Norm 2/2: Norm speaks about Men of Promise - such as Jacques de Gauthier de Gatineau and Oscar Pistorius Conan Season 4 Episode 89: May 21, 2014: Norm Macdonald, Mackenzie Davis, Veruca Salt
I'll be real. I'm with Norm on that. His cardiovascular system didn't need to pump oxygen as hard, he didn't need to train his ankles or calves, and he genuinely had actual fucking springs for legs. He DID have an unfair advantage. The murdering I can live with, but cheating is unforgivable.
Andy has never been a dunce, nor an empty vessel. He's always caught the astute folly of Norm and Conan. He was well-suited as a sidekick, much more substantive than Ed McMahon. I've always felt a little sad for Andy, that he may have regretted that he hasn't done enough with his life...I could see him in a dramatic role and be surprisingly convincing...
@@mayedalshamsi The joke is basically that it's an absurd comment. Norm accidentally changed the last name of the guy in the joke. Instead of acknowledging that or explaining it, he said "a man grows" which is kind of a literary, fortune-cookie-esque way of saying that people change over time. But generally that sort of thing refers to someone growing emotionally or growing in wisdom. Not someone changing their last name. It's the sort of joke that isn't particularly funny when you explain it, but it's fantastic as an off the cuff response to Conan pointing out that he made a mistake.
@@clayton229 - Thank you for that explanation! I'm sure it's less funny now that I've had to have it explained to me, but I'd take that over not understanding the joke at all, any day. 😜
@@pats5375 Yes. Norm is usually only left to laugh at his own jokes, and give the audience a side eye as an indication that they should laugh too. I thoroughly enjoyed Norm getting a belly laugh for once.
@@Optim40 Norm didn't "try to recover from a beat down." Throughout his career he actively pursued subverting expectations, told bad jokes on purpose, and wasn't afraid to walk an entire room. Going into this Conan appearance, Norm absolutely knew his shaggy dog story had a terrible punchline -- puns are the worst -- and when Andy fearlessly jumped on it with a hilarious rejoinder, Norm was genuinely delighted. The handshake was respect, not recovery.
I dunno. Conan even joking around that it’s weird to not like that guy enrages me. He wore springs and bullied people to let him compete with people who were not allowed to wear springs. Yes, that is the kind of person who is so full of themselves that they’ll shoot their girlfriend. I called it years before. Never liked that guy. If he allowed the other participants to wear springs then maybe. No. Seriously. The Paralympic runners who ran with the modern prosthetics of the time were known to be much faster than people with legs. Which means if Jocko could do it, then everyone with no legs should have been allowed. But only he was allowed and he could obviously run way faster because he had springs for legs. Anyone who liked that guy was a complete moron.
I'm pretty sure Oscar hasn't been on a 4 mile hike either, not with those rob9t legs. He'd probably fall down face-first into the dog turd, which is what he deserves for all those races he cheated in.
I love post-punchline riffs like that. I think what I like most about it is it's very risky if the punchline doesn't get a laugh. Because then the riff is just a half-sentence that you have to keep going.
No one else tells jokes quite like Norm did. He’s the only person I’ve seen intersperse punchlines throughout his ramblings that way. Genuinely the most unique voice in comedy.
I absolutely love how at 6:30 Andy so succinctly sums up Norm's comedy that Norm falls out of his chair and has to shake Andy's hand. Idk how, but Norm always managed to come off as a class act while also playing a total fool. His acknowledgement of Amdy's searing read on him is part of what makes him so entertaining and lovable.
That little shrink when he realises he mixed up the last name, that is what i love about Norm so much. He was such an honest kid just trying to have fun, it was so endearing. Was really painful to learn he passed away but like a dear grandfather i will always come back to watch these videos and remember Norm and his kindness and fun with people. Missed always
"I feel that one of the basic requirements of being a sprinter, is having legs" ....... it's hard to articulate why he's the greatest comedian of all time
And he did it more than once - IMO his moth joke is the best joke I've ever heard. It's poetry, "I no longer love my son, I no longer love him because when I see his face all I see is the same cowardice I see whenever I look into a mirror" - just outstanding
The amount of gold from Norm during this single appearance (his entry bit and gypsy Jack Macdonald, the 1-min-audition, Pistorius, Jacques De Gautier/Gatineau, his messing with Mackenzie Davis) is staggering
I fully agree and said this from when i first heard about Pistorius. Those blades gave him an unfair advantage as a runner. But the world insists on being stupid about this.
When Norm was at the Niagra Falls part and Conan said he saw Jacques and Norm said no it's just some attendant I thought it was really brilliant and hilarious. Norm could've just said "I went to Seaworld and saw Jacques" but Conan kind of interrupted him and Norm had to subvert Conan's expectation a bit in a very hilarious way
2:35 and 2:52 . That mischievous glint in his eye, the laughter prior, knowing how unnecessarily long and underwhelming that joke is 😭 and then taking us on the ride anyway 😁👌🏼❤ LOVE
This hits different as a Canadian. The funny thing is Norm knows our SeaWorld is called Marineland but is purposely calling it SeaWorld for an American audience.
Seriously, that just gave me the idea of taking my children out on a long walk - I'm going to tell them I've got something to show them. After an hour, I'm just going to point to the most mundane thing I can spot and tell them "there it is!"
I run a city hiking group in Forest Park Queens. I ran an internet ad saying "Take a hike to Freedom". After 90 minutes we arrived at Freedom Road and I showed 30 hikers the street sign.
He had a GREAT girlfriend from his hometown, she was with him for years in all his early inspirational videos, only to foolishly ditch her for a gold digger that he came to hate enough to kill.
I don’t know which was ballsier: the Oscar Pistorius joke, or delivering a deeply Québecois based joke to an American audience. I’ve always held this particular Norm appearance very dear because my mother was in fact born in Témiscaming, Quebec; a town remote enough that it’s citizens receive isolation pay from the provincial government. It just made me feel that much more connected to Norm, a comedian whose specialty was making you feel like you were in on the inside joke. Couldn’t get much more inside than that.
@@ElriuhiluYep, real place, pulp and paper mill town along the Ontario-Quebec border on the Ottawa River. Around 2,500 people, quite isolated geographically. Their Wikipedia page actually reference this segment. Also when he calls the man Jacques-de-Gatineau, Gatineau is a big city in Quebec, part of the National Capital region directly across the river from Ottawa. And when he mentions the "Three Wise Men of Quebec," he is referencing three actual politicians from Quebec, who, during the 1960s, were dubbed as such by English media in Canada, seen as men who would change the course Canadian poiltics. Correspondingly, one of those men, Pierre Trudeau (Justin Trudeau's father) became one of the longest tenured Canadian Prime Ministers ever, championing multiculturalism and bilingualism, and having a major impact on the country's history, leaving a significant but somewhat divisive legacy.
I grew up in the Ottawa Valley, and hearing Norm's cadences as he tells a atory, always takes me back to the bullshitters I grew up around. None were as funny as Norm though. That nod he gives at the start of his story is a big part of that-it's a bit like a knowing wink.
I'm sorry but I only discovered Norm thanks to The Orville and only started watching his comedy after his death and I'm loving his humour. He's passed but still making us laugh
Although he did Letterman's last show, a very competitive last show was the last night Conan had on NBC. Norm showed up with a gift basket, the bit was genius. Little harder to find though.
Thank you many many thanks OP for this clip. I had never seen this clip in its entirety but just some of the bits and pieces of this one floating around including present in TeamCoco channel. Thanks for sharing and loved enjoying every moment with this piece of coal , Norm !!🎉❤👌👍😅😊
His specials are HBO One-Night-Stand (it is on youtube: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EZGBbwnMlqQ.html ), Me Doing Stand-up (Comedy Central, blocked on YT), and Hitler's dog (Netflix), plus Nothing Special (Netflix) which is more like a Cameo than stand up.
The guy could obviously move a lot faster than people with legs. The guy was a huge POS. I hated him long before. I’d respect him if he cut his legs off to get the advantage but he didn’t. Of course he won. He had springs for legs. Nobody else was allowed to wears springs. I knew he’d probably murder someone.