Norm Macdonald on The State of Comedy Today and 'Saturday Night Live' -  

Thanks for always having Norm's back Larry

Here is your answer-Isaiah 40:22 God sits above the circle of the earth. The people below seem like grasshoppers to him! He spreads out the heavens like a curtain and makes his tent from them

Jesus Christ ,I apologize. In my comment, it's evident I was stealing your move. Also,for all my sins.

Thanks! You and Norm are my favorite!

@Jesus Christ He's just an ole chunk of coal Mr. J

that's a very important question, and also "who writes these jokes?"

Explain for the folks at home what "ideas" are.....

Hank williams sr go t his ideas from silly comic

He gets em' from under the Queensboro bridge.

Underrated comment, lol

Hey Zaphod

I know . Disrespectful

So aggravating.

And he seem really dumb. Doesn’t get Norms jokes and is very unfunny himself

If he only he had learned how to interview properly, maybe his career would have lasted 60 more years.

Also the xanax.

But he only ever dresses up or, dressed up rather, for David Letterman. But you are true, they genuinely like each other. So nice to watch this "stream of consciousness".

They were friends

What an odd pairing!!!

@@IntoTheVoid96 xanax makes you enthusiastic? Hmm.

Everyday

He’s dead. I though he was funnier when he was alive.

@@barfyman-362 Perhaps the worst gimmick a comedian ever had.... or so the Germans would have us believe

I miss him . I’m so glad we have the internet 😂

he doesnt know anything. hes dead.

Turns out they don’t

Explain to the folks at home

Everyone knows that old chunk of coal

Or so the Germans would have us believe!

He's a scholar and a gentleman

I wonder where he gets his ideas from!

Sam 1990 I would imagine he would take offense to that. The man works very hard

@@guy5140 that's not the point. He just has the funny bone

Ever? I mean I'm sure there was a funnier guy back in the 1400's or something.

@@viviandarkbloom100 Yeah but his material probably doesn't stand up anymore out of context.

@@Retrostar619 Sorta like Norms material from "The Vault." Winona Ryder is in the News again today.....

I was thinking the same thing

Yes I noticed that too! I have recently been on a bit of a Norm MacDonald "marathon" and saw the other interview, which was a earlier Larry King interview. He tells the story of being invited over to Carson's office were they both did their impressions of Larry King. But this repetition of stories and change of endings got me very suspicious of why Norm would do this. My most plausible theory for this is that Norm is testing Larry to see if he remembers it and he also turns the ending of the anecdote into a joke.

Yeah I had to pause the video when he said he didn't meet up with Carson because I already saw the earlier interview where he said he did. Its so hard to tell what is true and what isn't with Norm.

Normy Normy Normy

Him saying he didn't go was the set up for the Chris Kattan joke I bet.

I didn’t even know they were sick!

If you listen at 1.25 speed it sounds like a young energetic Norm is trapped in a old Norm body

Watchin two dead guys, im gettin old

Yeah, an interview with Larry. Wild.

yea told a story of them doing larry king impressions together. . . i watched norm's last interview with him first and wondered why it seemed larry wasn't sure how to react no such thing as a bad norm macdonald interview,tho

i was looking for this comment

My guess id the first story is true that the did not meet with Carson. The second time he told the story, he chose to make it more interesting, saying he did meet with him and fabricated the details. Artistic license.

I was thinking that, too. Many times he’s told Letterman and others how he went to Johnny Carson’s office and he wanted Norm to read Larry King’s comments with him . I ‘m pretty good at remembering what people say to me, and I hate when they later change their story or deny what they said to me before. That’s what I’ve noticed with Norm , during all his material I’ve binged on during the past year. He’s changed details in his stories and refuted things that he said years ago. Last night, I watched a Canadian standup act he did in the eighties. He said during his act that he had just quit smoking. He said that on every show he’s ever been on over the years.I even heard Joe Rogan say he flew on a plane with Norm, and Norm kept saying he needed a cigarette. Well, apparently Joe said “ I thought you didn’t smoke”and Norm said “I quit”, but as soon as they got into the airport Norm bought some cigarettes.This was much later in his life. Now I don’t know what to believe! Was Norm always telling tall tales or was it due to his double life of wanting to hide the truth about his Cancer and the obvious signs of his failing health. They say it’s like murderers or anyone who’s a pathological liar…. you have to have an excellent memory to keep all your lies straight cuz that’s how you get caught by always changing the story.It’s just heartbreaking to know now in retrospect that he had death hanging over his head all of those years but was able to discuss his beliefs about his journey toward God and death without anyone who knew him guessing that he was seriously ill.A lot of his comedy friends said later that Norm acted like someone who couldn’t manage his life without a handler.That was what Lori Jo H. was; like a girl Friday.How could they have a platonic relationship for over 30years?There was a cloud of mystery around Norm. Was he just having everybody on? The years and years of cancer were true, though.My heart breaks for him when I watch all these YT clips about him knowing now what he knew…. that he was rapidly approaching his earthly demise. He was very courageous in how he handled himself. I would have chosen assisted suicide, but I’m a coward.Norm was a mystery wrapped in an enigma. I know that he is now at rest and he will meet Jesus at the resurrection.I really wish I had known him. I miss you and love you, Norm💔🥀🕊️

Especially when he's naked

Eh, nah. He's an atheistic, Leftist Jew. Redundant, I know. Plus he's always been old. He was old at age 2

@@krs2711 he asks foolish questions in this

Jeffrey Gillespie He’s certainly the best at what he does.

He never seems to have a clue about whomever he is interviewing. Quite ironic for such a famous interviewer.

Makes you start pouring water out of your eyes just imagining his experience.

It especially choked me up when he chucked change into the street to see which homeless guy was better at dodging incoming traffic.

It also doesn't help that he was a degenerate gambler that bankrupted himself multiple times..

Lol

@@pashadyne he literally called himself a degenerate gambler many times..

​@@hannibalb8276hahaha quite literally too

because he's a fat fucking pig. he gained the weight for a roll though...

From his brain, duh.

Was worried about is hemorrhaging neck roll. Oink

@@jdion79 yeah... a bread roll

It's alarming.

He was in remission here

@@birdiedog5 Looks like he's on prednisone, with the face.

thanks for suggestion, getting it now

Same with Craig Ferguson.

Definitely not from...as you guessed it...Frank Stallone!

From Ralph's on Beverly Drive and occasionally from the guy driving him to Conan.

Some guy under the Queensboro bridge. Ideas is what he gets ,now what he gives I don't wanna go into as he was a deeply closted gay man.

exactly

Norm is way to interesting for a 20 minute format.

Or, they dont.

I love how you almost never can tell wether he is telling the truth, even on his appearences on this show.

Bigo Jr. Or they used his.

"...Sir Issac Newton gets born, and blows everybody's nips off with his big brains."

God I love that show, late to the comments here but had to express how much I love Norm's comedy. He is the master of sarcasm!

Watch him with Don Rickles, it is amazing

@@Stemma3 dude I’m on it! I love don !

@@P.dripps92 it's amazing, Don just can't stop. He's making fun of Larry, the audience, CNN and Larry cries

@@Stemma3 if I type in don rickles and Larry king cnn I’ll find it?

@@P.dripps92 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2XMNqakiGzw.html -What do you think about our studios? -I think they are cheap and they should be painted He doesn't stop for almost half an hour. I'm not from the US and I knew Don Rickles for silly movies, I didn't even knew his name. I found this gem and couldn't stop laughing for the entire bit. It's like watching Conan and Norm

Yeah, just saw the King interview where he talked about taking turns with Johnny reading the columns. Embellishing reality to create a good story? Fantasizing about what might have been?

Show bizness folks

@@TeethLikeKnives It’s not show biz.. it’s Norm messing with Larry by using the same context and wording of a story he’s already told Larry but flipping the script, like “I almost had a chance to meet Johnny Carson because of my impression of you” to “I met Johnny carson and we did impressions of you in his house”... At this point I have watched so many of norms videos that I know better than to believe a Norm story to be true.. more than Larry King obviously. Norm is messing with Larry without Larry even knowing it, all while making him laugh and engage in his made up story he already told him in a different way.. This feller is a Comedy Genius.

@@parkertalley239 He was always the audience. We were his unwitting punchlines.

@@greenatom - I saw these Larry King interviews in that order (reverse chronological), too.

Just watched that one... hopefully he did meet Jonny and they did Larry impressions

That's the thing about Norm. He's always an enigma. Just when you think he's being sincere about something and not telling or setting up a joke, you will hear him contradict himself. Perhaps not in the same interview, but as you guys have pointed out, in future interviews with Larry King (this one was in 2013) he claims to have actually met Johnny Carson in his office, he claims to not be a Christian (but rather "spiritual"), and he claims to be a deeply closeted gay man but will never ever admit that he is gay.

@@gustafsone Norm IS a christian though. I saw him last week at a military funeral shouting horrible things!

​@@jairkerker2821 He's definitely a real character! Spouting hate at gays but meanwhile I saw him with Leslie Kichener's wife!

Yeah super weird. I also noticed he credited Larry with telling him Don Ohlmeyer owned the cameras, but then in this interview he uses the phrase as his own.

@@pashadyne He didn’t really say anything all that embarrassing. He made an observation that led him to allow himself some faith. Bear in mind, he was already battling cancer at this point. In his shoes, my powers of observation might be slanted in my favor, too.

“You ever meet Chris Kattan” is literally the funniest thing you could have said to Johnny Carson

Did you hear what he said right after? Sounded like " when I'm shopping for brazeirs" lol

He's actually such a sensitive soul

i was going to comment the same thing. i wonder which is true and why he gave 2 different answers

Ya, this is almost an identical interview to the another one... weird. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gKkWVK2N4VU.html

I've seen him tell both totally different versions of the Carson story and I now realize that Norm has Down Syndrome.

@@BS-uc8os totally scripted almost...it's ALL fake news

yeah they couldn't be more leashed!

If you read his book there's a heavy implication that he was molested. That portion of his book read chillingly real to me.

Larry figured it out before anyone☹️

​@@reid2865 he did?!

RIP Norm too 😿

guess he wasnt joking about the morphine 13:00

@@rickdeckard1075 maybe that's where he got his ideas from

@@asonofagunder that and every comic from before 1980

Heyy, fun to see you here, man! I'm rewatching these three Norm with Larry King interviews from 2013 to 2016 right now.

Hey! An unexpected but welcome surprise to see you here, my friend. Good to know you are a Norm fan. He is one of the few people I find truly funny. Every now and then I binge watch his videos. He left a wealth of laughs for all time.@@Vingul

Reality show. They get into an RV and drive to the North Pole

It Takes One to Know One👍👍

He’s definitely an Angel now👼💔🥀🕊

@Luciano Thomas Paul Newman says you never get over it

Hahaha. I was cracking up at that.

Or it's the drink

Or it was the cancer and its treatment

You have the cancer to thank for that. Hope Norm went peacefully

C’mon don’t be donkey brained.

Lmao I immediately thought og Sunny when he talked about science

@Christopher Marlowe It's not though, because its inconsistent. Most people take as true things that are far less certain than what scientists come up with, for example, things from the news or media, secondary and tertiary sources. And the counterexample Norm had was about geocentricism, which is from before the scientific revolution, it was actually more a reflection of the power of biblical thought and not scientific thought, so he's argued more against his own system. Not believing in DNA is different than accepting you're not an expert. You'd have to think so much of what's in school or practiced in medicine is all fake and a conspiracy. Yes, it's smart to reserve judgment when you're not an expert on something but people who use this argument frequently ignore the other times they're super sure about something that they also couldn't possibly know. It's just a maneuver to attempt to logically allow one's bias to exist.

Sounds like you're a *deeply closeted gay man*

Never wink while trying to convince someone you're not gay.

@@Vingul 😅😅😅😉

@@AyAy008 very deep

@@michelfingado202 ^_^

and at the same time, there were inaccuracies just for a set up

I know. Larry’s awesome.

@@dub16100 They are talking about Norm, not Larry.

Shirley Pena he’s joking

shurely you never met Jorhan Vandersloot.

And Larry King live was one of my favorite shows to watch. RIP Larry

so glad you think so. I don't hate on people usually, but I had to suffer through seth's sychophantic grin so long on snl, that I genuinely wish him harm.

@@Brantlins I shouldn't find this as funny as I do.

Its mainly his valley girl accent that makes Meyers suck

Not really tho

I do not agree. I always ask myself What Would Seth Meyers Do?