Andy has never been a dunce, nor an empty vessel. He's always caught the astute folly of Norm and Conan. He was well-suited as a sidekick, much more substantive than Ed McMahon. I've always felt a little sad for Andy, that he may have regretted that he hasn't done enough with his life...I could see him in a dramatic role and be surprisingly convincing...
@@evansevansevans1 well yeah he ordered everything from Acme. Im pretty sure you'd see him getting deliveries from time to time. It's not like a coyote can just walk into a shop and buy a catapult or box of dynamite
@@mayedalshamsi The joke is basically that it's an absurd comment. Norm accidentally changed the last name of the guy in the joke. Instead of acknowledging that or explaining it, he said "a man grows" which is kind of a literary, fortune-cookie-esque way of saying that people change over time. But generally that sort of thing refers to someone growing emotionally or growing in wisdom. Not someone changing their last name. It's the sort of joke that isn't particularly funny when you explain it, but it's fantastic as an off the cuff response to Conan pointing out that he made a mistake.
@@clayton229 - Thank you for that explanation! I'm sure it's less funny now that I've had to have it explained to me, but I'd take that over not understanding the joke at all, any day. 😜
@@pats5375 Yes. Norm is usually only left to laugh at his own jokes, and give the audience a side eye as an indication that they should laugh too. I thoroughly enjoyed Norm getting a belly laugh for once.
@@Optim40 Norm didn't "try to recover from a beat down." Throughout his career he actively pursued subverting expectations, told bad jokes on purpose, and wasn't afraid to walk an entire room. Going into this Conan appearance, Norm absolutely knew his shaggy dog story had a terrible punchline -- puns are the worst -- and when Andy fearlessly jumped on it with a hilarious rejoinder, Norm was genuinely delighted. The handshake was respect, not recovery.
I'll be real. I'm with Norm on that. His cardiovascular system didn't need to pump oxygen as hard, he didn't need to train his ankles or calves, and he genuinely had actual fucking springs for legs. He DID have an unfair advantage. The murdering I can live with, but cheating is unforgivable.
I'm pretty sure Oscar hasn't been on a 4 mile hike either, not with those rob9t legs. He'd probably fall down face-first into the dog turd, which is what he deserves for all those races he cheated in.
I dunno. Conan even joking around that it’s weird to not like that guy enrages me. He wore springs and bullied people to let him compete with people who were not allowed to wear springs. Yes, that is the kind of person who is so full of themselves that they’ll shoot their girlfriend. I called it years before. Never liked that guy. If he allowed the other participants to wear springs then maybe. No. Seriously. The Paralympic runners who ran with the modern prosthetics of the time were known to be much faster than people with legs. Which means if Jocko could do it, then everyone with no legs should have been allowed. But only he was allowed and he could obviously run way faster because he had springs for legs. Anyone who liked that guy was a complete moron.
@@thetruthexperiment It doesn't sit well with me either. Even if we assume he had no ill intent, and that he was a great guy, even rigorous testing wouldn't be enough to settle doubts because it would be so difficult to know whether it was due to his natural ability or his prosthetics. You would literally have to somehow test able people with the same prosthetic, as a control, which is impossible. It's such a massive variable that not allowing drugs but allowing this seems ludicrous.
That little shrink when he realises he mixed up the last name, that is what i love about Norm so much. He was such an honest kid just trying to have fun, it was so endearing. Was really painful to learn he passed away but like a dear grandfather i will always come back to watch these videos and remember Norm and his kindness and fun with people. Missed always
I love post-punchline riffs like that. I think what I like most about it is it's very risky if the punchline doesn't get a laugh. Because then the riff is just a half-sentence that you have to keep going.
norm loved stepping on his own punchlines, like his whole style was upside down. he best showed it in the bob saget roast. he loved doing things the "wrong" way.
Agreed. Big time. One of my absolute favorite things about Norm... is watching the absolute adoration in their eyes when they were witnessing him do his thing. Beautiful stuff. The man was a Unicorn. A Clown-Prince, of the highest caliber. 👍🏼😍👍🏼
I absolutely love how at 6:30 Andy so succinctly sums up Norm's comedy that Norm falls out of his chair and has to shake Andy's hand. Idk how, but Norm always managed to come off as a class act while also playing a total fool. His acknowledgement of Amdy's searing read on him is part of what makes him so entertaining and lovable.
No one else tells jokes quite like Norm did. He’s the only person I’ve seen intersperse punchlines throughout his ramblings that way. Genuinely the most unique voice in comedy.
When Norm was at the Niagra Falls part and Conan said he saw Jacques and Norm said no it's just some attendant I thought it was really brilliant and hilarious. Norm could've just said "I went to Seaworld and saw Jacques" but Conan kind of interrupted him and Norm had to subvert Conan's expectation a bit in a very hilarious way
Andy saying 4 mile hike to show you a dog turd is exactly a Shaggy Dog joke is, which Norm was a master of - especially on Conan. It's not about the punchline it's about the anti-climax where you realize you just listened to a 40 minute story that ends with something that makes you regret listening to it, but also makes you appreciate how you were taken on the absurd journey that got you there.
And he did it more than once - IMO his moth joke is the best joke I've ever heard. It's poetry, "I no longer love my son, I no longer love him because when I see his face all I see is the same cowardice I see whenever I look into a mirror" - just outstanding
No better time spent than time filled by Norm. Literally litered with gems. Also Norms handshake given after he falls from his chair laughing is the biggest compliment out there.
Andy was great in this segment. He jumps on the "I never had a problem with the murder..." line, which took Conan a second to realize was funny, and his retort to Norm's story was A+
Wasn’t surprised to hear after he passed from his fellow comics how Norm meticulously planned these ‘down the rabbit hole’ jokes. There was only one Norm.
His specials are HBO One-Night-Stand (it is on youtube: ruclips.net/video/EZGBbwnMlqQ/видео.html ), Me Doing Stand-up (Comedy Central, blocked on YT), and Hitler's dog (Netflix), plus Nothing Special (Netflix) which is more like a Cameo than stand up.
Thank you many many thanks OP for this clip. I had never seen this clip in its entirety but just some of the bits and pieces of this one floating around including present in TeamCoco channel. Thanks for sharing and loved enjoying every moment with this piece of coal , Norm !!🎉❤👌👍😅😊
I fully agree and said this from when i first heard about Pistorius. Those blades gave him an unfair advantage as a runner. But the world insists on being stupid about this.
2:35 and 2:52 . That mischievous glint in his eye, the laughter prior, knowing how unnecessarily long and underwhelming that joke is 😭 and then taking us on the ride anyway 😁👌🏼❤ LOVE
Love it when he makes himself crack up at his own malarkey. I honestly don't think it's embarrassing to laugh at your own jokes, especially when you know they're funny and other folks just aren't picking up on the humor. Lots of people focus on the wrong aspects of a joke and miss the funny bits.
"I feel that one of the basic requirements of being a sprinter, is having legs" ....... it's hard to articulate why he's the greatest comedian of all time
Seriously, that just gave me the idea of taking my children out on a long walk - I'm going to tell them I've got something to show them. After an hour, I'm just going to point to the most mundane thing I can spot and tell them "there it is!"
I run a city hiking group in Forest Park Queens. I ran an internet ad saying "Take a hike to Freedom". After 90 minutes we arrived at Freedom Road and I showed 30 hikers the street sign.
I don’t know which was ballsier: the Oscar Pistorius joke, or delivering a deeply Québecois based joke to an American audience. I’ve always held this particular Norm appearance very dear because my mother was in fact born in Témiscaming, Quebec; a town remote enough that it’s citizens receive isolation pay from the provincial government. It just made me feel that much more connected to Norm, a comedian whose specialty was making you feel like you were in on the inside joke. Couldn’t get much more inside than that.
@@ElriuhiluYep, real place, pulp and paper mill town along the Ontario-Quebec border on the Ottawa River. Around 2,500 people, quite isolated geographically. Their Wikipedia page actually reference this segment. Also when he calls the man Jacques-de-Gatineau, Gatineau is a big city in Quebec, part of the National Capital region directly across the river from Ottawa. And when he mentions the "Three Wise Men of Quebec," he is referencing three actual politicians from Quebec, who, during the 1960s, were dubbed as such by English media in Canada, seen as men who would change the course Canadian poiltics. Correspondingly, one of those men, Pierre Trudeau (Justin Trudeau's father) became one of the longest tenured Canadian Prime Ministers ever, championing multiculturalism and bilingualism, and having a major impact on the country's history, leaving a significant but somewhat divisive legacy.
Man I miss Norm. So fearless to do shaggy dog jokes on national TV. Conan was a fan and allowed it to happen. Norm's talk shows were the best thing going before he passed away.
I wish there was just a whole tv show with Conan, Andy and Norm every episode in front of a live studio audience; it would probably be my favorite show
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I’ve seen Norm get to a lot of dead ends and recover but “you know a man grows…” may be the most brilliant
Ay nigra
I honestly think Norm said it on purpose. Always two steps ahead.
@@nsny25 at 3:03 he set it up. Brilliant
@@nsny25 he did it ALL on porpoise
@@TA-tg1cf 😄
I only regret that we never got to see Norm as an actual old man.
Damn... that was deap
He skipped from lanky nasal-talking 20-something, to baritone backwoods geezer before he was 40. We was robbed of Old Man Norm.
I’d say we did. He knew he was dying. Norm embraced his full transition into Grandpa Norm in those last years. He seemed so at peace and care-free.
I don't knew i was goin to cry again.
To be fair he's always acted like an old man
“Allegedly…. Also, really.” Brutal, and re-usable!
Hahahahaha. "And re-usable" is great and reusable too
That's what I thought, "I'm gonna have to stick that one in my back pocket".
Though not in a court of law, my God!
He didn't shoot his girlfriend, just like OJ did t murder his ex wife.
"Allegedly...and actually"
Oscar Pistorius may have been an alleged murderer, but I’ll tell you one thing he was not: a legged murderer.
Clever 👍
Brilliant, Norm would've loved this one.
he out now running around a free man on his stilts.
Almost the best joke I have ever heard or read!
You know what's the worst part? The hypocrisy.
My God, his transition from Oscar to Jacques is the most beautifully non-connected thing i've ever seen.
It serves a youthful porpoise.
@@knowsmebyname😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Is that even a real person?
I've only ever seen the second half, but damn, that transition was masterful!
@@knowsmebyname Youthful porpoise.
The way Norm falls out of his chair and shakes Andy's hand, you know he took that as a massive compliment.
Andy has never been a dunce, nor an empty vessel. He's always caught the astute folly of Norm and Conan. He was well-suited as a sidekick, much more substantive than Ed McMahon. I've always felt a little sad for Andy, that he may have regretted that he hasn't done enough with his life...I could see him in a dramatic role and be surprisingly convincing...
@@fenwayifyhis show was really funny too, shame it didn’t last
@@fenwayifyshut UP
The Swedish Germans are a funny people
I read like the first 3/4 of your comment in his voice
"You're not a biped" kills me.
"Scram"
Scram! Take all the time u need...
I GUESS IT ALSO DID THE WIFE A NUMBER
Just like oscar
All it’s missing is an “on accounta”
“Something Wile E Coyote would order” is my favorite line
For some reason it flies under the radar. Love that line.
It’s the word order that is so funny. Like he went on Amazon.
@@evansevansevans1 well yeah he ordered everything from Acme. Im pretty sure you'd see him getting deliveries from time to time. It's not like a coyote can just walk into a shop and buy a catapult or box of dynamite
Norm’s wit is much faster than Wile E Coyote, Roadrunner, and Oscar Pistorius combined.
"Well you know, a man grows." is the best bit of this entire segment. Funniest man who ever lived.
I don't get it. What does that have to do with the last name changing?
Growth is one of the manners in which things change.
@@mayedalshamsi The joke is basically that it's an absurd comment. Norm accidentally changed the last name of the guy in the joke. Instead of acknowledging that or explaining it, he said "a man grows" which is kind of a literary, fortune-cookie-esque way of saying that people change over time.
But generally that sort of thing refers to someone growing emotionally or growing in wisdom. Not someone changing their last name.
It's the sort of joke that isn't particularly funny when you explain it, but it's fantastic as an off the cuff response to Conan pointing out that he made a mistake.
@@clayton229 - Thank you for that explanation! I'm sure it's less funny now that I've had to have it explained to me, but I'd take that over not understanding the joke at all, any day. 😜
I’ve used this line and it kills
The way Norm falls out of his chair to Andy’s retort is the best
Yes! I've never seen Norm laugh that hard! He loved that analogy from Andy and even shook his hand soon after. That's big praise coming from Norm! 😅
@@pats5375 Yes. Norm is usually only left to laugh at his own jokes, and give the audience a side eye as an indication that they should laugh too. I thoroughly enjoyed Norm getting a belly laugh for once.
Hes just trying to recover from the beat down hes getting from conan and andy if youre astute like that. Thinking about it any other way is off.
I absolutely loved that part and the fact Norm felt he had to shake Andy's hand. Talk about giving approval. Awesome.
@@Optim40 Norm didn't "try to recover from a beat down." Throughout his career he actively pursued subverting expectations, told bad jokes on purpose, and wasn't afraid to walk an entire room. Going into this Conan appearance, Norm absolutely knew his shaggy dog story had a terrible punchline -- puns are the worst -- and when Andy fearlessly jumped on it with a hilarious rejoinder, Norm was genuinely delighted. The handshake was respect, not recovery.
"Take your time, as long as you want. But get the hell outta here!" - As long as you want is the funniest damn thing Norm was able to slip in there
I'll be real.
I'm with Norm on that. His cardiovascular system didn't need to pump oxygen as hard, he didn't need to train his ankles or calves, and he genuinely had actual fucking springs for legs.
He DID have an unfair advantage.
The murdering I can live with, but cheating is unforgivable.
Worst thing about Oscar Pistorious is the hypocrisy.
the more i learn about this oscar pistorious guy, the more i don't care for him
The spring thing is obvious isn't it?
also, weren't his blades longer than his legs? longer legs are definitely an advantage.
Some say the hypocrisy was the worst part
I am reasonably confident that Norm liked Andy's idea so much that he did, in fact, take someone on a 4 mile hike to show them a dog turd.
😂😂😂😂😂
shut up
That would be a trip of a life time!
“4 mile hike to show you a dog turd” It’s the journey, not the destination
Andy clearly has never been on a hike
Underrated comment.
I'm pretty sure Oscar hasn't been on a 4 mile hike either, not with those rob9t legs. He'd probably fall down face-first into the dog turd, which is what he deserves for all those races he cheated in.
Conan: “No one is going with you on this !”
Norm (internal): “precisely”
I dunno. Conan even joking around that it’s weird to not like that guy enrages me. He wore springs and bullied people to let him compete with people who were not allowed to wear springs. Yes, that is the kind of person who is so full of themselves that they’ll shoot their girlfriend. I called it years before. Never liked that guy. If he allowed the other participants to wear springs then maybe. No. Seriously. The Paralympic runners who ran with the modern prosthetics of the time were known to be much faster than people with legs. Which means if Jocko could do it, then everyone with no legs should have been allowed. But only he was allowed and he could obviously run way faster because he had springs for legs. Anyone who liked that guy was a complete moron.
@@thetruthexperiment yeah man, Pistorius is so lame 😁
@@thetruthexperimentI’m with you, i disliked him from the start
@@thetruthexperiment It doesn't sit well with me either. Even if we assume he had no ill intent, and that he was a great guy, even rigorous testing wouldn't be enough to settle doubts because it would be so difficult to know whether it was due to his natural ability or his prosthetics. You would literally have to somehow test able people with the same prosthetic, as a control, which is impossible. It's such a massive variable that not allowing drugs but allowing this seems ludicrous.
norm absolutely LOVED that needle from Andy after his story lmfao. I love to see him genuinely laugh at a joke, it's rare someone gets one over on him
I live in Gatineau, Quebec, I'm sure there's a Jacques around here somewhere.
Hello fellow québécois
Just don’t pin your hopes on him
@@MehYam2112 nice.
hey I'm from Gatineau too!
I hope he's out there serving a youthful Porpoise.
He takes us on these long journeys on Porpoise.
And we have a whale of a time.
Sorry, just seven words. Norm would have spun it out to several minutes of comedic majesty.
@@TimonofIlford10/10 for effort anyway haha. Man he was the best.
@@TimonofIlford Don't sell yourself short, my friend! That was eight words.
For all in tents and porpoises, that is very true!
@@jayhache5609P.S. camping is in tents
That little shrink when he realises he mixed up the last name, that is what i love about Norm so much. He was such an honest kid just trying to have fun, it was so endearing. Was really painful to learn he passed away but like a dear grandfather i will always come back to watch these videos and remember Norm and his kindness and fun with people. Missed always
'I started to travel to here and there...and to here again'.
I love the way Conan looks at the camera after "you were supposed to go to Canada's nations capital of Ottawa"
*Typical Conan: being an exuberant, unselfish, straight man to highlight the guest.* 🏆
"I'm serving a youthful porpoise" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
After the punchline Norm’s “Now I believe…” and the explosion of facial expressions that go with it was the pay off.
I love post-punchline riffs like that. I think what I like most about it is it's very risky if the punchline doesn't get a laugh. Because then the riff is just a half-sentence that you have to keep going.
@@jakelover1731Agreed. It gets funnier the more I watch it, the way he plays innocent and darts his head back and forth at Conan and Andy.
The faces he makes when Conan calls him out on changing the name.
norm loved stepping on his own punchlines, like his whole style was upside down. he best showed it in the bob saget roast. he loved doing things the "wrong" way.
@ Best roast ever. “You have a beautiful face like a flower…yeah a cauliflower!” (Long stoic stare down of his victim.)
Seen this a half dozen times and it gets me every time. We pinned our hopes on you Jaques De Gatinau!
Or de Gauthier.
@@kyon813 Hey. A man grows.
@@torchmark66 🍆
But he’s serving a youthful porpoise!
The fact that Norm so thoroughly won over both Conan and Letterman tells you all you need to know about just how brilliant he was.
The man was a true comedic genius he reached deep into peoples minds and not everyone got it but to those that did he was the best truly.
Agreed. Big time. One of my absolute favorite things about Norm... is watching the absolute adoration in their eyes when they were witnessing him do his thing. Beautiful stuff. The man was a Unicorn. A Clown-Prince, of the highest caliber.
👍🏼😍👍🏼
I absolutely love how at 6:30 Andy so succinctly sums up Norm's comedy that Norm falls out of his chair and has to shake Andy's hand. Idk how, but Norm always managed to come off as a class act while also playing a total fool. His acknowledgement of Amdy's searing read on him is part of what makes him so entertaining and lovable.
" I don't have a problem with the MURDER."
What a delivery. 😂
wow full clip. Only segments of this were on RUclips before. Thanx. Not only are you a scholar and a gentleman, but you must have a lot of doghouses.
No one else tells jokes quite like Norm did. He’s the only person I’ve seen intersperse punchlines throughout his ramblings that way. Genuinely the most unique voice in comedy.
YES! Exactly! Well said! 👏👏👏👏👏
”Man grows” broke Conan. What a legend he was. Kid me not - I fall asleep with Norm compilations!
Andy’s comment after the youthful porpose joke is the sugar on top.
The most "youthful porpoise" the German swede ever served.
“I had no problem with the murder.”
😂😂😂😂
Well, it was tragic, at the time
Funniest sh*t ever! The delivery... GOLD!!
Norm was an Angel, such a beautiful and intelligent person.
Herald Johnson, you're a scholar and a gentleman for uploading this. 👍
Whether Herald knows it or not. He's found a youthful porpoise.
conan just can't contain himself whenever norm is on the show lol
Until Conan reminded us, “There’s only one like him…”. So true ❤️😢❤️
When Norm was at the Niagra Falls part and Conan said he saw Jacques and Norm said no it's just some attendant I thought it was really brilliant and hilarious. Norm could've just said "I went to Seaworld and saw Jacques" but Conan kind of interrupted him and Norm had to subvert Conan's expectation a bit in a very hilarious way
The worst thing about Oscar Pistorius was the hypocrisy…
I thought it was the killing
I thought it was the *scheming.*
Let's agree to disagree
He really loved the dog turd joke!
It was more of a comment, really.
@@dejuren1367 That's not hate for Andy, it's referencing a line from Norm MacDonald Live.
I like to think that exactly what he's going for, and he never heard anyone put it to words like that so perfectly
The three of them. Classic. Miss it all
After he says “Ottawa” and Conan gives an exhausted look
Good comedians can tell great jokes that make you laugh but great comedians can tell bad jokes that make you laugh harder. Norm is a great comedian🙂
That's pretty insightful
Andy saying 4 mile hike to show you a dog turd is exactly a Shaggy Dog joke is, which Norm was a master of - especially on Conan. It's not about the punchline it's about the anti-climax where you realize you just listened to a 40 minute story that ends with something that makes you regret listening to it, but also makes you appreciate how you were taken on the absurd journey that got you there.
3:30 "well, you know, a man grows" 😂😂😂😂 one of my all time favorite Norm lines.
No one but Norm could deliver it like that.
5:17 Conan's expression here is the best!! 😄
Not many people could go on Conan and just tell a 40 minute story for a pun. Mr McDonald was a legend.
And he did it more than once - IMO his moth joke is the best joke I've ever heard. It's poetry, "I no longer love my son, I no longer love him because when I see his face all I see is the same cowardice I see whenever I look into a mirror" - just outstanding
those blades were objectively superior for running than actual legs.
The 4 mile hike to show you a dog turd line is pretty great
No better time spent than time filled by Norm. Literally litered with gems.
Also Norms handshake given after he falls from his chair laughing is the biggest compliment out there.
I have seen this clip countless times and everything about it still hits me as hard every time. RIP madlad you’re spot on earth is missed like hell
He was one of the very few comedians that gave the vibe that he is not acting but he is like that all the time.
Norm’s delivery of “I don’t have problems with the murder” had me howling
blows me away what kind of a talent he is
Nobody in modern comedy could hold court like Norm. He just took over everything he did.
4:20 love how proud he is of what he just said
I think he's just working hard on what to say next.
Andy was great in this segment. He jumps on the "I never had a problem with the murder..." line, which took Conan a second to realize was funny, and his retort to Norm's story was A+
Norms long form dad jokes are the fucking greatest
This is amongst my top 10 all time favorite RUclips videos
I love that at the end of it all, it was good ol' Andy Richter The Swedish-German, who got Norm to fall out of his chair laughing.
"No, it was just an attendant" and the gut punch laugh from Conan. Only Norm could do that to him.
The smartest comedian ever.
Oscar may have been armed when he murdered that poor woman, but he wasn’t legged.
I miss you norm.
Wasn’t surprised to hear after he passed from his fellow comics how Norm meticulously planned these ‘down the rabbit hole’ jokes. There was only one Norm.
Imagine how good it must have felt for Andy to make a counter joke so good it made Norm Macdonald fall to his knees laughing
I was thinking the same thing, probably a career highlight for him
I have to write that I appreciate your channel. Not reuploading other people's work or trying to profit, like that guy selling access to NML.
Aww God bless! Do people not know about the internet archive? No need to pay a scoundrel:
archive.org/details/Norm_Macdonald_Live
@@HeraldJohnson To my knowledge he has 3 specials, do you have them?
Just realized two are there, just Hitler's Dog, Gossip & Trickery that´s not
His specials are HBO One-Night-Stand (it is on youtube: ruclips.net/video/EZGBbwnMlqQ/видео.html ), Me Doing Stand-up (Comedy Central, blocked on YT), and Hitler's dog (Netflix), plus Nothing
Special (Netflix) which is more like a Cameo than stand up.
0:16 im stealing this bit lmao
One of the most knowledgeable. Rip my dear friend
The ease of continuation into the winding road of Jacque de Gatineau was too funny
Thank you many many thanks OP for this clip. I had never seen this clip in its entirety but just some of the bits and pieces of this one floating around including present in TeamCoco channel. Thanks for sharing and loved enjoying every moment with this piece of coal , Norm !!🎉❤👌👍😅😊
Wouldnt the OP be connan?
Norm is one of Canada and Amerika best person
Bye from the Netherlands
1:31 My favourite thing is conan trying SO HARD not to completely lose it here hahahhaha
Norm could make you want to take that 4 mile walk to see the dog turd.
Its currently 2024. Norm's ridiculous humor is as funny as ever.
Nobody set Norm up for success quite like Conan O'Brian.
I fully agree and said this from when i first heard about Pistorius. Those blades gave him an unfair advantage as a runner. But the world insists on being stupid about this.
100%
If he’d only changed his gender…
Makin Norm fall out of his chair laughing would high on my list of life achievements
Norm is a master at putting people on the defence of something they don't believe. Pure art. 2:05 - 2:26
"I know, that was way out of line" he says with a huge grin, obviously very pleased with himself 😂
2:35 and 2:52 . That mischievous glint in his eye, the laughter prior, knowing how unnecessarily long and underwhelming that joke is 😭 and then taking us on the ride anyway 😁👌🏼❤ LOVE
Love it when he makes himself crack up at his own malarkey. I honestly don't think it's embarrassing to laugh at your own jokes, especially when you know they're funny and other folks just aren't picking up on the humor. Lots of people focus on the wrong aspects of a joke and miss the funny bits.
"I feel that one of the basic requirements of being a sprinter, is having legs"
....... it's hard to articulate why he's the greatest comedian of all time
5:55😂 Conan's reaction. His face! 😂
They always played off of each other so well.
NORM 🙏👌😊❤️
Seriously, that just gave me the idea of taking my children out on a long walk - I'm going to tell them I've got something to show them. After an hour, I'm just going to point to the most mundane thing I can spot and tell them "there it is!"
I run a city hiking group in Forest Park Queens. I ran an internet ad saying "Take a hike to Freedom". After 90 minutes we arrived at Freedom Road and I showed 30 hikers the street sign.
Did you do it?
I don’t know which was ballsier: the Oscar Pistorius joke, or delivering a deeply Québecois based joke to an American audience.
I’ve always held this particular Norm appearance very dear because my mother was in fact born in Témiscaming, Quebec; a town remote enough that it’s citizens receive isolation pay from the provincial government. It just made me feel that much more connected to Norm, a comedian whose specialty was making you feel like you were in on the inside joke. Couldn’t get much more inside than that.
That's a real place? I thought Norm just made it up for the joke.
@@ElriuhiluYep, real place, pulp and paper mill town along the Ontario-Quebec border on the Ottawa River. Around 2,500 people, quite isolated geographically. Their Wikipedia page actually reference this segment.
Also when he calls the man Jacques-de-Gatineau, Gatineau is a big city in Quebec, part of the National Capital region directly across the river from Ottawa.
And when he mentions the "Three Wise Men of Quebec," he is referencing three actual politicians from Quebec, who, during the 1960s, were dubbed as such by English media in Canada, seen as men who would change the course Canadian poiltics. Correspondingly, one of those men, Pierre Trudeau (Justin Trudeau's father) became one of the longest tenured Canadian Prime Ministers ever, championing multiculturalism and bilingualism, and having a major impact on the country's history, leaving a significant but somewhat divisive legacy.
This is a great LESSON: don’t give up on the joke. Andy tried to tell his 3 (maybe 4) times and each time got cut off and then nailed it!
Man I miss Norm. So fearless to do shaggy dog jokes on national TV. Conan was a fan and allowed it to happen. Norm's talk shows were the best thing going before he passed away.
That joke set up was truly Norm.
3:15 Norm cracks himself up, because he himself doesnt even know how he gets to the porpoise joke.
Norm's face at 2:38 when he decides he is now is going into his serving a useful purpose joke is awesome.
He made Andy laugh out loud which is rare lmao
I wish there was just a whole tv show with Conan, Andy and Norm every episode in front of a live studio audience; it would probably be my favorite show
I love that Andy made him laugh so hard he fell off the couch
Well, you know, a man grows.
Norm Nailed it.
Norm was brilliant. Just brilliant.
Andy's never fallen for the 4mile hike trick.