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Norm is a funny guy who knows a lot of funny people but everything he does outside of the podcast is terrible.
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Jun 23, 2015 04:57
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Saw Norm over the weekend outside of Seattle. He was pretty great, with most of his material focusing on aging and death, which seem to be two his big preoccupations as of late. Toward the end of his set, he said he went over twenty minutes and was getting glares from the sound guy, who did seem pretty upset. He ended by saying something like "The past is behind us, just faulty memory. The future doesn't even exist, is just hope, and I've learned hope never works out so well. But right now, up here, well, I love you all. And I'll get off the stage and it'll go away and I'll get yelled at, but right now I love you all." And then he ended by telling his dad's favorite joke and his son's favorite joke. I love me some Norm—I wish he would start up the podcast again or finish that autobiography.
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Jun 23, 2015 05:25
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What were the two jokes and where specifically did you see him
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Jun 23, 2015 05:42
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Norm is a funny guy who knows a lot of funny people but everything he does outside of the podcast is terrible. Actually, I thought the little bits he brought to Emoji Academy were pretty great. Obviously I don't know if he actually wrote anything or had any say in those bits, but it was funny enough. Him dressed like a little kid going out for his first day at school, complete with "Norm" written on his lunch bag, and his quips were still razor-sharp. I doubt anybody else could have contributed anything more to the bare-bones script. You'll notice as well, his character is the only one to have what I would call "acting" at all in the drat thing. These starlets (none of whom I could tell from anybody else, despite the comments section echoing its apparent love for them; really, you're going to post that she "killed it" or the other one is "slaying"? Nobody had any goddamn lines! The girls all had cookie-cutter training montage lines like "I think you've got it" and "How about this one?". They didn't goddamn do anything but spend four hours in makeup and say three words!) gave him nothing at all to play off of, though that may be the fault of the director as well. It is, of course, a loving Chevrolet commercial six months late on the WACKY EMOJI MEME so who cares, I guess. Good to see our boy getting a paycheck.
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Jun 23, 2015 05:42
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No wonder he's been off the radar, chevrolet locked him in their celebrity weight-loss bunker for six months before the shoot. lookin good
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Jun 23, 2015 09:09
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Riptor posted:really? Interesting. Can you elaborate on this Uhh it's hard to describe. In my experience (I grew up in french canadia) my friends moms who were french were more blunt and matter of fact about how they dealt with children, and his delivery style reminds me of them very much.
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Jun 23, 2015 14:17
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Gah, screw you guys. I thought all these replies meant the show was back.
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Jun 23, 2015 17:55
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Gah, screw you guys. I thought all these replies meant the show was back. yeah i'm in the same boat, though it was good to see norm looking less bloated.
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Jun 23, 2015 18:57
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Gah, screw you guys. I thought all these replies meant the show was back. Seeing Norm shill emojis for a car company trying to look hip by hiring the most unhip man on the planet is some transcendent poo poo right there. Norm owns.
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Jun 23, 2015 19:07
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Advice posted:Actually, I thought the little bits he brought to Emoji Academy were pretty great. Obviously I don't know if he actually wrote anything or had any say in those bits, but it was funny enough. Him dressed like a little kid going out for his first day at school, complete with "Norm" written on his lunch bag, and his quips were still razor-sharp. I doubt anybody else could have contributed anything more to the bare-bones script. You'll notice as well, his character is the only one to have what I would call "acting" at all in the drat thing. These starlets (none of whom I could tell from anybody else, despite the comments section echoing its apparent love for them; really, you're going to post that she "killed it" or the other one is "slaying"? Nobody had any goddamn lines! The girls all had cookie-cutter training montage lines like "I think you've got it" and "How about this one?". They didn't goddamn do anything but spend four hours in makeup and say three words!) gave him nothing at all to play off of, though that may be the fault of the director as well. It is, of course, a loving Chevrolet commercial six months late on the WACKY EMOJI MEME so who cares, I guess. Good to see our boy getting a paycheck. Just because you're a model doesn't mean you've had any acting training, both take different skills. Giving them more lines would just make them look that much worse when it comes to their untrained acting skills. I have no idea who any of those girls were.
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Jun 23, 2015 19:27
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And I bet nobody in the target audience knows who Norm is.
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Jun 23, 2015 20:41
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steinrokkan posted:And I bet nobody in the target audience knows who Norm is. It's confusing and awkward for everyone! Don Draper would be spinning in his grave.
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Jun 23, 2015 21:11
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The emoji saga is concluded, and I must say Norm brings his top Dollar Shave Club game into the play. Wish he would have gone for a Mangrate spin instead, but oh well.
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Jun 23, 2015 23:18
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No more DRY MEAT
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Jun 24, 2015 03:45
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"100% cast eye-rin." Didn't Larry King scold him on that pronunciation?
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Jun 24, 2015 04:23
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rear end Catchcum posted:What were the two jokes and where specifically did you see him Bellevue, WA Which after looking at his Twitter over the weekend I realized is probably because he wanted to see the US Open a stone's throw away His dad's favorite joke was an alzheimer's one that I can't really remember. His son's favorite was something like "Roses are grey, violets are grey, the sky is grey; because I'm a dog"
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Jun 24, 2015 04:28
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:His dad's favorite joke was an alzheimer's one that I can't really remember. 
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Jun 24, 2015 06:35
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Norm is a funny guy who knows a lot of funny people but everything he does outside of the podcast is terrible. Yeah. Norm's stand up is terrible. Wtf is wrong with you dude?
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Jun 24, 2015 08:56
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Yup, here is Norm MacDonald telling a joke. Note how NOT FUNNY he is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE6QzDrT_x8
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Jun 24, 2015 14:20
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VPN says it's back July 1st? http://videopodcastnetwork.com/channels/norm-macdonald/
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Jun 24, 2015 18:41
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Puppy Galaxy posted:VPN says it's back July 1st? http://videopodcastnetwork.com/channels/norm-macdonald/ That's the schedule from 2014.
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Jun 25, 2015 02:28
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Skip My Posts posted:Yeah. Norm's stand up is terrible. Wtf is wrong with you dude? I meant all the extracurricular poo poo he does, obviously - his commercials, his sitcoms, all the VA work, etc.
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Jun 25, 2015 03:10
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Oh, yeah, you mean the poo poo he does for a paycheck that he obviously doesn't care about or put any real effort into. Yeah that stuff sucks. It's not like his appearance in Grown Ups was meant to nab that Oscar nod, though.
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Jun 25, 2015 03:14
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He doesn't care about or put effort into anything, and that's kinda my point - the podcast is perfectly suited to his temperament and work ethic and it gives him an environment where he can be genuinely funny and not oh-god-Norm's-pretending-to-act-again funny but he still managed to find a way to kill it off.
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Jun 25, 2015 04:09
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Norm's movie is good tho
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Jun 25, 2015 04:11
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Hat Thoughts posted:Norm's movie is good tho Dirty Work is the Citizen Kane of my generation and I will physically fight anyone who implies otherwise. PaletteSwappedNinja posted:He doesn't care about or put effort into anything, and that's kinda my point - the podcast is perfectly suited to his temperament and work ethic and it gives him an environment where he can be genuinely funny and not oh-god-Norm's-pretending-to-act-again funny but he still managed to find a way to kill it off. Or it WAS, before they started making him take the ads seriously and pull his leash a little. It's difficult to tell because the second half-block of the podcast episodes he started having on a lot more older comedians that he really respected and couldn't just goof on like he could Fred Stoller or That Guy From The Big Bang Theory, but he really toned it down in the last half, right around the time his advertisements starting being vanilla boring readthroughs. There's no way he was having fun on the podcast anymore and obviously he dropped it. STOP LEASHING THE MAN JUST LET HIM MAKE FUN OF THE MANGRATE IN PEACE THIS IS WHY WE DON'T HAVE ART ANYMORE Advice fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Jun 25, 2015 |
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Jun 25, 2015 05:40
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Yeah it wasn't funny when norm did that YouTube comedy festival poo poo in his sweatpants and poo poo all over its existence. Not funny.
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Jun 25, 2015 06:50
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Skip My Posts posted:Yeah it wasn't funny when norm did that YouTube comedy festival poo poo in his sweatpants and poo poo all over its existence. Not funny. I watch Norm’s stand up for the articles.
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Jun 25, 2015 20:09
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 one month till Norm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGWTTSgWqcc
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Jun 26, 2015 23:27
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Wow most of those jokes were absolute garbage, Norm might be able to redeem the show though.
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Jun 27, 2015 19:04
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Having never seen an episode of it, Last Comic Standing has to be one of the weirdest reality shows. 7 different hosts in 8 seasons, they skipped the years 2010-2014. It's given way to such comedy moguls as Dat Phan and Ralphie May, along with someone called 'Rod Man'. This last season appears to have been recorded all ahead of time and airing months after filming. Wanda Sykes is still around and producing this thing apparently. And for some reason the Canadian comedian Gerry Dee was in one season, that's the one I find weirdest.
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Jun 27, 2015 22:02
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piratepilates posted:Having never seen an episode of it, Last Comic Standing has to be one of the weirdest reality shows. I hate dirt cheat trash programming like this. I watched AGT for Howard, and I'll check this out for Norm, but man, those shows are buzzfeed on TV.
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Jun 27, 2015 22:29
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Check out the people who didn't win on that show if you want to be full of rage.
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Jun 27, 2015 23:40
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Apoplexy posted:Check out the people who didn't win on that show if you want to be full of rage. Podcasts are the medium I consume the most so it really confused me to see Todd Glass and Doug Benson both on the show and not having won the show. Just a moment of oh right I guess they're not big at all outside of certain comedy and podcast circles to not show up on a reality show that could give them press and money.
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Jun 28, 2015 00:07
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It was before they were relevant through those avenuesAxeManiac posted:Those shows are buzzfeed on TV. The show does not look funny but this makes noooo sense
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Jun 28, 2015 05:16
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Last comic standing is decent to watch the when the judges are good.
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Jun 28, 2015 05:28
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I'm just imagining a goon watching Last Comic Standing specifically for Norm, the whole time crossing his arms with a look of smug indifference and pontificating the completely uninteresting post he will later make about how it isn't funny.
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Jun 28, 2015 23:12
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Sintax posted:I'm just imagining a goon watching Last Comic Standing specifically for Norm, the whole time crossing his arms with a look of smug indifference and pontificating the completely uninteresting post he will later make about how it isn't funny. I don't have to imagine. 
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Jun 28, 2015 23:15
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Sintax posted:I'm just imagining a goon watching Last Comic Standing specifically for Norm, the whole time crossing his arms with a look of smug indifference and pontificating the completely uninteresting post he will later make about how it isn't funny. Yeah, my experience will be pretty weird.
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Jun 28, 2015 23:34
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Sintax posted:I'm just imagining a goon watching Last Comic Standing specifically for Norm, the whole time crossing his arms with a look of smug indifference and pontificating the completely uninteresting post he will later make about how it isn't funny. I'm imagining a really big dog
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Jun 29, 2015 05:46
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