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"If you die, the cancer also dies at exactly the same time. That to me isn't losing a battle, it is a draw." He was one of the funniest people ever and there
by slg 5y ago
"If you die, the cancer also dies at exactly the same time. That to me isn't losing a battle, it is a draw."
He was one of the funniest people ever and there is probably no one who was a more entertaining talk show guest. I can spend hours just watching whatever comes up after plugging "Norm Macdonald talk show" into Youtube.
- bee_rider 5y agoIs that actually a quote of his?
- superduperuser 5y agoYes it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMRd-n_s4c8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMRd-n_s4c8 From his special: Me Doing Standup
- bee_rider 5y agoThanks. Interesting in context -- wonder if he knew at the time, it would be right at the limit of the time-window described in the article I guess.
- rOOb85 5y agoIn the TMZ article it mentions a 9 year battle with cancer.
- bee_rider 5y agoYeah, at least from my quick glance it looked like the special came out in 2011, which would put it around there. There's fuzziness on either side -- on one hand there was presumably some editing time, on the other he seems to have kept it private, presumably whoever told TMZ found out a little bit after he did, and their memory might not have been perfect. It is just in the ballpark.
- npkarnik 5y agoYea definitely, it's a bit in his standup
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- aidenn0 5y agoYeah, TFA even uses the phrase "battle with cancer" and that's where my mind went...
- greydius 5y agoI wonder if he ever heard of Henrietta Lacks.
- rolleiflex 5y agoI’m not sure what survives to this day in that case is more Henrietta or more cancer. To this day the genome is becoming less and less human. So perhaps a draw still in the long term since eventually the corruption could terminate itself.
- awb 5y agoFYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
- seumars 5y ago"Who writes these?!" RIP Norm.
- techbio 5y agoThat is a University of Science worthy medical fact.
- okareaman 5y agoFrom this I can infer you know the dog house joke
- qart 5y agoDownvoters didn't probably realize the phrase was from his joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3TI3iMb1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3TI3iMb1E
- robotresearcher 5y agohttps://www.tus.ac.jp/en/ https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/
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- nsonha 5y agoidk it depends on the definition of dying and where exactly the tumor is
- listless 5y agoThat is the single most comforting statement I’ve ever heard about cancer. This year has been the absolute worst.