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Norm McDonald

  • 12-05-2018 01:35PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,847
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    This guy is an interesting character.
    Never really got into him (thinking he was another hacky American comedian) but on second look he really calls the bull**** around us out.

    He has perfected this aw shucks, folksy style but his comedy is really dark and honest.

    Anyone else into him.
    And any recommendations.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 Hande hoche!
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    Find him great. His netflix special was quite decent too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,719 Earthhorse
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    Yeah, he's brilliant at his best and I love his AMAs on reddit.

    Not a huge fan of his podcast though and he can a bit predictable in his own way at times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 Hector Bellend
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    I've only ever seen him on high stakes poker


  • Posts: 9,117 [Deleted User]
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    I hear his brother is a bit of a clown


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 Hande hoche!
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    I've only ever seen him on high stakes poker


    Led to some unusual conversations.





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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 qwerty ui op
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    Some balls on the guy, go to 4.50 for dustin hoffman/philip seymour hoffman, how does he hold it together




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,150 bnt
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    He’s also pretty good on The Orville as Yaphit, a gelatinous blob that has the hots for the ship’s doctor...

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,095 MonkeyTennis
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    Love him on SNL Celebrity Jeopardy as Burt Reynolds, dunno why but it cracks me up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,424 Birneybau
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    I hear his brother is a bit of a clown

    And their dad and his bleedin' farm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,847 s8n
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    unfunniest character on the middle though


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,536 Riddle101
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    I like him. I think he's one of Conan O'Brien's best guests of all time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 holystungun9
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    I've never really given him a fair shot. I didn't immediately take to him so never bothered much. I'll go back and listen to him as I know he is highly respected.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Artie Lange told a story of himself and Norm walking out to the edge of the pier in Atlantic City at 6.am. Circa 1999.

    They'd been drinking all night and Norm had won 100,000 dollars in the casino.


    Norm threw the cash into the ocean.


    He told Lange, I'll only lose it anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Artie had another one about Norm. He'd giving up smoking for 2 years, the lads were on a fight to LA,.

    Plane lands and Norm goes straight to the airport shop and buys a pack of cigs and sparks up.


    Artie asks him what are you doing and he says I just feel like having a smoke.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 dd972
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    Thought this thread was about some Linfield player.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 Outlaw Pete
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    Jaysus got a fright there for second when I seen his name in an AH thread title, especially as he hasn't been looking the best of late, put on a fair bit of weight over the last year or so, but anyway.. love Norm. On one of those handheld androids at the minute, but there's a great clip of of Norm on the view trolling them all, about Clinton killing a guy, has to be seen. Legend. His interviews on Letterman after he was let go from SNL are class too (was over jokes he made about OJ, as the head of programming was mates with him and believed him to be innocent).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,158 PopePalpatine
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    I hear his brother is a bit of a clown

    Who the hell would think an exercise bike with a tiny fist coming out of the saddle is a good idea?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 392 Footoo
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    Norms a legend. His “Roast” of Bob Sagan is a masterpiece.

    Goes from “wait this isn’t funny at all” to “ oh, oh oh I get it, this is just perfect”

    http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/661a77b3da/norm-macdonald-trolls-the-bob-saget-roast


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 artvanderlay
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    I've been listening to a lot of Norm recently and this, for me, is the stand out. It's long, but worth it. Fantastic pastiche of country music, but with a gay slant :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 Irish Guitarist
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    I watched his special on Netflix and thought the first twenty minutes or so were somewhat amusing. Then he started really rambling about nothing. I've watched some videos on YouTube and haven't found any of it remotely funny.


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  • Posts: 4,229 [Deleted User]
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    Saw him late at night on Channel 4 c.1994.

    "You ever lie for no reason at all? Just all of sudden, a big lie spills out of your evil head. Like a guy will come up to you, 'Hey, did you ever see that movie with Meryl Streep and a horse?' And you go, 'Yes.' In the back of your head, you're like, 'What in the hell am I lying about over here? I stand to gain nothing by this lie.'"


  • Posts: 2,812 [Deleted User]
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    Who the hell would think an exercise bike with a tiny fist coming out of the saddle is a good idea?

    September 5th!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,251 Arghus
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    His SNL monologue - which he was invited back on to do after he was fired from the show - is a pretty legendary smack down.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 artvanderlay
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    Check out his "Dirty Johnny" story. A masterclass in joke telling.


    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vaqxy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,012 Giblet
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    One of my favourites, 61, very young. One of the best SNL alumni.


    https://youtu.be/jJN9mBRX3uo



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,690 AllGunsBlazing
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    Didn't even know he'd been ill. Fvck that anyways.


    Thought he was best thing about that Mike Tyson spoof series from a few years back.

    Rest in peace.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ErnestBorgnine
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    Norm was hilarious. One of a kind.


    RIP



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,967 Rothko
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    RIP. Two great comedians (Sean Lock) lost to cancer in less than a month.



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    He was fantastic



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,536 Riddle101
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    I read he had cancer for 9 years. That's mad altogether. Rest in Peace Norm.

    This one has been doing the rounds on Twitter so I'll leave it here.




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