A throw away line on his part that is better than most comedians entire career.

I'm convinced that wasn't a mistake and an improv. he likes to have mini-jokes in his jokes and he crafts jokes to have layers and asides. He probably thought of this as a funny idea to insert in this joke act. He pauses too like he's expecting it to be pointed out.

Conan's reaction was incredible 🤣😂

Honestly it is the BEST part of the joke. Because Norm messed up and got called out on it. Then you see him go "Ohhh damn I messed it up haha", and he comes up with such a good line to not only counter his mistake but to turn it into the joke. 10/10

@@moonbalancedd I suspect this, too. Maybe he just knows Conan that well to know where he's going to set stuff up, because later in the joke he had a fakeout that Conan played into perfectly with "I look across the hall but what do I see? An attendant, who took me to the part of the aquarium I REALLY wanted to go to."

I think Norm was just putting him over to make up for always making Andy the butt of his jokes back in the day. The dog turd line is pretty weak, certainly not strong enough to unseat the likes of Norm. You see how much more credence the audience gives Andy’s joke because of Norm’s reaction to it, Norm knew what he was doing. I honestly think he gave him that reaction as well as the handshake to top it off in order to smooth over any unresolved beef Andy may have had. It’s a shame with that in mind that Andy had to go and speak ill of Norm after his passing in relation to how he feels he was treated by him. Andy just couldn’t cop a joke on the chin and move on, a bad trait for a talk show sidekick.

@@william5691 it's more likely that norm... Liked the joke. Crazy I know, but it sounds like you're the one that doesn't like Andy Any beef that he had with norm was most likely squashed behind the scenes. And further, if you're a big norm fan, you'd probably know norm wouldn't give any kind of praise to a joke he didn't actually think was funny

​@@william5691 I like that you came up with this convoluted, alternate explanation to project your personal frustration with Andy onto Norm. That makes way more sense than the sensible, boring explanation that Norm simply liked Andy's joke.

Yes, so spot on. He buckled over and fell to the floor without saying anything. Imagine how that hike would actually be like. Four miles, exhaustion, exertion, all the way driven by purpose. And at the end the dog turd. Doesn't even matter then. The dog turd is holy by that point. Just like the youthful porpoise.

Especially since it was coming from the Swedish German Andy Richter

wanna hear my Norm Macdonald joke? Supposedly, laughter is the best medicine......

Nice

@@blackmancer tell that to hes cancer haha?

​@@goodsir.813he actually tied with the cancer. He killed the cancer too.

@@MoonCowGaming weighing a courageous battle ...

That is awesome. Well played.

You should be ashamed..no hooks,lines or sinkers around dolphins..😆

I read your comment, and I laughed for 2 minutes straight just imagining your situation with these kids. 😄

@@maggifatai4497Nothing wrong with eating dolphin so long as it’s tuna-free.

That's hilarious XD

I call that the "marriage delivery." Powerful technique.

"more Quebecois humor" yeah that's right Andy, not a lot of folks were ready for this. The same goes with this week's news.

And then he looks at you. Except that dog turd is the most nutrient filled turd in the western hemisphere and is shaped with gods proportions

@@stoicspartan01 Andy is a sharp guy. Check youtube to watch him crushing Wolf Blitzer on celebrity Jeopardy

His punchlines are pretty solid usually. This one was hilariously terrible.

That’s a great description of Norm

@@youtime18 Conan said something like that himself on his podcast remembering Norm, about him being a mischievous child. It's just too perfect.

Dennis Miller called him "like a profane child" back in the late 90's, so he should really get the credit for the accurate analogy

Great way of putting it!

Norm and Conan had fantastic chemistry

how come is it a terrible punchline?

@@IanDikhtiar Did you not get the joke?

@@bob_sandvagene oh, I got the joke, and I found it the most hilarious punchline ever. How is it terrible? Did YOU not get it?

@@IanDikhtiar Yes.

@@bob_sandvagene I don't think so. Watch it again.

@Jacob King They're laughing at the audience expecting Norm to tell a normal joke. No, Norm tells jokes where he makes fun of joke telling, the audience doesn't get it, except one guy does and it is hysterical only to that guy. I am that guy.

@@askthepizzaguy Norm told multiple punchlines on the way to the main punchline which was never as funny as the punchlines he had used to build to the end and that was the absolute genius of his comedy. That's why some get it and some don't. For those of us that do we know that there will never be another Norm.

It's Conan.

​@@askthepizzaguy oh yeah for sure Mr. Main Character

@@SimpleManGuitars1973 ooh yes, that's it! Perfectly put!

I never got that joke. Was there something to get? Or was it just Norm being Norm? I laughed, but I didn't get why Conan was laughing so hard... This thought keeps me up at night.

@@snakey934Snakeybakey People will say "A man grows" to justify radical change so applying it to the man's last name after being called out on it was just an absurd misdirection. An absurd explanation for an absurd situation.

@@biggusdickus1689 thanks

He didn't find it on the spot. He prepared it

You could see the wheels spinning. Miss him

I love how quickly he produced that

@@Texaslonghorn_ It's not supposed to make sense. As a man grows his last name changes. It's completely absurd.

Ya it's like well nobody's perfect

omg...just classic...

I think he did it on porpoise. Norm always finds ways to slide a joke in when no one sees it coming.

And I am convinced that Norm appreciated that joke a lot.

Just two.

💀

I've never seen Norm laugh so hard

@@oz_jones He seemed more like the kinda fella who appreciated him what on the account of being Swedish-German.

same

@@TehSWEED Same here! Glad to hear I’m not the only one who has to ramble during talk show appearances to fill time.

Excellent

That is the most Norm logic I've ever heard.

Perfect

Honestly, that's my favorite moment of the video.

Andy Richter man. Best late night sidekick ever. Every time he pipes up it's gold

@@conorobrien1025 oh yeah, I love when conan talks about Andy. There was a story where conan and the writers were trying to come up with a punch line for something, Andy walks by and hears the conversation and delivers the punch line like it was nothing.

Norm never reacts like that. I think he reacted that's way because Andy was able to perfectly articulate what Norm was trying to do, "bring you on a 4-mile hike to show you a dog turd." He turns it into an art.

Andy is so underrated

Next level...

He planned it.

@ possibly, i think it was spontaneous though. it's norm after all.. the way he laughs before he says it, like he's cracking himself up from what he's about to say lol.

Literally was the Jordan of comebacks. He don't miss under pressure

@@TheFinalStanza94 nah man. Dude had a real french name that he transitioned into another real french name that's vaguely similar. Absolutely no way this wasn't planned.

"Youthful poipose??!"

Useful

I didn't get it 😅

Ah! I just googled porpoises, loooool!

Nobody know about that but you, me, andy richter and the guy that has to hold Andy richter down

He broke down Norm's formula in the briefest and most hilarious way, and Norm knew it. Hard to get Norm to laugh at all, ever.

Miss this kind of television :(

What's better than this, a bunch of guys being dudes

@@jcmick8430 Are you referring to Andy Richter, the Swedish-German?

I just screenshotted this and made it an IG post. Thanks.

@@CoachHeyward Way to carry on his legacy 😏

@@rosep4630 he is not dead

@@seananonymous9289 not yet

@@jacobvarney23 Thanks for the update 😂👍

. We Up

isnt it a vast sea of tears is for ol chunk o coal!

We still got the toobz

@@T25de Why n Earth did you come here? Cause the light was on?

I think you just forgot to take your meds

That was a very funny line

I think it encapsulates Norm's career or at least his joke style perfectly, because my God dog turds are funny

And we lap it up and ask for more 😅

no...

Dark

It was his own recognition of his orneriness, in the absurdly dry delivery of his jokes. Absolutely brings me to tears laughing

Up there with sean lock. Or down there maybe. RIP both of them

In a world full of comedians, to be this unconventional? Wow!

Not "sinister." More like impish and mischievous.

@@hv3115 it's that smile when he comes to a point in his delivery where even he's lost.😂😂momentarily, of course.

So, so, so true...

F

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No other comedian like him. 😔

one of the greatest and funniest ever

At least he dodnt die of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is the worst. Cancer is a real jerk

I noticed that. He literally takes a knee for that line. And look at the joy on his face. No ego at all. What a loss.

Just noticed the hand shake - what a wholesome moment

You'll like the first clip from this compilation then: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aseajdSgyqmRg6M.html

@@DanCicala that was fun thanks man

Look up his Rehab story with Letterman. Dave gets the last laugh and the look on Norm's face is pure joy. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJtkf5R83Z7FoIk.html&ab_channel=JeffWiersma

Well, they were great friends 🧡

I'mnotnorm is a yt channel that has a lot of his clips.

It's so sad we lost norm rip

@@calummacintosh2539 bruh, he's still alive.

@@rsoe9158 apparently he's serving a youthful purpose

@@last1second last time I heard he went on a laying-on-women spree without their consent and he was sentenced for prison, what a jerk that guy is

@John Micheal Kane the dog turd from the end of Andy’s 4 mile hike could do a better job than James corden

Also known as non-American names ._.

Gregaro

@@ronchang9791 sounds like he could be in that new pirate movie. GregARRRRRRo!

Lori Sungleberger begs to differ

Norm: "YOU were to go to Canada--uh...to Canada's...nation's capital of Ottawa--" Conan: "...😑..." 😂

Andy wasn't a friend of Norms, he was more of a Swedish-German

I think Conan did. Their chemistry was amazing!

@@michealfox207 word

Beautiful!

yeah conan definitely loved norm. I watched a lot of conan back in the day and norm was one of the only people that genuinely made conan laugh like for real. not that there weren't other funny guests but norm and conan together was always natural and conan didn't have to try and steer a conversation.

Does he own a doghouse though?

And Andy with his quick wit made norm fall out of the chair with laughter.

That's dark

@@travislazenby6797 Qqqq

Also , seemingly the only one who universively can

@kriqtic Or so the Germans would have us believe.

Me too. I've always been a fan of Norm, but man, I still wish I would have appreciated him more when he was alive. I'm watching all these old videos laughing so badly my sides hurt. Usually at some point, I'll go, Is norm actually insane? lol. Love this dude.

Well, I'll say this: When the news broke that Norm was no longer of this world, the first words on everyone's mind were, "Where was O.J. that night?"

Dennis Miller

@@highsociety7677 Letterman

@@7beers no way. He worked brilliantly with all 3, but Miller was by far the most enamored with ol Normy.

Nobody worked better with Norm than Conan.

@@purleybaker Not even close. Letterman had clever comebacks and they brought out the best in each other. Conan says nothing original.

Well said. Thank you

Now turn this joke into a two-mile hike. RIP Norm.

Norm told his cancer a story so funny, they both died laughing. RIP king

I love that cancer quote of his.

that's a very Norm joke 💕

actually 3 times even

It literally knocked norm our of his chair

@@allylilith5605 I imagined that said in Snagglepuss' voice EVEN!

Sometimes Andy just lets it go, but he knew this one was too good to pass

Andy actually saved that joke and Norm knew that

That was a great!!

I think especially Andy Richter, the Swedish-German. Love you Normie.

And Frank Stallone. 😆

...and Don Ohlmeyer 🦚

I don't know who thatis but he sounds like a real jerk

One of the best parts is when Conan catches him changing the guy's name, and then.... "well, you know a man grows"

Norm was a poet and a storyteller in my eyes, being funny was the cherry on top. Greatest comedian ever.

Ya know? With the fish? Ya know?

With the different fish???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Reminds of Jim and Kevin on The Office. “‘Sea World’ or ‘see the world’?”

its a shaggy dog story

@@medved0987 just had to good what that was and that is literally the word for 80% of norms comedy 💀. Lol gotta love him

@@TWOhype23 RIP

With a punchline you can always bomb, this guy is like a comedy shotgun.

"The soil wasn't arable. It was rocky, hellish." - Norm Macdonald🤔😋

He was supposed to save the town by being the smartest guy

HE was their HOPE I guess

​@@MathiasMaximushe was going to be the next one

Jacques DeGatineau was supposed to be the next great Canadian politician (but then he vanished).

Lol 😂😂😂

Andy is consistently funny as well

@@sharmaadwit Andy the Swedish-German

It was actually Andy making that joke, but it wouldn't have been possible without Norm setting it up :)

Andy said it, not Norm

The way he looks around cracks me up!

@@eighteen-naked-cowboys May be I don't understand American humor well, but why was this comedy just because Norm said "I believe that" after the story?

@@matchbox1275 it’s funnier because he says it louder and everyone had to do a mental double take. It also takes away the painfully awkward couple seconds right after a pun is dropped. If he stopped at “porpoise” there would have been an utterly silent second or two until the audience kicked in and this avoided that. (Notice the audience is dead silent until after he says “now I believe”)

@@sharkprisoner1909 If only I knew what 'porpoise' meant! I googled it. Now your explanation makes it much funnier. Thank you so much.

That's when we can briefly cath a glimpse of his essence

Lmao

i jjust love how he enjoys dragging everyone to this loong story lol with a seemingly out of tune punchline lol

I didn't understand the joke, can someone please explain?

@@espvp Jacques served a youthful porpoise instead of a useful purpose.

@@JoseAntonio-qu8nk ohh I see haha thanks. English is not my first language and didn't know the word "porpoise".

@@espvp what is the joke?

Facts

It must be such a gratifying feeling to make Norm MacDonald laugh like that.

@@GH-om5rp And get the handshake.

The interesting thing is that nobody even suspected where this story was headed...except there was a little suspicion when Norm changed the fellow's name, Conan let on that this was probably going to be a waste of time Norm yarn...but when Norm starts the story about this guy from Tamescaming, QC going to McGill and Cambridge...all legit names and places...we all get sucked in to this "dog turd" of a story!

a hobbit's tale by normy baggins

He’s been a really good host, helping out guests all the time, adding in a thing here or there, but of all late night hosts he’s the one who facilitated the most

I want to give this a thumbs up, but there are currently 69. Nice.

He's dead? I didn't even know he was sick.

Exactly! haha

Chappelle does that as well, two true masters of their craft.

I didn't get the joke either, I thought I was the only one, thx.

Sense

"It makes no since."Actually sounds like a punch line to one of Norm's stories!

I actually watched this joke at around 3 am and I haven't laughed so hard in months.

Kinda like “hour... BACK! GET IT?!?!”

I happen to be watching this at 2:31 am. And I'm laughing. Point taken. Let's see how I feel about it when I wake up later.

In fact we just gained a legend...

It was a tie, or a draw, as them English would call it.

Wow. If I knew what he was going thru

...I feel seen

Then he disappears for years without any word and shows up randomly one year at Thanksgiving

Shoot. I think I'm that uncle...

The kids never get mad at you when you ask a cousin with a large wife when the baby is due.... so thats why im over here alone drinking.. say, can you do this? _pretends to remove finger and reattach it repeatedly_

Thank you

Don't explain it

@@mrskinszszs why not ? For people who english isnt their first language it is really helpful

@@louforcier2549 because it's funnier without the explanation

@@mrskinszszs i understand but its not funny at all when u dont understand the punch line

You mean Andy Richter the Swedish German

The point is is that Andy escaped with his dignity

Good ad lib make it "hike four miles to see a dog turd shaped like a cat turd."

Most of the time he just amused himself, we just got to ride along.