“When I die, I want to donate my body to science…
… more specifically, a scientist who specializes in bringing dead dudes back to life.”
This is really all you need:
Bye Norm. Huge part of my comedy world. We’ll miss you.
Fearless dude. Brilliant “comic’s comic”. I am also impressed he never changed, he was always himself. So impressive a human being.
“Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage.”
This guy had cancer for 10 years and didn’t make it about him, he wasn’t in tabloid mags, no one disrespected his existence or betrayed his trust during that time… and he just stayed funny and observant and cutting edge. He was fearless, but not because “I AM FEARLESS” but because he was simply himself, and didn’t wall himself off or play by the rules of social engagement and the complex game theory bullshit.
Norm Macdonald, Comedian and ‘Saturday Night Live’ Star, Dies at 61 https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/norm-macdonald-dead-dies-snl-1235064570/
- He was unflinchingly honest.
Norm Macdonald on Bill Cosby. Rest, Norm…pic.twitter.com/38KHwCwBwF
— Rex Chapman???????? (@RexChapman) September 14, 2021
- Tragic at the time… 10 days earlier, he jokes about Steve Irwin being killed:
Here’s another clip of how great Norm Macdonald was at taking the most awkward comedy and making it so funny you couldn’t help but laugh.
Norm is doing a bit about Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) dying… 10 days after it happened. pic.twitter.com/bSP83bqQrg
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) September 14, 2021
More: PLEASE WATCH HIS WHOLE THING. this is like a sports roast version of what has happened at the White House Correpondents dinner. In this case, the time stamp I mark is just the best delivery of a joke ever.
CONAN MENTIONS IT, AND HIS LOVE FOR NORM:
Conan loved Norm.
These beautiful pages of his book:
I think about these two and a half pages from Norm Macdonald’s book constantly. When I reviewed it, I wrote that they would “make for a fine eulogy”—and I swear I didn’t mean anything by it. But they do. pic.twitter.com/vxLRAd2OeP
— Sean O’Neal (@seanoneal) September 14, 2021
This is why he was fired from SNL. His boss (not Lorne) at NBC was good friends with OJ. He said “don’t do OJ jokes” and he went all in.
Great tributes from other great comedians:
When Jerry tells him he does have kids, and Norm says “WELL… we’ll agree to disagree”. Ded.
This NYT article delves into how it would be easy to overlook his skill, because he could flourish plain talk, sort of like a Bob Dylan.
See yourself out, sir.
Artie Lange on Norm: