Name: Jim Norton Thinks Back on His Friendship with Ozzy Osbourne
Uploaded: 2025-10-04T15:30:09.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jim Norton Thinks Back on His Friendship with Ozzy Osbourne' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jim Norton Thinks Back on His Friendship with Ozzy Osbourne' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-04. Transcript available.

you got to go to uh you went to Ozzy's last show yeah me and Jim Florentine Florentine
got me my
first paid gig in comedy he's my oldest friend in comedy and uh we knew Sabbath
was doing one more
show so we went to London in Birmingham booked a couple gigs just to pay for
the trip yeah and we
did get to go to the show I was I'm so happy we went yeah yeah and we said
hello to Ozzy briefly
at the end um again he was very frail at that point um he was in a wheelchair
but we still got to say
hello and I'm really happy we got to say hi at least and hey man I love the
show it was great
um yeah it was it was an unbelievable trip we went to the Black Sabbath house
we did a video where
the you know you ever see the original Black Sabbath album cover there's a a
woman in front of uh this
this ominous house um and we went there and we actually went up and looked
inside it was it was
a really it was like you know again with your your dumb friend it's like we
should have done this
40 years ago yeah like the fact that we did this in our late 50s we should both
be fucking pushed
into a ditch to idiots oh dude yeah well there's also shit you get into on the
road did you get to
see Jack or Kelly or um yes I saw both of them backstage uh Jack's awesome I
don't know Kelly
she's a sweetheart and she she actually uh uh you know she told me she was
getting married and she
was very sweet and Jack is always great um and it's funny the day Ozzy died I
was supposed to be
in LA doing Jack's podcast I was going out after Sabbath to LA for a day to do
the podcast and uh
the day before whatever they canceled they're like yeah Ozzy died so you know
it sucks nobody was
expecting it this soon did you do you feel like like as you get older and
people like like heroes start
to kind of disappear what is that kind of like you you do see it's almost like
I look at us like we're
on a production line like you know what I mean like going this way and the more
of them that drop off
the end you're like uh-oh my turn is coming like but I also am grateful like it
makes you grateful
like you get to know people you get to meet people you love who's the biggest
hero you've met since
you've been doing stand-up that you actually got to talk to um that's a good
question
or even the first one probably Chris Rock I think really like for comedic hero
for sure
like getting to meet him was pretty I thought was pretty special Chris Pratt I
really liked getting
to meet just because I think there's something really special about him like I
think he's a
great entertainer but I there's something I think really special about him um
are you shocked when
they're fans of yours too like if you had anybody that you love who like Jason
Momoa like the other
day I was walking through somewhere and this big arm comes out and just pulls
me in like it was just
like two different areas past and there was an open door in between yeah and I
was just like oh my god
and I thought I said it's the guy from Shark Tank right I fucked up and he just
started laughing he was
like and he said whatever show it was or whatever um but he was just really
nice and like uh and he likes
your show and he just said hey man I'm I just want to let you that I'm a fan of
yours and yeah
yeah things like that especially like if it's sometimes like a male figure I
think it like
um like I didn't have a lot of that when I was a kid I didn't have like any
male ever like being
like you know I'm a fan of yours or like I like what you you know I just didn't
have any of that
energy in my life and so like even little moments like that like to me are big
you know um even
Dustin Poirier he and I becoming friends over the years oh I love him I've
known he's one of the few
guys in the UFC I haven't met I love Dustin yeah I mean he kind of changed my
life in some ways of
like um just of like uh you know also you know like just checking in what's up
you know just
little things like that you know it makes you I don't know like having like a
tough figure that
that's like you know I'm looking out for you just something little thing like
that even though it's
not even it just kind of it it attaches itself to an old place in me that was
missing part of a
magnet yeah yeah 100% and when those click it like makes you feel something
there's a weird thing
too when you have figures like that in your life who are checking in on you
there's like a weird
sense of like accountability in a way like even though you're not you're just
friends but you
still don't want your friend to say hey how you doing you uh fucking like you
want to at least be
doing something good and and your friends can keep you somewhat accountable
like you know what I mean
and not in the way that you know people use it now like you gotta be
accountable for what you're sad
like that shitty fucking uh online gotcha nonsense these children are doing but
I mean like like when
when you're personally just feeling like I don't want to let this guy down have
him think I'm an
asshole right I'm gonna get out of bed today or I'm gonna go do this extra
thing just little things
like that that keep people inspired and then I think we all do that for each
other in some ways you
know like um I'll get that feeling sometimes like I'm just gonna rattle this
off to this person even
if they don't hit me back that's fine that's right just let them know hey man I'm
thinking about you
just let you know you know I think you're great or I care about you you're
doing great today just
little things like that you know and I think sometimes my brother's like well
those are things you
really wish that people would say to you and I'm like that's fine but I think
the feeling I get is
that I want to share it with somebody else so it's it's still okay right 100
percent and you're right
and the older you get and the more people that die like the more people like
that die of natural
overdose side I mean we've all you know sure those things happen but when they
start just dying of
like heart issues or things that like are people things you're like oh fuck so
you start telling
people you love them more and like hey man I miss you like I'm not afraid to
tell guys hey I miss you
because like there's one day you're gonna be like I wish I could say that to
this person so
I say it like you know what I mean and I when Patrice died he's just an example
there's nothing
in our relationship that went unsaid like there's nothing I wish oh man I wish
he like we had a
complete relationship you know what I mean like with and you make sure that
with your close friends you
have complete relationships so there's nothing that you go like oh my god for
the rest of my life
I'm gonna wish that they knew that I felt this way do you know what I mean like
and that's really
important to me now is like these complete relationships like if Bobby not to
jinx Bobby
but if Bobby or Anthony or one of my clubs dropped it I would I would they they
know how I feel
right we we we know it's not like it went unsaid
mm-hmm
mm-hmm