@@SelfEvident it’s from Norm’s book

@@johnomara849 wow great quote damn

@@johnomara849 I read it a year or so back but didn't remember reading that. Man it's beautiful.

​@@johnomara849 sounds like some fucking commie gobbledygook. no offense..

This is a comment from an enlightened being. I've thought it from several things I heard him express; things like describing the world to a blind man or being consumed by art. Something and nothing being the same. The twinkle in his eyes betrayed him the most, though. Listening to him is something very special. The mere fact that he talks of knowing the value of laughter and lived his life in the pursuit of generating it, is a clue. I have often wished he could have loved me. If he loved you....wow!

🤣

the one with the blood & the bone?

The Kennedy assassination?

@@greenpilltheory6649 knee deep in it at that

The one where Norm died. Norm!

Reminds me of that tragedy.

Nah he’s was a good guy.

He was not a real jerk

Diamond

I get your reference.👍🏻

Wow, your friends must be embarrassingly unfunny then, lol.

@@c_12123I bet Norm would’ve gotten a good laugh from your comment

The fact is, a lot of what he did Couldn’t be told by someone else, they didn’t have the balls. He was FIRED from SNL at the height of his popularity because they wanted to silence the truth he was telling about O.J. Like Barbara Walters, who was bristling as he as he needled her with “You like Bill Cosby, right?” LONG before the public would ever learn the truth. The moth joke- 8 improvised minutes of profound and layered storytelling based on great Russian literature- the audience wasn’t even aware of the backstory that made these such feats of subversive genius, that’s what no one can replicate, and why he was so incredible, original, and unique.

​@c_12123 are you arguing that your friends have the same comedic timing as norm macdonald? Is that really what you want to argue?

The layers of Norm know absolutely no bounds. If you try and tell his jokes, you become the joke.

Thank you for this. Truly

God bless you friend.

call it a draw...... hope you find peace up in heaven with Norm

You are awesome

God bless and may the angels guide your way.

Know what did he do for the year or two between 14 in high school and 16 in college?.. You guessed it.. Frank Stallone

Perhaps why I love his comedy and get it so much. Similar to Dave chappelle you can tell the man’s brilliant

goes to show how much intelligence plays into comedy

Yeah that’s wild, I’d be really curious about how specifically one goes about graduating that early. Do they just take twice the amount of classes or does someone just keep giving them credit for taking a class without actually taking the class. Maybe they just take the tests and faculty assume if they pass the test that’s all that matters

@@lotusluv Definitely. I'm not surprised at all that a math adept would do comedy. It's an unregulated and unteachable occupation like novel writing. For both, the sole qualification for entry is that nothing is lost on you.

What a wise bro you have! Don’t take that for granted. Have a great day

Yes. Perfect summation.

wise words.

Your brother is Conan Obrien?

@@tychodancer Who's Conan Obrien?

...just think the impression your town would have made on the whole world, if he had told a joke about Get woke go broke.

My grandmother was from Granville, IO. I'd heard of it.

Who?

And now you guys have women’s college basketball! 🏀

@@sirbader1 Where's IO? Or do you mean Granville, IA?

"Is there something wrong with being gay?" "No I love gay people!" "Oh I know you do." 😂😂😂😂

Clearly he did not people to know he did not own a doghouse

Atheist pretending to be a Christian making troll comments. Please don’t fall for this 2/10 bait. God bless y’all

I lost it at the part where he talks about losing a battle to cancer but it's technically a draw because the cancer dies also.. 🥺

Face like a flower…

I mean he DID voice act a pigeon on the animated Mike Tyson detective cartoon

You could say he's a hoot!

@@zac3392 Yeah, a *cauliflower!*

You might meet him

I kind of wish I could put this video on vhs, just in case

Somebody else made this video this isn’t the original

i was thinking the same thing

God Netflix would put a whole lot of terrible comedians who never met him but were on Netflix saying the same fake shit he would have hated and laughed at

Netflix is horrible, canceled my subscription

Fuck Netflix.

@@gretchenbaker7435 exactly.

Cancer almost came back, there at the end but eventually it ended in a draw!

Hey bro, you can't just joke about cancer like that, that's non-pc my man. My butt gets real hurt when I hear s*** like that and it affects my eczema. Please apologize to me and all the people here with cancer, but more so me, because I get off on that s****.

@@Chazman2705 Trying so hard to come off anti woke you actually sound super woke. It's so obvious, I'm surprised you don't realize it. Wokeness is pathetic whether coming form the left or right, which happens equally.

@@simrdownmon6431 Imagine trying to fence sit so hard you split your brain in half. No, I'm pretty sure there's only one political wing who wants to dictate what everyone is allowed to say, yet can't define what a woman is.

@@mattmenshevik You don't realize how closely your thought process is to the Dems. The fact that both sides are talking about gender identification instead of the reality that Americans are working harder for less while billionaires get richer, proves you've both been brainwashed by the media. Defining what a makes a women is of zero importance for Americans quality of life. Everyone knows the rule "divide and conquer", yet both sides allow themselves to fall directly in that trap. It's so easy to control a citizenry which is incapable of independent thought, critical thinking or selective reasoning.

its 4:01am for mee 😂

It's bc it is quite obvious Norm had a passion and curiosity for truth. In that pursuit he never became bitter or cynical, but rather found humor and delight in this world.

​@@SingleMaltBuckeyewell said

Same tbh

But you can't wear a hat alot of places tbh

@@thatoneguywithahugethang That's what's funny about it. It's weirdly very true and very untrue simultaneously, yet he's not wrong. That's funny.

@@thatoneguywithahugethang It's absurdist

Almost a zen like saying. Reminds me of this one: “ ‘Master, what is the meaning of life?’, ‘Chopping wood and carrying water’.

Wow, good to see you here

same :c

Circle, square or triangle?

Yeah, that's weird.

@@jmiogo whats wierd about that? i grew up in the care of my uncle, who was a huge fan of norm. norm always brightened my uncles day and made him howl laughing, and it rubbed off on me. im not really sure how its weird that he had a profound impact on me?

Norm was the truest, most genuine example of “one of a kind”. His self awareness and social awareness was on a level that doesnt even seem possible to achieve for most.

I read that as glad he’s gone . I wa alike “god damn, why the animosity?” Lol

Him and Larry David

That old chunk of coal?

It made me cry like a little bitch too. He is so loved. He was so wonderful.

I got the bitch tears flowing as I type this matter of fact...

Same here bro.. Same here..

I feel the same way I do about norm as much as I do about loosing David Bowie or Prince just for different reasons

@@StyrofoamBonfire I’m a fan big dog. I subscribed and I’m very hopeful that’s there’s more to come.

Agreed.

Truly superb!!!

Indeed

Agree. Great job!

Yeah, the production on this gave me goosebumps.

I was going to say the same thing. Really, well done.

Just a netflix special? Bahaahahhaha...damn thats sad

Mark Normand is about the closest we've got lol

A lot of people didn't get Norms humor. I am so glad I am not one of them! Thanks for the laughs Norm.

Nah I think there will be more like him

Probably reading Dostoevsky at the time.

I didn't know he had cancer thrice, since 1986. That explains exactly why so "living in the present" kinda guy he was.

I couldn't sit through the video, the norm thing just makes me too sad, just sharing some knowledge. Norm was a literal math child prodigy genius. Both his parents were high intellectual teachers. He was literally one of those genius card counters at casinos, that would be threatened of dire physical violence. He was one of those young kids that graduated from high school maybe fifteen, he was like Doogie Howser, except he chose his path and comedy.

@@seanmurphy26 yup that's covered 6 mins in, which I didn't know he graduated early n studied maths

@@StyrofoamBonfire Very well done sir- had me moved to tears..... by the way don't breathe the fumes from that bonfire.........

@@gregh5061 so he was 2-1 in his battle against cancer

i agree and feel the same way as you.

I agree - really, REALLY well done. Thank you for an homage to a man I’ve always admired from afar.

It was excellent wasn’t it?

Wow!! This was so well made. I loved Norm so much. Thank you for such a great video.

Well done? Did we watch the same video? Wtf was with that timer in the corner that didn’t even keep time? Why would you even put that in? I love norm but this video looks like it was made by someone in high school following a generic cheesy idea of a tribute video, the score was god awful. If this video qualifies in your book as “well done” I can’t imagine how low your bar must be for quality.

Just like norm

He definitely planted that seed knowing they'd say the same about him. It was a long battle after all.

Closeted too

I love the fact that even this sounds like one of his jokes, and I can only read it in his voice He is missed indeed.

I beamed when I saw that example and Tyson's name came up. I have always referred to him as "conjecture boy". He makes me sick. Good on Norm for calling him out.

Couldn't agree more on that take either, although I still view both Neil's & Norm's views as two sides of the same coin, even as diametrically opposed they both are. Norm's view is, in so many words, what keeps my will to live chugging along, no questions asked, managing even to disregard my own constant hyper-awareness which fits right in w/NDG's quip which is simply, "The only thing the world wants of you is to eat you and be done with it..." Considering Norm had cancer's menace loom over half his life, it makes perfect sense to me why he dismissed the latter notion off hand despite him likely being all-too-intimately-familiar with it as well.... Cancer simply being the literal embodiment of that latter sentiment brought to life in your own cells, as i see it... Ugh, it doesn't even make me want to say "fuck cancer" more than it makes want to shout into void "FUCK MORTALITY!!!" even as someone who does **not** want to live forever too

Hell yeah! Rolling Stones Street Fighting Man! G7!!!

@AnonymousYou know that a Google search can turn up objectively wrong information, right? If you think anyone with an internet connection has, and has the ability to understand, everything in the universe, then you’re really in no place to call someone else smug.

Tyson is very smug - and annoying and stubborn. He's been saying for ages that he doesn't believe in ufo's and he was on Joe Rogan after fighter pilot David Fravor and and fellow navy pilots all saw the tic-tac ufo and instead of admitting that maybe he was wrong and that ufo's now seem a reality, he made a convoluted attempt to debunk the encounter(s) by saying that maybe their radars were faulty! Even Rogan, who had previously seemed to worship Tyson, just looked fed up with him. Look it up. "Neil deGrasse Tyson's Skepticism Over UFO's"

Agreed

Oh! Heh, yeah, inFLECtion, eeeeh uh and CADEnce, sure, hehuuuuh yuh….

Only celebrity death that made my eyes leak this weird stuff

I felt exactly the same norm and Sean Lock both of them were only a few months apart of my mom‘s death from cancer. those were my two favorite living comedians. Hell probably my two favorite living people in general. I mean mom was up there too but......you know what I mean

I was kinda pissed that Conan didnt have him on for his last few farewell episodes, before I realized that norm had set a trap for taking cancer down.

@@tomifost Conan knew for sure. It's up to Norm wether he wants to go on or not in the end.

I never necessarily agreed with Norm on politics, however the fact that he never changed Just makes me respect him so much because he was courages enough to stand outside the box

I come back to this video atleast once a month. Still love and miss Norm. Thanks again for this.

He actually never transitioned.

I remember growing up in the 90s. There weren't many of my peers who thought Norm was funny. Just me and one other friend thought he was a comic genius. Someone who would only truly be appreciated later, possibly after he passes. Some people got his sarcastic humor for what it was, most didn't. Norm was one of the only "stars" who I felt like I could actually get along with in real life. Sit down, have a beer and share some laughs.

"Oh Big Gulps, eh? ... Well, see ya later!"

@@danielbuege1 Loved that part in D&D

Appreciate it👍

That's an astute comment in an ocean of others; I'd also say Norm was essentially driven by an unquenchable zest for life and was, thank God, articulate enough to express his ideas. He was a one of a kind, I'm sad I've only now begun to fully appreciate him.

I'm so grateful to have been able to resonate and more now, after he's departed.

It's literally being seen even weeks after it was released.

I really hope his Netflix "special" (since it was really just sort of the groundworks for what he was actually going to perform if he ever could again due to covid) isn't touched or edited at all. Not sure why I say that but it's maybe because, before the recent sentimentals expressed, Netflix were the one's to cancel his talk show.

He would have been fine in todays climate… funny even.

I use to say he's the Bob Dylan of Comedy but Jimi works as well

Excellent comparison. I've listened to a lot of Hendrix recordings where I go, "That doesn't sound right" where on a first glance it just sounds like messed up noise sometimes, But the brilliance shines through after a few listens when you truly grasp that weird Hendrix spirit. Same with norm.

@@gregh5061 Absolutely. Just like Hendrix playing an out of tune guitar, he could make it work. Norm could turn bad jokes into good jokes.

@@DROG. norm's "HAH?" is Hendrix's wammy bar

They canceled the I’m not norm Chanel??? I didn’t even know

@@coryspann5774 he meant norm Macdonald live podcast. It was a national tragedy

norm was never really promoted. I found out about him just some months before his passing because of speculations about his health. Other than that I think I only saw him on the roast and I hated the roast

It's very weird to call people who discovered him after death as "jumping on the bandwagon"

@@trubeez4721 jumping on the dead wagon.

EVEN his celebrity friends? Celebrities are the least likely people to understand values and integrity

Do you have a doghouse?

@@DavidVassleofYeshua No, I don't have a dog house

@@Zhohan- that's ok. Stop by anyway, we'll have a chicken!

@@Zhohan- You must be one of them gays then.

L

W

norm got me so do wrestlers i dk why i have such fond memories of 90s wrestling they always hit hard

Oof

Same 😔

Most of them dont really bother me either but Norm, Robin Williams and Phil Hartman really hit me.

Currently working my way through your blender tutorials, thanks for what you you do! Good to see you're also a Norm fan.

Me too, much love and peace to you

Jesus loves you

@@allanbaisley9991 Didn’t Jesus have a doghouse?

I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers.

I hope your OK johny.

I hope you are happy or found happiness in your life at 45 friend. I am 38 and have been wondering myself whether or not I have, or whether it's too late or not.

@@gringoguapo it's never too late to get yourself situated and feel better. :)

Man what a guy

@@gringoguapo It is never too late friend, life is happening right now.

Seek 'purpose' and it will bring fulfillment/happiness... as happiness alone is fleeting.

Stomach cancer sounds awful, but it seems to me that Norm should have talked about his leukemia, because I doubt he'd be comfortable with all the hero-worship and drama queening his 'secret' inspired. I have the same leukemia as Norm and I just live with it. I don't say that to "garner sympathy" as Norm said. The truth is it's not that bad. Why not let people know that? When it's bad, when you're really circling the drain, you feel tired, lightheaded, out of breath; your batteries run down sometimes to the point of needing to rest after walking ten yards or having a long conversation; you take pills; sometimes you have to get transfusions &/or chemo; but it's not the hardcore chemo of stage IV lung, liver, colon, stomach, or brain cancer. There's no surgery except marrow transplants but only a fool would opt for that kind of misery for such a shit-odds gamble. In fact there is not much pain at all besides chemo side effects, and those are temporary. You have some suck periods, but you also get to feel fucking great most of the time -- and in most cases you get plenty of time, even a decade or so (as Norm had), to come to terms with life and mortality. I'm 18 months in and almost died when I didn't know I had it, but there is WAY worse shit to have and WAY more tragic ways to go. As for the "tragedy" of his mom outliving him I read in the comments, that's bull crap too. What loving mom wouldn't want to be there for her child in their a time of need? You think she'd rather have been dead? Both Norm and his mom were very lucky. I know people suffering alone, who have no one except maybe nurses and cashiers to talk to, or maybe a child who checks in when they get sick enough to bother with, but that's it. THAT is a tragedy. A child contracting terminal cancer is a tragedy. I love Norm, but I can't take the sappy tone of some of these videos, comments, and testimonials. It's all what he didn't want.

I'm glad you made it through honey, the world needs more good souls like you. ❤️

@@carlodave9 I think each person just does the best they can in that situation. I just try to respect their choices. Sending love. ❤️

And here I thought they were just going to talk about how he was a gay man. A deeply closeted one, mind you.

I think that's what it was all about for him - interacting w/people. Any and all.

Personally I had some trouble with the format ... the timer thing on the side was getting on my nerves and then too many quotes when I'd rather see him speaking . Also I'm watching this on my phone and the last thing I needed was for some of the video portion to be shrunk down even smaller But he did provide excellent content within talking about his gambling addiction and other things as well as how he had cancer and nobody knew except a few

@@gardensofthegods Okay. Clearly, you don’t own a doghouse.

Spot on. Same.

No spoilers, but you should really finish the book. I loved the ending.

I got the book for christmas this past year and had the exact same feeling! i had to stop multiple times because i was getting choked up

I'm the same way with the original Final Fantasy 7. But when I get his book I'll def be reading it like you. Savoring every word, every sentence. Full paragraphs a meal, every page a banquet.

Read it then buy the audio book and listen to it.

Thats the same thing I do with Bob Dylan songs. I never want to hear the last one

@@1iknow ok

Martin Short needs a little cleanup though...

He is not blurt Chrysler… he is THE MACHINE

@@dryer1901 Ok but do you know why he is so fat ?

Burnt chrysler

Couldn't agree more.

I hope you people can live peacefully and as rightful owner of your Country ~ A fellow Indian I discovered Norm somewhere around 2019, I was bored, A video with bad quality footage was being recommended to me for a very long time so that day I decided to checkout the video and that day I discovered Norm. And I have seen all of his videos numerous times. And his fans respect Norm like a devotee would respect the God. I have seen blind followers of other celebrities and they are toxic but Norm fans are friendly and not toxic and that's because Norm himself never took himself Seriously, He never created a Invincible image of himself. I like two people most for the same reasons, Jim Carrey and Norm MacDonald.

Dot or feather?

I don’t care how manly your hands are, I agree with you.

Steve Irwin when I was like 10 Norm in my late 20's, just as I've been seriously getting into Comedy and trying to learn from the legends. Norm is such a great example of how to be. Inspires the hell out of me, and the man I am, and will be.

@@ZeranZeran Yes! Whenever I watch any of his interviews, it makes me feel great to be alive and makes me want to be a better person. No matter how mischievous he was being, goodness still emanates from him.

@@Hazmatguy117 😁

i cried too. cried to my 1st celebrity

nice one Paul.