Yeah... 😕

He really was a legend. Norm never gave a shit about offending anyone. He wanted you to laugh and be happy. I miss him already.

@@LogicAndCompassion he was among the greats, like Kinison and Carlin and Hedburg

Nah he was pretty old

@@sc885 HOLY shit 61 is not old my guy

i wish carlin was alive to see this lie on humanity and the biden administration- hed never have to memorize a show ever again

@@gabaghoul23he would also lay into trump

@@crumbasyouarethat guy would never be happy, but that’s what made him funny

@@crumbasyouarebut for that, he would have to get in line. Of course, it would have been nice to see what a funny trump joke looks like.

@@gabaghoul23 Remarkable that you think he'd be on your side. You clearly didn't know the man or his comedy. But most Republicans lack media literacy. They don't realize nearly everyone on camera that's actually entertaining *HATES* them.

I remember watching this when it first dropped. I thought it was hilarious. I took a deep dive on his comedy and found out he was one of the greatest. I revisited this clip and learned, he is the greatest of all time. Not some dirty ole GOAT, but the greatest of all time.

​@@joshualykins8730he was just an old lump of coal.

My dad got cancer during COVID and he received such horrible care because the health system was so fucked up at the time. Going to the hospital felt like I was in a 3rd world country. It felt like nobody there cared. Bad times.

​@haikat4 you can't care. Next one, next one, next one, next one...on and on.

To right! a stowick funny bones chap

as well as at his own expanse

Patrice.

bill hicks, too

Well if there is another one you wouldn't know yet

@@skait174 Did Patrice know he was going to die tho? I thought it was just a heart attack.

So sad....

8 years ouch that's long term

rest in peace Norm, one of the greatest ever

@@b0r0din988 certainly one of my favourites, and has to be one of the most underrated-

For real he was the fucking man. The stuff he's done in the last 9 years without anyone knowing is legendary-status

Yep. 8 years older, as this was over a year ago.

“You ever tell a lie that you get absolutely no benefit from?”

I stand to gain nothing from this lie

Well, if he _had_ been 68 a year ago, then that'd mean he went out at *69...*

Weird. Reports state that he was only 61 🤔

Norm: "Now, I'll be talking about all kinds of horseshit up here tonight, but just know that every moment, I'll be thinking about this disease." Audience: *woosh*

the best inside joke of all time

As he knows he’s dying.

Of covid

@@xodz no, he died of leukemia, which he’s had for nine years.

Honestly, I had to rewind it and check I heard it right.. that’s tough.

Subtly 2 jokes in one

Yeah that’s tough

Bone marrow transplants may have helped. If he was more public about it, friends and fans could've been tested for matches. It's devastating.

@@Yumicpcake keyword MAY. Everyone fears death until they finally meet it.

Rest in peace Norm

Rest in peace buddy

Rip

Rest in Peace...

Cancer ages you faster, probably felt 78.

😪💔

Probably meant 58 he was closer to that.

@@michaelmohrle1773 no he was just bullshitting the audience. Legendary.

@@superduty4556 Or maybe saying somthing to himself hoping it will come true, he did not bs them he would of said so.

Explain to the folks at home what meta comedy is.

@@ElectricLadyland87 merriam-webstdr definition of "meta: informal : showing or suggesting an explicit awareness of itself or oneself as a member of its category : cleverly self-referential

I hate meta.

​@@uku4171FYI, joking about your personal life is about as far from being meta as it's possible to be.

And to think those sniffles and other "sickness-like" symptoms he was describing were likely due to a recent chemotherapy treatment.

Just to let you know

@White Raptor News - and copypasta was around before you were born.

@White Raptor News lmao

I think he just said it to be funny

lmaooo

End of our species? ROFL

I believe they call that a joke Mr. Douglas

If not now, when?

people out here thinking this kind of thing lmao

I just found out and came here. This cracked me up last year.

Me too I cried

Shit is killing me idk how to cope with this, knowing that he had cancer during this set is insane, the man was a saint, his body of work will far outlive his old, addled, cancer ridden actual body

I hear you im in shock and sadness he was the greatest gem..

Hardest hitting death since we lost Robin...

"The last thing between us and happiness..."

Well said. His delivery is legendary.

lazy eloquence

Could not have said it any better myself

"a cherry pie from Bristol Farms..."

That's why he stumbles through his jokes. He looking for the funniest way to put it as he speaks. That's why when people try, fail at repeating his jokes. A word choice, a pause etc. can mean the difference between funny or unfunny.

Imight Realperson That’s what he’s saying. Everyone is uncomfortable because of the virus, dumbass

@Imight Realperson wtf are you joking

half million views in one day .. talk about a viral video ...

well he said himself, thats how im im gonna die, me watching this thing, basically going out was a good thing after being locked in

It was the "cherry" cake that made him ill.

Did you hear the podcast where he talks about cancer and if he ever had it he wouldn’t tell anybody

@@AV-nf5hx yeah the same way he was a deeply closeted homosexual. Norm was a private man.

The cherry pie man. Never forget

@@rajaoc1 Norm was deeply closeted? How so? He had a son.

@@Mega_Lit_Slaps6968 i think that was a joke

I know, right!?

hows that club even open

Yeah, the manager was SO wrong! Those people were RELIEVED to laugh together about this shit ass punk ass virus that we WILL survive. NORM...one of the Great Souls I have seen in this world. Take care,

@@1060michaelg yeah this manager, he's a real jerk.

@@billvickers9149 Well, he certainly doesn't understand what a crowd is capable of laughing at, that's for sure, but it doesn't matter as a comic (especially one of Norm's caliber) isn't going to be told what not to say.

"Okay, cmon now....thats racist"

For me, it's the word "iron" lol. Man I forgot Larry is gone too... Seriously though I know Norm MacDonald wasn't a real hero like, a teacher or something, but man he was still a hero to me, to us... he was brilliant, fearless, humble, authentic, unique, so many things come to mind but I think really the best thing about him is that he was never a hypocrite...

@@johnd5790 🤣❤✌🏻🤣❤

Can you explain what the cauliflower joke is about?

No offense but your face Looks Like a Calley Flower

Doghouse

Yep! Did you hear he just died?!? Fucking cancer.🥺

watch the sully sullenberger clip on Conan. Norm was a master of just talking about what was on his mind and making it funny

The timing is such that he'll meander and then drop a bomb and the audience takes a few seconds to realise how hilarious thing he just said was.

He had a reason to not give a shit, he saw the inevitable and still laughed in its face. Ill forever miss this legend

I was thinking the same thing!

He just lived his life

"It's just a matter of the order...."

Like birth, your first and last day of school, college, marriage, illness, health....death is just another part of life. Norm was a blunt comedian. He saw the truth, and that helped us all embrace the harsh truths as easy as possible. He truly put the harsh realities into perspective....they're just another part of this roller coaster called "Life ". He shall be sorely missed. RIP Norm

he WAS the cure...

@@RichardCranium321 Yes Yes Yes ! 💔

@@RichardCranium321 ❤

Ya I know

Ultimate Joke huh?

You hit it right on the nose. I thought the same thing when he said that.

"I hope they find a cure for me" ..... I can't tell if he intentionally threw that in there

I know. I was thinking the same thing. So glad to see he could joke about it.

@@darrenthetuber743 Right? Feels like he did. Like he was alluding to his cancer.

Don't worry, his battle was a draw

You ought to listen to his bit on "battling cancer". How does cancer "win"? If it kills the person, then the cancer dies with them, so it's more of "a wash". >.

He's a diamond now. RIP

He wasn't even that old, had to add 8 years to his age when he said it lol

@@tayc9855 god bless ya! You beat me to it! RIP Norm!

Ol chunk of gold

This was toward the beginning of the pandemic.

@@cockeyedoptimista There's no way Norm was joking about death this much without some cognizance of irony due to his own impending mortality.

@@americandingo1109 Well, yeah. That's gotta be true, one would think. Yeah. (Well said, by the way. Very articulate of you.)

pandering to big pharma ... just another republican shill. fox news needs to hire this guy yesterday to add a little humor to the bigotry

@@81OH4Z4RD, You comment sounds racist to me.

@@81OH4Z4RD, It's funny that you would take words that are obviously meant as comedy seriously, then rail against the comedian. How fucken telling.

@@oldnick4707 it's politically slanted "comedy". here's an example: "It's funny how universal health care is so evil ... until now." A mediocre and generic joke with a fill-in-the-blank subject, designed to illustrate the benefit of the otherwise maligned subject. It's not the joke that's offensive, it's the choice of subject: one of the greediest and most damaging industries in the United States, pharmaceuticals. Norm is a Republican shill so he slants his jokes to spread Republican propaganda. Homophobes probably love his homophobic jokes. If you enjoyed this one I'm guessing you're a Republican.

@@81OH4Z4RD, You've guessed wrongly. I'm a center conservative. You've also just described political comedy. Watch SNL, CNN, Almost any joke being offered by mainstream late night television for more of the same. You seem to be a glaring hypocrite.

That guys a real jerk!

Dudes channel used to be great but you can only re arrange the same norm clips so many times lol

I know...I'll call for help. Hypocrisy! A man committed hypocrisy on me in room 10304204!

Wait a minute... this IS Norm!

@@deusvult8825 nah he's alright

He did what he loved right up until the end

Well said

"You can go to Denny's, wear a hat....."

He's eating at Denny's and wearing a hat in heaven now :(

He could wear a big HAT .....it’s funny because it’s big

That was, until recently, a deeply closeted windbreaker

My mom told me as a kid in the 90s that fashion just repeats itself.

Corona virus is more of a 90s kid, but it'll also vibe with 80s, 70s... 40s and younger not so much

Finally the fucking 90s are coming back. I missed the wrist cutting and depression.

I had a windbreaker like that in 1993 7th grade

Final stage is acceptance they say

@White Raptor News why would you piss on a dead man's memory with this shit?

That was a good one.

@White Raptor News Jesus said the way to life is narrow and few follow it..

So to did Toolman Tim Taylor

Maybe we are...

😪💔

Amazing insight, no one else would have noticed that if you didn't point it out. Amazing work, we're blessed to have you.

It's the greatest gig in the world, being alive. You get to eat at Denny's and wear a hat.

Bravo good sir....bravo.

I dunno. Even at only $15 a man, I'm not sure he can afford to.

A man's still gotta eat!

Lmao

Nah. He just needs to thoroughly wash his hands between each go around.

They just weren't brave enough to push the envelope back in the day

Too modern, and stylish

This is more of a comment really.

That's modern medicine for you

It isn't as serious an illness as what they had back then.

A beautiful comment, sir.

Love your comment.

@Ericola Ever laugh so hard you can't do anything else? You can't talk? You're crying? Your muscles are all captive to the laughter? Uh, blubbering? Thanks for letting me explain. Now, new arrivals should see the guy over behind that window over there. He can explain things verrrrry slowly.

Clam down

😂😂 YES!!

But what about the Queensborough bridge?

@Big Bubba I believe it's called "Tom Hanks disease".

moniemaker27 Lol 😝

Smith & Wesson You must be fun at parties

Thanks for commenting this to validate I wasn't crazy. I was so confused. Just googled him to see his age on Wikipedia.

Thank you for pointing this out. I was so confused.

Its his thing he lies about everything

Man, I was counting on my fingers already. Thanks.

His fluctuating age is one of my favorite running jokes of his, mostly because about 10 people even get it.

Yeah, that guy is a real jerk

To me, he sounds like a real jerk!

You dirty dog!

Tell the folks what the coronavirus is.

Battle axe? Fella? That coronavirus sounds more gender fluid than a protogynous hermaphrodite parrot fish at an orgy.

When was this filmed

@@lyleburlingame2276 he's talking about corona...

@@noneyabizz8337 umm yea? I am well aware. Looking for a date... month/year...

@@lyleburlingame2276 meh, you're lazy. His name is Norm Macdonald, he's at the improv talking about corona. You should have been able to answer your question without asking a stranger.

@@lyleburlingame2276 Would have to be last March/April by the way he's talking

Nobody did he kept it a secret

We should do something about this Norm Macdonald character.

I loved him."Many a true thing is said in jest"...save a space for me up there for me, Norm.

@@ecreamer81 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y8WeoMeTr6-cooE.html This will help you understand the joke

@White Raptor News that was an interesting video, thanks. What do you think of this one? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrenZ9pqvM28k4U.html

I believe it's called a "joke"

I immediately paused the video at that point and checked that on Wikipedia.

@@professorpancakes6545 thank you captain obvious

lmao

Makes it more believable that hes gonna die...it struck me as being old when he said it but I had to look up his real age.

They are jokes. They're not "knock knock" jokes but they're jokes.

He makes a noise come out of the audience when he wants to.

He has a structure of jokes where it’s literally an opening and a punchline and the rest in between is just improvised.

@@depressedhulkhogan2770 You pointing out scaffolding?

I don't get it.

meh, he wasn't even that good a comedian tbh rest in shit norm

He actually had a bit about dying from cancer n people saying he lost his battle. Gotta give it to the battle cancer.

@@turdfurg47 his cancer died too though, so it's kind of a tie isn't it?

@@turdfurg47ya but he lost tho lol what a loser

@@CSRgamer nah it's more like a victory for cancer since it lives on in other ppl

Yup,

Goddamn, didn't realize how real to him this standup set was...

@@dc656 He was telling a joke that nobody in that room would really get until later, and he still had the room in stitches

@@videobones7046 thats shit that rocks your soul brother

When did Gary Shandling die ? That dude was awesome

@@jimreily7538 March 26 2016. Agreed. The "Larry Sanders Show" was brilliant.

"Nah, he's a good guy."

@Shamus Beaglehole No, he is 60.

@Shamus Beaglehole Norman Gene Macdonald (born October 17, 1959)

@Shamus Beaglehole HAHA. Now that I've pretended to laugh, let's end this.

He's gonna lean hard into the old man persona soon. He's figuring it out but it's gonna be good. More alive than Rickles in his last gasping, creaking years, if you can believe.

That is sick 😃!!

maybe it has corona.

@@missionpupa See, now you're thinking like Albert Fish!

Norm with the sauce

@@oneill765 fuck you

He’s was using his sickness to mock the dummies

Did KZfaq recommend it before he died?

Was looking for this comment lol Norm's the best

He was telling cute stories about his currently 10-year-old son Dylan when Dylan was about 16. It amuses him to create confusion.

cause he looks gooder for a 68 year old lol

@Erik Cnating conscious mistake....i love playing with language!

@@MGTOWPsyche You're right - it's so people will think, "Wow! He looks GREAT!" God I love Norm.

If you look at his Twitter when he posted this last year, he literally says “this is my final stand up” and “in my final stand up appearance..” :( and here we were thinking it was a joke about covid.

Fear porn... keeps people moving, allows consolidation of power (over you).

@@HarrisonCountyStudio cringe

If you know Norm. that was anticipation

@@HarrisonCountyStudio 'fear porn'? is that like a horror movie? or like, you want to watch normal porn and someone starts lubing up their fist?...look man, there's 2 things to remember here : the non-internet media is in its death throes and sensationalizes EVERYTHING: FOX news once used the phrase 'killer marijuana' 2] around 5k dead[nearly all old or with health conditions or both] 80 000 RECOVERED WITH NO TREATMENT Scary? yes a death sentence? NO It ain' Cpt Tripps from The Stand

I love how people are willing to CROWD into a Costco to buy all the TP as they face an unknown virulent disease.

He could probably use a hoodie that isn’t from the 1980s

@@influentia1patterns use it for what?

He announced to the world months ago that that kid's not getting any more material and that he'd be returning to KZfaq in 2020.

@@rawzjd8527 Where?

@@xXicOdMoDziXx On Twitter, you have to add it up. He said he was going to file copyright claims on all his material, said he would start the podcast on Instagram, and get his KZfaq channel going again. All separately. Put them together, realize Norm is still alive and George Miller would never steal from the living, and realize Norm would never sell merch, and this kid's making money off his material, which is worth $30,000 per joke at least.

he obviously needs better insurance

???

That's not true! That was during the swine flu era!

Oh how dare he now he needs better insurance

???

It's only ironic if he catches it at the venue.

It's even more ironic that it's a 1% mortality rate. So if there are 200 people there 2 MIGHT die. 😆. The fear is far worse than the reality.

@@jacobr4558 you don't understand what the word 'irony' means

@@jacobr4558 holy f*ck man that was a dumb post.

nadinos and the laughter expels the breath and virus greater distances. Won’t be the first time norms comedy killed a room 🤪

Remember the good old days when washing your hands didn't take THREE HOURS!😄😃😀

@@juliestrom412 😁😁😁😁😁 yes I doooooooo

Julie Strom I know it's a joke but look at death during pregnancy before dr and nurse hand washing before birth. Cleanliness and sanitation isn't fake.

@@mrknucklepuck8485 Dr Semmelweiss, the Austrian Dr that discovered germs circa mid1800s, went insane because nobody believed him...

Funniest and might be most insightful quote of all time

I saw the parallels but didn’t put it together until reading your comment because I’m dumb.

@@justinland1208 I mean, none of us put it together until now, right?

Norm is a legend, he knew what was coming for him, but still wanted to make ppl smile

yep you are correct sir....he sounds weak

@@RJBond121 last few years i have noicied he didnt look well...like he was bloated on steroids.but NO I didnt put it together

It's a national tragedy...

@@junky5422 May 15, 2018, Exercise simulation of a global pandemic. 666 days later, March 11, 2020, Coronavirus made a global pandemic.. Google "coronavirus 33" 33 California, 33 Canada, 33 Boston, 33 Thailand, 33 Ireland, man spends 33 days I'm quarantine, etc.. Google, "English to Hebrew" Add text, "covid" It translates to, "Kobe" Guess where Kobe Bryant's buried.... CORONA del Mar, California...

I think it’s great. Just a little traffic needs to go, you know!

It's a real jerk.

@@BakedNConfused you got a link to the march 15 info? I googled it with the words "pandemic simulation" and couldnt find anything