RIP Norm MacDonald - Page 4 - Other Topics Forum - Discuss Pop Culture, Arts and Entertainment

Two Plus Two Forums 2+2 Communities Other Other Topics

RIP Norm MacDonald

Post Reply Subscribe

...

Page 4 of 6

1 2 3 4 5 6

Page 4 of 6

1 2 3 4 5 6

09-16-2021 , 10:14 PM

#76

txdome

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 17,928

Conan O'Brien just put out a great new podcast with Andy Richter and Frank Smiley praising Norm.

Quote

09-16-2021 , 11:33 PM

#77

ssomega

centurion

Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 177

RIP Norm.

One of his funniest videos was when he was on Conans last show as the tonight show host. Norm shows up with a gift basket.

Quote

09-16-2021 , 11:37 PM

#78

lonely_but_rich

ɔarpal \ʇunnel

Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 24,110

Quote

09-16-2021 , 11:47 PM

#79

ssomega

centurion

Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 177

Thanks lonely.

Quote

09-16-2021 , 11:50 PM

#80

Puddles8554

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2021 Posts: 132

Top five in my book. His Netflix special from 2018 shows he was still at the top of the game.

Quote

09-17-2021 , 12:08 AM

#81

Daer

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 17,686

And now 30 mins of OJ jokes:

Quote

09-17-2021 , 07:45 AM

#82

Bigdaddydvo

King of the Politics Forum

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 21,304

Quote:

Originally Posted by 27offsuit

Cringe-Norm at his finest:

Norm’s comeback to one of the roasters trashing his set is magnificent:

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Quote

09-17-2021 , 10:12 AM

#83

LKJ

Smugly Contemptuous

Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 95,986

Quote

09-17-2021 , 10:42 AM

#84

W0X0F

sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 5,830

Quote:

Originally Posted by chillrob

There's only one person happy that Norm's gone...

Spoiler:

...or at least, that's what the Germans would have you believe.

Quote

09-17-2021 , 10:46 AM

#85

W0X0F

sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 5,830

Quote:

Originally Posted by EddyB66

This one hit me a lot harder than other celebrity deaths. The thing about Norm is, you couldn't tell his jokes. Nobody could do the same delivery as Norm, and that is what made him so freaking hilarious. World got a lot less funnier for sure.

So true. His bit about Janice (the missing woman), which led into his discussion of how he would go about being a serial killer, was hilarious for word choice and delivery. And it's a topic that doesn't immediately come to mind as a source of humor, but somehow he does it.

Quote

09-17-2021 , 03:00 PM

#86

dtemp

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3,505

Norm playing the idiot with conan and Gordon Ramsay

Quote

09-17-2021 , 10:47 PM

#87

yimyammer

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,213

After decades of not appreciating Norm or really paying much attention to him at all, this story opened my eyes and had me laughing so hard, I've spent countless hours ever since listening or watching anything with Norm in it.

This is so damn funny imo:

Quote

09-18-2021 , 03:20 AM

#88

DodgerIrish

Fraudulent Zodiac

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 28,191

Quote

09-18-2021 , 03:23 AM

#89

FellaGaga-52

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2018 Posts: 8,083

Quote:

Originally Posted by grando1.0

About 40% through here

Thanks that gave me a feel for it. My little brother had nominated it for his funniest joke ever for some reason. He was probably wasted listening to it.

Quote

09-18-2021 , 03:27 AM

#90

FellaGaga-52

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2018 Posts: 8,083

Of course I don't know for sure but his stories about being a degen gambler and destroying his life and finances three times seemed kind of romanticized to me. I was skeptical. I can't see how his perspective on it after three such life disasters really happening would have been what he was manifesting. It wasn't jjust the fact that he joked about it but the way he talked about it when it wasn't in a joke. What a talent. I haven't seen enough of him at all.

Quote

09-18-2021 , 03:52 AM

#91

DodgerIrish

Fraudulent Zodiac

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 28,191

Quote

09-19-2021 , 04:50 AM

#92

FellaGaga-52

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2018 Posts: 8,083

Quote:

Originally Posted by DodgerIrish

Did they refer to RD Laing, Artie Lange, or Arne Lang? Artie Lange, I guess. At first I thought it was referencing a gambling story with Arne, then a crazy story with R.D. ... I didn't know who "Artie" was but looked him up and he was a buddy of Norm.

Last edited by FellaGaga-52; 09-19-2021 at 05:00 AM.

Quote

09-19-2021 , 12:02 PM

#93

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 92,828

RD Laing, for a famous psychiatrist, was pretty damn funny himself. He basically thought that crazy people weren't really crazy at all. Which, when you think about, is even crazier than some of Artie Lange's ideas.

Quote

09-20-2021 , 08:33 PM

#94

FellaGaga-52

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2018 Posts: 8,083

Quote:

Originally Posted by kioshk

Yeah but I don't know any of Artie's ideas. I'll have to look it up to see if he tops one of my faves, RD. Yeah RD went overboard with his ideas but he was seminal on alienation, ontological security/insecurity, what I came to call the "emissary self" standing in with true self sequestered from life. I called it the "Laing Circles" referring to a diagram in "The Divided Self," I used to know the page number.

Quote

09-20-2021 , 08:42 PM

#95

LKJ

Smugly Contemptuous

Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 95,986

Quote:

Originally Posted by FellaGaga-52

Yeah but I don't know any of Artie's ideas.

I've heard he's a big fan of people calling Bloomingdale's "Bloomies."

Quote

09-20-2021 , 09:09 PM

#96

LKJ

Smugly Contemptuous

Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 95,986

I've enjoyed this montage for a while. Norm gets his guests to read his pre-written jokes, and then refuses to tell them who wrote the jokes.

Quote

09-20-2021 , 09:21 PM

#97

JoeC2012

veteran

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 2,717

This one was an all timer for me. Everything he did with Dennis Miller was gold. Here's Norm on Dennis' radio show where he was a weekly guest (almost 3 hours of material!).