Norm Macdonald was a good man, and we will not see his like again. This is a fan account which will be either obviously or tangentially related to that Old Chunk o' Coal, his standup, interviews, things he said, things he read, and people who knew him.
Norm Macdonald official site: www.normmacdonald.tv
Until it is available on the official site, you can search the WWW for archive Norm Macdonald Live... don't pay some charlatan... (or follow the link below)
I loved the book Based on a True Story: Not a Memoire. It is a great comic novel and whenever I see it in the store I buy a copy and give it to someone. His friend Chad (from the Golf Normcasts) is selling Norm's remaining hardcovers: classywino.com/products/based-on-a-true-story-a-memoir-by-norm-macdonald (linked below) To listen to the Audiobook (read by Norm) where Audible is not available (linked below)
No links are sponsored, not monetizing, just sharing. God Bless.
This is sort of a "missing link" between 60s sitcom cornpone and Norm's 'Car accidents-Women writer-We don't hire women' triple whammy. They both have a series of punchlines that veer off in a different way than the last. Maybe only brilliant Norm could appreciate the humor potential of that structure.
They could have let norm do his 30 second long late night show just for fun every night with his own minute long time slot and it would have been the biggest show ever
This is a man who knows that the Universe is Infinite, and telling a joke on a planet Earth TV show carries such infinitely minuscule weight that he will take as long as he needs to get to the end result
I'm surprised Letterman didn't pull some strings to make it happen, seeing as how much he loved Norm, and how Letterman literally owned that timeslot after the Late Show and could put whatever he wanted there.
4:16 - Does the most vocal audience member literally groan, "Oh, fuck!" at the punchline along with _most_ of the rest audience delighting in the shameful "dad jokiness" of it all?
It was pretty well-understood by that Pistorius had an unfair advantage with the blades. More energetically efficient stride than a human runner. But track and field was afraid of the press and had to let him compete unfairly until he went and screwed up a good thing for himself.
Norm is actually spot on here. It's no different from allowing non-mobile golfers to ride in a cart during a competition with mobile golfers that are required to walk. Anybody that tells you life should be fair is a liar or they're selling something. And artificially making life *more unfair for everyone* just to make everyone "equal" (whatever that means) is shyster behavior.
Oscar was a dick long before he was a murderer. I never really like him either. Although I did root for him when he ran against able bodied runners in the Olympics. Couldn't help it, that was cool, but he has made it mean nothing.
