Name: Norm Macdonald Interview The Tom Green Show Live at the SModCastle 2010
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Norm Macdonald Interview   The Tom Green Show Live at the SModCastle 2010

This is the Tom Green Show, it's not the Green Tom Show, this is my favorite
show, because it is my show, if this was your show, you'd probably like it more
than I did, that's just because it was your show, but it's not your show, it's
the Tom Green Show.
The Tom Green Show, the Tom Green Show, the Tom Green Show, the Tom Green Show,
the Tom Green Show, have we got a show tonight, have we got a show tonight,
thank you for coming, welcome to the show, this is Tom Green here, live at the
Smod Castle, yes, and this is very exciting, this is the
26th episode of this show, you see we have a full house tonight, this thing has
taken off, and what a show, what a show, what a show we have, we have a very
special treat tonight, I don't want to spend too much time here, with the
introduction, so I'm just going to bring him out, the man of the hour, ladies
and gentlemen, put your hands together for Norm MacDonald, everybody.
Yeah, there we go, how's it going, it's going great, this is it, and here we
are, see, this is how it works, yeah, can you believe we're in Hollywood, yeah,
we're in Hollywood, we did it, yeah, a couple of kids from, a couple of kids
from the Ottawa Valley, yeah, Beacon Hill, yeah, this is a very, we grew up
very close to one another, you know, really close, just miles away, near miles
away, Jasper, you're on Jasper, that's right, I was on
in Monson Crescent, in Beacon Hill, Ontario, Canada, everybody, if you're
listening on the internet, Google that, and you went to Gloucester High School,
Gloucester Gators, I was a rival high school, colonel by cougars.
Are that what they were called, the cougars?
The cougars, yeah, that was before cougars meant something else, though.
Yeah, cougars used to mean, in my day, cougars meant a large jungle cat.
Yeah, now it means, what's it mean now?
Now it means, I don't know.
A middle-aged woman who likes having sex with 20-year-olds or something like
that?
Yeah.
No?
It's very unseemly.
Yeah, something like that, right?
Yeah.
Something disgusting like that, right?
Well, this is cool, this is going to be fun, this is my sixth show, it's kind
of interesting.
Who have you had so far?
What were your first five?
First guest was Bill Burr.
Bill Burr, a great comedian, great stand-up.
Absolutely.
State of the art.
Absolutely, it was awesome, great time.
You probably know everybody that's done the show.
We had Joe Rogan last week.
Number two, last week was Joe Rogan, yeah, excellent.
Drug user, self-proclaimed.
Yeah, he talked quite a bit about DMT and so forth.
Absolutely, yeah, we talked a lot about DMT.
Do you know what that stuff is?
It's a very, very powerful, isn't it a tranquilizer of some sort of an animal,
cat tranquilizer?
Yeah, something like that.
I think it comes from a plant or something like that.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
But anyways, yeah.
What about those guys that are like, hey, it's natural, it comes from a plant?
Yeah, exactly.
So does heroin, I think.
So does cyanide.
Yeah.
What about, what was your second guest?
The second guest was Hal Sparks.
Hal Sparks, okay.
Very entertaining.
He's got a lot of opinions about things.
Who else?
The third guest was, I believe, Harland Williams.
Oh, Harland, the great Harland Williams, our good friend, yeah.
Another Canadian friend of ours.
And then John Doerr.
John Doerr, I know John Doerr, yeah, he's a great author.
Also from Ottawa.
He's from Ottawa?
He's from Ottawa, yeah.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I worked with him.
He's hilarious.
Yeah, so, and I'm...
You know the guy Mario Cantone?
Yeah.
Yeah, he's gay, you know?
Out of the closet gay?
Yeah.
I mean, that's his act, that he's gay.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, I'm not saying anything that's...
You didn't know that.
I'm not telling any tales out of school.
No, okay, yeah.
But anyways, here I am, a young lad, auditioning for the Joan Rivers show when
it was on.
Yeah.
It's the first time I ever came to the United States, me and Howard Busgang.
Yeah.
And so me and Howard Busgang and Mario Cantone, Joan Rivers likes us all, you
know?
So we're at the Hyatt Regency, which is across from the Comedy Store where we
auditioned for
Joan Rivers.
Yeah.
And it's me and Howard Busgang are in the room, you know?
And Howard Busgang smoked marijuana at the time, you know?
I don't.
Yeah.
But he smoked marijuana and I was watching.
Yeah.
And so I said, Howard, man, it's weird you're just smoking marijuana all by
yourself.
Why don't you invite old Mario Cantone over, right?
So he phones Mario Cantone's room.
Mario Cantone goes, yeah, I'll come over.
So he comes over, like a minute later, all red-faced with his lover, right?
Yeah, okay.
He's also red-faced.
They're drenched in sweat.
Okay, yeah.
They've just been fornicating.
Yeah, they've been fornicating.
Yeah.
And so they're like, yeah, we'll take some.
So they take a quick, you know, smoke this joint so that they'll enhance their
orgasm later, right?
Right, sure, okay.
Then they give it back to poor Howard Busgang.
And he's sitting there with this joint that has God knows what on it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because too many, yeah.
Yeah.
So Howard Busgang, in an effort to be politically correct, even though they're
gone, smokes the joint and gets full-blown AIDS.
No, no, no, I just made up that last part.
No, Howard Busgang's a great guy.
He's doing a show right now.
Wow, yeah.
In Canada.
Well, let's, uh...
No, that must have been pretty exciting doing the Joan Rivers show, first time
in the...
I didn't do it.
Oh, okay.
You didn't do it?
No.
Mark Breslin was the booker of it.
Oh, yeah.
He was the Yuck Yucks guy.
He said, hey, come on down and audition for Joan Rivers.
And I said, I don't want to do Joan Rivers.
Because I wanted to do the Johnny Carson program.
Sure, yeah.
And so he said, no, no, I'll just come down.
You know.
So I went down.
And then Joan Rivers said, yeah, you can be on the show.
And then I said, no, I don't want to be on the show.
And then I couldn't work with Yuck Yucks for four months.
Right, because he was probably mad about that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But Joan Rivers, obviously, if you did that show, you wouldn't have done Johnny
Carson, I guess.
I didn't do Johnny Carson either.
But I ended up doing Pat Sajak.
Yeah.
I remember that.
You remember the Pat Sajak show?
It felt like he was very much trying to do sort of a Letterman type thing or
something.
Yes, he was.
Because he was also a funny weatherman like Letterman, you know.
Yeah.
But he was very nice to me.
But he had a, he decided to do a 90-minute show.
This was five years after Johnny Carson decided that 90 minutes was too long
for him.
Right, yeah.
Pat Sajak figured he'd do 90 minutes.
So there were so many guests that by the end of the show, you would be way at
the end of the couch.
And there was a sidekick, Dan Miller.
Who Pat told me was the funniest guy in the world.
And when Pat started out, wherever he started out with Dan Miller was the
anchor.
And you know how guys, guys you know are the funniest guy in the world, but
only if you know everything about them.
Sure, sure, sure.
Yeah.
So he was like, oh, you'll love this guy, Dan Miller.
So he just sat there.
He was a nice guy.
Yeah.
But anyways, there were so many guests.
At one point, I was so far down the couch that I looked over at Dan Miller.
He was reading a book during the television program.
So then Letterman, was that soon thereafter?
Yeah, yeah.
I did like five Pat Sajaks.
And then Letterman wanted me.
And he said, yeah, yeah.
And then I saw my thing.
It said, world national television debut.
And I go, no, no, I already did Pat Sajak five times.
And then I said, nah, we'll just say national television.
That didn't count, right?
Yeah, it was just the farm league.
Wow, so that, but that was, because I, now I remember when I was like a kid,
right?
And I was, I was doing the amateur night at Yuck Yucks, right?
That's when I, I, I remember, I remember when you did Pat Sajak.
I remember that.
It was.
Oh, really?
Oh, yeah, I remember that.
Everyone was talking about it.
Yeah.
You know what's funny is that I'd go on the road sometimes and everyone lies
about their credits,
you know?
So sometimes I'd be on a stage and they'd, the opener, he'd pretend he was on
The Tonight
Show and the middle would pretend he was on Letterman.
And then I was the headliner.
I was on Pat Sajak.
And they'd go, oh, what?
Even though mine was the real credit.
Yeah.
Did you get.
You want to hear a funny story about Pat Sajak?
Yeah.
One time I was on it.
You know, Henny Youngman?
Sure.
Who ironically was an old man.
Yeah.
Wasn't a young man at all.
He wasn't a young man.
He was a young man at one point.
At one point, when they named him, it made sense.
Just didn't change his name as he got older.
Yeah.
So he's on the show.
And so Pat Sajak had an idea every week he'd do all comedy, which is not a good
idea, you
know, especially when you're the last guy.
So Henny Youngman came out, right?
And he did.
He's a great, great comedian, you know?
So he did his comedy.
Then he goes over and he does the panel with Pat Sajak, right?
Then halfway during the panel, he goes, I would like to sing a song for the
audience.
It's a little song I made up, you know?
So Pat Sajak goes, sure, sure, you know?
So he gets up and he walks over to the performing area and he goes to step off
the riser and he
trips.
And I'm watching this backstage, you know, and he starts falling.
It looks like slow motion, really slow.
And then, you know, he's 80 and he goes down like face first, really, really
hard on the
floor.
So they stop tape and everybody's around, including Pat Sajak.
It takes about a half hour to get him up.
And he says, I want to continue.
He's all like, now he's all blurry, you know?
But it's like the show must go on.
Right, sure.
You ever hear that?
Yeah.
Ridiculous.
Retarded Maxim.
Yeah.
So he thought the show must go on.
So now they restart it and he's at the panel again.
He's talking to Pat Sajak and he's doing the same jokes.
And he goes, now I'd like to do a song.
And then Pat Sajak goes, huh?
And he gets up again and he goes to go to step off the rising end.
So Pat Sajak stops and he goes, just do it here.
Just do it here, you know?
So he starts playing his violin, you know?
Yeah.
And he sings the song.
And the song's all about how great the, it's not a funny song.
It's all about how great the audience is.
He goes, yeah, the answer's like butter crunch.
They're the best if it wasn't for them, you know?
So the house goes crazy because here he's, you know, almost died.
And now he's doing a song about how great the audience is.
And then I have to go on next.
So I'm like, oh, my God.
Like, and they just go crazy for him.
So then I go on, I bomb for five minutes, you know?
And then I walk over to the panel, you know?
And you know how panel on, uh, works.
The guy's sitting on the chair and then he has to move over to the couch and
then you sit on the chair.
Yeah.
But, uh, Henny Youngman at this point's half dead sitting on the chair, right?
So he ain't moving, you know?
So you had to sit on the couch and walk over him.
Yeah, so I had to climb over him and sit on the couch.
So now there's a three shot.
Pat Sajak's interviewing me.
And there's a dead guy in between us.
So we're doing our, uh, pre-planned, you know, stuff.
And, uh, you got a dog and I got a dog and all this stuff, you know?
And meanwhile, there's just a dead guy looking straight forward.
And we do this for a couple of minutes in this insane tree shot.
And then all of a sudden he snaps out of it and he just looks over at him and
he goes,
nice shirt, somewhere there's a canopy missing on an Italian restaurant.
That was the story.
Did you, now, now, did you get nervous when you would do these early shows?
Would you get nervous?
Yeah, I get pretty nervous.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I'm, I'm always nervous.
I'm nervous when I'm not doing shows.
You are?
I'm just nervous all the time now.
Well, I'm nervous all the time too,
but I bet that people wo