Norm Macdonald - Long Joke Compilation Early CONAN (1996-1999) 

Norm’s “you know” while he tells his long jokes is fantastic

Norm is one of the few people who can make a joke funnier by explaining it.

Oh my god the "what?" after Conan asked where the turtle came from absolutely broke me. What an unparalleled talent.

That pig joke quite honestly might be his best long joke.

5:49 - That "What?" will never fail to make me laugh.

"So I says to him I says, I said". Lol

"I gave him like 8 bucks" deserved a bigger laugh. Classic Norm subversion

In the 1950's, Steve Allen envisioned the perfect talk-show scenario. Host after host attempted to achieve the paradigm. Then, in 1996, Norm MacDonald made his first appearance on the Conan O'Brien Show. Allen, 74 years old and essentially couch-bound, watched the exchange, rolled over, and died with a smile on his face. He lived another 4 years in that position.

They said because of the celluloid film this was originally filmed on decomposing, these appearances on Conan were almost lost. Thankfully, the National Film Preservation Foundation found these deep in the old NBC archival vaults, restored the film, and added color digitally to them....

That “what” at 5:40 is priceless.

He told the pig joke so well people that knew the punchline laughed

Norm doubling down on the turtle joke and tripling down is always legendary😂

He always makes you feel like you are there, just sitting in on his ramblings……..so lovely

Wow, thought I'd seen all his Conan appearances. I hadn't and what a joke I had never heard before...the midget joke. I've listened to it at least 10 times since I saw it last night, what a fucking brilliant joke. Norm, I actually love ya.

“I give em like 8 bucks” lmfao

I fucking love how these two interact

7:28 to me, for some reason the funniest part of this story is the way Norm replies to Conan after he calls it a ‘joke’.

"I said come by and uh have a chicken with me." 😂😂😂

I will NEVER EVER stop watching Norm, he’s genius and hilarious, also great to watch Conan wetting himself!!!

If I had to pick the best comedian of all time,I would pick Norm. Thank you maestro for making the world that much better. RIP you beautiful chunk of coal 😥

ive realized that this is just norms genius way of getting out of doing actual interviews. lmao

Norm was a singular talent and Conan loved him and for good reason.

Andy laughing when Norm invited his hypothetical neighbor over for a chicken is proof that Norm leaves the true reveal (not the pre-screening) for the actual showing. Something he has done since SNL when they had pitch meetings for upcoming skits. Norm knows the value of a true reaction. Well played, Normie normie normie 🤙🏼

21:30 he says "guy" then corrects himself to say "midget"

Needed to see this again! RIP Norm.

norm is so good at this that i cant tell if he is making these stories up a word at a time with no preparation or if they have been planned down to the stutters, he makes it looks so effortless but is still relentlessly funny. rip to one of the best to ever do it

Norms joy was so visible and contagious

The fact he spat out conflagration while doing the joke. No matter if he made it up on the spot or planned it. Makes him pure comic. And a genius

19:55 Haha. Love it. Conan helped Norm. Young Norm forgot to mention that the midgets went to separate rooms and Conan patched it immediately. Wonderful. Love these two and Andy

''What was the shoebox with a turtle in it doing at the bottom of the bar?'' ''............What?'' I love how he makes Conan look like a fool for asking a perfectly legitimate question.

The King of stringing along

Rest in peace genius ❤️

Wow, this is the exact video I was looking for. Thanks.

didn't care for his stand-up as much but best guest on any show ever

Undisputed King of Comedy the great Norm Macdonald RIP Legend

Best late night show guest of all time

His jokes have gotten better and better as he grew older

"Some of us are short and have weird big heads" LOL

He was sincerely a living legend.

"and also, you learn how to make the drinks". He was just so good.

I used to bet (daily) at a horse track, and the funny part about that story is that bets can't come out to $7.77. The way the odds are configured they come out in increments of 10 cents. Norm acknowledges this VERY subtly. Also, it's customary to always tip the mutuel teller at least to the dollar. He acknowledges that, too. That always struck me as funny. Norm really was a master of storytelling. He's both extremely simple and extremely smart.

His jokes makes the day go by with a smile. My favourite is the moth joke

Norm in the late 90s is peak comedy

ohhhhhhhhhh shit i just figured it out after hearing it ten times😂. This man’s(me) father, is my father’s son!(me!!!!) shit shit shit shit shit i am dumb it took me that many times to figure it out! 😅😂🎉🎉🎉RIP Norm!

King of the “shaggy dog” joke

One of the funniest things is when Norm says:"I'm sorry".

Another example of why norm is best

Mars 1999 - Young Norm September 1999 - Old Norm

you're better than "I'm Not Norm" -- it's a shame your channel got taken down and was replaced by that t-shirt selling weirdo

I've heard so many Norm jokes i knew exactly how the pig joke was gonna end.... I still pissed myself..

I says to em, i says….

Two kings!!!

The goat joke was damn hilarious

I LOVE Norms laugh at 22:15!

I Effin adore Norm!!!!! THE funniest guy. I’ve tried many times to introduce his work to my workmates but they just don’t get it??????🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼

22:13 "hello? Haha". He cracked himself up, one of his best moments

22:16 hearing Norm genuinely laugh is awesome. For a second for him to take a break and enjoy the moment and we get to hear his joy for “happening” with other people

Never seen a talk show host actually laugh till Norm

The coolest thing Norm ever did was never telling anyone he was dying. The entire shit head establishment of entertainment tried to cancel him multible times, and he never used the cancer card to get them of him. The most fearless gangster ever, imo.

You can tell how early in Norm's career this is, as the audience is hanging on every word not knowing what's coming...hahah

He's a star of talk shows.

If this video had 7 milions likes instead of 7K - then maybe I would have some faith in humanity, as such...

Norm: “What?” 😂😂😂

This is the best compilation out there w/ Norm lol

" I says to him, I says ....."

this guy can never be matched

“i had about $700 bucks” is so under rated

The joke at the end with Norm in yellow telling the riddle is one of the worst looking videos on RU-vid. It’s also one of the funnest. Thank god it’s on there. The whole segment can be checked out in two vids. Worth looking for.

R. I. P true canadienne tresure

Happy, youre a much better dude than that unscrupulous Im Not Norm ripoff merchant. A real fan. Thanks.

This guy is a movie🤣

Keep up the channel

It seems like Norms best jokes are all on Conan. Conan knew how to handle him I suppose.

My sides. Gone.

That uncle goat joke was by far the best

Norm was one of a kind

How he keeps saying midget in the midget joke. Pure freaking genius!

You guys are cool...anytime yall wanna come by and have a chicken just holler.

I've heard that midget joke 100x and I still laugh lol

Never heard the pig joke before. It killed me ROFL!

I died at that last one 😂 especially that aunt voice 😂

what does he actually say at 24:27 i cant figure it out

He had the face of an innocent boy.❤

they also teach ya how to make the drinks

“God forbid that was a joke.” -Conan O’Brien 🤣

Nice upload you quality man/woman .

Tony Danza told the Pig with a wooden leg joke on Comic Relief in 1986?

I love Norm enormously, but he got the riddle wrong, though ... I was wracking my brain to try and see it the way he put it, and once, I worked it out that ... “aaaahh, I see it finally” I said to myself, and that was that. But months later right now, I’m watching it again here ... and ... it doesn’t ring right to me again. So I go the rounds in my head, no luck three, four tries ... ... and then it finally hit me ! He’s got it wrong ! What the riddle is, gotta be ! is ... ... Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man is my father‘s son” .. dat’s what the riddle is ! Thanks for all the hilarity, Norm. You’re a Special Wit.

The joke about logic. Was it his or is it a part of the folklore? I'm interested in it, because I was born in an ex-soviet country in the 90s, so I was growing up in the 2000s there. It was pre-Internet, an area where no one speaks English, yet somehow I heard this joke from my uncle one time. Almost the exact same joke, with the exception of the other guy smoking a cigarette at the bus stop and instead of the dog house, the joke had a fish bowl. It felt quite surreal watching this video now and hearing this joke from so many years ago, now in English (while all my life I had been convinced that this was a Russian joke). A logical* ;) explanation as to how the joke ended up in the Russian culture would be that someone had traveled to the US at some point or had a contact there, heard this and other jokes, wrote them down, and then came back to Russia and released a joke book (they were quite popular at one point here), and my uncle read the joke book, found the joke there, liked it very much and then told it to me. But he told me the joke differently - he added the fish bowl instead of the dog house (maybe that's because he was secretly gay; and I remember he did own a fish bowl and not a dog house)

I had to look up the riddle of "brothers sisters I have none". Turns out Norm got the riddle wrong, but it's still funny. It's an actual riddle. "Brothers Sisters I have none, this man's father is my father's son. Who is this man?" The answer should be "My son! He's my son!" The cab driver's answer is "Me!" Which doesn't make sense. But Norm's joke works anyway.

I wonder if the pig with the wooden leg knew Kitchner Leslie's girlfriend?

Existential moment 5:46

absolutely love

I'm not sure if norm is the best comedian or just the most documented

Wait, why have I not been informed of the existence of this video before?!

The merch in the I'm Not Norm channel makes much more sense now

Midget story killed me

*whered the turtle come from* "What?"

That midget joke was a belter!

'i dont want fancy things. i dont want fancy wancy things I don't fancy schmacy wancy take a trip to francey and have a (french sounds) dancey with your wife. all I want is wasting your time and mine." ~Norm MacDonald on a blue card to (David Letterman or Larry King... cant remember)