We reinforced two valuable lessons today: 1. Norm has been and always will be a legend among comedians. 2. The View has been and always will be hosted by a flock of insufferable harpies.
"Do something with that, you freak..." Classic Conan leaving the door open wayyyyyyyyy too wide for Norm to expect not to get taken behind the woodshed.
Norm MacDonald going on The View and calling Bill Clinton a murderer on national TV was nothing short of legendary. Also the fact that his bosses at SNL and the heads of the network it aired on told him to lay off on the OJ Simpson and Michael Jackson jokes, then he went out there on Weekend Update and doubled down on the jokes they just told him not to tell, which ended up getting him fired, was just epic. Though most people will know him because of his many hilarious Letterman and Conan Late Night appearances, my personal favorite Norm moment was during the roast of Bob Saget. They wanted Norm to go out there and be really raunchy and vulgar and drag Saget through the mud like everyone else. Norm said he didn’t want to do that because Bob was his friend, so he went out there and told some old corny dad humor jokes from like a 1950s joke book and bombed on purpose. The crowd was confused and the awkward silence was deafening, and the entire time Norm was relishing in it grinning from ear to ear. To go out there and intentionally do bad in front of a crowd of people and a group of your fellow comedians has to be the bravest thing I’ve ever seen a comic do. Greatest comedian to ever live in my opinion. Glad to see people still keeping his memory alive to this day. 🙌
There's a channel here on youtube named *Not Norm* that does Norm compilations. One has Norm on different shows titled Norm saves interviews. One clip on Conan O'Brien's show has the actress from Melrose Place, Courtney Thorn Smith on and Norm's TV comedy gold throughout her interview.
Norm wasn't just a comedian, he was an amazing friend. I will always love his bit at the Bob Saget roast where he tells old time jokes because he didn't want to say anything bad about his friend.
I love that moment. It's like he was saying: "screw this stupid insult format. I'm just going to make fun of the whole thing, and then let everybody know that You are my friend, and that I love you." It's so sweet, and it clearly makes Saget emotional.
Norm roasting Bill Clinton and the Washington elite at the White House press roast was the absolute best. Oh when politicians had to sit through a real roasting it was delicious.
Yeah but Bill Clinton didn't care, he loved joke's about himself, he had no shame at all, BC he knew everyone would always let him get away with whatever he wanted to do, just like they're doing with Biden now, just disgusting
Because he was Canadian he had a very Canadian view of American politics, which in essence is "it's all a shitshow but I can sit back and laugh at it because this isn't my country anyways." A lot of us Canadians, especially in his day, view American politics as a source of entertainment and pay as much attention to it as we do to our own elections.
@@elizabeth6623Oh, I’m sure you guys do - as does Australia. In fact I tune into their Sky News for their daily latest on our shitshow, so I can at least offset some of my embarrassment and shame with humor. Does Canada have a show similar to Rita Panahi’s segment I can check out?
Blame Google autocorrect.... That being said, nothing is more impressive than a random Human messageboard spellchecker. Especially when they gather in gaggles.
I think his funniest joke ever was at the Espy Awards when he congratulated the Heisman Trophy winner. He said "That's something that nobody can ever take away from you ... unless you kill your wife and a waiter".
I excused myself at work to cry in my car when Norm died. I'm not ashamed to say it felt like I had lost a close family member. He just GETS IT! A staggeringly brilliant and sweet soul with a wit many can only envy. God rest your soul, Norm. I love you. Maybe we'll see you again someday.
The Dennis Miller radio guest spots by Norm were the absolute best. Hearing Dennis genuinely crack up to the point of tears gets me out of even the foulest mood.
I never thought of myself as a huge Dennis Miller fan (actually I was a little kid when I saw him on Update) but his various material with Norm has really made me rethink. The various talk show appearances are brilliant pieces of work. He is an incredible comedy partner for him.
The View audience actually cheered George W when Norm talked him up 😮😮😮. Imagine the current view audience cheering if anyone said anything decent about Trump. Look at how far gone the left become.
I've been down the Norm rabbit hole many times. It never gets old. My favorites are always his appearances with Conan. The gift basket episode was masterpiece comedy.
So, Michael had a chance to do a Norm Macdonald interview, but couldn`t agree on online format. Say, what now? What else? He insisted on coffee, not tea?
Norm always loved to make a crowd uncomfortable, the view interview was gold! Those pigeons on the panel all slapping at him, telling him to shut up and threatening he wont be invited back, just made him go harder
Those were always my favorite. He despised that specific type of bias and harpies that would peddle in pandering. There's a few interviews he did where he called that behavior out of he saw what he considered to be subpar, intentional ignorance. I remember him calling out some atheist kid for attacking the Bible once on Last Comic Standing. It was brilliant.
I hope his view interview gets picked up again and circulated. I’ve never been able to watch more than a few seconds of that…opinion perversion, before I felt like vomiting, but I’d definitely watch an invitee do something similar when referring to their puppet of a leader and the rest of that lap dog administration.
Nothing would make Norm joke about something more than being told not to joke about it. He always pushed back when he met resistance. That's what makes him not merely a great comic, but a great man. Also, the View really looks pathetic in that bit. They've always been shills for the Party.
Norm was one of the most genuine, funny, kind, and brilliant people to ever live. He was humble enough as to never flaunt his intelligence, though he could have.
the fact that Norm suffered with cancer and made jokes at his own expense that no one actually realized where him making light of the situation he was dealing with goes to show how good of a man he was
I think about how he suffered in silence. He never called attention to himself. I can't help thinking about that as I watch him and start shedding a tear while laughing. Thank you, Norm. We love you and miss you, man.
As an English man who didn’t know who he was until I heard about him on The Adam Carolla show, I agree, Norm is the best. He made them freak out on The View.
I love binge watching his clips. I believe he graduated high school at 14 and someone once said "...he was the smartest guy in the room pretending to be the dumbest guy in the room."
George Carlin was fearless. He actually agreed with many leftist beliefs, unlike Norm, but when he disagreed he roasted them badly. Check out his bit on the environmental movement to see him shred his own side. That's fearless.
Love the I'm not Norm channel. Great compilations of Norm posted there. There's a channel here on youtube named Frankenstein's Lab that reacts to different comedians. Their reactions to Norm and especially Patrice O'Neal doing *The Nasty Show* is hilarious.
@stanleydavidlepretre4241 I never appreciated Norm back in the day, but I saw an amazing compilation on I'm Not Norm of all his OJ jokes and it led me down a rabbit hole that ended with me realizing he was the most brilliant comedian ever. And from everything I've subsequently read he was a great person as well. I wish it didn't take me so long to discover his genius but I'm glad I finally did!
I excused myself at work to cry in my car when Norm died. I'm not ashamed to say it felt like I had lost a close family member. He just GETS IT! A staggeringly brilliant and sweet soul with a wit many can only envy. God rest your soul, Norm. I love you. Maybe we'll see you again someday.
"If in your twenties you are not a liberal, you don't have a heart. If you are thirty and not a conservative, you don't have a brain." - Sir Winston Churchill
I wouldn't call myself "a lib" in the, ehh, uhh, colloquially sense but uhhh, I definitely don't own a, uhhh, red hat! And I have loved Norm's stuff since the Weekend Update days. He is/was the best to ever do it. If you have to prescribe to a tribe in order to like something great or define your personality, you are missing the point of Norm's comedy. If you only like Norm because you see him as someone who is "conservative" and "roasts the libs", you are missing the point. Your, and Logan's, prefrontal cortex, may still have yet to develop fully if you don't see the idiocy in both sides and the...hypocrisy...in ascribing by tribal politics, tribal thinking, and self-segregating along politically tribal lines. Everyone is an idiot, myself included. 99.98%+ of all humanity have been barely functioning proto-tards. We all ride the coattails of Copernicus, Einstein, Jonas Salk, Larry Flynt...Dick Morris...the list seems to be dropping off quite precipitously but, uhh, yea, you get the idea. Think for yourself, question everything, especially if it is agreeable to you and your preconceived notions or ideas; and for fucks sake, purchase a god damn, fuckin' Man Grate already!
Eddie Murphy said of Norm McDonald, that he learned more in the half year he spent with Norm than he had his whole life leading up to that. Letterman said of Norm, "There might be people just as funny as Norm but I've never met anyone funnier", RIP Legend, Canadian hero!
Norm taking the piss out of Patton Oswalt's bloviation on Cosby is one of my favorite things he did so I'm happy to see that joke included here. The fact that he turned Oswalt into a giant punchline to an actually funny routine is the icing on the cake. I miss him.
He wasn't just roasting Libs, as you say. Norm roasting everyone. Everything isn't always political. I hate all politicians, Libs Conservatives...all of them. But I like funny. Norm was at the mountain top of funny. There will never be another like him.
One of his greatest routines was on the last Letterman broadcast. Brilliant man and comedian. I would always stay home to watch his weekend update and when he started doing bits in skits on SNL.
@@cis_American haha, I grew up in the 80's (actually Portland because it was still sane) where we didn't grow into fragile snowflakes and the inability to laugh at ourselves. Percentage wise...I snorted water trying to drink and listen at the same time🤣
That youthful porpoise joke is one of my all time favorites. He holds the audience through the whole thing. Andy has a reaction afterwards that is worth going back to watch
I watch old norm McDonald's old stand up you tube all the time when i am bored . I agree he is the greatest stand-up i have ever seen he is so quick, and his timing and delivery is amazing.
Norm was an amazing talent, incredibly intelligent and introspective. I remember being shocked when I found out that he'd died, but when it was revealed that he'd kept his illness a secret I was not at all surprised. It was the kind of thing that Norm would do. RIP Norm. Thank you for all the laughs.
The clips of Norm on Conan have always been a much appreciated go-to for me whenever I needed to laugh. Their mutual respect, friendship, and shared sense of humor was so much fun to watch. The world is a poorer place without the humble and sparkling presence of Norm MacDonald! Thank you for this, Michael! ❤
@@Taterstiltskin Dennis Miller, Kevin Nealon, and Norm Macdonald were the best 3, and those happened to be during the same period of the show when SNL had their best years ever, which were between 1988-1997
My favorite bit was when Norman was on the Conan O'Brian show with this female snowboarder talking about a difficult trick, and they showed a clip of her attempting said trick on a halfpipe missing the landing and hitting hard going down the halfpipe. Afterwards it cuts to them and Norm chimes in saying, "it actually looks... easy." And I lost it.
My favorite Norm MacDonald joke was one he did on Weekend Update. The bit goes as follows (paraphrased): "This week, Yassai Arafat and wife, Suha, announced that in six months they will be welcoming a brand new baby. When asked if they were hoping for a boy or girl, the couple replied, 'either one is fine, just as long as it hates Jews'."
I can remember that the only thing I had in common with my freshman year college roommate back in 1998 was that we both agreed that Norm MacDonald was grossly underrated as the funniest man of all time.
Norm's was the only celebrity death that I've mourned. I love him so much. There are few people in the world whose abscence truly makes the world a darker place but he's definitely one of them. It comforts me that he had faith. I hope he's in a better place
Just a few days ago I was thinking about how Norm's passing has affected me unlike any other celebrity death. I was still grieving the loss of him a year later, and I think about him daily. I'm not an overly sensitive person who cries every time a celebrity dies or anything like that. Norm was very special to me, and he played a huge role in shaping my sense of humor. I stopped watching SNL when they fired him, and to this day he's still my favorite comedian of all time.
It doesn't matter how many times I see Norm in the interview on The View...every single time when it gets to the part of him saying, 'I thought it was a matter of public record!', it just destroys me. 😂🤣 He was absolutely one of a kind.
I scored a pair of tickets to see Norm, 2nd row center at Foxwoods Casino in Ct. I held onto them for weeks as I planned our date night out. I surprised her with the tickets one morning before I left for work, and only a few hours later the news broke that Norm had passed. He was our favorite. With his boyish look, and disarming smile, he could tell the most insulting joke and it would come off as charming. The world was a better place with him in it.
More of these, please, Michael. 12 Minute Joke is the best joke I have ever seen performed or written. It is an unmitigated masterpiece. I have loved it a long time but right after Norm died I watched it over and over looking for one spot or blemish in the timing, one line that could have been edited out to make it better in the written word. I still haven't found it. From both a performance and written perspective it is the perfect joke and it is sustained for 12 minutes.
We all have seen many comedians but Norm is the best because he is the funniest and the kindest. He is kind of that cool uncle we all would love to have in our family, which is why I think we remember him with so much love and laughter. He feels like a family member.
Norm+Conan=Comedic Gold One could build an entire mathematical theory of comedy based around that equation. So many great memories of watching interviews with those two over the years.
For those that don’t know, there was a Canadian comedy duo called Wayne and Shuster. They ended each TV special by singing the song featured at the end of this video.
SNL: Norm, the trial is over, ok? if you do any more OJ material, youre fired Norm, later that day: in other news, murder is now legal in the state of California!
I really underappreciated his style and how funny and smart he was, I started watching him on youtube and followed him on Twitter and he became my favorite. The day he died it was the first time a celebrity passing made me sad as if a friend had passed on. Gone from this earth but never forgotten, Rest in Peace Norm.
Second time to be truly saddened when a celebrity/sports figure died for me. Dale Earnhardt being the other one. Both times I called my mom for sympathy. Just so happens it was only a few months prior to her passing away. Mom sent flowers when Earnhardt died. She didn’t know Norm and his comedy bits but she comforted me anyway.
Norm was one of our favorite beloved humans... His humor along with his muffled speach pattern always made us stop whatever we were doing and take a seat to watch him perform...
I'm as big of a Norm fan as anyone. And I'm pleasantly surprised that Mr. Knowles is as well. Norm was a giant humble man who I'm sure left a huge impression on everyone fortunate enough to know or meet him.
I feel so blessed I got to see him in Irvine literally a week before the lockdowns happened. It was a great show, definitely my favorite comedian of all time. May he rest in peace 🙏
The woman joke (with the percentages not adding to 100) is one of Norm's best. The first punchline makes you laugh even though you know you shouldn't. Then the second punchline turns the first punchline upside down and inside out, making you laugh even more. Then the graphic moves on to the next joke, so that you're sure the joke must be over, and then Norm suddenly pulls the rug out from under you with the third punchline. After you're finished laughing, you have to wonder how someone could write and deliver such a perfect joke.
To have a correspondence like that with Norm must have been so awesome. He is definitely my favorite comedian of all time and the fact that he was so intelligent yet spoke to people on their level or even below just because is one of the most fascinating parts of his personality for me. Penpals aren't really a thing anymore but it should be because it's such a good way to communicate given that you get time to figure out what you're going to say and even edit it before the other person ever sees it or reads it. I like you more knowing that you and Norm had that relationship.
Norm once said that when atheists argue against theism, they never say that Scientology is ridiculous, or that the gods of Hinduism are silly. Instead, they argue against the God of Christianity which betrays their belief in Him.
So smart; Norm killed it on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”. And those genius “throwaway” guest cue card jokes from his talk show - he left half the stack unread in episodes and I wish I knew what they said. What a talent with heart; best comedian ever.
Reading Norm's writing about faith with his intellect would mean the world to me, he helped me see the great value in Christianity. There's so little of his deep thoughts out there.
We reinforced two valuable lessons today:
1. Norm has been and always will be a legend among comedians.
2. The View has been and always will be hosted by a flock of insufferable harpies.
💯x💯
Regular birds travel in flocks. Harpies are like ravens, crows and Clintons. They travel in murders.
And that micheal doesn’t love his kids
it's called The View because that's how many views they get
@@jacobkwoka2613what
"Do something with that, you freak..." Classic Conan leaving the door open wayyyyyyyyy too wide for Norm to expect not to get taken behind the woodshed.
Norm MacDonald going on The View and calling Bill Clinton a murderer on national TV was nothing short of legendary. Also the fact that his bosses at SNL and the heads of the network it aired on told him to lay off on the OJ Simpson and Michael Jackson jokes, then he went out there on Weekend Update and doubled down on the jokes they just told him not to tell, which ended up getting him fired, was just epic. Though most people will know him because of his many hilarious Letterman and Conan Late Night appearances, my personal favorite Norm moment was during the roast of Bob Saget. They wanted Norm to go out there and be really raunchy and vulgar and drag Saget through the mud like everyone else. Norm said he didn’t want to do that because Bob was his friend, so he went out there and told some old corny dad humor jokes from like a 1950s joke book and bombed on purpose. The crowd was confused and the awkward silence was deafening, and the entire time Norm was relishing in it grinning from ear to ear. To go out there and intentionally do bad in front of a crowd of people and a group of your fellow comedians has to be the bravest thing I’ve ever seen a comic do. Greatest comedian to ever live in my opinion. Glad to see people still keeping his memory alive to this day. 🙌
There's a channel here on youtube named *Not Norm* that does Norm compilations. One has Norm on different shows titled Norm saves interviews. One clip on Conan O'Brien's show has the actress from Melrose Place, Courtney Thorn Smith on and Norm's TV comedy gold throughout her interview.
You should learn more about Saget not the great guy you think he was.
@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217he was talking about Norm being the best. Not Sagot.
@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217sorry. Looks like the person you were talking to’s post was deleted. I thought you were responding to the OP
The Saget roast was epic, thanks for reminding me
Norm wasn't just a comedian, he was an amazing friend. I will always love his bit at the Bob Saget roast where he tells old time jokes because he didn't want to say anything bad about his friend.
I love that moment. It's like he was saying: "screw this stupid insult format. I'm just going to make fun of the whole thing, and then let everybody know that You are my friend, and that I love you."
It's so sweet, and it clearly makes Saget emotional.
Norm roasting Bill Clinton and the Washington elite at the White House press roast was the absolute best. Oh when politicians had to sit through a real roasting it was delicious.
Yeah but Bill Clinton didn't care, he loved joke's about himself, he had no shame at all, BC he knew everyone would always let him get away with whatever he wanted to do, just like they're doing with Biden now, just disgusting
It says one reply but am unable to read it. I guess someone was a little salty with your comment.
Because he was Canadian he had a very Canadian view of American politics, which in essence is "it's all a shitshow but I can sit back and laugh at it because this isn't my country anyways." A lot of us Canadians, especially in his day, view American politics as a source of entertainment and pay as much attention to it as we do to our own elections.
I’m looking it up now, thnx for posting.
Oh to watch him roast this iteration of an administration.
@@elizabeth6623Oh, I’m sure you guys do - as does Australia. In fact I tune into their Sky News for their daily latest on our shitshow, so I can at least offset some of my embarrassment and shame with humor.
Does Canada have a show similar to Rita Panahi’s segment I can check out?
Conan called Norm "the smartest guy in the room pretending to be the dumbest"
I thought it was letterman?
@@LightS_bRightit was Jacque degoteire
@@sptxkillinmachinde gatenau . The man has grown!
The world could still use more Norm McDonald
The world needs more politically incorrect comedy.
"Norm MACDonald"
-Norm MacDonald
Hah ? McDonald ?
Blame Google autocorrect.... That being said, nothing is more impressive than a random Human messageboard spellchecker. Especially when they gather in gaggles.
I didn't even know he was sick
I think his funniest joke ever was at the Espy Awards when he congratulated the Heisman Trophy winner. He said "That's something that nobody can ever take away from you ... unless you kill your wife and a waiter".
RIP Norm. One of the funniest people who ever lived.
Remember when Norm was fired from SNL because they said he wasn't funny? Pepperidge Farms remembers
No, he IS the funniest person who ever lived
RIP? I didn't even know he was sick.
Second!
I excused myself at work to cry in my car when Norm died. I'm not ashamed to say it felt like I had lost a close family member. He just GETS IT! A staggeringly brilliant and sweet soul with a wit many can only envy. God rest your soul, Norm. I love you. Maybe we'll see you again someday.
The Dennis Miller radio guest spots by Norm were the absolute best. Hearing Dennis genuinely crack up to the point of tears gets me out of even the foulest mood.
Absolutely. The ventriloquism bits he did OVER THE PHONE! to Dennis are some of the most absurdly hilarious things I’ve ever heard.
It turns out the Holocaust-denying puppet was wildly unpopular.@@29memyselfandi
@@29memyselfandi Are you talking about RUSTY? That guy?
@@NewBeginning509 😂😂
I never thought of myself as a huge Dennis Miller fan (actually I was a little kid when I saw him on Update) but his various material with Norm has really made me rethink. The various talk show appearances are brilliant pieces of work. He is an incredible comedy partner for him.
Norm didn't skip an opportunity to roast bill Clinton, Madonna and OJ Simpson. It's crazy the ammount of jokes he made with just those 3
The View audience actually cheered George W when Norm talked him up 😮😮😮. Imagine the current view audience cheering if anyone said anything decent about Trump. Look at how far gone the left become.
don't forget michael jackson
@@dereksbooksthey still cheer Bush today bec he's "better than Trump" aka an establishment puppet
Norm didn't like lizards
@@dereksbooks George W. Bush was and is a decent man.
I've been down the Norm rabbit hole many times. It never gets old. My favorites are always his appearances with Conan. The gift basket episode was masterpiece comedy.
So, Michael had a chance to do a Norm Macdonald interview, but couldn`t agree on online format. Say, what now? What else? He insisted on coffee, not tea?
“Congratulations on becoming the permanent host of the Tonight Show, that’s something they can never take away from you!”
Norm was a master. I'd trade a million (or more, I'm open for suggestions) Jimmy Kimmels/Stephen Colberts/Jimmy Fallons/Seth Myerses (sp?) for him.
Cool wanna see the clip of that show
Norm always loved to make a crowd uncomfortable, the view interview was gold! Those pigeons on the panel all slapping at him, telling him to shut up and threatening he wont be invited back, just made him go harder
Those were always my favorite. He despised that specific type of bias and harpies that would peddle in pandering. There's a few interviews he did where he called that behavior out of he saw what he considered to be subpar, intentional ignorance. I remember him calling out some atheist kid for attacking the Bible once on Last Comic Standing. It was brilliant.
I hope his view interview gets picked up again and circulated. I’ve never been able to watch more than a few seconds of that…opinion perversion, before I felt like vomiting, but I’d definitely watch an invitee do something similar when referring to their puppet of a leader and the rest of that lap dog administration.
Nothing would make Norm joke about something more than being told not to joke about it. He always pushed back when he met resistance. That's what makes him not merely a great comic, but a great man. Also, the View really looks pathetic in that bit. They've always been shills for the Party.
I was literally grossed out when she put her hand on his mouth like that...
Ironically Norm would go on to be the voice actor for an edgy pigeon in a cartoon.
Norm was one of the most genuine, funny, kind, and brilliant people to ever live. He was humble enough as to never flaunt his intelligence, though he could have.
the fact that Norm suffered with cancer and made jokes at his own expense that no one actually realized where him making light of the situation he was dealing with goes to show how good of a man he was
He also made jokes at his own expanse
Once he also gained weight in order to make fun at his own expanse.
It was his cancer treatment that caused his weight gain.
I think about how he suffered in silence. He never called attention to himself. I can't help thinking about that as I watch him and start shedding a tear while laughing. Thank you, Norm. We love you and miss you, man.
Nah he's a good guy
Best one was his take on fathers being proud of gay son. Couldn’t stop laughing.
His greatest joke will always be "I didn't even know he was sick." In reality he was telling us the whole time....RIP
It always hit different after he passed. It made so much sense that he didn't want the pity. He just wanted to do his thing.
Hardly his greatest joke. You have a lot of Norm Macdonald jokes to catch up on
It was great that norm wrote a joke that’s punchline wouldn’t hit that hard until ten years later when he was dead. Beautiful Double entendres
The View saying they're not allowed to make accusations against a candidate is wild
As an English man who didn’t know who he was until I heard about him on The Adam Carolla show, I agree, Norm is the best. He made them freak out on The View.
Best episode of View ever!😎🇨🇦
“Chairman of the Bored” is one of the best on the spot jokes I’ve ever heard
Norm is such a legend
He's the only man I know who can explain the joke and both the joke and the explanation will make you laugh
A regular bad dream
@@thaddeusvannice4551 When you wake up after dreaming of Norm... Do you need a safe space?
I love watching Michael laugh at my favorite comedian.
I love binge watching his clips. I believe he graduated high school at 14 and someone once said "...he was the smartest guy in the room pretending to be the dumbest guy in the room."
Thanks for acknowledging one of the GOATS of Canada! Pure treasure!!!!
Norm was truly one of a kind. The only comedian I can think of who was deserving of being called fearless.
Agree. He would be one of the first ones I'd think of if someone said name a fearless comedian
Norm and Patrice O’Neal. The only two who were truly fearless.
George Carlin was fearless. He actually agreed with many leftist beliefs, unlike Norm, but when he disagreed he roasted them badly. Check out his bit on the environmental movement to see him shred his own side. That's fearless.
I mean Goerge Carlin also said some hard facts with his set
Him, Carlin and Patrice
Norm Mcdonald: Timelessly funny.
The View: Timelessly idiotic.
The Norm RUclips rabbithole is never-ending And even if you wind up seeing the same clips, they never disappoint. It’s incredible.
Love the I'm not Norm channel. Great compilations of Norm posted there. There's a channel here on youtube named Frankenstein's Lab that reacts to different comedians. Their reactions to Norm and especially Patrice O'Neal doing *The Nasty Show* is hilarious.
Yeah, she was a real battle axe.
@stanleydavidlepretre4241 I never appreciated Norm back in the day, but I saw an amazing compilation on I'm Not Norm of all his OJ jokes and it led me down a rabbit hole that ended with me realizing he was the most brilliant comedian ever. And from everything I've subsequently read he was a great person as well. I wish it didn't take me so long to discover his genius but I'm glad I finally did!
I excused myself at work to cry in my car when Norm died. I'm not ashamed to say it felt like I had lost a close family member. He just GETS IT! A staggeringly brilliant and sweet soul with a wit many can only envy. God rest your soul, Norm. I love you. Maybe we'll see you again someday.
I adored Norm. He was so funny. During the OJ trial: "Hey. That's my lucky stabbing hat." That was one of the funniest lines on Weekend Update.
and..."It's official, murder is now legal in CA"...
Or anytime he brought up Al Cowlings. 😂
😂😂😂
‘I thought it was a matter of public record’
I love how Norm just doesnt quit
What’s funny is when I was a lib in my 20’s , I didn’t think he was funny at all.
Now that I’m a Conservative I think he’s hilarious!!
Miss him..❤
"If in your twenties you are not a liberal, you don't have a heart.
If you are thirty and not a conservative, you don't have a brain."
- Sir Winston Churchill
That's why there should be a higher minimum voting age. The prefrontal cortex isn't even fully developed until around 25
@@LoganAddisMusic Totally agree
That might be because you, like most Americans, politicize every thought that crosses your shallow mind.
I wouldn't call myself "a lib" in the, ehh, uhh, colloquially sense but uhhh, I definitely don't own a, uhhh, red hat! And I have loved Norm's stuff since the Weekend Update days. He is/was the best to ever do it. If you have to prescribe to a tribe in order to like something great or define your personality, you are missing the point of Norm's comedy. If you only like Norm because you see him as someone who is "conservative" and "roasts the libs", you are missing the point.
Your, and Logan's, prefrontal cortex, may still have yet to develop fully if you don't see the idiocy in both sides and the...hypocrisy...in ascribing by tribal politics, tribal thinking, and self-segregating along politically tribal lines. Everyone is an idiot, myself included. 99.98%+ of all humanity have been barely functioning proto-tards. We all ride the coattails of Copernicus, Einstein, Jonas Salk, Larry Flynt...Dick Morris...the list seems to be dropping off quite precipitously but, uhh, yea, you get the idea. Think for yourself, question everything, especially if it is agreeable to you and your preconceived notions or ideas; and for fucks sake, purchase a god damn, fuckin' Man Grate already!
Eddie Murphy said of Norm McDonald, that he learned more in the half year he spent with Norm than he had his whole life leading up to that. Letterman said of Norm, "There might be people just as funny as Norm but I've never met anyone funnier", RIP Legend, Canadian hero!
Norm taking the piss out of Patton Oswalt's bloviation on Cosby is one of my favorite things he did so I'm happy to see that joke included here.
The fact that he turned Oswalt into a giant punchline to an actually funny routine is the icing on the cake. I miss him.
The guy is a legend. RIP Norm.
Norm was the man! One of the best comics of all time!
He wasn't just roasting Libs, as you say. Norm roasting everyone. Everything isn't always political. I hate all politicians, Libs Conservatives...all of them. But I like funny. Norm was at the mountain top of funny. There will never be another like him.
Norm hated political humor and avoided doing it. He felt that it was lazy and unfunny. He was right.
Norm taught me a valuable lesson: Cancer never wins-the best it does is fight to a “draw”.
One of his greatest routines was on the last Letterman broadcast. Brilliant man and comedian. I would always stay home to watch his weekend update and when he started doing bits in skits on SNL.
As a woman, I approve of this message 😂
Well at least you’re not a hypocrite… that’s the worst part…
What % do you approve of this? I want to check your math heheheh
@@zac3392 Um yeah that would be the Dems.
@@cis_American haha, I grew up in the 80's (actually Portland because it was still sane) where we didn't grow into fragile snowflakes and the inability to laugh at ourselves. Percentage wise...I snorted water trying to drink and listen at the same time🤣
What is a woman??Lol
That youthful porpoise joke is one of my all time favorites. He holds the audience through the whole thing. Andy has a reaction afterwards that is worth going back to watch
Norm was able to perform in such a way that if anyone tried to steal the material it would just make them sound awkward and goofy
Well said!
I watch old norm McDonald's old stand up you tube all the time when i am bored . I agree he is the greatest stand-up i have ever seen he is so quick, and his timing and delivery is amazing.
Norm was an amazing talent, incredibly intelligent and introspective. I remember being shocked when I found out that he'd died, but when it was revealed that he'd kept his illness a secret I was not at all surprised. It was the kind of thing that Norm would do. RIP Norm. Thank you for all the laughs.
I didn’t even know he was sick.
The clips of Norm on Conan have always been a much appreciated go-to for me whenever I needed to laugh. Their mutual respect, friendship, and shared sense of humor was so much fun to watch. The world is a poorer place without the humble and sparkling presence of Norm MacDonald!
Thank you for this, Michael! ❤
Funniest man who ever lived. Funniest man whoever died. Fearless, Brilliant and effortlessly Profound. The world was a better place with Norm in it.
And is still, just from having had him here at all.
I didn't even know he was sick
"Let's go on to the next question."
Aka "i'm a lib...the harsh truth upsets me."❤
Love Norm!❤
Norm was hands down the best anchor of weekend update on SNL. His frequent jabs at OJ and Hillary Clinton were geniuses!
norm was perhaps the funniest weekend update anchor, but the best over all was dennis miller, no contest.
@@Taterstiltskin Dennis Miller, Kevin Nealon, and Norm Macdonald were the best 3, and those happened to be during the same period of the show when SNL had their best years ever, which were between 1988-1997
We need the definitive Michael Knowles list of Norm MacDonald clips
The one with him on Conan and he kept calling his wife a dirty dog is one if my favorites.
And Chairman of the B-O-R-E-D
Deeply closeted gay man lol😂
In his defense, she was a real battleaxe
Doc, she’s choking!
He actually admitted he was a deeply closeted gay man. Though he denied being gay to the very end. A complex man. A complex, closeted gay man.
"And you're supposed to be funny'? And you were 'supposed' to be a journalist!
My favorite bit was when Norman was on the Conan O'Brian show with this female snowboarder talking about a difficult trick, and they showed a clip of her attempting said trick on a halfpipe missing the landing and hitting hard going down the halfpipe. Afterwards it cuts to them and Norm chimes in saying, "it actually looks... easy." And I lost it.
I’ve never seen that but this got me dying
@@bigk4026 That's probably from Conan's Tonight Show, you can probably find that interview outside of RUclips.
"Serving a youthful porpoise". It's so bad it's legendary!! 🐬
My favorite Norm MacDonald joke was one he did on Weekend Update. The bit goes as follows (paraphrased): "This week, Yassai Arafat and wife, Suha, announced that in six months they will be welcoming a brand new baby. When asked if they were hoping for a boy or girl, the couple replied, 'either one is fine, just as long as it hates Jews'."
I love that you used I Can’t Hold Back by Survivor in the beginning of the video. Rest In Peace, Norm MacDonald
Norm on the view is the single greatest thing that show has ever produced, and its one of the greatest moments ive ever seen on cable!!
PLEASE publish the conversation!
I can remember that the only thing I had in common with my freshman year college roommate back in 1998 was that we both agreed that Norm MacDonald was grossly underrated as the funniest man of all time.
Norm's was the only celebrity death that I've mourned. I love him so much. There are few people in the world whose abscence truly makes the world a darker place but he's definitely one of them. It comforts me that he had faith. I hope he's in a better place
Just a few days ago I was thinking about how Norm's passing has affected me unlike any other celebrity death. I was still grieving the loss of him a year later, and I think about him daily. I'm not an overly sensitive person who cries every time a celebrity dies or anything like that. Norm was very special to me, and he played a huge role in shaping my sense of humor. I stopped watching SNL when they fired him, and to this day he's still my favorite comedian of all time.
If there was another like him, and of his caliber, it would be easier to move on. But there isn't.
That's the first time I ever cried about a celebrity's death. Norm was one of a kind. Truly sublime.
@@Fantasyremixthe only other one for me was John Prine.
The big ones for me (besides Norm) were George Carlin, David Bowie, and Robin Williams. Tom Petty maybe second tier.
@@reliantncc1864Bowie admitted to sleeping with tweIve year olds.
It doesn't matter how many times I see Norm in the interview on The View...every single time when it gets to the part of him saying, 'I thought it was a matter of public record!', it just destroys me. 😂🤣 He was absolutely one of a kind.
I scored a pair of tickets to see Norm, 2nd row center at Foxwoods Casino in Ct. I held onto them for weeks as I planned our date night out. I surprised her with the tickets one morning before I left for work, and only a few hours later the news broke that Norm had passed. He was our favorite. With his boyish look, and disarming smile, he could tell the most insulting joke and it would come off as charming. The world was a better place with him in it.
More of these, please, Michael. 12 Minute Joke is the best joke I have ever seen performed or written. It is an unmitigated masterpiece. I have loved it a long time but right after Norm died I watched it over and over looking for one spot or blemish in the timing, one line that could have been edited out to make it better in the written word. I still haven't found it. From both a performance and written perspective it is the perfect joke and it is sustained for 12 minutes.
The best response from Norm was when one of the cackling hens asked Him "why would a woman find you attractive?" Norms response "money"!👈😁
Wife? C'mon we all know you don't own a dog house Michael.
We all have seen many comedians but Norm is the best because he is the funniest and the kindest. He is kind of that cool uncle we all would love to have in our family, which is why I think we remember him with so much love and laughter. He feels like a family member.
Guy was a legend and influenced a lot of the guys nowadays. Great stuff
Norm+Conan=Comedic Gold
One could build an entire mathematical theory of comedy based around that equation. So many great memories of watching interviews with those two over the years.
The Bill Cosby hypocrite bit had me laughing so hard i woke up my kids
His Charles Woodson/OJ Simpson joke at the ESPYs is incredible. RIP, Norm.
Norm Macdonald was a comedic genius, a deep thinker, and a phenomenal person.
RIP Norm, there will never be another like you
For those that don’t know, there was a Canadian comedy duo called Wayne and Shuster. They ended each TV special by singing the song featured at the end of this video.
SNL: Norm, the trial is over, ok? if you do any more OJ material, youre fired
Norm, later that day: in other news, murder is now legal in the state of California!
I really underappreciated his style and how funny and smart he was, I started watching him on youtube and followed him on
Twitter and he became my favorite. The day he died it was the first time a celebrity passing made me sad as if a friend had
passed on. Gone from this earth but never forgotten, Rest in Peace Norm.
Second time to be truly saddened when a celebrity/sports figure died for me. Dale Earnhardt being the other one. Both times I called my mom for sympathy. Just so happens it was only a few months prior to her passing away. Mom sent flowers when Earnhardt died. She didn’t know Norm and his comedy bits but she comforted me anyway.
If you had any doubt Michael is a very intelligent man, the fact he loves Norm is now proof enough!!!
That's what I thought
Or so the Germans would have us believe
@@akanshsrivastav8269 But does Michael own a doghouse, is my question ...
@@mr.battle20 Of course he does, he is no swedish-german!
I love the bit where he tacitly brings up how Vince Foster was Arkansided. 😂
Norm was one of our favorite beloved humans...
His humor along with his muffled speach pattern always made us stop whatever we were doing and take a seat to watch him perform...
He had a unique way about him. One of the greats. He and Carlin are probably knee slapping right now.
"Do something with that, you freak..." Don't EVER dare Norm McDonald to do something. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm as big of a Norm fan as anyone. And I'm pleasantly surprised that Mr. Knowles is as well. Norm was a giant humble man who I'm sure left a huge impression on everyone fortunate enough to know or meet him.
So Norm exemplified what a comedian MUST be. Brave/fearless about the consequences of ur joke. At the head of the class of the all time comedy greats
I feel so blessed I got to see him in Irvine literally a week before the lockdowns happened. It was a great show, definitely my favorite comedian of all time. May he rest in peace 🙏
Don't forget Norm's most important line: Speak ill of the dead!
That View clip aged even better than wine
Way better than the view did too.
pure comedic genius
RIP Norm
Norm on the View is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen
The woman joke (with the percentages not adding to 100) is one of Norm's best. The first punchline makes you laugh even though you know you shouldn't. Then the second punchline turns the first punchline upside down and inside out, making you laugh even more. Then the graphic moves on to the next joke, so that you're sure the joke must be over, and then Norm suddenly pulls the rug out from under you with the third punchline. After you're finished laughing, you have to wonder how someone could write and deliver such a perfect joke.
Norm was truly a legend in comedy! The GOAT!
To have a correspondence like that with Norm must have been so awesome. He is definitely my favorite comedian of all time and the fact that he was so intelligent yet spoke to people on their level or even below just because is one of the most fascinating parts of his personality for me. Penpals aren't really a thing anymore but it should be because it's such a good way to communicate given that you get time to figure out what you're going to say and even edit it before the other person ever sees it or reads it. I like you more knowing that you and Norm had that relationship.
I'm ashamed to say I'm 54 and never really appreciated Norm until recently. Dang legend
When the student is ready, the master will appear.
I’m another 50-something who discovered his brilliance a year or so before he died.
We’ve been waiting for you. But it’s all good now.
I hear ya. The View clip. They literally wanted to silence him.
He's sorely missed.
Imagine if a guy stood up & put his hand over a woman's mouth like she did to Norm.
Norm’s dirty Johny joke is the funniest joke i’ve ever heard
Norm once said that when atheists argue against theism, they never say that Scientology is ridiculous, or that the gods of Hinduism are silly. Instead, they argue against the God of Christianity which betrays their belief in Him.
Norm MacDonald purposefully bombing at the roast or Bob Saget was phenomenal 😂 even when he tells bad jokes on purpose you will laugh
Norm McDonald is the comedian we need today. RIP to him. Brave comedy without a filter.
"Do you own a dog house?"
"No. I don't own a dog house."
"Oh, yeah? You're one of them gays."
So smart; Norm killed it on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”. And those genius “throwaway” guest cue card jokes from his talk show - he left half the stack unread in episodes and I wish I knew what they said. What a talent with heart; best comedian ever.
When Norm rocks back and forth rubbing his legs, he's not nervous, he's chomping at the bit 🐐 R.I.P.
Reading Norm's writing about faith with his intellect would mean the world to me, he helped me see the great value in Christianity. There's so little of his deep thoughts out there.
If it's not already in the comments, the RUclips channel "I'm not Norm" is a goldmine for Norm content.