Name: Norm Macdonald - The Story Behind the Moth Joke
Uploaded: 2019-03-26T19:44:54.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Norm Macdonald - The Story Behind the Moth Joke' from Happy the Dog on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-03-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Norm Macdonald - The Story Behind the Moth Joke' from Happy the Dog on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-03-26. Transcript available.

So we're seeing it a little bit in process here, but, you know, obviously we
watch you on late night shows, we hear you, I just heard you on Howard Stern,
we watch you on your podcast, and what we find is suddenly we're sucked into
the vortex of a nearly nine-minute joke that we have no idea how it emerged or
where it will lead and what will happen with it, except that it will be very
funny and we'll be trying to get everybody to listen to it the next day.
How do you, does that, do you come saying, oh, I have a, I have a joke?
Well, you mean like a street joke, like a real joke.
Street joke?
You mean like an actual joke.
Well, I mean like the moth joke or the Dirty Johnny joke.
Yeah, I didn't make, I don't make up those jokes.
They're just out there?
No, have you ever tried to make up a joke?
Like, no comic in the world can make up an actual joke.
Like a guy walks into a bar and this happens, this takes, this takes, this is
startling information.
Oh, you didn't know that?
No, I thought you write, you come with these things written down on paper,
right?
No, no, you know, they call like a comedian's act jokes, but they haven't been
jokes for years.
You know, it changed with Alan King to observational comedy.
Hmm.
You know, like talking about crabgrass in your neighbor's fucking yard or
something.
I don't care for Alan King.
Well, a lot of America is upset right now because there's a huge Alan King
audience here.
Oh, yes.
Yeah, yeah.
Or maybe it's Larry King.
So, so you're, you're dodging this a little bit.
So these are old jokes that you're stealing from Rich Little?
Not Rich Little didn't tell jokes.
No, but you, like the moth joke, for instance.
Colin Quinn told me that joke and he said, you know, have you ever heard of the
moth joke?
Meaning it was a famous joke.
And I said, no, and he said, a moth goes into a podiatrist's office and he says,
I have terrible
problems, doctor, and I think I'm going mad.
And the, the, the podiatrist goes, oh, well, that's too bad, moth, but why come
to me?
I'm a podiatrist.
You should be going to see a psychiatrist.
Why did you come to my office?
And the moth says, because the light was on.
So that's a good joke.
Yes.
But that's not your joke.
That's not my joke.
So I, so I was on the Conan O'Brien show and I was going to do one segment.
And at the end of the segment, he said, we'll be right back with Norm, more
Norm.
I'm like, what the fuck?
And I'm like, I thought a guy was going to show a new Christmas toys.
So I said, I said, I don't got nothing to say.
And then I remember that Colin Quinn, he said, just talk.
I remember that Colin Quinn joke.
And I, you know, which is about, that was about a 20 second joke, you know.
So I said, how long is this segment?
Hoping he'd say 20 seconds.
And he said, about seven minutes, you know.
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