What's So Funny? with guest Norm Macdonald 

That comment hit me pretty hard.. And it makes a lot of sense.. It's kind of like you never know exactly when you fall asleep you just wake up

Great interviewer for sure.

You can tell norm respects the interviewer almost immediately

HUGE FACTS

Thanks you guys.

Couldn’t agree more.

Been norm binging ..its great

What's crazy is I was binging Norm about a week before his passing. I haven't stopped since.

That is why it's unfortunate that a few words, a spontaneous utterance , can define someone when it's not really them. You need to know the whole person to see their soul

Nephesh :)

The best one for sure!.

He really did pull out a different side of Norm, get it? "Pull out"

By the date it is right about the time he found out about his cancer. So many years... he said he was getting a colonoscopy next weekend. I hope it wasn't ass cancer.

norm on the Marc Maron podcast is also great.

even in his more serious interviews he lies about his age. i love him so much.

Thanks, man.

Completely agree, I’ve thought of him every day since his passing. I never realized how much of an impact he had on me.

When he shared his opinion, I often think, yeah, not only is it funny it’s true.. but I can’t say I see myself in him. I don’t know what we’ll do without his insight. Who will make what are sometimes such simple things so funny.

💯

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth. Marcel Proust

That, and he was the funniest human on the planet

...which is a result of not knowing what you want.

He is great friends with a certain professor there i hear tell..

@@LaurenThompsonIsMyRealName, And less 'beardy' too.

I'm an emeritus professor of logic at the University of Science. One of my most acclaimed essays was on the lack of doghouse ownership and a related proclivity for anal sex. You know, ass humping.

And he's got a dog. 🐕

He'll cook you chicken

Bring some morphine and you'll have a friend for life!

"the smartest guy in the room, pretending to be the dumbest guy in the room"

Get your own chicken!

You guys, I’m blushing!

@@GuyMacPhersonWhatsSoFunny You gotta get him back on. This is a piece of comedy history

@@justjoe233 Right?! We were close a few years ago, and then last year in the early lockdown, but it never happened. That being said, the second time might not live up to the first time. But I think with Norm, it's never going to be bad.

Guy MacPherson I’ve heard Norms a tough guy to get to commit to things. Hopefully he’ll have something to promote soon and do another one. I think the nature of your interview style had an effect on how deep the last interview got.

@@justjoe233 Well, so much for plugging anything. Sad day today.

Sad day. But thank you, Daria.

His thoughts on mortality are eerie in the circumstances, but also weirdly comforting. I hope he had All The Morphine. Love to you, his son and brothers ❤️

Absolutely best interview.

Glad you appreciate it. Thanks for listening.

❤️

I understand he was a deeply, deeply closeted homosexual

No, he was deeply closeted: he’d never admit he was gay. This was a good interview. I especially liked how the interviewer tried to flex he was an atheist & Norm kinda shit on him. What’s the joke about the vegan & the atheist at a table together? They will both manage to bring it up in convo, no matter the topic of discussion.

He might have helped his gay friends off though, since he wasn't homophobic.

He's right.

Glad to hear it. Thanks for listening. I thought it was pretty excellent, too. Well, Norm, anyway!

Guy MacPherson I’ve really learned to appreciate his particular brand of humor lately. The interviewer was actually quite good too. I know it’s probably a very unusual episode but I had a few good laughs knowing Norm’s dry humor.

I appreciate that it never went off course and it stayed on the trajectory I was hoping it would stay on and it did... Some really interesting dialogue along the way until that stupid knock ✊ Good Job Guy MacPherson, Nice interviewing skills with just the right amount of coaxing and leading. Not that Norm needs any, but you kept going in the right direction ...

@@jermonken kept going in the “right“ direction, you say… Welp, there is another proof the “left” is wrong, duntchya just know it!?

Norm's vlogs????

I'm not so sure I thought it was supposed to be a deep social commentary, but even with jokes if they don't have an internal logic, I question them. Which is what I did.

@@GuyMacPhersonWhatsSoFunny right right right, you can't label something illogical after hearing 1 sentence,

Me Too … more personal than most

Beautifully observed and expressed Kim

I agree, I’ve been binging on Norm clips but this is deep. It’s helpful fir life perspective.

Thank God we have documents such as this to remember a great man.

Liar

By contrast, I just heard him with Marc Maron and this Maron guy spent at least half of the time talking about himself. No one even knows who tf Marc Maron is.

I am the same age as Norm and I miss him . This is a great interview esp. when you realize he was living with cancer for years . Man I need a colonoscopy

Weird I actually hated it for the same reason. Seems like he does't get norms humor and took everything so seriously that every bit of humor was rendered DOA. Like when Larry king explained why Norm found English an easy language, totally killing the humor of the statement. Complete humor deadbeat

@@vforvillain77 I think I agree with you

@@RockHudrock I agree with the both of you!

On the plus side, I saw a lot of messages like yours. It gives me hope that his death will give his career a new swing. His legacy must or should outlive all of us

Me too. Never heard him when he was alive. Now I can't get enough of him. Young Norm, old Norm, midlife Norm. He was funny even when he wasn't trying to be.

I had chicken once with him

I just smiled reading your comment! Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Almost as good as Adam eget 's jobs

Agree & Norm is so layed back so cool! Love when he laughs. Miss Norm. Such a star ⭐️ RIP Norm in Heaven with his buddies. 💜☮️✝️

I think it is the best and I love how it starts by addressing the worst one.

It’s called a conversation... 🤣

A meeting of the mind

Thanks, Closcer.

Let's be honest this is one of the few times the interviewer / host doesn't sound dumb next to norm. Thoughtful responses come from good listening and we heard that here

@@GuyMacPhersonWhatsSoFunny yeah you did good, this is one of Norm's better interviews especially since we won't be granted any new ones now

The interviewer is a doorknob.

Yeah, they've got a real stream of consciousness thing going on there.

Note to self,...the main problem with posting your own interview with Norm Macdonald is that you get labled a doorknob.

@@planb5260 It's called 'conversation', friend.

A pair of knockers

Blind Brazilian Tex Atlantis the worst part was the hypocrisy

Aye

His Pig did

Let's not have fun at his expanse.

@@boneheap1000 exactly, sandwiches-galore, right. More like Too Big To Fall over cause of all the sandwiches the man likes to stuff in his face. I love Normy.

BoneHeap come on now! He was doing it for a role

@@boneheap1000 look, see, behold and witness, now we’re having Pun at your expense… BTW… .

Yeah, the only time I didn't like him was on the view cuz I couldn't hear him over those YAMMERING BITCHES!🤨

Better to live in fear and face the suffering of existence and death than live in a meaningless hedonistic frency. The closer we get to the cross,the more splinters we'll get and Norm was closer than most of us, Christian or not.

@@soraya2218 he was a Christian though, in case you thought he wasn’t.

@@Stj209 I know :) I meant other people and wether they're more devout Christians than him or not.

@@soraya2218 I loved Norm, but I don't understand if he was a Christian, why did he use God's name in vain. I've heard him do it several times. Also, why would a Christian be so afraid of dying. I understand the process of dying isn't something pleasant to ponder, but being afraid of not living forever is contrary to what is taught by Jesus about death and the afterlife.

@@GuitarNTheCar I don’t think God is looking or reasons to send us to hell…. we are Ok with that on our own. But if we truly believe in The Name (Jesus means YHVH is my Salvation) and are indwelled with The Spirit we are saved…. But just like Moses wondering in the Wilderness many believers get stuck in a struggle which becomes a wandering the wilderness experience which heading to The Promised Land.. A believer can be in the offensive, preaching The Word and representing The Gospel properly… others truly buffeted by The Enemy are always on the defensive… they keep themselves in this struggle (with their sin) which prevents them from properly doing our duty as Christians…. The Enemy does all he can to keep people from the saving knowledge of Messiah.. but once we believe The Enemy’s job is to effectively neuter ones witness for The Kingdom…. ..but I rest assured of a Loving and Merciful God who has done everything to see that we are Redeemed…. Not by our works but The Blood and Resurrection of Christ crucified.

It is true that it's an inevitability, but it does have effect on how you live your life, so you better think about it and how it effects your feelings and the decisions you make. Obviously you can't do anything about it.

@@MalAnders94 then that's more ruminating about life than ruminating about death

Ernest Becker?

@@nobasementinthealamo3859 indeed. respect.

Well said.

@@562handsomemike The reason why No one today, that goes to Public School, believes in God, is because of Darwinism, and it being taught as uncontested scientific fact. Even though if truth were told, there is no evidence for, and every bit against. Why? Because presented with the Fact that there is no Maker, there is only one conclusion one can come to, and that is that there is No God. Note, that you never get to hear any argument against Evolution, not even in University. So, what we end up with is everyone agreeing with Evolution, but no one being able to give a good reason as to why. LIFE began, or so we are told, by a natural process which takes molecules found in a disordered state and allows them to become ordered in such a way that life is produced, even though all things trend toward disorder. The second law of thermodynamics states that “as one goes forward in time, the net entropy (degree of disorder) of any isolated or closed system will always increase .” To "progress" from bacteria to a multi cellular organism, requires the addition of new DNA code. Mutations when they do occur can only change or degrade existing information, it does not add new information. Headline: "causes of sickle cell disease" Sickle Cell News. [Sickle cell anemia results from a mutation in a gene called HBB, which contains the blueprint for cells to make part of a protein called hemoglobin. The mutation in the HBB gene in sickle cell anemia changes one of the amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, in the beta chain of hemoglobin.] "Theory of Evolution" and what doesn't fit in. Starting with the fossil record: David Gelernter, a Yale a professor of computer science, Takes On Darwinism: [In the famous “Cambrian explosion” of around half a billion years ago, a striking variety of new organisms-including the first-ever animals-pop up suddenly in the fossil record over a mere 70-odd million years. Darwin’s theory predicts that new life forms evolve gradually from old ones in a constantly branching, spreading tree of life. Those brave new Cambrian creatures must therefore have had Precambrian predecessors, similar but not quite as fancy and sophisticated. But those predecessors of the Cambrian creatures are missing. Darwin himself was disturbed by their absence from the fossil record. He believed they would turn up eventually. Some of his contemporaries (such as the eminent Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz) held that the fossil record was clear enough already, and showed that Darwin’s theory was wrong. Perhaps only a few sites had been searched for fossils, but they had been searched straight down. The Cambrian explosion had been unearthed, and beneath those Cambrian creatures their Precambrian predecessors should have been waiting-and weren’t. In fact, the fossil record as a whole lacked the upward-branching structure Darwin predicted.] Irreducible Complexity: The Challenge to the Darwinian Explanations of Life. [ "irreducible complexity." In simple terms, this idea applies to any system of interacting parts in which the removal of any one part destroys the function of the entire system. An irreducibly complex system, then, requires each and every component to be in place before it will function.] According to the BBC the components and processes that need to be in place before life begins are: Article "The secret on how life on Earth began" BBC, dated 31 Oct 2016. [ It turned out that DNA only has one job. Your DNA tells your cells how to make proteins: molecules that perform a host of essential tasks. But the process of using DNA to make proteins proved to be staggeringly intricate. That was a big problem for anyone trying to explain the origin of life, because it is hard to imagine how something so complex could ever have got started. Each protein is essentially a long chain of amino acids, strung together in a specific order. The sequence of the amino acids determines the three-dimensional shape of the protein, and thus what it does. That information is encoded in the sequence of the DNA's bases. So when a cell needs to make a particular protein, it reads the relevant gene in the DNA to get the sequence of amino acids. But there is a twist. DNA is precious, so cells prefer to keep it bundled away safely. For this reason, they copy the information from DNA onto short molecules of another substance called RNA (ribonucleic acid). If DNA is a library book, RNA is a scrap of paper with a key passage scribbled onto it. RNA is similar to DNA, except that it only has one strand. Finally, the process of converting the information in that RNA strand into a protein takes place in an enormously elaborate molecule called a "ribosome". (Ribosomes are about half protein and half rRNA. Ribosomes are usually made up of three or four rRNA molecules and anywhere from about 40 to 80 different ribosomal proteins.) This process is going on in every living cell, even the simplest bacteria. It is as essential to life as eating and breathing. Any explanation for the origin of life must show how this complex trinity - DNA, RNA and ribosome protein - came into existence and started working. "DNA makes RNA makes protein, all in this lipid-encapsulated bag of chemicals," says John Sutherland. "You look at that and it's just 'wow, that's too complicated'. How are we going to find organic chemistry that will make all that in one go?"..... In Darwin's theory of evolution, the ability to create offspring is absolutely central: the only way an organism can "win" is to leave behind lots of children. But there are other features of life that seem equally essential. The most obvious is metabolism: the ability to extract energy from your surroundings and use it to keep yourself alive. Meanwhile, a third group maintained that the first thing to appear was a container for the key molecules, to keep them from floating off. "Compartmentalisation must have come first, because there's no point doing metabolism unless you're compartmentalised," says Sutherland. In other words, there needed to be a cell ... All three ideas acquired adherents and have survived to the present day. Scientists have become passionately committed to their pet ideas, sometimes blindly so. As a result, scientific meetings on the origin of life have often been fractious affairs, and journalists covering the subject are regularly told by a scientist in one camp that the ideas emerging from the other camps are stupid or worse. ....]

@@lostat400 1) Darwin was a God-fearing and devout Christian. 2) If I'm not mistaken there are links between the cambrian and precambrian organisms. 3) 5 theorized mass extinction events which thrust the diversity of life WAY down (worst being ~95% extinction of all species from one event) that eventually climbs back up to the biodiversity we see today, some species were survivors of the previous world, while others are novel in structure. 4) Mostly unrelated segue; I am a carrier of a rare genetic condition that leads to a disorder called Phenylketonuria. My sister and her ex-husband were also carriers, which were the causal factors that resulted in my niece developing the full PKU disorder with it's common symptoms. I relate it to the Sickle Cell Disease, though they have nothing to do with one another.

@@lostat400 👍🏻In short, no functioning complex system has ever emerged without a creator. Someone designed and set into motion a beautifully orchestrated system upon which our complex universe depends. Perfect order has NEVER emerged from an explosion ... EVER!

I like when he talks about dogs and cats.

Extremely insightful! He was either summarizing some part of the Bible or maybe a Buddho or something… But like any great comic, he has the skill to boil it down, orate and declaim it...

33:40

Great point, brother. In my estimation, Norm earnestly sought a relationship with God and accepted the truth of Jesus; albeit in his own, unique way. Obviously, no one but the Lord knew Norms heart. But I’d like to believe that old chunk of coal is now a diamond that we’ll get to fellowship and worship with in the presence of the Almighty.

You know what they call it nowadays a “DIRT NAP”

@@jezraelcummins4367 good god larry

Not sure, but it follows families.

Death is when a person, place or a thing dies

@@cauler6627 thanks Adam. A real Ed McBoy

Excellent. Check out some of the other episodes while you’re here.

Just heard him mention that and came down to the comments to see if anyone else caught it. I believe he died of Multiple myeloma which lists chemical exposure as a likely cause. So sad. Amazing interview though

I like to think that. Catholics talk of purgatory like that, but we all need to leave our ugly parts behind to find peace.

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Thank you for saying this, Hugh G Rection! Lol. I read the diamond in heaven quote, THEN I saw the name of the author. Hugh G Rection. Something about that is very funny to me.

@@curtismcdonald6838 I've been a huge fan of Norm for 3 decades now.Hated to lose him,as did we all.

@@hughgrection9439 Of course. But the name still makes me giggle.

Perfect. Glad you liked it, Mark.

Norm says he's 48 during the interview and he was 61 when he passed. So this would have been around 13 years ago, a few years before his diagnosis.

@@Tom-yd1ur Once again, this was from 2012. No debate about it. He always went by a younger age until his book came out.

Thanks for the comment.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. This isn't new - it's from 2012 - but it's timeless!

I can't nail it down if he was trolling about atheism. Kept going back to it. So it either bothers him (cause I have heard him talk about it on other interviews also) or he is trolling (for the same reason). He (here) doesn't understand it on many levels.

27:30 He said "I'm 48 now and I've had 2 Colonoscopys. This would put this interview around 2007. 🤔

All of RU-vid?! Impressive. Thanks.

Glad you’re enjoying it. Say hi to Big Country for me!

Glad you liked it. The host is just a guy.

Ask him about Russian existentialist authors!

I just started to listen. Think I'll go make myself a cup of coffee.

Thanks for listening!

In autumn Norm and his sidekick Adam Egret will restart their podcast!

@@notgonnalie1846 is this true

Awesome, thanks.

I hope adam wasnt talking out his ass on joe's podcast and they really do it

Some say Norm hasn't actually ever had anything on his mind... but that's not true! Just the other day, I saw a picture of him wearing a hat!

Mine, too.

Did you fill up the van with cheese sandwiches, too?

1885 right?