“So, anyways, the guy dies, and then Chekhov continues the story. They put him in a kind of duffelbag, a sack, and throw him overboard. He sinks in the ocean, his dead body. And one fish grazes against him, rips the sack, and his body tumbles out, and a bunch of minnows come and eat little bits of him. And a big fish comes and takes away his legs, and that’s the end.” (Some of these details are not in the original.)
nice
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:47 (seven years ago) link
“That bird almost hit me in the face, like Fabio on the roller coaster,” he said.
― rolling auto-loon (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:53 (seven years ago) link
And I like bleakness, because I grew up in a bleak area,” he said. (In Quebec, then Ontario.)
huh. Quebec was once ONtario?!
― andrew m., Tuesday, 11 October 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
his show is on amazon prime now.
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 6 March 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-jfLIssw0E
― Wes Brodicus, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
Excited about this, was there any explanation why it just disappeared after two episodes last year?
― devvvine, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
apparently it's the obvious answer of funding:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NormMacdonald/comments/6moz6n/lets_hear_it_for_daniel_kellison_master_negotiator/dk4tr5n/
― devvvine, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqECl-5BiA4
i found this to be a very unique and interesting interview. he goes really in-depth into spirituality and philosophy. cool stuff, some of it ends up in his work. there was a bit towards the end of his Netflix special where he talks about his love for his dog that i found very profound.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
What is wrong with Norm, he seems very very slow lately.
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 10:03 (six years ago) link
the true damage caused by Louis CK and podcast creating this world where we take nightclub comedians seriously as big philosophers cannot be calculated. if that wasn't Norm you'd be lil lol my Uncle Steve on Facebook get a load of this
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
yeah, Louis CK was the first comedian ppl thought might have something interesting to say.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
There was a question on Reddit yesterday (maybe deleted, I can't find it), which said that comedians are often philosophers. They said three names, but I only remember that two of them were Bill Hicks and George Carlin. I don't even think Hicks is a comedian, but ymmv - but these are the guys whose fault it is.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
Lenny Bruce? Not stand-up, but some of Chaplin's film stuff? Comedy as a kind of "truth telling" is old as dirt.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
Good comedy is useful hence.....
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
Pryor
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
roy 'chubby' brown
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
Also court jesters, Shakespearean clowns, all that jazz - I think ums is talking about them being taken seriously as big philosophers outside of the context of their comic roles tho
― streeps of range (wins), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 3:03 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he does seem strangely slow. very prematurely aged in that he's only in his late 50s, but comes off about 70 and not too sprightly. he doesn't have any drink or drug problems which might explain this iirc - his main vice seems to be his addiction to gambling.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
he's always been slow and cranky old man-ish that's his thing
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
Are you sure urc because I always presumed this guy was on everything going, and plenty of it
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
the time of nightclub comedians taken seriously as big philosophers is definitely more a pre-podcasting than post-podcasting phenomenon, i would say. norm's youtube thing seems less to do with podcasting comedians trying to self-promote in an age of netflix specials off rogan appearances and without the power of morning radio and more about recreating golden age broadcasting and talking to his old buddies.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 9:24 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he literally reminds me of senile septuagenarian relatives of mine though is the thing!
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
i know there are ten million articles about amy schumer being our finest philosopher and praising aziz ansari and steven crowder's debate as the 2017 buckley vidal.
like
In his 2008 stand-up special "Chewed Up," Louis CK explains the intricacies of white privilege. In his latest hour-long stand-up special, Aziz Ansari criticizes creepy dudes on the street. On "The Daily Show," Trevor Noah investigates whether all police officers are racist.It's a radical approach to humor: Rather than find a larger (typically absurd) sense of meaning in a minor observation — What's the deal with flip flops? — today's comedians begin with a complex topic and see what humor they can draw out....The ideas aren't necessarily novel — formal philosophers have been wrestling with feminist and racial thought for decades. The innovation lies in the way those ideas get packaged and distributed.
It's a radical approach to humor: Rather than find a larger (typically absurd) sense of meaning in a minor observation — What's the deal with flip flops? — today's comedians begin with a complex topic and see what humor they can draw out.
...
The ideas aren't necessarily novel — formal philosophers have been wrestling with feminist and racial thought for decades. The innovation lies in the way those ideas get packaged and distributed.
that's questionable though
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 9:24 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
maybe he is, he will claim in interviews that he's not a big drinker and doesn't do drugs or whatever but he tends to bullshit in interviews
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
the true damage caused by Louis CK and podcast creating this world where we take nightclub comedians seriously as big philosophers cannot be calculated
nah this absolutely predates podcast culture - Mort Sahl, Pryor, Bruce etc as noted
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
Norm does sound more and more like Larry Flynt.
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
i too have noticed that he appears to have aged during these past decades
― 👁 (am0n), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
something's definitely happened to his face - he really looks like he got a bad facelift, which in turn makes him look a bit older than he really is
― frogbs, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
what is the deal with flip-flops tho
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
I officially retract my statement as historically inaccurate, though maintain that it sucked before and the Internet made it worse
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
what can't you say that about though
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
websites
― 👁 (am0n), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
word on the street is he's got an insatiable appetite for the flavor of xanax
― del griffith, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
the one where he goaded a peanut-eating Mike Tyson into saying the n-word was... something
― del griffith, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
― del griffith, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 12:50 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
see, this i could believe. ol' norm, geeked up off them bars
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
ty bizarro for making the post I was thinking of, I was on the road a long time this afternoon and unable to post
― mh, Thursday, 31 August 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
i mean there's a marked difference in just the past couple of years. Compare an episode of Norm MacDonald Live from a couple of years ago (Adam Sandler for example, 2014) against the new one with Jerry Seinfeld.
I keep seeing the xanax rumor.
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 31 August 2017 03:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuldL1m6FAs
in a different mode here, maybe recorded last year?
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 6:03 AM (one month ago) Bookmark
Apparently all he needed was a few sips of Jim Carrey's hyper intense coffee blend.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 5 October 2017 05:07 (six years ago) link
great interview, Carrey's comic spirit remains the same but he's more mild mannered
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
[–]golightlysWhat has been the biggest obstacle you’ve had to overcome in your career?[–]ImNormMacdonaldDue to multiple herniated discs, my pain level on a normal day is through the roof.[–]MikePGSIs that from carrying SNL all those years?
[–]ImNormMacdonaldDue to multiple herniated discs, my pain level on a normal day is through the roof.
[–]MikePGSIs that from carrying SNL all those years?
― Wes Brodicus, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/B32QrmfA9pt/?igshid=mylq6eak8jzt
― lumen (esby), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 05:12 (three years ago) link
:(R.I.P. - huge bummer
― tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
oh shit :(
― aegis philbin (crüt), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
That sucks 🥲
― DJI, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
remember the good times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SSVIg4Noqc
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
I still have vivid memories of his early Letterman/Conan appearances; I had never seen comedy like that on TV
― tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
Damn
― cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:43 (two years ago) link
what the fuck
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
Fuck this
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
its been a real joy seeing all these clips of Norm pop up on Twitter. there's so much I haven't seen, dude was so naturally hilarious that pretty much any random podcast appearance could be gold
the Bob Saget roast clip is blowing up again and as much as I love it, it's kind of weird to see it divorced from context - I actually watched it as it aired and Norm's set was 3x funnier when it followed an hours worth of comedians trying to out-Andrew Dice Clay each other
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
I love when he goes full Canadian in the Jacques de Gatineau and Kitchener Leslie stories.
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
frogbs otm re the Saget roastthe shift in gears was so jarring & great, and watching everyone else who had been up just losing it in the background it reminded me, weirdly, of seeing Neil Hamburger open for Faith No More. The way the performer is doing something other than what the audience wants, and the highwire aspect of just seeing where that goes, when you know that bombing is part of the plan.obv norm is a different performer. but it feels, passionately vaudevillian? to commit to a performance where there’s a good chance you are the only oerson enjoying it. like tiny tim. i dunno.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
Neil Hamburger is actually a really good point of reference. Norm's roast reminds me of Neil's appearances on Jimmy Kimmel (which sadly seem to have vanished from the internet), where much of the audience is silent and clearly baffled and maybe even a little angry while a handful of people on panel are losing their shit.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
Ladies and gentlemen, this man is for the birds vs Apparently they want to murder you in a well
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
Birds is the one I've attempted in the company of friends and my partner, to their bafflement.
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
hamburger at the FNM show was pretty incredible. i had seen him do standup before in a comedy club setting, and at a festival… it was wild to see him with an audience who had no frame of reference & did not get him at all, and to see how much hamburger loved it. like i would swear he got taller lolmeanwhile mr veg & I were max-cady-in-cape-fear-laughing from the back row
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
"There's no room that says scoundrel on it"
The solemn delivery absolutely kills me.
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
Neil opening for FNM was so good
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 22:50 (two years ago) link
"Ladies and gentlemen, Faaaaaaaaaaaaaa-
-mous comedian, Neil Hamburger"
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
:D so good
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
my favorite was when he was opening for Tenacious D and he went “And now, I’m proud to introduce…….TENNNNNN more jokes!l” to a chorus of boos
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 September 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
great piece by Kaleb Horon in RShttps://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/norm-macdonald-tribute-appreciation-1226839/
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 September 2021 00:20 (two years ago) link
latest episode of Conan's podcast is a tribute
― balance transfer eligible (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 17 September 2021 03:26 (two years ago) link
lmao this clip just popped up on my feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emUhplJxmD0
something I find interesting about Norm is that through all his shows, podcasts, talk show appearances, interviews etc. he was pretty much "on" as a comedian nonstop, barely stopped for a minute to say anything serious, and you could assume all his stories were at least partially made up. but on Twitter, at least the last few years, he was almost exclusively philosophical & matter of fact. for a lot of entertainers it's exactly the opposite.
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link