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Norm Macdonald on fire
Posted by: Fritz
Date: September 21, 2021 09:25AM
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Date: September 21, 2021 10:37AM
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Posted by: Fritz
Date: September 21, 2021 10:38AM
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Date: September 21, 2021 11:08AM
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Date: September 21, 2021 12:29PM
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Re: Norm Macdonald on fire
Posted by: DeusxMac
Date: September 22, 2021 11:52AM
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Re: Norm Macdonald on fire
Posted by: Sarcany
Date: September 22, 2021 06:48PM
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Never found him all that funny; saying "taboo" things isn't inherently funny nor clever.
Re: Norm Macdonald on fire
Posted by: DeusxMac
Date: September 23, 2021 08:49AM
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Never found him all that funny; saying "taboo" things isn't inherently funny nor clever.
I think the endearing thing about Norm Macdonald is that he never let his ego get in the way of telling a joke or doing a solid for a friend.
His jokes were sometimes off-color not because he thought that controversy would get attention/wealth, but because people laughed. Period.
And he really didn't go there all that often.
There's a story (and video clip on YouTube) about a time when Conan O'Brien asked him to fill a seven-minute spot after he'd already made an appearance on the show that night. Dunno if the show ran short or someone canceled or what. The thing is, Norm had just played his entire act at the beginning of the show. He had nothing to fill with. But his buddy needed him, so he jumped in and this is what he came up with out of a cloud of fatigue: One joke.
He stretched that joke out. A lot.
At first, it's painful to watch, then it's absurd, and then when the punchline finally lands, it gets an ovation. Not because it's inherently funny, but because the entire audience is rooting for him at that point.
That's Norm Macdonald. He wanted to make people laugh, and sometimes tried too hard at that. Regardless of the success of his comedy, he won people's hearts.