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steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

The podcast episode with Fred Stoller is probably the funniest one.

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burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp
Norm Macdonald is a living gem, he is a jewel of life and we are all enriched by his existence.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Norm owns a lot hth

GET MY BELT SON
Sep 26, 2007

I'll never forget the moth joke

Blizzy_Cow
Feb 27, 2006
When one burns one's bridges, what a wonderful fire it makes
Granted youll yave to sit through some half rear end comedians Norm ia going to be a judge on Last Comic Standing this season. That alone has earned it a slot on my dvr.

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax

vyst posted:

Norm owns a lot hth

That doesn't help

Baxter
Sep 13, 2000

Shinjobi posted:

His delivery is really everything. He's great, always has been.

Pretty much this, yep.

His delivery is unique and genuine and just inherently funny.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Heard some comedian talking about the first time they were on SNL and everyone was acting like it was a big deal and whatever and Norm McDonald comes up to him and just goes 'lol this is all bullshit don't fuckin worry bro.'

Bloodfart McCoy
Jul 20, 2007

That's a high quality avatar right there.
Norm is the sole reason I keep waking up every day.

Whooping Crabs
Apr 13, 2010

Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons

Egbert Souse posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywpHcLhSbXA

One of the finest moments of television.

Came here to post this. Norm tells it like it is.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Egbert Souse posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywpHcLhSbXA

One of the finest moments of television.

I remember seeing this years ago. When Norm blurts out "B-O-R-E-D" was the moment that in my eyes cemented him as one of the finest men alive. Goddamn if it doesn't make me howl from laughter every time, the pressure just keeps mounting and mounting until that one perfect line.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
Norm is also great for inspiring D&D retards to tilt at him in their crusade for political purity.

For example, they discovered this ancient article:

quote:

During the February 24, 1996 episode, Macdonald made a controversial joke about the sentencing of John Lotter, one of the two men who committed the notorious murder of Brandon Teena: "In Falls City, Nebraska, John Lotter has been sentenced to death for attempting to kill three people in what prosecutors called a plot to silence a cross-dressing female who had accused him of rape. Now this might strike some viewers as harsh, but I believe everyone involved in this story 'deserved to die'."

After the announcement that Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley planned to divorce, Macdonald joked about their irreconcilable differences on Weekend Update: "She's more of a stay-at-home type, and he's more of a homosexual pedophile." He followed this up a few episodes later with a report about the singer's collapse and hospitalization. Referring to a report of how Jackson had decorated his hospital room with giant photographs of Shirley Temple, Macdonald remarked that viewers should not get the wrong idea, adding, "Michael Jackson is a homosexual pedophile." The joke elicited audible gasps from some audience members. He responded to this by saying, "What? He is a homosexual pedophile."

[..]

A particularly infamous joke never made it to air. Norm showed the famous photo of naked Vietnamese children running from a South Vietnamese napalm attack, and said, "In other news, Woody Allen is dating again!" Norm described the audience as projecting a "pure, crazy hate" directed at him.

Macdonald's time with Saturday Night Live effectively ended in late 1997, when he was fired from the Weekend Update segment upon the insistence of NBC West Coast Executive Don Ohlmeyer, who pressured the producers to remove him, explaining that Macdonald was "not funny." Some believe that Don Ohlmeyer's friendship with O.J. Simpson — a celebrity whom Macdonald often antagonized on the show — may have fueled Ohlmeyer's decision, but Macdonald has been quoted as saying that he finds that thesis "weird" and takes Ohlmeyer's explanation at face value.

The following shitstorm of "I hate him MORE" was precious:

R. Mute posted:

also i think norm macdonald is poo poo, bad, fucker

Rorus Raz posted:

I basically remember Norm from his otherwise forgettable sitcom and his bit on the SNL Jeopardy sketches.

Fulchrum posted:

Early 90's was good, late 90's we're good, but from what I've heard and seen, 94-96 was awful. Of course MacDonald is one of the big reasons for that.

Small Frozen Thing posted:

Norm was poo poo, sorry about your brain disease.

Saint Sputnik posted:

I like him too from what I remember but I didn't know about those jokes; they're pretty much indefensible.

verily carefree
Apr 5, 2014

whats with him always touching his face this is rhetorical

scuba school sucks
Aug 30, 2012

The brilliance of my posting illuminates the forums like a jar of shining gold when all around is dark
Has anybody posted that time Norm hosted Saturday Night Live yet? I'm having the hardest time finding old Saturday Night Live clips on YouTube, but he just straight up came out and said, "Last year I wasn't funny enough to be on the show anymore, this year I'm so funny I'm asked to host the show. What happened? I didn't get more funny in a year, it's just that the show blows. Enjoy the show, folks, we've got a really awful unfunny waste of your time show tonight."

It's a lot more funny when he says it.

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?
Here ya go, bud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C67kkmngCgc

beep by grandpa
May 5, 2004

Vastarien posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5eIJ5Ev_u4

Norm Macdonald with Super Dave really is the funniest poo poo.


skip to 28:41

Dave Concepcion
Mar 19, 2012
norm and that guy who does internet comment etiquette are the only people I find funny anymore

Dave Concepcion
Mar 19, 2012
norm seriously owns though, if you don't like norm you have a pretty lovely sense of humor

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Wrong, you should skip to the bit when Adam asks his signature question Where do you get your ideas from

That moment sealed Adam "Cuntface" Egret's role as Norm's perfect punching bag.

dsriggs
May 28, 2012

MONEY FALLS...

...FROM THE SKY...

...WHENEVER HE POSTS!
Ladies & gentlemen, this thread is for the birds!

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

dsriggs posted:

Ladies & gentlemen, this thread is for the birds!

Jeez, you should be quiet, after you told me all that stuff about the smokestacks of Birkenau not being tall enough to service the death machine of Holocaust.

Martman
Nov 20, 2006

Norm on alcoholism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rCWnxx545I

Mermaid Autopsy
Jun 9, 2001

Naxuz posted:

I remember seeing this years ago. When Norm blurts out "B-O-R-E-D" was the moment that in my eyes cemented him as one of the finest men alive. Goddamn if it doesn't make me howl from laughter every time, the pressure just keeps mounting and mounting until that one perfect line.

i still can't believe i and the internet both remember this after two decades

Ramsus
Sep 14, 2002

by Hand Knit

steinrokkan posted:

The following shitstorm of "I hate him MORE" was precious:

ahah, this is great

polio king
Jun 19, 2004

Used to be - kinda faded now.

Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

Moridin920 posted:

Heard some comedian talking about the first time they were on SNL and everyone was acting like it was a big deal and whatever and Norm McDonald comes up to him and just goes 'lol this is all bullshit don't fuckin worry bro.'

Another good Norm SNL story is the Twilight Zone sketch. Norm did not like Chris Kattan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFu_u71gas

Al Cowens
Aug 11, 2004

by WE B Bourgeois
You know who would post a thread like this?









You guessed it, .

beep by grandpa
May 5, 2004

norm has dimples for days...

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
I thought it was dick ebersol that got him fired. Dick ebersol is a piece of poo poo either way.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

My mom loved bif macs but Ive always been a chicken burger kind of person hth op

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax

FIRST TIME posted:

Another good Norm SNL story is the Twilight Zone sketch. Norm did not like Chris Kattan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFu_u71gas

Lol I haven't seen this one before

I Am A Robot
Jul 1, 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE6QzDrT_x8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H810aHuG85o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZIfGqLa8F4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4JFo0LcB_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdDeaARsI4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O0nzpjTkUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qODmxg_dUuI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqq6zzNIDvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E3usaqB_m8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaduY_sKce4

buttcrackmenace
Nov 14, 2007

see its right there in the manual where it says
Grimey Drawer
favorite Norm story? The lawnmower one he told on Carolla's radio show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhRr-q9JNjo

I won't spoil it.

ed : I'd forgotten how annoying the radio format was. Fuckin soundboards

buttcrackmenace fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jul 18, 2015

Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

buttcrackmenace posted:

favorite Norm story? The lawnmower one he told on Carolla's radio show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhRr-q9JNjo

I won't spoil it.

ed : I'd forgotten how annoying the radio format was. Fuckin soundboards

For anyone wondering, the lawnmower story is at 45 minutes in.

Idiot Kicker
Jun 13, 2007

Dave Concepcion posted:

norm and that guy who does internet comment etiquette are the only people I find funny anymore

Erik is awesome. both guys seem to have this self destructive streak though, but most good comedians have that

Wall Balls
Jun 3, 2007

Spanish Castle Magic

his show was bad and he was one of the reasons i realized family guy was bad from very early on

he is bad

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Naxuz posted:

I remember seeing this years ago. When Norm blurts out "B-O-R-E-D" was the moment that in my eyes cemented him as one of the finest men alive. Goddamn if it doesn't make me howl from laughter every time, the pressure just keeps mounting and mounting until that one perfect line.

*sage nod&* maybe you should write a poem about it

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
norm banged elle mcpherson according to a persistemt rmour and he did a pretty unconvincing job denying it on stern...norm was maries at the time. i like how he owns adam eget

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2dDf41R0G8

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ed52dd2e8b/gift-basket-from-a-friend

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beep by grandpa
May 5, 2004

b. o. r. e . d.

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