In an interview Norm pointed out the distinct booing during the monologue when hosting SNL was actually the writers for the show which makes the whole thing even funnier
I was a huge fan in the early to mid 90's SNL... by this time, it actually was boring and bad. And sorry, I think it remains bad since the early 90's. Maybe that's the 40 year old coming out.... ya, will ferrel is good. But there's two classic era's. The original late 70's, and the early 90's. It's pretty mediocre at best besides that.
Being the Weekend Update anchor is something they can never take away from you. Unless your boss is good friends with a guy that killed his wife and a waiter
Nothing can prepare you for the hardship of losing it all to such an unfair situation, except maybe Prince Charles' critically acclaimed bestseller titled "Of Course OJ Did It, I Mean, C'mon".
I remember watching this live... I actually choked on my drink when he hit that line ("you know, you'll see later"), and damn near had to go to the hospital because I ended up inhaling my beer. I never heard the rest of the monologue until years later, because I was too busy coughing. Norm was one of the funniest people who ever lived.
This is one of the most savage roasts I've ever heard. It's even more savage knowing every single person who hated him enough to fire him was watching that monologue and absolutely *seething*
Norm Macdonald is truly a fucking legend. Gets invited to host the show and proceeds to just insult it and everyone during the entire monologue. What makes this truly amazing is anyone else would take the easy, face-saving way out and end the monologue with "I'm just joking everyone, we have a great show..." and proceed to laugh like it was all a joke. Not Norm, he commits 100% and ends up being the only person ever to literally say "we have a bad show". Epic. Also have met Norm several times in person and was always the most gracious and down-to-earth celeb I've met over the years
Yeah I feel like norm truly is one of if not the only celebs to hate all the fake bullshit. In the end maybe because he knew was dying but he got even more real. He was a deep guy
Best part about Norm is that he is probably the only comedian who genuinely sounds like he isn't trying to be funny, but every sentence he says is hilarious
He was also a really smart guy who could have held court with someone like Christopher Hitchens but deliberately came across as dumber than he was to fuck with the audience
+ricarleite i'm pretty sure everyone got it. I just don't think everyone enjoyed hearing it. regardless, i love thinking about the fact that he gave a completely different monologue during rehearsals. when he started saying this stuff the producers were probably shitting their pants
Zennofobic I can't see any logical reason why Don Ohlemeyer would want to have O.J. Simpson as a personal friend ? Something must have been wrong with his reasoning.
What an absolute savage. I adore Norm MacDonald's style, he's got a ton of charisma and his comedy flows almost seamlessly; serious respect for that talent.
He nailed it with "the show has gotten really bad." True words and it still holds to this day. Norm was awesome and he didn't mind ruffling some feathers and didn't really care much either way about it.
@@linden6190 Not at all. It's now an absolute snoozefest that has more of a political agenda than an urge to be entertaining. A bunch of bootlicking, really.
And then there was the joke at the 25th anniversary where Norm mentioned he wasn't invited and there was a party at Eddie Murphy's making fun of the show.
I am old enough to remember seeing Martin Laurence actually losing his mind live. Subsequent broadcasts edited it out and replaced it with a title card explaining that everyone nearly lost their jobs because of the monologue. At the time I thought it was just great performance art......it was not.
I’m here cuz SNL just announced that Shane Gillis is hosting next week after they fired him a few years ago and I’m expecting an epic Norm-level victory lap monologue from him
When I was younger I never got Norm, but in my 30s and 40s I have really grown to appreciate what a great comedian and man that he was. He will be missed.
Fuck snl they were never funny to me other then the cowbell skit.. but that's about it.. I listen to comedy all day everyday. And this guy is a talent to be reckoned with . All the loosers now ar incredibly boring and drain the funny out of the room ,like they used to do on their daddy's dicks
@@JR-lv9nb have you seen the Pepper Boy skit with Sandler and Carvey? Also Debbie Downer with Rachel Dratch, the one they did at Disney world with Jimmy fallon. Other than those two and the skit at the gyro restaurant with Jason Alexander, I agree SNL has been pretty mediocre or bad for a while now
Brilliant. There's no way in hell that's the monologue he did in the dress rehearsal. It was typical Norm to pull the rug out from under them. He got the last laugh, and deservedly so. He was the best Weekend Update Host ever, and those idiots fired him. But he who laughs last, laughs best. R.I.P. Norm 💙
Yup. When they fired Norm they weren't nice about it. So from Norm's perspective, to be offered the hosting gig after such a short amount of time was like a slap in the face. Like waving a $20 in front of a homeless person's face that you just kicked out of your restaurant. So he was like...okay *devil grin* let's do this.
@@travislivengood5228 Almost like they said "dance monkey" and he reminded them, live on national television, why he was among the greatest improv comedians of all time.
I seem to remember him saying in an interview once that he was planning on leaving after the monologue too. He thought it'd be interesting to watch the cast members try and work it out on live TV, but someone talked him out of it. I've listened to so much crap with Norm in it though, i couldn't begin to guess where he said this.
@@SeeSawMassacresomething along the lines of he’d start delivering the monologue and then start walking out to a waiting taxi as a massive middle finger.
Norm wasn't cut from the same cloth as the rest. A pure comedian before a celebrity, and hardly even the latter. Just incredible that 22 years have passed, and those burns still sting.
Norm actually wanted to come out do his monologue and walk of the show and leave but was talked out of it by his friends saying it would be career suicide
man, can you imagine watching the show after that? It would have to be the most awkward and disjointed thing ever, because I don't think NBC could just cancel or not go on with the show either with the musical guests and everything. I'm kind of disappointed that he didn't. That would've been god-tier awkward and subtle comedy that only Norm has the balls to deliver, that probably nobody would appreciate in the moment, but would look back with fascination on years later.
@@AlexanderMoen they do a pretape show a few hours before the live show, they would have just rolled the pretape show after the monologue if Macdonald walked
How true. I hope someone interviews Lorne Michaels and asks him about this. What did Norm say at the rehearsal, did he rehearse it, what did Lorne think during the monologue and did anyone from the upstairs office call down to the stage during the monologue to complain or try and stop it.
@@adognamedmiley6848 I saw the two "Edith Puthie" eps, the one where they're changing peoples' names at the Pittsburgh courthouse and "The Boomers Got The Vax". Those were good.
RIP to the legend Norm. But, sketch comedy has and will always be hit or miss. Plenty of clunkers from original cast. Plus relevancy factors. No one today even gets the humor behind Akroyd's Carter and Chase's Ford. You're just another curmudgeon, like many, preaching how SNL isn't like it was in their day, and who is consequently now missing out on some SNL gems in recent years. Your loss. "Any questions?!?!"
@j Shocking to hear this news!! Because the last time Norm was in the news was when speaking out against cancel culture when it came to comedy. He never was comfortable doing sketches on SNL despite his well received impressions of Burt Reynolds & Bob Dole. He was definitely more at ease delivering biting sarcastic comedic commentary that won him a lot of fans, but also garnered haters who weren't comfortable with that style of comedy. R.I.P.
Norm is King!! Giving it right back to Ohlmeyer and the other SNL/NBC suits. Some people try to pretend that they don't care. Norm truly doesn't care one bit, and that's why we love him.
Shane kind of bombed but it was meant to happen. He just didn't look right there whereas Norm truly gives 0 fucks and is a natural. Also the SNL crowd while mostly liberal back then at least democrats in the late 90's still had some middle ground common sense. All the comedians from Tough Crowd with COlin Quinn like Patrice, Greg Giraldo and such were Democrats but 20 years later they would probably mid independents or alt rights based on the shift.
My all-time favorite SNL monologue, and, yes, I know there's been some good ones. For me, though, there's an underlying "realness" to this that just elevates it.
Same here I NEVER EVER feel bad when a celebrity dies but this one actually leaves a mark. Maybe because no one else in stand up is like him or can copy what he did behind that mic RIP Norm God Bless
Anthony Bourdain, Chester Bennington, Scott Weiland and Chris Cornell were heavy losses. But the fact that Norm kept his battle with cancer private... man there’s nothing to wax poetix about. It just makes sense, it's beautifully tragic
SNL: "Norm, I know we have had our differences, but let's just have a nice clean introduction, we already admitted our mistakes." Norm: "Yeah, yeah, no I get it. Don't worry about ANYthing..." SNL: "Norm....NORM WE TALKED ABOUT THIS I THOUGHT WE ALREADY WENT OVER THIS"
Tribute to one of the greatest comedians of our generation. In his own words, his battle with cancer was a draw. “I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure that if you die, then the cancer also dies at the same time. “That to me is not a loss. That’s a draw.” RIP Norm...
yeah thx man, i found it about 3 or 4 clicks after i typed that comment oddly enough. thanks for the heads up though. im making my wife watch his stuff right now lol
Got fired a week before the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke..... hows that for "coincidence"? Could you imagine Weekend Update with Norm and the Monica jokes?!
This must be the single greatest moment he had on tv. He dominated everything for 3 minutes, he was ironic, sarcastic, hilarious, and above all he was himself. This is what a true comedy legend looks like. Thanks for the laughs Mr. MacDonald, gone but never forgotten ❤
The only guy that I think can come close, interesting enough, is Colin Quinn. When Colin replaced Norm on Weekend Update, he said "Have you ever gone to a bar and found that your favorite bartender was replaced with a guy named Steve? *pause* Well I'm Steve, what can I get you?" As Norm would later tell Colin, "Hey, remember that time when you stole my job and ruined my life?" Two guys who are brilliantly smart and funny with amazing deliveries.
Norm's amazing, amazing, amazing, but Colin's not cool. Colin's kind of a prick. I used to work at Gotham Comedy Club back in 1999, 2000, and 2001, and Colin dropped in. Really acted like an a**hole to some people working the tables, the bar, the hostess. Not cool.
@@everythingsawesome Agreed.....He did a company event for us....come off like an real tool and had lots of people walk out. Crude and just not funny. After he was done the CEO apologized for such a poor selection.
@@glennfoster5018 A comic walked a bunch of people at a corporate gig? Sounds like a good sign to me. @everythingsawesome Colin Quinn is a great comic. I'm sorry he made you feel insecure 20 years ago but that's not really important
@@kurtisgibbs6698 So a "good sign" is when you act like an ass and a percentage of the audience walks out? I guess a "great sign" is when everyone leaves? He appeared to be stoned or drunk and was just not funny. Don't project your feelings of insecurity on other folks....it's not a good look
He was booed by SNL writers when he gave this monologue. Got curious so I looked up the writers from 1999 and none of them are household names except head writer Tina Fey. Adam McKay directed The Big Short I guess but no one is going to remember that movie.
Tina Fey is bigger than Adam McKay? doubt it. All of her movies are terrible. Only good thing she has ever done was 30 Rock. Adam McKay on the other hand rides Will Farrell's coattails. Other Guys, Stepbrothers, Ricky Bobby, Anchorman are all movies that are more popular than anything Fey has ever done. And as you mentioned, he directed The Big Short for which he won an Oscar. I don't even think Tina fey has appeared in a critically acclaimed movie( even her most popular one to date, Mean Girls wasn't) let alone one that was nominated for an Oscar.
Travis7060312 Tiny Fey is possibly the only funny female on the planet and she's technically a writer and not a comedian. No downplaying her achievements - she good.
Norm always said to just go out there and tell the truth and people will laugh at the sheer novelty of it. But he did make one lie by saying he wasnt funny. Hes the funniest comic I've ever known.
Norm knew that self deprivation was a important thing for a comedian to be liked. You never want to come off better than or smarter than the people in your audience, and Norm played that so well.
John and ken on KFI, (O.C., CA) recently commented that we never even knew he was sick and that's how Norm wanted it b/c it would have been just fake laughs.
I still wish he’d walked out right after the monologue and made them ad-lib the skits he was in. He would’ve have got the check, but he could have sweet revenge
That’s one of the best monologues in the shows history. Love the balls Norm has and the don’t give a shit attitude he take with him everywhere he goes. He has the most unique way of pointing out the truth in the most matter of fact way. It’s hilarious.
In an interview Norm pointed out the distinct booing during the monologue when hosting SNL was actually the writers for the show which makes the whole thing even funnier
I was a huge fan in the early to mid 90's SNL... by this time, it actually was boring and bad. And sorry, I think it remains bad since the early 90's. Maybe that's the 40 year old coming out.... ya, will ferrel is good. But there's two classic era's. The original late 70's, and the early 90's. It's pretty mediocre at best besides that.
@@urwholefamilydied early 2000s had some gem skits but like less than 5 lol
Yep
@@BananaPhoPhilly Yeah Bill Hader was good and a few other people were okay but I agree that the show has been pretty bad since like 1998.
Which interview? Got a link?
Being the Weekend Update anchor is something they can never take away from you.
Unless your boss is good friends with a guy that killed his wife and a waiter
Exceptional reference. Norm would be proud.
Or so the Germans would have you believe…
Awesome Comment
Norm would be proud.
Who else could take away Weekend Update?
You guessed it: Frank Stallone
Nothing can prepare you for the hardship of losing it all to such an unfair situation, except maybe Prince Charles' critically acclaimed bestseller titled "Of Course OJ Did It, I Mean, C'mon".
LMFAO : " So yeah, I'm funny compared to, you know, you'll see later. "
Norm, most gangster comedian out there.
He's just explaining he was fired for not being funny enough to do the show anymore and how it didn't have anything to do with OJ Simpson
Stephen Doherty: Pretty sure he's doing a little more than just that. lol
Norms brilliant...
I remember watching this live... I actually choked on my drink when he hit that line ("you know, you'll see later"), and damn near had to go to the hospital because I ended up inhaling my beer. I never heard the rest of the monologue until years later, because I was too busy coughing. Norm was one of the funniest people who ever lived.
"I'm funnier compared to, you know. You'll see later"
So fkn great.
The best thing is that he says "let's recap", just to show everyone that the booing doesn't bother him
Norm was the only comedian who had no problem tanking, so long as he had a good time doing it.
He said the booing was from writers of the show though.
I bet he loved that the writers booed while the crowd applauded. Norm was the greatest.
He was often boo'd on weekend update and seemed to love it
This is one of the most savage roasts I've ever heard. It's even more savage knowing every single person who hated him enough to fire him was watching that monologue and absolutely *seething*
And you just know norm was smiling at them the whole time
He absolutely went off script
Norm Macdonald is truly a fucking legend. Gets invited to host the show and proceeds to just insult it and everyone during the entire monologue. What makes this truly amazing is anyone else would take the easy, face-saving way out and end the monologue with "I'm just joking everyone, we have a great show..." and proceed to laugh like it was all a joke. Not Norm, he commits 100% and ends up being the only person ever to literally say "we have a bad show". Epic. Also have met Norm several times in person and was always the most gracious and down-to-earth celeb I've met over the years
May he rest in Peace.
Norm was a badass! ❤
Yeah I feel like norm truly is one of if not the only celebs to hate all the fake bullshit. In the end maybe because he knew was dying but he got even more real. He was a deep guy
Best part about Norm is that he is probably the only comedian who genuinely sounds like he isn't trying to be funny, but every sentence he says is hilarious
The art of truly not giving a shit, but in a good way.
the worst part was the hypocrisy
He was also a really smart guy who could have held court with someone like Christopher Hitchens but deliberately came across as dumber than he was to fuck with the audience
The best opening monologue ever made. The audience's reaction is priceless. Some of them did not get it.
Show went down the shitter without him!
+ricarleite i'm pretty sure everyone got it. I just don't think everyone enjoyed hearing it. regardless, i love thinking about the fact that he gave a completely different monologue during rehearsals. when he started saying this stuff the producers were probably shitting their pants
I heard a lot of the boos came from the cast and crew and shit
Norm concedes he was probably fired due to friction with certain cast members as much as Ohlemeyer being a friend of O.J.'s
Zennofobic I can't see any logical reason why Don Ohlemeyer would want to have O.J. Simpson as a personal friend ? Something must have been wrong with his reasoning.
RIP Norm.
Indeed!!
Fuck cancer.
My best friend died in July. His favorite movie was Dirty Work and favorite comedian was Norm MacDonald. RIP
@@JJ-Toreddie
Condolences for your friend, Ryan.
May he, and Norm, rest in peace.
😓😓😓
What an absolute savage. I adore Norm MacDonald's style, he's got a ton of charisma and his comedy flows almost seamlessly; serious respect for that talent.
Comedy based is the word you are finding.
@@ImnotNorm hi I'm not norm! I've watched basically everything on your channel :)
I'm not Norm p
You have a behelit screaming as your profile pic and you think Norm is savage? I hope Femto's not around.
Saw his standup in Chicago back in 2019 and was one of the most epic I've seen
He nailed it with "the show has gotten really bad." True words and it still holds to this day. Norm was awesome and he didn't mind ruffling some feathers and didn't really care much either way about it.
The show is on the same level as it’s always been, sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s not, but it’s always been like that
@@linden6190 Not at all. It's now an absolute snoozefest that has more of a political agenda than an urge to be entertaining. A bunch of bootlicking, really.
@@intercoursehandguns851 oh yeah, because the old episodes have absolutely no old political jokes from the 90s
And then there was the joke at the 25th anniversary where Norm mentioned he wasn't invited and there was a party at Eddie Murphy's making fun of the show.
It’s just for a different demographic than it used to be, it’ll change again back the other way I’m sure
"well you'll see later" perfect line
"Okay, so let's recap..."
i lost a friend i never met, he kept me going when i was down. love to his family from denmark.
♦"i lost a friend i never met."♦
good one!
Same
I spent the lockdown reading berserk and watching norm. I feel you.
way to make it about yourself.
@@bokuwahimodesu same but it kinda fell off after golden age arc so i stopped at vol 25 or sumth. rip miura tho
the BEST opeing monologue on SNL. Every single word from his lips is crafted perfectly and so dead on with razor sarcasm.
It is up there but Louis CK's last one is probably the best, plus it's more than twice as long.
....if you like CK. Personally, he's just another NY bum to me.
I also get a laugh at the crowd booing at "The show has gotten really bad" because everyone knows it's true.
J
@@mattjennings6706 the one about the child molester? one of the funniest and most awkward monologues ever
"That bad news is, I'm not funny. The good news is, the show blows!"
Priceless.
This is the funniest damned opening SNL monologue I ever heard, and Norm was the best Weekend Update host that SNL ever had.
I am old enough to remember seeing Martin Laurence actually losing his mind live. Subsequent broadcasts edited it out and replaced it with a title card explaining that everyone nearly lost their jobs because of the monologue. At the time I thought it was just great performance art......it was not.
Or so the Germans would have you believe.
@@ajrollo1437 The one with female hygiene products? That was so unfunny... I loved Blue Streak though...
What, you didn't think Sinead O'Connor tearing the pope's picture was funny?
I’m here cuz SNL just announced that Shane Gillis is hosting next week after they fired him a few years ago and I’m expecting an epic Norm-level victory lap monologue from him
Lol same
Fr ahaha me too
He should legit just do this monologue verbatim.
I honestly can't wait. Shane's monologue is going to be legendary.
There will 100% be a nod to norm. Shane is a huge norm fan
His original idea was to deliver this monologue trashing the show, then just leave during the first commercial break. Legend
I thought some people suggested that to him, and he might have thought about it briefly.
"All right folks we got a bad show for ya tonight[...]!"
Awesome.
There may be a better SNL opening monologue, but I've yet to see it. So until otherwise noted:
BEST MONOLOGUE EVER!!!
I don't think anything can top this lmfao
Louis CK monologue about the child molester from his childhood was so funny and awkward.
It's for sure 1. Norm and 2. Louis CK
What, Sinead O'Connor tearing the Pope's picture wasn't good?
@@devo076 regardless of your feelings on that, it wasn’t an opening monologue .
most brutal burn ever.
It's science.
"OK, let's recap: the bad news is.. I'm still not funny" I was literally in tears laughing
When I was younger I never got Norm, but in my 30s and 40s I have really grown to appreciate what a great comedian and man that he was. He will be missed.
most underrated part of this monologue is “alright folks we’ve got a bad show for you tonight”
1:12 "I wanted to keep my job...and they felt the exact opposite."
Snl has not got the balls to release Norms stuff on their youtube channel
Vego holy shit you’re right
That’s why I can’t find that twilight zone sketch.
Fuck snl they were never funny to me other then the cowbell skit.. but that's about it.. I listen to comedy all day everyday. And this guy is a talent to be reckoned with . All the loosers now ar incredibly boring and drain the funny out of the room ,like they used to do on their daddy's dicks
@@JR-lv9nb have you seen the Pepper Boy skit with Sandler and Carvey? Also Debbie Downer with Rachel Dratch, the one they did at Disney world with Jimmy fallon. Other than those two and the skit at the gyro restaurant with Jason Alexander, I agree SNL has been pretty mediocre or bad for a while now
ruclips.net/video/uBp67vCmCIU/видео.html
I wish there was video of this,remember watching this when it aired,such gold,no one gave less fucks than Norm.
Do share with the rest of us.
GAME4WAR there is now a video for this With the Russian subtitles.
www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/norm-macdonald-monologue/n11255?snl=1
It's not here ...
BALLS OF STEEL
This is the greatest opening monologue in SNL history.
Snoop + Dre + Eminem + Norm.
Holy shit what a show!
That wasn't even peak Em & Dre. Marshall Mathers LP is coming.
If there ever was burn, this is it. The legend, passed away too soon.
One of the best SNL monologues. Period.
fuck man.
Brilliant. There's no way in hell that's the monologue he did in the dress rehearsal. It was typical Norm to pull the rug out from under them.
He got the last laugh, and deservedly so. He was the best Weekend Update Host ever, and those idiots fired him. But he who laughs last, laughs best.
R.I.P. Norm 💙
Yup. When they fired Norm they weren't nice about it. So from Norm's perspective, to be offered the hosting gig after such a short amount of time was like a slap in the face. Like waving a $20 in front of a homeless person's face that you just kicked out of your restaurant. So he was like...okay *devil grin* let's do this.
@@travislivengood5228 Absolutely 👍
@@travislivengood5228 Almost like they said "dance monkey" and he reminded them, live on national television, why he was among the greatest improv comedians of all time.
I seem to remember him saying in an interview once that he was planning on leaving after the monologue too. He thought it'd be interesting to watch the cast members try and work it out on live TV, but someone talked him out of it. I've listened to so much crap with Norm in it though, i couldn't begin to guess where he said this.
@@SeeSawMassacresomething along the lines of he’d start delivering the monologue and then start walking out to a waiting taxi as a massive middle finger.
Un-be-lie-veable. To kill, absolutely kill, with the line ‘the bad news is I’m still not funny’ is just on another level. RIP Norm x
Norm wasn't cut from the same cloth as the rest. A pure comedian before a celebrity, and hardly even the latter. Just incredible that 22 years have passed, and those burns still sting.
If only SNL had gotten good again. But, Lorne.
Norm actually wanted to come out do his monologue and walk of the show and leave but was talked out of it by his friends saying it would be career suicide
man, can you imagine watching the show after that? It would have to be the most awkward and disjointed thing ever, because I don't think NBC could just cancel or not go on with the show either with the musical guests and everything. I'm kind of disappointed that he didn't. That would've been god-tier awkward and subtle comedy that only Norm has the balls to deliver, that probably nobody would appreciate in the moment, but would look back with fascination on years later.
@@AlexanderMoen they do a pretape show a few hours before the live show, they would have just rolled the pretape show after the monologue if Macdonald walked
Since this was the last genuinely funny thing on Saturday Night Live, Norm has now officially gotten the last laugh.
RIP, you magnificent bastard.
Damn....😫😫
It's come around, and Adam Sandler hosting was a brilliant show.
@@adognamedmiley6848 SNL still sucks.
ha ha
@@adognamedmiley6848 Let me get your walker grandpa
I get the distinct impression that was NOT the monologue during rehearsals.
How true. I hope someone interviews Lorne Michaels and asks him about this. What did Norm say at the rehearsal, did he rehearse it, what did Lorne think during the monologue and did anyone from the upstairs office call down to the stage during the monologue to complain or try and stop it.
"well you'll see later" kills me every time lol
22 years later and Norm MacDonald is dead and SNL still isn't funny
What a cursed timeline we live in.
very Norm joke i applaud you.
and yet you keep watching...
SNL had come around in the last couple years.
@@adognamedmiley6848 I saw the two "Edith Puthie" eps, the one where they're changing peoples' names at the Pittsburgh courthouse and "The Boomers Got The Vax". Those were good.
RIP to the legend Norm. But, sketch comedy has and will always be hit or miss. Plenty of clunkers from original cast. Plus relevancy factors. No one today even gets the humor behind Akroyd's Carter and Chase's Ford. You're just another curmudgeon, like many, preaching how SNL isn't like it was in their day, and who is consequently now missing out on some SNL gems in recent years. Your loss. "Any questions?!?!"
Priceless & SNL deserved every bit if not more. Go Norm, you the man!!
I wish Shane would’ve torched SNL like this
bro did acts from his special still was okay tho
that hey he does at 1:53 is legendary
Norm being gone is hitting me different then any other 'celebrity' death.
RIP Norm...got any gum?
@j Shocking to hear this news!! Because the last time Norm was in the news was when speaking out against cancel culture when it came to comedy. He never was comfortable doing sketches on SNL despite his well received impressions of Burt Reynolds & Bob Dole. He was definitely more at ease delivering biting sarcastic comedic commentary that won him a lot of fans, but also garnered haters who weren't comfortable with that style of comedy. R.I.P.
Same here
Man this guy has a part of my life since I was born. Farewell Burt Reynolds and Pigeon.
Robin Williams was my biggest gut punch then norm
Totally savage. I love the groans from the audience and he just keeps plowing through!
We got a bad show for you tonight
The best of the worst.
Norm is King!! Giving it right back to Ohlmeyer and the other SNL/NBC suits. Some people try to pretend that they don't care. Norm truly doesn't care one bit, and that's why we love him.
The best to ever do it. RIP Norm.
No doubt!!
like norm even better now. he is not shallow like most comedians.
@@poitre_ in fact, he's a very very VERY deep grave.
Had to pay my respects after hearing Shane Gillis is going to host.
Shane kind of bombed but it was meant to happen. He just didn't look right there whereas Norm truly gives 0 fucks and is a natural. Also the SNL crowd while mostly liberal back then at least democrats in the late 90's still had some middle ground common sense. All the comedians from Tough Crowd with COlin Quinn like Patrice, Greg Giraldo and such were Democrats but 20 years later they would probably mid independents or alt rights based on the shift.
Rest in peace Norm. This was the best monologue ever on SNL.
It just had to be *so* sweet to deliver this monologue.
How is OJ still drawing air and Norm isn't?
Cause the world is going down hill at mach ten.
Oj killed norm
You guessed it... Frank Stallone.
The good die young that's why
Or so the Germans would have you believe
My all-time favorite SNL monologue, and, yes, I know there's been some good ones. For me, though, there's an underlying "realness" to this that just elevates it.
Shane just joined a very exclusive comedy club. Only norm and Shane got fired and then got asked back to do a monologs
Painfully untrue statement.
"We've got a BAD show for you tonight..."
Always telling it like it is, that old lump of coal 😄👌
This is the first time I've been genuinely sad about the death of a celebrity.
Same here
I NEVER EVER feel bad when a celebrity dies but this one actually leaves a mark. Maybe because no one else in stand up is like him or can copy what he did behind that mic
RIP Norm God Bless
Anthony Bourdain, Chester Bennington, Scott Weiland and Chris Cornell were heavy losses. But the fact that Norm kept his battle with cancer private... man there’s nothing to wax poetix about. It just makes sense, it's beautifully tragic
except john lennon and frank zappa, i'm with you there.
Lennon and Bowie hit me hard, and now Norm.
Only time I've heard someone say "alright folks we got a bad show for ya tonight"
The rest of the hosts lied.
SNL: "Norm, I know we have had our differences, but let's just have a nice clean introduction, we already admitted our mistakes."
Norm: "Yeah, yeah, no I get it. Don't worry about ANYthing..."
SNL: "Norm....NORM WE TALKED ABOUT THIS I THOUGHT WE ALREADY WENT OVER THIS"
Norm: "Well what are you going to do? Fire me?
...again?"
No way was this monologue was approved, the balls on Norm to spit in their faces on live tv.
Tribute to one of the greatest comedians of our generation. In his own words, his battle with cancer was a draw.
“I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure that if you die, then the cancer also dies at the same time. “That to me is not a loss. That’s a draw.”
RIP Norm...
Can't believe actual video of this is so hard to find! Thanks for sharing the audio at least.
And to think, he would return, and make "Turd Ferguson" a household name.
Shane Gillis about to host SNL. Time is a flat circle.
Crazy I just finished True Detective S1 last night.
so youre saying i should eat an 1/8th of mushrooms and watch true detective?
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@@user-lo7hv5jv8p You will watch true detective S1.
Again
and again
and again
- forever.
Best SNL monologue EVER!!!
IMO - this was Norm’s finest moment.
Unfortunately there's only one way for shane to top this. Co-host the show with sam hyde
he needs to bring his podcast back. this is awesome!
He just came back, look on his channel, he has a new one with Ray Romano and a bunch of them already taped apparently :)
Enjoy!
yeah thx man, i found it about 3 or 4 clicks after i typed that comment oddly enough. thanks for the heads up though. im making my wife watch his stuff right now lol
Bad news man
Got fired a week before the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke..... hows that for "coincidence"? Could you imagine Weekend Update with Norm and the Monica jokes?!
Yes. Hill and Bill are the real reason for Norm's dismissal from SNL. OJ was a red herring.
So sad he's gone. Glad we still have him on youtube, though.
This must be the single greatest moment he had on tv. He dominated everything for 3 minutes, he was ironic, sarcastic, hilarious, and above all he was himself.
This is what a true comedy legend looks like.
Thanks for the laughs Mr. MacDonald, gone but never forgotten ❤
I understand now. I understand why he is so loved
This took some guts, man.
Norm MacDonald is one of the funniest and loved comedians ever and a legend, and that NBC exec is a forgotten nobody.
"I had sort of a disagreement with management at, uh...at the NBC."
I came here because of Bill Burr reference lol
From his podcast?
Yep
Haha same here.
@@TheTennispro1ify me too
Me too
I once heard that he is the only host to not say “we’ve got a great show for you” in the history of the show
Be careful who you fire, especially when their 3-minute revenge intro turns out better than your whole legacy 🔥
Shane Gillis needs to reference this!
He didn’t lose the fight! It was a draw! I love his comedy so much, RIP Norm Macdonald! Now you’re where the laughs come from!
Cant lock a dog in a room with a plate of food and expect him not to eat it
Coming here to watch this again after learning of his death. Hope he rests easy.
The intro music is so sick. Whoever was on that wind instrument knew exactly how epic they had to make it.
Bill Burr's Podcast brought me here. RIP Norm. What a legend.
Way to stick it to the man they way we all wish we could Norm. Gonna be standing room only in the Pearly Impov tonight.
One of the best moments in television history.
Rest in heaven you absolute legend
The only guy that I think can come close, interesting enough, is Colin Quinn.
When Colin replaced Norm on Weekend Update, he said "Have you ever gone to a bar and found that your favorite bartender was replaced with a guy named Steve? *pause* Well I'm Steve, what can I get you?"
As Norm would later tell Colin, "Hey, remember that time when you stole my job and ruined my life?"
Two guys who are brilliantly smart and funny with amazing deliveries.
Norm's amazing, amazing, amazing, but Colin's not cool. Colin's kind of a prick. I used to work at Gotham Comedy Club back in 1999, 2000, and 2001, and Colin dropped in. Really acted like an a**hole to some people working the tables, the bar, the hostess. Not cool.
@@everythingsawesomedid u not see tough crowd? That's how comedy cellar guys are.
@@everythingsawesome Agreed.....He did a company event for us....come off like an real tool and had lots of people walk out. Crude and just not funny. After he was done the CEO apologized for such a poor selection.
@@glennfoster5018 A comic walked a bunch of people at a corporate gig? Sounds like a good sign to me.
@everythingsawesome Colin Quinn is a great comic. I'm sorry he made you feel insecure 20 years ago but that's not really important
@@kurtisgibbs6698 So a "good sign" is when you act like an ass and a percentage of the audience walks out? I guess a "great sign" is when everyone leaves? He appeared to be stoned or drunk and was just not funny.
Don't project your feelings of insecurity on other folks....it's not a good look
He was booed by SNL writers when he gave this monologue. Got curious so I looked up the writers from 1999 and none of them are household names except head writer Tina Fey. Adam McKay directed The Big Short I guess but no one is going to remember that movie.
Tina Fey is bigger than Adam McKay? doubt it. All of her movies are terrible. Only good thing she has ever done was 30 Rock. Adam McKay on the other hand rides Will Farrell's coattails. Other Guys, Stepbrothers, Ricky Bobby, Anchorman are all movies that are more popular than anything Fey has ever done. And as you mentioned, he directed The Big Short for which he won an Oscar. I don't even think Tina fey has appeared in a critically acclaimed movie( even her most popular one to date, Mean Girls wasn't) let alone one that was nominated for an Oscar.
Who's Adam McKay?
She also created Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which is doing really well.
Travis7060312 Tiny Fey is possibly the only funny female on the planet and she's technically a writer and not a comedian. No downplaying her achievements - she good.
Women are funny, get over it.
"The bad news is, I'm still not funny. The good news is, the show blows."
Shane Gillis soon
So NBC is so butthurt over this, that they wont allow the video for it. That says all you need to know about NBC.
Norm always said to just go out there and tell the truth and people will laugh at the sheer novelty of it. But he did make one lie by saying he wasnt funny. Hes the funniest comic I've ever known.
Norm knew that self deprivation was a important thing for a comedian to be liked. You never want to come off better than or smarter than the people in your audience, and Norm played that so well.
Imagine having your multi billion dollar company run by a guy who thinks OJ is innocent.
I bet he just didn’t care that he was a murderer. Dude wanted his famous athlete friend to stay relevant.
The clear and only question is why this is not available on video on either here or SNL's site.
It used to be. I remember watching on here not even two years ago.
John and ken on KFI, (O.C., CA) recently commented that we never even knew he was sick and that's how Norm wanted it b/c it would have been just fake laughs.
I still wish he’d walked out right after the monologue and made them ad-lib the skits he was in. He would’ve have got the check, but he could have sweet revenge
That’s one of the best monologues in the shows history. Love the balls Norm has and the don’t give a shit attitude he take with him everywhere he goes. He has the most unique way of pointing out the truth in the most matter of fact way. It’s hilarious.
Can’t wait for Shane to start his monologue with Norm’s.