great, too.

 

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Dolfan in NYC

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Just hilarious in absolutely everything.  Demanded you come to his level rather than pandering to anyone else's.  

What a damned loss. 

 

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(BP)

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I couldn’t find a good copy of when Norm hosted SNL the year after they fired him where he buried the show and NBC in the monologue, but it’s worth seeking out. 

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3 minutes ago, hammerva said:

I guess it it proven that you can live without a functioning nose 

 

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BrianS81177

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1 hour ago, Pete said:

This.

"You weren't doing Bob Dole.... you were doing DAN ACKROYD doing Bob Dole. I know it, you know it, the american people know it."

piranesi

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Bob Dole is our Prince Philip.*

 

Out of all the comedians I love, Norm is the one that remained the biggest mystery to me in this sense: Any of the other ones I feel like after seeing enough of their work, listening to interviews, podcasts, etc., you have some idea what they are like in real life, what their inner emotional life was like, even what it might be like to hang out with them.  Norm was just inscrutable that way, though. He never let the performance face down.

Like, I feel like I can imagine Patton Oswalt or Bob Odenkirk on vacation, struggling with a bunch of luggage and kids getting into a cab and grumbling like a normal person. But I can't imagine Norm ever having any look on his face other than a distant bemused smirk. I can imagine Seinfeld in an argument with someone or Bill Burr sending his food back and looking embarrassed about it. But I can't imagine Norm in those situations without the other person having to stop and say "Wait, do you really want to send these back or are you joking" and him being like "yeah, yeah, I'm sending these back to the chef to cook them better so I can eat them and not die." and the waiter studying his face and being like "So this is a bit..."

It's like he was a machine just built by aliens to produce irony and that was all he was programmed for. There was something comforting about the solidity of that. Almost like nothing in the world could be so bad that Norm McDonald couldn't make a joke about it. Even his own most humiliating experiences. Nothing could shake him loose of that, at least nothing that's happened so far. It's like optimistic Nihilism or something.

 

* I feel like Norm would approve of this comparison

 

 

 

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