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My favorite joke of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9mBRX3uo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9mBRX3uo
by Saint_Genet 5y ago
My favorite joke of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9mBRX3uo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9mBRX3uo
- k0stas 5y agoI'm partial to this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELoXiuDA_sQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELoXiuDA_sQ
- lherron 5y agoTry this one. https://youtu.be/NMRd-n_s4c8 https://youtu.be/NMRd-n_s4c8
- piker 5y agoMine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUKMO27yKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUKMO27yKY
- gbjw 5y agoAlso mine. Here is the video of it (his mannerisms only add to the aesthetic): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vaqxy https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vaqxy
- awb 5y agoOn the nose given the news, thanks for sharing
- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoTo me I was never a huge Norm Macdonald fan, but that clip just shows how great of a comedian he was. I mean, the joke itself isn't anything special, but his delivery is so good that he has you just waiting with anxious anticipation throughout the whole thing that when he got to the punchline I really lol'ed. Mad respect.
- crdrost 5y agoYeah, it is tempting to think Norm is very dim-witted given his deliberate choice of slower tempo and buildup, but you see things like his Larry-King-interviews-Larry-King skit https://youtu.be/7A6ba43XuOg?t=122 https://youtu.be/7A6ba43XuOg?t=122 and like he immediately cracks a situational joke without missing a beat and actual-Larry-King catches it immediately and falls over laughing, and only then do I process it and start laughing myself.
- jimbokun 5y agoI kept thinking about clues to figure out the punchline: podiatrist, going to be something about feet... psychiatrist vs podiatrist, some kind of pun incoming... ...then you both want to strangle him and fall on the floor laughing simultaneously.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI never dove too deep but always liked him a lot, and I have to agree his delivery was exceptional. I knew about 10% of the way in this was a shaggy dog joke, but he kept me second guessing that the whole time. And he had such a dopey style of speaking, like he was just as surprised and amused by what he was saying as if he was out of body listening to himself. Which is totally disarming when done well.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoI respected his comedy, but a lot of it was "comedy for comedians" which highlights the level of his craft. I think his fatal flaw was he never wanted to stoop to the general audiences too much. Unfortunately his comedy is held up by way too many people as a gatekeeper to "true appreciation of comedy" which is ridiculous. That always seemed part of the self-destructive aspect of top comedy, which almost always is a public face of deep depression. Norm was a tragic figure, much like many of the comedic greats.
- brightball 5y agoLove it. Reminds me of a great comedian that died in the early 90's, Lewis Grizzard. The punch lines didn't have to be funny because he was such a great storyteller.
- caslon 5y agoHis book has an even longer, more beautiful version of that joke. I highly recommend checking it out, he spends something like a chapter on the joke. It's executed like serious Russian literature, and makes how much he was butchering it on Conan even better when rewatching.
- kgwxd 5y agoSomeone posted a quote from his book on Reddit, I didn't know he had one so I went to go buy it, it sold out while it was in my cart. Now there's just a "collectible" version for $550. People are awful.
- caslon 5y agoWhile I'm sure there are digital editions for sale and probably a few physical copies at your local library, if it's being gouged, the guy's already dead, and his book is not one of the few hundreds of books on the internet to have gone uncopied. It's truly wherever you can find books.
- trts 5y agoHe did the narration on the audiobook version. It's an excellent listen.
- conradfr 5y agoAlways great on Conan. https://youtu.be/L7K-kaelQEs https://youtu.be/L7K-kaelQEs
- vlunkr 5y agoBeat me to it :) I love how the joke is really unimportant, it's all the delivery. He makes it seem effortless or even unintentional.
- ceocoder 5y agoI haven't clicked on it yet - I want to guess that this is the joke about Moth. Let's see if I got it. [edit: yep it is :) - a virtual hug to you friend ]
- unclebucknasty 5y agoThe joke wasn't his originally, but in that clip he'd actually evolved it on the fly, making it much funnier. You might appreciate the backstory: https://youtu.be/_oZkmob99FQ?t=100 https://youtu.be/_oZkmob99FQ?t=100
- 8bitsrule 5y agoHah! First Shaggy Moth joke in my life.