RIP Norm Macdonald

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by Joel1963, Sep 14, 2021.

  1. jmobrien68

    jmobrien68 Forum Resident

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    Thank you a million times! I've been looking for this for years!
     
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  2. Chip TRG

    Chip TRG Senior Member

    Whoever bet on the longshot of Artie outliving Norm is a millionaire today. :(
     
  3. You just lost a buck.
     
  4. Strat-Mangler

    Strat-Mangler Personal Survival Daily Record-Breaker

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    A reference to the Canadian Screen Awards? Uh, I mean Candys? :D
     
  5. Strat-Mangler

    Strat-Mangler Personal Survival Daily Record-Breaker

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    Man, are those high-pitched squeals from the girls in the audience annoying!
     
  6. TwentySmallCigars

    TwentySmallCigars Forum Resident

    I've been corrected twice so far (three times now). His birthday was listed as 1963 in a number of places (including Wikipedia) before his death. The actual date seems to be 1959.
     
  7. kwadguy

    kwadguy Senior Member

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    I was trying to think of something to say. Your post means I didn't have to. You nailed it.

    RIP Norm.
     
  8. Chip TRG

    Chip TRG Senior Member

    Rewatching the last appearance on Letterman, and from what I'm reading it sort of falls around the same place on the calendar where Norm may have been diagnosed.....one has to wonder how much his emotions with Dave were perhaps mixed with the cancer news.

    I *always* watched Norm clips for some laughs......but now they def. take on a lot more meaning.
     
  9. a customer

    a customer Forum Resident

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    Two of my favorite comedians died too early.
     
  10. George P

    George P Notable Member

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  11. Solaresque

    Solaresque Forum Resident

    Thank you, Norm Macdonald!
     
  12. Canadacrowe

    Canadacrowe Forum Resident

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    Truly one of the funniest. Norm Macdonald has a show on Netflix, episode 1 with David Spade. "Going to a break", having Spade tell an elaborately detailed story on being cat fished, then returning from "break" and asking him to retell it. I have watched those few minutes countless times, and I still laugh.
     
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  13. MikaelaArsenault

    MikaelaArsenault Forum Resident

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    Norm in The Fairly OddParents:

     
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  14. ymizike

    ymizike Forum Resident

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    In the clip of his March 2020 stand-up set (on pg. 2 of this thread) he says he's 68!
     
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  15. Well that sucks. I grew up in Ottawa and had a friend who tried to break into standup around the same time as Norm. As a result I caught Norm's act a few times during his very early years. Back then he was basically a Seinfeld clone (like just about everybody else) - observational humour and no swearing. It was very obvious that he was a step or three ahead of the rest of the pack. He came to town a few years ago and his performance was awesome. At one point he told staff to stop blinking the red light (that means your time is up) because he wasn't done yet and then gave us another half hour. Class act, funny, funny guy.
     
  16. pscreed

    pscreed Upstanding Member

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    First RIP thread I have ever laughed at… just seeing some of the quotes and watching some of the clips. Couldn’t help myself.

    Know what I mean?

    Goodnight, funny man. RIP.
     
  17. wasp

    wasp Active Member

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    Tragic. Far too young.

    I loved everything Norm did. Hilarious guy.

    I'm gonna have to fill in the gaps of things I haven't already seen and listened to over the next couple of weeks.
     
  18. Borgia

    Borgia Do not speak wisely of this night

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    Now I’m no doctor, but I’m pretty sure that if you die, the cancer also dies at the same time. So to me, that’s not a loss, that’s a draw.

    Norm MacDonald
     
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  19. Rachael Bee

    Rachael Bee Miembra muy loca

    If The Orville ever comes back, it won't quite as good without him... :cry: Bye Norm....
     
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  20. digdug67

    digdug67 Hockley's Hits Here!

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    My all-time favorite comedian.
    R.I.P. Norm
     
  21. Blair G.

    Blair G. Senior Member

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    I always loved Norm’s work but after seeing the outpouring in the press (including a full page story in the local paper this morning) I didn’t realize he was quite so highly regarded.
    I’m so glad he was appreciated
     
  22. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    "In cliff diving, there's just two levels. Grand champion or stuff on a rock."
     
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  23. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    Norm and Conan. Comedy. Gold.
     
  24. David Campbell

    David Campbell Forum Resident

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    Apparently, according to Seth McFarlane, Norm finished his work on Season 3 before he passed.
     
  25. Strat-Mangler

    Strat-Mangler Personal Survival Daily Record-Breaker

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    I remember listening to a bootleg show of his where he was doing material about teachers having a cushy job. One audience member was heckling him being genuinely upset. She was a teacher. He put her in her place so many times, it was nuts... and all with his slow gentle way, too.

    The highlight was that he asked her which grade she taught. She replied "5th". Norm shot back "So you only need a 6th-grade education, then!"

    :laughup:
     

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