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13442030, RIP to Norm Macdonald
Posted by Ryan M, Tue Sep-14-21 01:36 PM
GOAT Weekend Update anchor? Check.
Movie classics? Check.
The best Conan guest? Arguable - but check.
A lifetime of incredible content - specials, books, movies, TV shows? Check.
Fuck cancer, and fuck this. Norm rules.
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13442032, Just skimmed how he kept his prognosis a secret.
Posted by Numba_33, Tue Sep-14-21 01:46 PM
I have a feeling a ton of comedians are going to be crushed by this news, assuming he managed to keep his battle a secret from them as well.
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13442037, My god - that's fucking enough for this year/century, thanks.
Posted by Brew, Tue Sep-14-21 02:08 PM
RIP. What a legend.
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13442046, Glad I got to see him live
Posted by Adwhizz, Tue Sep-14-21 02:41 PM
Dude used to go on talk shows and MURDER the other guests with his jokes
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13442049, RIP to Turd Ferguson
Posted by JiggysMyDayJob, Tue Sep-14-21 02:57 PM
Dude was GOAT on SNL and his DGAF attitude was special. One of the Greats!
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13442058, Just forwarded his 9/11 jokes to my friend. Damn.
Posted by Triptych, Tue Sep-14-21 03:36 PM
RIP
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13442059, Rest in peace.
Posted by Shaun Tha Don, Tue Sep-14-21 03:38 PM
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13442065, he was so funny
Posted by makaveli, Tue Sep-14-21 05:00 PM
When I a was a kid I thought he was really funny and I still do today. RIP.
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13442067, meanwhile Bob Dole is 98
Posted by Mynoriti, Tue Sep-14-21 05:03 PM
man, c'mon
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13442082, Artie Lang outlived this man.
Posted by Ryan M, Tue Sep-14-21 09:27 PM
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13442083, Yooo. For real.
Posted by Brew, Tue Sep-14-21 09:39 PM
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13442084, Damn. Despite his best efforts too
Posted by Mynoriti, Tue Sep-14-21 09:41 PM
Norm had almost a decade on Artie but Artie has Abe Vigoda mileage on him
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13442503, Artie's only 53
Posted by handle, Fri Sep-17-21 03:18 PM
He's got 8 years to go.
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13442524, Artie has 150 years or wear and tear tho
Posted by Mynoriti, Sat Sep-18-21 11:18 AM
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13442072, *plays some Ezra*
Posted by Robert, Tue Sep-14-21 06:08 PM
rip to one of my favorites
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13442075, RE: RIP to Norm Macdonald
Posted by Mgmt, Tue Sep-14-21 07:19 PM
He was funny as hell. RIP
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13442081, Peacock has a bunch of clips of some of his best stuff…
Posted by Dstl1, Tue Sep-14-21 09:19 PM
dude was really, really good.
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13442237, Cancer can eat a dick. This sucks
Posted by spenzalii, Wed Sep-15-21 06:43 PM
Everybody needs to go watch Dirty Work now
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13442575, BOX OFFICE POISON.
Posted by JFrost1117, Sun Sep-19-21 10:36 PM
I loved seeing Weekend Update from his era when Comedy Central was playing SNL after school.
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13442747, and yet Adam Corolla is out here prospering.
Posted by spades, Tue Sep-21-21 10:51 AM
Damn, shame.
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13442750, Ugh.
Posted by Brew, Tue Sep-21-21 10:54 AM
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13442813, RE: and yet Adam Corolla is out here prospering.
Posted by Mgmt, Tue Sep-21-21 05:20 PM
>Damn, shame.
Good comparison. Both of them are right-leaning but one is actually funny and isn’t as overbearing about it
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13442828, With Norm, it always felt more like he just wasn't willing to do the pivot
Posted by Nodima, Tue Sep-21-21 08:19 PM
Clearly he was a more conservative guy if you listen to his interviews later in life closely (or sometimes not so closely, like his LGBTQ riff at HuffPo) but he also wasn't every really attacking people. Even some of his favorite jokes that you can see him workshopping nervous as hell on Dennis Miller Live, you get this sense that he just finds existence so confusing he can't help but crack jokes about stuff he can't relate to. When you really go down the Norm binge, you notice he actually told different versions of the same jokes fairly often, so as he got older what came off as "conservative" was sometimes just stuff he found funny that society at large didn't anymore...and he couldn't be bothered to care.
Whereas Carolla has been actively burning bridges with guys who you'd imagine are largely sympathetic to his cause like Bill Simmons and even Kimmel because he's just got such an axe to grind about how hard it is to make cock in your mouth jokes anymore. And Norm would just rather tell his oral fixation joke again and not be all that bothered if he's the only one that finds it funny.
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13442851, yeah, there is a difference between being pro something, and anti - it's opposite.
Posted by spades, Wed Sep-22-21 09:16 AM
I never found Norm particularly conservative, just not liberal and I NEVER found him to be anti-liberal.
Corolla is anti-liberal, not to mention, not half as funny as Norm.
and yet....
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13442770, Best "worst" interview ever.
Posted by mrhood75, Tue Sep-21-21 12:21 PM
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