Name: Mark Normand Talks About Growing Up In Louisiana
Uploaded: 2020-12-08T05:06:19.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Mark Normand Talks About Growing Up In Louisiana' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Mark Normand Talks About Growing Up In Louisiana' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-08. Transcript available.

we had a mansion oh wow yeah my dad bought a mansion that was dilapidated on esplanade
avenue
right by the french quarter and it used to be like was your dad ignatius riley
well i think
if you really want to get into it my dad had a real bad childhood and he's like
he always wanted
to make something himself but he never really did so then he saw this mansion
for cheap cheap cheap
because the neighborhood sucked it didn't have plumbing was falling apart there's
holes in the
walls broken windows but it was a mansion but it was a mansion and we also had
this bmw when i was
the kid had holes in the seats and was rusted out but it was a bmw you know n-word
rich some people
call it oh yeah yeah yeah so uh yeah it was a horrible way to live because
everybody thought
we were rich we were the white family in the mansion and we moved in they're
like oh these
people gotta have money so we got robbed constantly so my dad installed this
alarm system and it would
go like go crazy at like two in the morning i was like eight going well weird
there's somebody in my
living room right now like somebody below me is rifling through our shit and
stealing our tv or
whatever and you're like he could come up and rape me and have his way with me
and blow me and all this
and you're putting on nice negligence yeah i'm putting on makeup and perfume
and doing my nails and all
that shit so it was a skittish way to grow up like we'd come home a lot and the
door was just open
you're like fuck we got robbed again and it's very violating and just you never
felt comfortable
never because you're like we get robbed right now you know yeah yeah i can i
can't imagine that level
of it you know yeah like i think yeah i was like scared a lot but that's uh i i
don't know if we
ever had that yeah coming home and being robbed and like just knowing somebody
could be in your place
i always was scared that somebody was in our place while i was going to bed at
night yeah yeah that
i'd have to look everywhere yes i'd have to open the closets and i would hook
these like cables from
one door to the next so like they couldn't open one door because it would the
other door would stop
it like just all this crazy level of checks and balances to just feel like okay
yeah good yeah
cool well here's a bad one we got robbed a bunch so we kept calling the cops
and eventually they were
like all right you guys keep calling us we're just gonna stake out in your
kitchen overnight and
maybe we'll catch a guy what so these two cops plainclothes detectives came and
we met them and it was
all exciting they had a belt gun and the badge on the belt thing you know the
whole thing and uh i was
like oh my god i couldn't sleep that i was so excited like i hope they catch
the guy i hope they
beat the shit out of him and tase him and all this shit and i'm just laying in
bed so excited i finally
fall asleep i wake up at like six in the morning i run downstairs imagining
that they're gonna have
guys in a headlock and cuffed and put them in the car yeah and i run downstairs
they stayed in the
kitchen the whole night they ate everything they ate all the food so we got
robbed again they ate all the
fucking cheerios and the the made pancakes because they got bored and they just
ate everything
everything was gone fucking cops bro i know they took the radishes and the
chicken bones and all that
shit all the evaporated underfunded dude they're underfunded i guess i guess i
didn't know that was
part of the deal brutal brutal yeah new orleans was tough man it was a tough
time the scariest part was
like the face-to-face crime like my bike got stolen many a time yeah and you
know these are big
you know black kids urban men yes yes you know they they puberty like four and
you know they got
like a some mustache going and all this and oh yeah they're really yeah yeah
one kid named puberty
wilson that we had in our neighborhood and this dude i mean was jacked oh yeah
he was born with a prison
tattoo on it right right exactly those weren't teardrops that was a tattoo it
was a different
environment yeah the racial environment down there was just it was just black
people had nothing right
right i mean nothing and it was hard to realize that at the time yeah like now
as i get older you see
like oh okay these people had they didn't have that you know like there wasn't
any black doctors
right like they had nothing not in that area that's for sure right so you didn't
have
of course they wouldn't have any role model like it's going to be very you know
like
the the chain of like um of pop like the level of poverty you get into not just
fiscally but then
beyond that where you get into like emotional just having right right yeah like
i would get my
bike still and i'd run home crying and i go mom they stole my bike she would go
they need it they need it i was like what are you crazy but now i kind of get
it right but i will say
as a white kid growing up like the only white kid in that neighborhood you're
the minority right you
go outside the neighborhood you're back as a as a white priv right you know but
in that neighborhood
you're there and it feels bad yeah being the minority sucks it's like they can
just go hey white
boy and you're like ah which is not even a negative thing it's just i'm a boy
who's white but it still
hurt yeah because i was different because you were different yeah so i kind of
i i i don't want to say i
relate to a lot of shit but you know i get it relatable you can well you've had
that experience
where because that's the end that's the end thing right it's just the i'm
different there's there's
an easy way to make me feel different yeah you know i'm not well yeah and then
all the rest of it piles
on exactly there's more women on earth than men but if one girl is at a party
with 50 dudes
she's gonna feel weird yeah you know so the minority is is it's fluid you know
we just talk
about minorities and majority and all that but it it changes depending on your
environment yeah
yeah it changes man and i think yeah i feel like there's a lot i feel like when
i was growing up
there was probably a good bit of and racism kind of felt both ways if you weren't
a racist person
if you didn't really like you know there were some people who probably hated
black people
yeah sure like real adamant about it oh yeah you know adapted to like old like
kind of
you know uh i don't want to say redneck type of stuff because there's redneck
people that
aren't that way at all that's true but there was a lot of people who didn't and
then if you
interact with black kids and they were mean it gave you this you're like shit
well what do i do like
i don't right right i don't want to have any ill will but there's also these
kids are mean to me
yes yes and they probably didn't have anything else to do like right if you
think everywhere you go
it's like everybody has something but you right exactly i can't imagine what
that you know i was
hanging out with these two guys uh marnett and tony they were like my two black
friends and we were
at the black mall because i slept at their house so we went to their mall and
the whole thing and we're
playing at the arcade in the mall and one of my friends was doing well at
street fighter and i was
like yeah get him tony come on and there's two bigger black guys behind me like
puberty wilson and uh
oh yeah testosterone jones were like get him tony like doing the white voice
and oh it crushed me
it crushed i had to like go in the bathroom be like all right take it easy that
hurt you know just go
back out there get back out there yeah my my two friends were like don't worry
about those guys
they're idiots they're mean i was like yeah yeah but you because you're already
the outsider and then
you you're doing the white voice and they called me on it well it's fucking
humiliating i turned
beat red it was brutal it's hard it's hard being uh hard being white folks it
ain't easy
shine that light on me
i'll sit and tell you my stories
shine on me
and i will find a song i'll be singing just
oh
you