Norm Macdonald on his gambling addiction | Larry King Now | Ora.TV
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
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In his signature candid fashion, Norm Macdonald opens up about losing it all - twice - to his gambling addiction, and a night in Atlantic City when he made off with more than $100,000.
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As someone who gambles, I understand what Norm means when he says losing it all feels almost cleansing.
nice, I know that feeling, I’ve lost 50% of my net worth in the last month on the stock market, I see people out there so stressed out about money, but when I think about money it feels like I’m holding handfuls of sand on a windswept beach, it’s just flying out through the cracks in my fingers. Money comes and goes, what’s important is the things they can’t take away, and part of that is what norm says, having the guts to roll the dice in life.
@@guitarrahombre dude what were u investing in??
@@lavs8696 I went all in on a oil penny stock. Funny gambling story here but just last week when I was 50% down I took out a loan for 20 thousand and doubled my position, the stock then shot back on up a couple days later and now I’ve got more then when I started. Gambling is crazy man…
@@guitarrahombre hahaha, jesus youre crazy bro
@@guitarrahombre I once lost 6 dollars at an arcade because I kept using the grabber machine so I know how u feel
I go broke every month when I'm done paying my bills.
You have an addiction to paying bills and you need help
You need to start gambling lol
I took a bus out of Atlantic City in 1998 after gambling. Liquor stores, pawn shops, creepy people on side walks, abandoned buildings, you don't want $100,000 in your bag.
Luckily for you, you didn't
@@stuartbromley3513 nothing ever happens
Don't take big cash winnings at a casino. When will people ever learn. Check or electronic transfer.
Okay, here’s why gambling is a complete non-starter. Casinos only give action to losing players. If you’re skilled at Blackjack, you can’t play. If you win at Sports Betting, you’re cut off. If you’re a great Poker Player, you assume all the risk & any other investment is much safer. And slots? Forget about it. Gamble on vacation only, & only for small amounts of money. RIP Norm.
Not true
I think the fact he would casually bet $25 on blackjack before winning big for the first time says a lot about gambling addiction. Gambling addicts don’t do it for money, they do it because they enjoy the rush. It’s like any other form of addiction where it’s not enough to just “stop gambling”, these people have a psychological dependency in the same way that an alcoholic craves alcohol. It’s a shame that behavioral addictions aren’t treated with the same level of empathy as drug addictions, and I say that as someone who was raised by a recovering food addict.
Idk why people can't be addicted to raising a family, we are escapist and I dont think that deserves sympathy, even drug addiction doesn't deserve much sympathy
This context makes it extra impressive that Norm ultimately held off going for the million dollar final Q (assisted by Regis' badgering) on his infamous Who Wants to be a Millionaire appearance
He would've risked it if it weren't for charity. But, yeah it must've been difficult for him.
Actually he just wanted to watch a basketball game he bet a lot of money on. Regis saw that and was worried about him, Norm and him talked backstage as he was watching the game during the commercial break.
Come on Larry. A footballs not round. Thats funny! Larry's not even paying attention.
That wasn't that funny.
Jacob Phillips
It was hilarious.
Gambler justifying his addiction.
@@42BassMaster42 you idiot
@@42BassMaster42 "That wasn't that funny."
It's funny if you've ever got hooked on gambling. And sad as well, which makes it funnier.
It was funny,King was a stuffed shirt. Now he's a dead stuffed shirt
I feel like Norm got addicted to gambling because wanting to beat the odds when you've got a lot to lose was just part of the way he lived his life. He gambled with what jokes he told, getting a laugh from a bland or offensive joke meant he won. He gambled with his faith, not knowing if God really does exist but believing anyway. He gambled with his fortune. He even shared that a weird habit he had was flipping a coin and keeping track of which way it landed. I heard cancer ran in his family and that he had cancer as a child. Beating cancer once before must've given a thirst for life that gambling quenched a little. And in the words of the great Norm; cancer didn't beat him in the end, it was a draw.
it's not that deep lol
Have you ever bet on horse racing and won, it's better than sex, the nerves you get before and during the race then the rush of adrenaline and dopamine you get when the horse crosses the line is like no other.
I'd even say he won... the cancer is dead by now, but Norm still lives on in his legacy.
It's almost as if the casinos know the people predisposed to gambling addiction and let them win one big chunk knowing they will get it back tenfold as the "winner" keeps chasing that high.
Bingo.
There's just always a chance of this happening. If you are a casual gambler going to the casino once in a while gambling small amounts you'll have one of these runs eventually. Some people are aware it's just how things go sometimes and don't get too attached. Others may lack that self control amd get hooked and the addiction can become severe and harmful to the person's well being over time.
"Easy come easy go"
wow both of these dudes are dead.
Just in a matter of months.
Norm seems like a nice guy in real life
Do you gamble
@@michealcarter5475 All in.
R.I.P. to both.
"What do you think?" hahaha
MKM m
LOL He is right leaving AC at 4 AM with $ 100,000 in your pocket can be the most exciting feeling and the scariest feeling all at once.
I was reading that Norm had cancer in his 30's in Canada and fans didn't like hearing about it. Wasn't funny. I think that is why not he hid it from them but not family. It makes sense why he was so health conscious and talked about early detection a lot.
Feel clean. Thats not norm ..i lost everything fukn 12 times. Its not clean. Its a relief that u have no more to lose.
I never really liked Larry King on CNN, but I find these interviews to be a lot more interesting than his television show on CNN.
It’s impossible to like Larry King.
@@TheEleatic I was talking more about his interviews on the internet than the man. I find them interesting even though I never really cared for his television show.
@@TheEleatic impossible *not to like Larry King
Well it’s better than being addicted to workahol.
Both of these legends gone now😔
Great story.
I always enjoyed the conversations my mind would have when I was down a whole chunk of change. Do not worry we cant get any more bad luck then what we saw in the last few hours. Get more money from the bank and we will start getting lucky and put a dent in the debt we just made. NEVER AGREE WITH YOUR MIND WHEN YOU ARE GAMBLING.
My father would not let a deck of cards be brought into our house, he said that gambling was one of the worst things a man could do, I think he was right.
one of the craziest things i've ever read
@@lookinforthemagic7434 Your idea of crazy leaks, a lot of people lose everything they have because of Gambling, gambling is never a good thing.
@Roughman I do buy a lottery ticket about twice a year ( :
@@NCLUSA you shoulda taught your dad go fish or showed him a magic trick or something then he might have realised what a silly goose he was and allowed everyone to bring their decks of cards to your house for game and magic nights
@@lookinforthemagic7434 No.
Larry King looks good for being 174 years old
Good interview and story
On a side note, Norm's impersonation of Larry King was fucking hilarious.
Man, what an overwhelming experience. A total fluke to win that much, when he's not a gambler and doesn't even understand the game. Understandable that he developed a psychological complex with gambling!
He has the softest soul
You think you’ll feel better losing it all than you will losing a little bit after you’ve been up by a lot. You start to lose and you take bigger risks thinking well I had a lot and now I’ve lost a bit, I want back what I had and more otherwise I may as well just lose it all. Then you walk away feeling like you’ve just lost a loved one or had your heart broken. You feel pathetic and analyse every aspect of your life. You wish you just walked away after the first couple of losses.
When he was on snl he had a limo to take him to the set and back home. After a taping he would get in the limo in New York and tell the driver to go to Atlantic City to gamble
0:40 cus larry im gonna freakin die lol
ive won over 20K in low-med NL poker at Commerce over a period of 10 years casual playing, once a week or so. I say this to show I can consistently win.. nobody gets lucky for 10 years straight. However I met my current wife, she dissaproved and I quit... cold turkey. Havent played for 6 years now and have no interest. So when Norm says once you win you cant go back, it depends on your willpower (and a great wife you are willing to quit for!).
Lol.
Gambling is not just a bad habit, to me it's more like a Sin. I have known people that gambled, this one guy was a foreman running a large job at the time with a company I also worked for, this foreman had many men working under him, so one worker went to work for another company but the foreman kept getting this guy's pay checks and cashing them so he would have extra money to gamble with, well he was found out and it wasn't pretty.
he is always masking the real stuff, not here. great interview.
Where are Larry's new episodes he promises?
He was even on lots of poker shows
Now I know why he didn't make jokes about Michael Jordan And Gambling. RIP
You think he would say the same thing about Hilary about taxes? the person in the room when the tax cuts where created and then voted yes on it and then used it for half her life? joke.
is this before or after he told Larry he's a deeply closeted gay guy hahaha
The trump analogy is horrible cuz rich people like him have zero cash, its a credit game, if they dont have some scam for investors they have no money. I used to be close to a guy who worked very high level security for DT who told me if someone like that needed $1M in cash, they couldntt do it themselves (like go to the bank) cuz they didnt have liquid assets like that, they'd have to borrow it from my friend who's "organization" was very cash wealthy from their security work.
Thats how all the rich people do it to avoid heavy taxation. It's all credit. Even moderately well off people do that same thing. Because the credit isn't taxed the same as a huge Lump sum of cash..
Very funny as always.
Winning 150k dollars on slots and losing it all on crypto made me realize money isn't everything in life. I feel bad for the people that only seek money. It's not what life should be about
Two legends lost
These guys are both gone now...
Losers of gambling never get hooked
Why did this make me laugh so hard at the end
let me guess ... King ain’t a trump fan 🤔... died laughing at one of these comments on here ... he ended his rant by saying trump got his money from the Russians .. and don’t worry Robert Mueller is zeroing In on that .... its a little hard or perhaps impossible to zero in on something that doesn’t exist!
Thank you
This comment aged well. No Russian collusion.
Mary Thomas ... personally or policies ?...
More like Smellgrove
He was friendly enough to go to Trump’s wedding with Milania and visit him at Mar-a-lago a dozen times...
I'm sure Larry king never took a deduction off of his taxes
Larry got confused immediately by the House of the Rising Sun joke.
I didn't catch it at all. What did he say?
Tanner Sandell
"There is a house in New Orleans,
They call the Rising Sun,
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy,
And God, I know, I'm one"
The best part is Larry correcting Norm's strange bit about Trump being some great gutsy gambler, rather than the grifter he has been from birth.
He went woke and ended up broke 😂
I luv norm. But he is tellin a story about another guy.
Huh? It's well documented that Norm had a gambling problem and went broke (and into debt) twice.
Trump 2020
😂
Guts or idiocy?
If someone bets all they own on a game of cards they were going to play but didn't know the rules to, that's not guts. That's idiocy.
That's not what he did.