Oscar Pistorius may have been an alleged murderer, but I’ll tell you one thing he was not: a legged murderer.

@fr.mcgreer8349

2 ай бұрын

Clever 👍

@martinadrianarcenas867

2 ай бұрын

🤌

@Grateful2Exist

2 ай бұрын

Brilliant, Norm would've loved this one.

@SirRandyofcxcheshire

2 ай бұрын

he out now running around a free man on his stilts.

@longtalljay

Ай бұрын

Almost the best joke I have ever heard or read!

I’ve seen Norm get to a lot of dead ends and recover but “you know a man grows…” may be the most brilliant

@ConanVictor

11 ай бұрын

Ay nigra

@sfonylx

11 ай бұрын

I honestly think Norm said it on purpose. Always two steps ahead.

@TA-tg1cf

10 ай бұрын

@@sfonylx at 3:03 he set it up. Brilliant

@TA-tg1cf

10 ай бұрын

@@sfonylx he did it ALL on porpoise

@sfonylx

10 ай бұрын

@@TA-tg1cf 😄

I only regret that we never got to see Norm as an actual old man.

@pooriasheikhi5042

5 ай бұрын

Damn... that was deap

@carlodave9

5 ай бұрын

He skipped from lanky nasal-talking 20-something, to baritone backwoods geezer before he was 40. We was robbed of Old Man Norm.

@HalConick

5 ай бұрын

I’d say we did. He knew he was dying. Norm embraced his full transition into Grandpa Norm in those last years. He seemed so at peace and care-free.

@sollognelle2929

4 ай бұрын

I don't knew i was goin to cry again.

@quainejohnson4808

4 ай бұрын

To be fair he's always acted like an old man

“Allegedly…. Also, really.” Brutal, and re-usable!

@kozhikkaalan

2 ай бұрын

Hahahahaha. "And re-usable" is great and reusable too

@witchking6787

20 күн бұрын

That's what I thought, "I'm gonna have to stick that one in my back pocket".

The way Norm falls out of his chair and shakes Andy's hand, you know he took that as a massive compliment.

@fenwayify

Ай бұрын

Andy has never been a dunce, nor an empty vessel. He's always caught the astute folly of Norm and Conan. He was well-suited as a sidekick, much more substantive than Ed McMahon. I've always felt a little sad for Andy, that he may have regretted that he hasn't done enough with his life...I could see him in a dramatic role and be surprisingly convincing...

@Leonisel

Ай бұрын

@@fenwayifyhis show was really funny too, shame it didn’t last

@RespectProcess

19 күн бұрын

@@fenwayifyshut UP

My God, his transition from Oscar to Jacques is the most beautifully non-connected thing i've ever seen.

@knowsmebyname

8 ай бұрын

It serves a youthful porpoise.

@joshuapeterson2366

5 ай бұрын

@@knowsmebyname😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@maximilianschulz6455

5 ай бұрын

Is that even a real person?

@tomgrus604

4 ай бұрын

I've only ever seen the second half, but damn, that transition was masterful!

@BowlCrossy

4 ай бұрын

@@knowsmebyname Youthful porpoise.

"You're not a biped" kills me.

@leobender2910

2 ай бұрын

"Scram"

@donbarone4799

2 ай бұрын

Scram! Take all the time u need...

@user-yp1oz3zf5c

2 ай бұрын

I GUESS IT ALSO DID THE WIFE A NUMBER

@jaredm.1620

2 ай бұрын

Just like oscar

@ChrisStoneinator

Ай бұрын

All it’s missing is an “on accounta”

"Well you know, a man grows." is the best bit of this entire segment. Funniest man who ever lived.

@mayedalshamsi

Жыл бұрын

I don't get it. What does that have to do with the last name changing?

@HeraldJohnson

Жыл бұрын

Growth is one of the manners in which things change.

@clayton229

Жыл бұрын

@@mayedalshamsi The joke is basically that it's an absurd comment. Norm accidentally changed the last name of the guy in the joke. Instead of acknowledging that or explaining it, he said "a man grows" which is kind of a literary, fortune-cookie-esque way of saying that people change over time. But generally that sort of thing refers to someone growing emotionally or growing in wisdom. Not someone changing their last name. It's the sort of joke that isn't particularly funny when you explain it, but it's fantastic as an off the cuff response to Conan pointing out that he made a mistake.

@mayedalshamsi

Жыл бұрын

@@clayton229 - Thank you for that explanation! I'm sure it's less funny now that I've had to have it explained to me, but I'd take that over not understanding the joke at all, any day. 😜

@harbinger_9152

Жыл бұрын

I’ve used this line and it kills

“Something Wile E Coyote would order” is my favorite line

@stabyourcat

4 ай бұрын

For some reason it flies under the radar. Love that line.

@evansevansevans1

Ай бұрын

It’s the word order that is so funny. Like he went on Amazon.

I am reasonably confident that Norm liked Andy's idea so much that he did, in fact, take someone on a 4 mile hike to show them a dog turd.

He takes us on these long journeys on Porpoise.

@TimonofIlford

4 ай бұрын

And we have a whale of a time. Sorry, just seven words. Norm would have spun it out to several minutes of comedic majesty.

@tripmcquagg4969

Ай бұрын

@@TimonofIlford10/10 for effort anyway haha. Man he was the best.

@torchmark66

16 күн бұрын

@@TimonofIlford Don't sell yourself short, my friend! That was eight words.

"Take your time, as long as you want. But get the hell outta here!" - As long as you want is the funniest damn thing Norm was able to slip in there

The way Norm falls out of his chair to Andy’s retort is the best

@pats5375

5 ай бұрын

Yes! I've never seen Norm laugh that hard! He loved that analogy from Andy and even shook his hand soon after. That's big praise coming from Norm! 😅

@landon4278

4 ай бұрын

@@pats5375 Yes. Norm is usually only left to laugh at his own jokes, and give the audience a side eye as an indication that they should laugh too. I thoroughly enjoyed Norm getting a belly laugh for once.

@Optim40

3 ай бұрын

Hes just trying to recover from the beat down hes getting from conan and andy if youre astute like that. Thinking about it any other way is off.

@GameTime-yj6qv

2 ай бұрын

I absolutely loved that part and the fact Norm felt he had to shake Andy's hand. Talk about giving approval. Awesome.

@billmartinson4205

Ай бұрын

@@Optim40 Norm didn't "try to recover from a beat down." Throughout his career he actively pursued subverting expectations, told bad jokes on purpose, and wasn't afraid to walk an entire room. Going into this Conan appearance, Norm absolutely knew his shaggy dog story had a terrible punchline -- puns are the worst -- and when Andy fearlessly jumped on it with a hilarious rejoinder, Norm was genuinely delighted. The handshake was respect, not recovery.

Conan: “No one is going with you on this !” Norm (internal): “precisely”

@thetruthexperiment

Жыл бұрын

I dunno. Conan even joking around that it’s weird to not like that guy enrages me. He wore springs and bullied people to let him compete with people who were not allowed to wear springs. Yes, that is the kind of person who is so full of themselves that they’ll shoot their girlfriend. I called it years before. Never liked that guy. If he allowed the other participants to wear springs then maybe. No. Seriously. The Paralympic runners who ran with the modern prosthetics of the time were known to be much faster than people with legs. Which means if Jocko could do it, then everyone with no legs should have been allowed. But only he was allowed and he could obviously run way faster because he had springs for legs. Anyone who liked that guy was a complete moron.

@graemecreegan6749

Жыл бұрын

@@thetruthexperiment yeah man, Pistorius is so lame 😁

I live in Gatineau, Quebec, I'm sure there's a Jacques around here somewhere.

@etiendre

Жыл бұрын

Hello fellow québécois

@MehYam2112

3 ай бұрын

Just don’t pin your hopes on him

@chadparsons50

3 ай бұрын

@@MehYam2112 nice.

@ButtPins

3 ай бұрын

hey I'm from Gatineau too!

@Stanzi18

2 ай бұрын

I hope he's out there serving a youthful Porpoise.

“4 mile hike to show you a dog turd” It’s the journey, not the destination

@nomnom112

5 ай бұрын

Andy clearly has never been on a hike

@chadparsons50

3 ай бұрын

Underrated comment.

@apollobro91_2

2 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure Oscar hasn't been on a 4 mile hike either, not with those rob9t legs. He'd probably fall down face-first into the dog turd, which is what he deserves for all those races he cheated in.

I'll be real. I'm with Norm on that. His cardiovascular system didn't need to pump oxygen as hard, he didn't need to train his ankles or calves, and he genuinely had actual fucking springs for legs. He DID have an unfair advantage. The murdering I can live with, but cheating is unforgivable.

@lepari9986

10 ай бұрын

Worst thing about Oscar Pistorious is the hypocrisy.

@ryanfox2478

8 ай бұрын

the more i learn about this oscar pistorious guy, the more i don't care for him

@knowsmebyname

8 ай бұрын

The spring thing is obvious isn't it?

@BouncyBrown

5 ай бұрын

also, weren't his blades longer than his legs? longer legs are definitely an advantage.

@T25de

5 ай бұрын

Some say the hypocrisy was the worst part

“I had no problem with the murder.” 😂😂😂😂

@alvareo92

3 ай бұрын

Well, it was tragic, at the time

The fact that Norm so thoroughly won over both Conan and Letterman tells you all you need to know about just how brilliant he was.

@dp1582

2 ай бұрын

The man was a true comedic genius he reached deep into peoples minds and not everyone got it but to those that did he was the best truly.

Andy’s comment after the youthful porpose joke is the sugar on top.

@khester7397

Жыл бұрын

The most "youthful porpoise" the German swede ever served.

'I started to travel to here and there...and to here again'.

3:30 "well, you know, a man grows" 😂😂😂😂 one of my all time favorite Norm lines. No one but Norm could deliver it like that.

Seen this a half dozen times and it gets me every time. We pinned our hopes on you Jaques De Gatinau!

@kyon813

3 ай бұрын

Or de Gauthier.

@torchmark66

16 күн бұрын

@@kyon813 Hey. A man grows.

" I don't have a problem with the MURDER." What a delivery. 😂

After the punchline Norm’s “Now I believe…” and the explosion of facial expressions that go with it was the pay off.

@jakelover1731

4 ай бұрын

I love post-punchline riffs like that. I think what I like most about it is it's very risky if the punchline doesn't get a laugh. Because then the riff is just a half-sentence that you have to keep going.

@CaptainCologne

4 ай бұрын

@@jakelover1731Agreed. It gets funnier the more I watch it, the way he plays innocent and darts his head back and forth at Conan and Andy.

@RaulCastillo

2 ай бұрын

The faces he makes when Conan calls him out on changing the name.

wow full clip. Only segments of this were on KZread before. Thanx. Not only are you a scholar and a gentleman, but you must have a lot of doghouses.

That little shrink when he realises he mixed up the last name, that is what i love about Norm so much. He was such an honest kid just trying to have fun, it was so endearing. Was really painful to learn he passed away but like a dear grandfather i will always come back to watch these videos and remember Norm and his kindness and fun with people. Missed always

He really loved the dog turd joke!

@krugbit9642

Жыл бұрын

It was more of a comment, really.

@Jagar_Tharn

3 ай бұрын

@@dejuren1367 That's not hate for Andy, it's referencing a line from Norm MacDonald Live.

Herald Johnson, you're a scholar and a gentleman for uploading this. 👍

@GarthKnight1884

3 ай бұрын

Whether Herald knows it or not. He's found a youthful porpoise.

No one else tells jokes quite like Norm did. He’s the only person I’ve seen intersperse punchlines throughout his ramblings that way. Genuinely the most unique voice in comedy.

Not many people could go on Conan and just tell a 40 minute story for a pun. Mr McDonald was a legend.

@galenburghardt3272

2 ай бұрын

And he did it more than once - IMO his moth joke is the best joke I've ever heard. It's poetry, "I no longer love my son, I no longer love him because when I see his face all I see is the same cowardice I see whenever I look into a mirror" - just outstanding

conan just can't contain himself whenever norm is on the show lol

Until Conan reminded us, “There’s only one like him…”. So true ❤️😢❤️

5:17 Conan's expression here is the best!! 😄

those blades were objectively superior for running than actual legs.

The worst thing about Oscar Pistorius was the hypocrisy…

I absolutely love how at 6:30 Andy so succinctly sums up Norm's comedy that Norm falls out of his chair and has to shake Andy's hand. Idk how, but Norm always managed to come off as a class act while also playing a total fool. His acknowledgement of Amdy's searing read on him is part of what makes him so entertaining and lovable.

The smartest comedian ever.

"I'm serving a youthful porpoise" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The amount of gold from Norm during this single appearance (his entry bit and gypsy Jack Macdonald, the 1-min-audition, Pistorius, Jacques De Gautier/Gatineau, his messing with Mackenzie Davis) is staggering

I fully agree and said this from when i first heard about Pistorius. Those blades gave him an unfair advantage as a runner. But the world insists on being stupid about this.

@johnnymossville

5 ай бұрын

100%

@objectiveobserver2792

4 ай бұрын

If he’d only changed his gender…

After he says “Ottawa” and Conan gives an exhausted look

blows me away what kind of a talent he is

*Typical Conan: being an exuberant, unselfish, straight man to highlight the guest.* 🏆

The 4 mile hike to show you a dog turd line is pretty great

2:35 and 2:52 . That mischievous glint in his eye, the laughter prior, knowing how unnecessarily long and underwhelming that joke is 😭 and then taking us on the ride anyway 😁👌🏼❤ LOVE

He definitely loves Andy's joke more

@sandworm9528

Ай бұрын

I love how much he enjoyed that 😂

I love that at the end of it all, it was good ol' Andy Richter The Swedish-German, who got Norm to fall out of his chair laughing.

When Norm was at the Niagra Falls part and Conan said he saw Jacques and Norm said no it's just some attendant I thought it was really brilliant and hilarious. Norm could've just said "I went to Seaworld and saw Jacques" but Conan kind of interrupted him and Norm had to subvert Conan's expectation a bit in a very hilarious way

"I feel that one of the basic requirements of being a sprinter, is having legs" ....... it's hard to articulate why he's the greatest comedian of all time

Seriously, that just gave me the idea of taking my children out on a long walk - I'm going to tell them I've got something to show them. After an hour, I'm just going to point to the most mundane thing I can spot and tell them "there it is!"

@kevinabel2370

3 ай бұрын

I run a city hiking group in Forest Park Queens. I ran an internet ad saying "Take a hike to Freedom". After 90 minutes we arrived at Freedom Road and I showed 30 hikers the street sign.

@clark2491

2 ай бұрын

Did you do it?

Thank you many many thanks OP for this clip. I had never seen this clip in its entirety but just some of the bits and pieces of this one floating around including present in TeamCoco channel. Thanks for sharing and loved enjoying every moment with this piece of coal , Norm !!🎉❤👌👍😅😊

Norm we miss you so much!! With love ❤ RIP

I thought that Pistorius should have been in the Special Olympics with other comparable competitors

Norms long form dad jokes are the fucking greatest

I'm sorry but I only discovered Norm thanks to The Orville and only started watching his comedy after his death and I'm loving his humour. He's passed but still making us laugh

@iskandar.bakshi

Жыл бұрын

the more you will learn about norm the more you will not care for him

@maxonmendel5757

Жыл бұрын

he's the greatest

@maxonmendel5757

Жыл бұрын

"the funniest man formerly alive" is the best compilation

@chadparsons50

Жыл бұрын

Although he did Letterman's last show, a very competitive last show was the last night Conan had on NBC. Norm showed up with a gift basket, the bit was genius. Little harder to find though.

@ijij8191

Жыл бұрын

@@iskandar.bakshi why not? Dudes a legend

norm absolutely LOVED that needle from Andy after his story lmfao. I love to see him genuinely laugh at a joke, it's rare someone gets one over on him

One of the most knowledgeable. Rip my dear friend

This is amongst my top 10 all time favorite KZread videos

When I'm feeling down I watch Norm he always makes me laugh

@skyluke9476

4 ай бұрын

There’s many comedians that could make me us laugh at suicide and murder jokes. But only one that could make us smile

He could really get on a roll with other funny people. Feed each other the jokes, fantastic to watch.

This never gets old 😂

@polreamonn

9 ай бұрын

Just like Reeva Steenkamp.

Norm could make you want to take that 4 mile walk to see the dog turd.

This hits different as a Canadian. The funny thing is Norm knows our SeaWorld is called Marineland but is purposely calling it SeaWorld for an American audience.

The Swedish-German really gave it to Norm there.

Norm was an Angel, such a beautiful and intelligent person.

Ill never stop watching Norm

Oscar may have been armed when he murdered that poor woman, but he wasn’t legged.

Andy's never fallen for the 4mile hike trick.

Best Norm....and I have just watched the first two minutes so far.

I miss you norm.

I love the way Conan looks at the camera after "you were supposed to go to Canada's nations capital of Ottawa"

You know, the more I hear about this Pistorius fella, the less I care for him…

@eldermillennial8330

Жыл бұрын

He had a GREAT girlfriend from his hometown, she was with him for years in all his early inspirational videos, only to foolishly ditch her for a gold digger that he came to hate enough to kill.

@RhysMogg

Ай бұрын

I think the worst thing about the Pistorias story was the hypocrisy

Norm is one of Canada and Amerika best person Bye from the Netherlands

Norm Nailed it.

I love how Conan had to ask if Norm was done with his jokes.

Makin Norm fall out of his chair laughing would high on my list of life achievements

This is like the 25th time I have watched this and I have never laughed so hard

Well, you know, a man grows.

Its currently 2024. Norm's ridiculous humor is as funny as ever.

Norm reminds me of Andy Kaufman. He wasn't the performer. He was the audience, and we were the performers to his own personal show.

I don’t know which was ballsier: the Oscar Pistorius joke, or delivering a deeply Québecois based joke to an American audience. I’ve always held this particular Norm appearance very dear because my mother was in fact born in Témiscaming, Quebec; a town remote enough that it’s citizens receive isolation pay from the provincial government. It just made me feel that much more connected to Norm, a comedian whose specialty was making you feel like you were in on the inside joke. Couldn’t get much more inside than that.

@Elriuhilu

4 ай бұрын

That's a real place? I thought Norm just made it up for the joke.

@brianmathews2926

4 ай бұрын

@@ElriuhiluYep, real place, pulp and paper mill town along the Ontario-Quebec border on the Ottawa River. Around 2,500 people, quite isolated geographically. Their Wikipedia page actually reference this segment. Also when he calls the man Jacques-de-Gatineau, Gatineau is a big city in Quebec, part of the National Capital region directly across the river from Ottawa. And when he mentions the "Three Wise Men of Quebec," he is referencing three actual politicians from Quebec, who, during the 1960s, were dubbed as such by English media in Canada, seen as men who would change the course Canadian poiltics. Correspondingly, one of those men, Pierre Trudeau (Justin Trudeau's father) became one of the longest tenured Canadian Prime Ministers ever, championing multiculturalism and bilingualism, and having a major impact on the country's history, leaving a significant but somewhat divisive legacy.

GOAT!!! dood just had it, 100% of the time, so brilliant

Only post-humously have I begun to develop and appreciation for Norm Macdonald

LMAO. “You’ve done so many benefits for me and the gypsies.”

@ilexevergreen5405

2 ай бұрын

Just odd pairing?

I just realized this was the same show where he saved the interview view with the lady from Halt and Catch Fire.

Alleged murderer but not a legged murderer

4:20 love how proud he is of what he just said

Norm on Conan was the peak of the American Empire

I grew up in the Ottawa Valley, and hearing Norm's cadences as he tells a atory, always takes me back to the bullshitters I grew up around. None were as funny as Norm though. That nod he gives at the start of his story is a big part of that-it's a bit like a knowing wink.

0:16 im stealing this bit lmao

This is a great LESSON: don’t give up on the joke. Andy tried to tell his 3 (maybe 4) times and each time got cut off and then nailed it!

Norm...always great. "A man grows," by gum....but Andy struck gold.

Miss him

"I know, that was way out of line" he says with a huge grin, obviously very pleased with himself 😂

Nobody in modern comedy could hold court like Norm. He just took over everything he did.

Love it when he makes himself crack up at his own malarkey. I honestly don't think it's embarrassing to laugh at your own jokes, especially when you know they're funny and other folks just aren't picking up on the humor. Lots of people focus on the wrong aspects of a joke and miss the funny bits.

Andy explained almost exactly what Norm’s real joke was with these long deliberately hack but still entertaining stories on the talk shows. The insider piece, which Conan notes in an interview, was that it was such a big opportunity to be on this show or Letterman and Norm was entertainingly self destructive by throwing it away on drawn-out street jokes when he was a great comic with a unique perspective.

A youthful porpoise

Norm is a master at putting people on the defence of something they don't believe. Pure art. 2:05 - 2:26