Comedy Countdown #12: Norm MacDonald
If this was an overall just being funny competition, not stand-up comedy based, Norm MacDonald would have certainly been in the top 3. Despite the fact that pretty much everything he has ever done in his career has been a complete failure in the conventional sense (lost money and almost immediately cancelled) we’ve both loved everything he has ever done. We both first fell in love with Norm's antics when he was the host of Weekend update on Saturday Night Live (fired for by NBC execs for “being completely not funny”). After that Norm wrote and starred in one of the funniest movies this world has ever experienced “Dirty Work” (Universally panned by critics and bombed at the box office). The next step was writing and starring in his own sitcom, “The Norm Show”. In our humble opinion this was the funniest sitcom of it’s era (sadly cancelled after only 2 ½ seasons). That wasn’t all though, he also co-starred with Dave Chappell in the movie “Screwed” and has appeared in around 9 movies staring Rob Schneider. I have no idea what Norm did for the rest of the late nineties and early 00’s, besides those Schneider cameos, but now he is back on the scene with a new sketch comedy CD called “Ridiculous”. I very strongly recommend checking it out if you haven’t heard it. It is sorta like the old Sandler CD’s but not made exclusively for 11 year old children.
Well Norm obviously doesn’t give a shit about copy right infringement and everything he has ever done in his life was available on youtube so we spent an entire day watching basically all of it and laughing our asses off. You guys probably don’t have 8 hrs to watch Norm material so we narrowed it down to the quintessential 4 hrs. If you only a have a few minutes I would watch his stand-up special and some of the Dirty Work clips. Enjoy
(Norm’s 1991 HBO stand-up special)
(A clip from Norm’s new CD “Ridiculous” ft. Will Ferrell)
(A very funny interview with Dennis Miller)
(How did the Norm Show possibly get cancelled?)
If you enjoyed that little clip you can watch pretty much the entire first season for free on youtube. Just click here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Norm+Show
(The Movie Dirty Work)
-Clip where Norm just got raped in jailed-
-More Chris Farley at his finest-
(The Bushman’s opinion of and challenge for Mr. MacDonald)
3 comments:
I remember when the three of us watched Screwed and decided it was the best/worst movie we had ever seen. I will never forget when Spence and I lived in the 4-man and we had movie nights with the three of us and papa bear. By the Way that couch is still in that room and is now a piece of shit compared to what it was, a smoke filled piece of shit. Anyways, stop censoring people.
Norm MacDonald was on My Name is Earl on Thursday, and was moderately funny.
What is Justin Lohn up to these days?
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