Fuck holy shit what. Damn he was only 61. That is so tragic. Norm has some some really good bits. This sucks
When he was funny, he was really damn funny.
When he was a reactionary bigoted racist fuck, he deserved to get punched in the throat.
That moth joke is timeless though, I'll give the bastard that.
Norm Macdonald on battles with cancer: "I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure if you die, the cancer dies at the same time. That’s not a loss. That’s a draw."
Did he adapt his comedy to the times or did he stay reactionary? I usually give comics some leeway if it’s from a previous time.
So. Norm was funny. But fuck these mid90s pricks. Adam Sandler, the d-bag who was in Deuce Bigalow, Chris Farley, David Spade to some degree: all upper middle class conservative pricks who could afford to do comedy because mommy and daddy paid for rent during the hard times. This is Gen X in a nutshell - the bullshit I grew up in. It's demeaning to the artists who actually had to struggle. But fuck it. Whatever.
Norm was pretty fucking funny.
David Spade made a cursed movie called "PCU" which either explicitly or implicitly stood for "Politically Correct University". It ended with - and I shit you not - college students heroicly staging a protest against protesting. Literally chanting "We're not gonna protest! We're not gonna protest!"
"Will you blow me where the pampers is?" will always be one of my favorite movie lines of all time though. Also, Jon Favreau is in that scene, and he's almost unrecognizable.
I miss when the worst thing we'd see on the news is terrorists hijacking planes and flying them into buildings.
Norm had perfect comedic timing. Nobody could tell a 9/11 joke like him and I'm glad he got to see one last meaningful 9/11 to fuck with nurses on. RIP.
I know it's dumb to care about what celebrities believe in, but I was also so disappointed that Norm was conservative. He was one of the funniest American comedians I've ever seen.
He was much better than the average one. He never complained about cancel culture. If the joke was offensive, he just rolled with it.
That's not true at all. He spent a ton of time in interviews bitching about how unfair #MeToo was to rapists and how people like Louis CK and Roseanne Barr faced too harsh of consequences.
At the very least he didn't spend like all of his time during sets just bitching about it.
Here are some of his lovely jokes about black people. Not punching down at all, folks! Nothing to see here!
His whole shtick was edgy nihilistic anti-humor and he was chuddy, so it's understandable.
