Norm Macdonald on various Morning Shows - Compilation
Norman Gene "Norm" Macdonald is a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, producer and actor. He is best known for his five seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, which included anchoring Weekend Update for three years. Early in his career, he wrote for the sitcom Roseanne and made appearances on shows including The Drew Carey Show and NewsRadio. He starred in The Norm Show from 1999 to 2001. Comedy Central named him #83 on the five-part miniseries 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. He is noted as a favorite talk show guest of David Letterman, Howard Stern, Dennis Miller, and Conan O'Brien. His brother is Canadian journalist Neil Macdonald, of CBC News.[3][4]
Macdonald was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada,[2] and raised in Ottawa, Ontario.[citation needed] Macdonald has a brother, Neil Macdonald, who is a journalist with the CBC.[4]
Career[edit]
Macdonald's first performances in comedy were at stand-up at clubs in Ottawa. He appeared at the 1987 Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal.[5]
Saturday Night Live[edit]
Macdonald joined the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL) television program in 1993, where he performed impressions of Larry King, Burt Reynolds, David Letterman, Charles Kuralt and Bob Dole, among others. Following Kevin Nealon's departure from SNL, Macdonald anchored the segment Weekend Update. Chevy Chase, the first anchor of Weekend Update, has quipped that Macdonald was the "best Weekend Update anchor since - well - Chevy Chase".[6] Current Update anchor and head writer Colin Jost named Macdonald as a primary influence on Jost's own work behind the "Update" desk, explaining that Macdonald's tone was one that Jost grew up with in high school.[7]
Macdonald's version of Weekend Update often included repeated references to prison rape, crack whores and the Germans' love of Baywatch star David Hasselhoff. Macdonald would occasionally deliver a piece of news, then take out his personal compact tape recorder and leave a "note to self" relevant to what he just discussed. He commonly used Frank Stallone as a non sequitur punchline. Macdonald repeatedly ridiculed public figures such as Marion Barry, Michael Jackson and O. J. Simpson. Throughout Simpson's trial for murder, Macdonald constantly pilloried the former football star, often heavily implying Simpson was guilty of the brutal slaying of his wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. In the broadcast following Simpson's acquittal, Macdonald opened Weekend Update by saying: "Well, it is finally official: murder is legal in the state of California."
During the February 24, 1996, episode, Macdonald made a controversial joke about the sentencing of John Lotter, one of the two men who committed the notorious murder of Brandon Teena: "In Falls City, Nebraska, John Lotter has been sentenced to death for attempting to kill three people in what prosecutors called a plot to silence a cross-dressing female who had accused him of rape. Now this might strike some viewers as harsh, but I believe everyone involved in this story deserved to die."[8][9]
After the announcement that Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley planned to divorce, Macdonald joked about their irreconcilable differences on Weekend Update: "She's more of a stay-at-home type, and he's more of a homosexual pedophile." He followed this up a few episodes later with a report about the singer's collapse and hospitalization. Referring to a report of how Jackson had decorated his hospital room with giant photographs of Shirley Temple, Macdonald remarked that viewers should not get the wrong idea, adding, "Michael Jackson is a homosexual pedophile." The joke elicited audible gasps from some audience members. He responded to this by saying, "What? He is a homosexual pedophile."[10]
Another uncomfortable moment occurred during the April 12, 1997, show (host Rob Lowe, musical guest The Spice Girls), wherein, during a Weekend Update story about Tabitha Soren, he accidentally coughed in the middle of a sentence and, live on the air, muttered, "What the fuck was that?" The audience applauded, and Macdonald laughed the error away (saying at one point "My fare
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"There's a real stream of consciousness thing going on here Norm." "Yeah, its called conversation."
@imfly131
4 жыл бұрын
He was 100% on that day
@MJKFanatic
4 жыл бұрын
Then “Cehck it out” on the graphic after that, not the best show
@InnerDness
4 жыл бұрын
Why do you keep saying "stream of consciousness"?
@Czechbound
4 жыл бұрын
GOLD !
@ewoknroll
Жыл бұрын
"...yeah it's called conversation".... That is definitely a top 10 perfect timed Norm response. I love how she burst out laughing and had to cover her face. Other contenders of the top of my head: - "...I bet the 'board' is spelt B-O-R-E-D" - "...Maybe the worst gimmick a comic ever had"
It's so odd seeing the hosts not laugh at Norm but the staff in the studio are going crazy.
@nicandromartinezsotelo3300
4 жыл бұрын
cuz they aint getting it
@figureitoutpunk
4 жыл бұрын
That's because they are always nervous they are going to lose their jobs if they respond incorrectly, working those shows must be hell being a facade (I took a dark turn there haha. PS - Beach Combers kzread.info/dash/bejne/gnapy8NwYtyufpc.html
@saintejeannedarc9460
4 жыл бұрын
@@figureitoutpunk Those are my thoughts exactly. The way Norm comes on any show that had the guts to have him and almost proudly proclaim that he got fired from SNL and talks about the head of the network, and then names him. Holy moly, dangerous stuff. They are walking through minefields when they reply or even laugh at his quips about it.
@BirdOfHermes8381
4 ай бұрын
Maybe they're the smart ones? 🤔
@sliceserve234
4 ай бұрын
@@BirdOfHermes8381 did you watch the clips??? jesus what an infantile suggestion.
"I know I'm from Canada but I'm still a human being." That was great.
"I talked it over with my, uh, Lord and I decided it was a venal thing I'd done..." Gold
@irie1tes
8 жыл бұрын
+TorontoLarrivee Pure gold.
@spensert4933
8 жыл бұрын
God and polygamy jokes in Utah! Wow.
@treyshawnbeats
7 жыл бұрын
i learned a new word today. Norm hit em with the accuracy
@ppsh43
6 жыл бұрын
I thought I heard "venial", which also works in context.
@YoureRatherDumb
6 жыл бұрын
It was indeed "venial".
"hey, this fits perfectly with my desire to meet Paul Newman"
@jkarasta1
16 күн бұрын
How no one busting out laughing really trends with my perception of Utah
"Colder than a..... Colder than a.....Colder than a vampire's demeanor..." I genuinely laughed for 5 mins straight, with tears in my eyes LOL :'D
@BezoRazo
6 жыл бұрын
At the very least, I had to pause the video until I stopped laughing :D
@stevenglansburg856
6 жыл бұрын
It was surprisingly cerebral.
@user-dn4ou7io1f
6 жыл бұрын
rxp56 how tf would you know if he did or not
@tmack729
6 жыл бұрын
Σοφοκλής Τόλε We all live together. They're the worst housemates ever - always arguing
@Brainbuster
5 жыл бұрын
That was funny, but no where near Norm's funniest joke. Nobody laughs for 5 minutes straight at a "colder than a" joke.
probably the most naturally funny person ever
@kensmith8717
4 жыл бұрын
Xian #
@hamzakais1762
4 жыл бұрын
Don rickles.
@jburron
Жыл бұрын
No filter.
@BirdOfHermes8381
4 ай бұрын
I believe he had a nice doghouse.
@FlipDahlenburg
4 ай бұрын
Yes! As they used to say 20 years ago, don't censor yourself! You can't do that today AND stay out of jail! @@jburron
"I'm from Canada, but you know, I'm still a human being. It's not like we evolve differently." 😂
@beatricefaria-clendinning8943
15 күн бұрын
…. Norm calling him a Moron in a “ Nice” C🇨🇦NADIAN way…🙏👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️🇨🇦Rest in Peace “You ‘ol Piece of Coal!”👏🏻❤️🇨🇦
Norms genuine personality even on national talk shows is fuckin inspiring. "Yeah that's good for 6 pages" lmao
@FlipDahlenburg
4 ай бұрын
So damn honest!!
Hahaha... intentionally confusing Dustin Hoffman with Philip Seymour dying of a heroin overdose, making the host reeeaaallly uncomfortable. Love it.
@Nogahs
7 жыл бұрын
You've gotta admit that the host handled that super well. I would have laughed so fucking hard.
@sutibusan8273
6 жыл бұрын
Give us the time where it happens so we don't have to watch 36 minutes to find it.
@billweir1745
6 жыл бұрын
Sutibu San 21:10
@abbynormal8702
6 жыл бұрын
No, he's his son.
@gromitpesley
6 жыл бұрын
billweir1745 it’s at 13:00
4:08 "Listen, I don't want people to show up to my show if their great-aunt has walking pneumonia." LOL
@spensert4933
8 жыл бұрын
Not just aunt, great aunt. Brilliant.
@RoboKestrel
7 жыл бұрын
Oh god I laughed so hard... and just silence from the audience.
@Alexander_Tronstad
7 жыл бұрын
I keep coming back to this clip for that, blows my mind how funny that was!
@Alexander_Tronstad
7 жыл бұрын
Also, 07:57: "There's a real stream of consciousness-thing happening here Norm." - "Yeah, it's called conversation." Didn't miss a beat. Haha!
@joehuffman7410
4 жыл бұрын
None of those damn Battleaxes even chuckled. What a shame
Norm is so intelligent and quick ..He destroys all if you take a verbal shot or try to match wits..If this was an Olympic event he would be our Michael Phelps.
@zf5656
5 жыл бұрын
"Well i mean, I'm just in the lazy river. What am i suppose to do if no one else around me can swim or even stay afloat. C'mon man, this is the lazy river we're talking about here. Did you expect me to help them out or somethin'." I'm Norm MACdonald. Wait am i suppose to say who I am at the end of a quote?... .... .... .. ... . . .. .. . . . ...
@sciencenate
4 жыл бұрын
Just any Olympic event - Phelps is one hell of a shot-putter
@jjjr8664
4 жыл бұрын
Funny thing is no one will realize you are Canadian until now mr Brian G
@FlipDahlenburg
4 ай бұрын
Who dat?? American asking, sorry.
@SeeDMT
Ай бұрын
Cause he loves the devils lettuce that dirty dog
Colder than a vampires demeanor.
@ryandunne4345
6 жыл бұрын
JJ Plunkett and hotter than a two dollar pistol
Norm was a comedians comedian 😂 the awkwardness he causes for people brings me great joy
"My condolences go out to Dustin Hoffman" "Philip Seymour Hoffman" " - Who's that?"
@masoudsarvin6117
4 жыл бұрын
good luck to you Dustin. 😁😘
"Who is Relic?" was actually a really funny line. The confusion over Dustin Hoffman and Philip Seymour Hoffman gave him the courage to ask who the subject of the previous joke was that he laughed at
@hanskallafrasonen
5 жыл бұрын
It was all a joke man.. The Hoffman confusion + the Relic line.
@jpm199
4 жыл бұрын
You didn't need to know relic to laugh at norm getting swindled into kissing a guy called relic for a part in some show that he calls the new breed of the beachcombers, whatever that is
@rogerc23
4 жыл бұрын
@@jpm199 yeah any Canadian who watched tv in the 70s or 80s knows Relic and the beachcombers. It’s a show about a guy who owns a boat, and he goes along the pacific coast everyday and picks up floating logs that he can sell. Yeah this was on TV in Canada for 18 years. 18 years.
@davidcolley4756
3 жыл бұрын
@@rogerc23 and people wonder why so many comedians come from Canada
Norm is such a damn charmer
@roarblast7332
4 жыл бұрын
A date rapist? Well, to be really successful you’d at least have to be charming enough to get women on dates. That’s already levels above me.
Once you start clicking on Norm McDonald videos, it’s hard to stop! Such a funny guy!
@junglemoose2164
15 күн бұрын
Also, try Norm Macdonald videos. They're good, too.
Is Norm the funniest man to have ever lived? He’s gotta be on the podium!
@aaronwilliams8046
5 ай бұрын
That's a comment I can stand behind.
Woman uncomfortably says: "This is some real stream of conscousness Norm" Norm: "Yeah, it's called conversation" Perfect. He doesn't suffer fools.
@JaBarge303
7 жыл бұрын
When in the vid please
@JM-co6rf
7 жыл бұрын
Norms honesty and freedom scare small minded women.
@Alexander_Tronstad
7 жыл бұрын
07:57
@WillSmith-fy4ux
4 жыл бұрын
@@JM-co6rf fucking hell calm down
@WillSmith-fy4ux
4 жыл бұрын
@@JM-co6rf got a real resentment of women thing going on there
I'm sorry but Norm is the single most funny dude that ever lived. I very rarely laugh out loud for real while watching funny stuff but Norm legit kills me. "Yeah im from Canada... but I'm still a human being. It's not like we evolved differently" He's always got a rebuttal for everything and he's smarter than almost everyone who interviews him. Theres nobody else like him.
"Why do you keep saying stream of consciousness?" "I just- I, I..." **cuts to commercial* Riveting.
I love seeing people interviewing Norm freak out when he says something edgy.
Lol "If you like OJ Simpson you can like me".." Oh sure he may have his foibles" Goddamn Norm always makes me laugh.
What a god. Lol. “I found myself three beautiful wives.”
Just when I thought I ran out of norm viewing material, you go and do this!
@jaimhaas5170
6 жыл бұрын
yes what a great surprise
@Ward413
5 жыл бұрын
And totally redeem yourself!
@squaredaway9315
5 жыл бұрын
JayWard413 ahhh beat me to it
@derrikferguson3219
4 жыл бұрын
You and me should start a brotherhood of people who’ve seen every bit of norm material online numerous times.
This video is like a moving abstract painting. It's great.
@kozhikkaalan
5 жыл бұрын
Haha why is it like a moving abstract painting?
lol Norm actually gives away the plot twist to Dirty Work 15:35
Norm is an absolute legend. Tough to be this genuinely funny on Morning Shows.
Norm saying Amy Schumer is the funniest person in the world is the best piece of sarcasm I've ever heard.
Who else bursted out laughing when he said Amy Schumer was the funniest person alive
@warispeace666
4 жыл бұрын
Sarcasm is great
@maknavickas
4 жыл бұрын
He is forcing those poor hosts to agree lol
@rfichokeofdestiny
Ай бұрын
Hey, who else is funnier than Amy Schumer?
@TheFrozenChildDick
Ай бұрын
This is gonna age bad when she is dead
@nicandromartinezsotelo3300
24 күн бұрын
@@rfichokeofdestinyNobody... Except for dudes....
"It brings me great peace" The jelly roll! 😂😂😂😂😂
"Stream of consciousness" triggers me immensely! I had a professor in college degrade my narrative essay by calling it a "stream of consciousness." Voice and perspective are the hallmarks of narrative writing. My essay was from the view point of my pet turtle, so I intentionally left out human thinking characteristics like reflection and prediction. I never explicitly wrote that he was a turtle either, but unveiled more of the turtle's physical characteristics as the story progressed. It was very turtley. I resubmitted it next term and got an A, because people like discovering that they are a turtle. The moral of the story is that feminists ruin everything.
@dylantomasulo4236
4 жыл бұрын
Ok norm
@static_bolt
4 жыл бұрын
She must have thought it was a roast beef on a hard roll
@Ekalavya
4 жыл бұрын
You still have your essay? I wanna read it
@ElectricBrown1
4 жыл бұрын
She ruined it cause she was slow, not feminist. You think youd have known that from your essay research.
@jpm199
4 жыл бұрын
@@ElectricBrown1 i think she was nervous and didn't know what to make of norm, not necessarily slow. Conversation can resemble a stream of conciousness but if guarded enough i guess it shouldn't qualify as a stream so much as a stream dammed
Norm is the only guy that makes my belly hurts cause he makes me laugh too much.
"Well, good luck to ya Dustin!"
People who pretend to have personalities, who don't actually have personalities, never know what the fuck they're supposed to do with Norm MacDonald.
Norm takes off his hat during interview, classy :)
three ultra fake women can not figure out how to talk to one very real Norm.....I found this interesting to watch.
I always thought Norms news was more real than the "real" news. at least he was truthful.
Norm: "Writing my biography is hard." Also Norm: "My biography is bullshit."
"yeah a little bit but there's no ghosts" is one of the funniest things ever 😂
norm is like the protagonist of the film idiocracy, except it's set in modern times
“Surprisingly Cerebral” Perfect way to describe Norm
Whoever wrote "CEHCK IT OUT," I know the bible says judge not lest ye be judged, but whoever wrote that, that guy... that guy's a real jerk!
@GG57
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, c'mon. Ever heard of spell cehck?! Sheesh, some people, ha
@shuggoth8793
4 жыл бұрын
It was probably a dirty Swedish-German...
That was Norm driving! I heard he's never driven a car, but there he was driving a small vehicle.
@gregoryfahy
4 жыл бұрын
I just came from a previous Norm clip where Adam Corolla was railing Norm for not being able to drive to come do his podcast. Damn this man gives me sheer joy.
The original troller! He does it right to their face! They have no clue that they are being pranked! Brilliant!!
Jesus can people ever NOT bring up the weekend update or SNL with Norm? He must get sick of that
@cordbullard3643
6 жыл бұрын
What does your hate for Jesus have anything to do with this video?
@SeraphimGoose
6 жыл бұрын
Kyle I know it blows my mind that various interviewers always waste time asking him about one bit he performed years ago when we all just want to know where he gets his ideas from.
@oc7078
6 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@salaciouspancakes
5 жыл бұрын
@@cordbullard3643 Jesus Christ, it's a figure of speech.
@ppumpkin3282
4 жыл бұрын
I think Norm must love it. He's mad a career out of being fired from SNL.
He has to be one of the most real people on the planet....He is always true to himself.
Norm=brutal honesty.
yeah it's called conversation
7:05 "No, I know I'm from Canada but I'm still a human being" haha
it's like inviting Led Zeppelin to an elementary school party.
First clip- hosts... *crickets* me: DYING
"I think Amy Schumer is the funniest person in the world. Not funniest woman, person" lololol
Really rare videos , cool Collection dude from So many channels , as a norm fan this is better than streaming .
It’s colder than a vampires demeanor
Dirty Work is so underrated.
"You'd think if you're a polygamist you wouldn't have time for other stuff."😁♥️😘
Norm's finest sweatpants for the morning shows!
Jellyrolls bit had me howling. He is so damn funny.
I had never heard of Beachcombers before, but now I know Relic. Thanks Norm.
Why do you keep saying stream of consciousness? Lol!
RIP Dustin Hoffman.
@luukeluketer1024
6 жыл бұрын
rainman ?????
@RageAgainstRustyCage
5 жыл бұрын
He's gone??? Wow, have I been under a rock?
@fifiaames5935
5 жыл бұрын
I guess so. It was a bit in this video.
@salaciouspancakes
5 жыл бұрын
Dustin Hoffman is *not* dead.
@vibratingwafflez3551
4 жыл бұрын
Hoffman isn’t dead, but his career may as well be. He’s been charged with serious sexual assault allegations.
"Venal" intentions... Learned new word today. Thanks Norm
Thanks a lot for compiling these !
I miss this man. So much...
Wow before he even started talking I thought that looks like Quentin Tarantino. I always knew who Norm was but not like his fans do and I’m starting to realize he is like a hidden genius with all of his layers
Thx for uploading these more obscure clips of Norm that i hadnt seen before. The bit about Relic from the Beachcombers was hilarious.
Thank you...THANK YOU for uploading this.
Did Bob Sagat just say he plowed into a man hole?
@meyakabrown4725
5 жыл бұрын
😂
@ppumpkin3282
4 жыл бұрын
If you've ever seen some of Sagat's comedy, he's one of the dirtiest most disgusting. I don't mind dirty jokes but he grosses me out.
Bruh Canada is cold....just looking at the weather ticker gave me chills and I live in Ohio, which is basically Canada come January
That first interview was brutal
Norm is my favorite KZread comedian. Jim Carrey said Norm is his favorite when he goes on KZread to look for comedy and I AGREE
Norm is just a stone cold genius.
Awesome. A couple of these I haven't seen
@TheUnQuake
6 жыл бұрын
is nice english
@simonetanzi5103
6 жыл бұрын
Master Yoda is that you?
Ill never forgive Regis for talking Norm outta answering the correct final answer and winning the million
If you like these clips get his book or audiobook "Based on a true story". It's incredible. Not just funny. Glimpses of his philosophical thinking and prose. He was a talented writer. That he didn't get to write more is a shame, but he left us with something truly special.
Holy God I miss Norm....
@KevyNova
4 ай бұрын
Me too.
One should never try to be funny around Norm (bob saget), it's just not going to work unless you laugh with him like the guy in Calgary.
@jeffbrondo6831
8 жыл бұрын
+ThingsAreLookingUp Norm has such a respect for Saget that during his roast (which he denied at first) he mad clean jokes and did not dig into him. I do agree Norm is funnier but Bob was part of his insperation.
Great editing and export quality. Please do many many more videos in the future. Yay!
It's crazy hearing all these references to weekend update as "the fake news". If they only knew
And today I find out I was born on the day Dirty Work opened in theaters. I feel so special.
@Necronaut
8 жыл бұрын
I love Norm, but that movie was awful, everyone knows this.
@ImnotNorm
6 жыл бұрын
Necronaut it becomes a cult classic everyone know that.
@stevenglansburg856
6 жыл бұрын
How does that deem speciality in your perception?
@sciencenate
4 жыл бұрын
Damn lucky bastard
look at those Canadian temps!!!! Really is the frozen north.
@frankhumbug
5 жыл бұрын
jaim haas, the Calgarry bit? Freezing - 17, - 20, their still human beings though, right?
OMG ROFL Don Rickles "KALAWALALALA....and everybodys sucking sand?!"
I made a real weird laugh during the jellyrolls thing. I've never heard that laugh from myself.
@Ketannabis
4 жыл бұрын
Gay
"Do you find it hard to judge other people...?" "They say judge not lest ye be judged. That's scripture. That's what they say and that's what I believe, except they paid me money." "You have to be honest. I mean you don't have to be. You know, you guys came all they way here being relatively dishonest." "Exactly!" "But I feel you have to be honest so I tell the people, 'Oh man, you suck!' "
Dirty Work is one of my all time favorite comedies.
Dang, Thanks Norm, now I'm binge watching The Beachcombers.
@hv3115
4 жыл бұрын
Watch out for that Relic character though
The weather streaming during the Calgary interview. Holy shit.
@ancientdolphins8700
4 жыл бұрын
New York 516 it's Celsius
@davel4467
4 жыл бұрын
@@ancientdolphins8700 A couple of weeks ago we had -30 F daily highs for 6 straight days.
Scott Fee kept up with Norm really well! Miss him in Calgary
Damn I didn't know we'd lost Dustin Hoffman too drugs... R.I.P.
Its sorta like Ghostbusters.....yeah except there are no ghosts.
8:18 In the Chyron game we call that a "fuck up".
God that interview about relic was fucking hilarious.
I appreciate Norm taking off that filthy Calgary Flames hat. Nice to see some men still have integrity.
That polygamy bit is gold 🤣1:53
Norm is the greatest...
"You guys like jelly rolls?" 😂
Canada, the most un-international country in the world. Lmfao
Dreams about jellyrollls hmm what might that mean LOL.