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Norm Macdonald on The Dennis Miller Show w  Jason Sudeikis 2011 Full Interview w  video

Hello everybody and welcome.
...with Aerosmith, Sybilis, Sybilis, test one, two.
Joining me in the studio, live from SNL, Jason Sudeikis and lovely Norm Macdonald
in with
a Milwaukee Brewer hat that I haven't seen anybody wear since Harvey's Wallbangers,
Cecil
Cooper et al in Milwaukee in the mid-70s.
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Jason, Norman, welcome to the show my friend.
Good to be here.
The object of the game is to cheat by looking at a computer?
Exactly.
It's a Google thing.
You see they've made the questions so intricate there's no way for anybody to
know them and
therefore they have to use Google.
So they have to go to the next level.
You know Zuckerberg says he's only eating his own meat that he kills now.
Have you read that?
With his bare hands.
Yeah.
Zuckerberg says he's a monster.
He tries to do one thing to alter his modern lifestyle every year and this year
he says
he's only going to eat meat that he's actually killed.
And I was wondering what are you adhering to lately?
I'm a vegetarian.
I'm a strict vegetarian.
No.
Have you done that?
Well, I eat chicken.
It's not all that strict.
It's not vegetarian.
Like I said, I'm not strict.
I eat chicken and beef.
Steaks and beef.
I ate raw game.
Did you ever eat chicken?
There we go.
It's not dead yet.
No.
No.
You're over there.
You eat it and as you're eating it their death throes are making you hungry.
There's nothing.
That's better than a soybean.
Yeah.
You're right.
Which sounds better?
That or soybean?
Listen.
Some of the best meals I've had is that Mongolian thing over at Dahmer's on
Wednesday night.
Literally, we ate a Mongolian.
Did I tell you I ate a live fish in real life?
No.
No.
He's at a sushi restaurant and the guy's like Japanese and so I go, I eat just
sashimi like
raw fish.
I don't eat with rice or anything like that.
Yeah.
Am I trying to impress him?
So he goes, eat raw?
You eat live fish?
I go, yeah.
Even though I don't.
You never think he's going to call you on it.
Yeah.
Plus it sounds kind of cool.
And he goes, I get you live fish.
I go, thanks man.
Like I was an inside guy and then he brought out a fish.
And hit it and knocked it out and put it on a stick.
It was live.
And that clears out a sushi bar.
A lot of people, the girl I was in was barfing in a bathroom.
And the only people interested was the guy, the Japanese sociopath guy and all
the Mexican
help.
They were all like looking like I'd eat it.
And so I had to cut it and then they leave the fish that's on the skeleton that
looks like
the one Sylvester found on a garbage thing to go to move.
It's moving and like a dead bobble head and you had to put water in its mouth
to keep it alive
so you could watch it die as you ate.
It was a nice meal.
Jesus, I'm living such a pale life to hear.
I mean, you are out there on the cutting edge of cheese.
Remember the joke you did about the time that you found yourself on your couch
with Cheetos
on your watching and you realized you weren't living?
Remember?
Norman, I've told thousands of jokes.
What was that?
It's the Ricky Martin joke.
No, I'm whispering you the punchline.
Well, what is the joke?
I was eating Cheetos watching Ricky Martin sing La Vida Loco.
No, no, no, don't say that.
No, you say, yeah, the other day I was sitting there on the couch and I was
eating Cheetos
watching America's Funniest Home Videos with Tom Bergeron.
And I realized I might not be leading La Vida Loco.
You remember that one?
Oh, I do.
I built my whole career.
Are you a Dennis Miller cover comic now?
Well, Dennis was always kind to me.
He gave me my first job in show business.
Hey, worst moment in my marriage ever is akin to that joke.
I'm laying in bed one night with my wife.
She's reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez and I'm watching Dancing with the Stars.
And we're in bed and I lean over to a guy.
I think Bruno Tomioli has a new scoring paddle tonight.
She says, if you ever talk like that again, I'm leaving the marriage overnight.
You won't even know I've left.
I've got to sleep with you, you moron.
How did you notice that they have a different scoring paddle tonight?
So maybe I do watch a little too much.
Do you remember Leno?
Jason's younger than us, so he probably thinks of Leno as terrible.
But Leno was the best and probably still is the best.
Do you remember Drake and him?
Yeah.
So he was probably the funniest, but he had a joke.
One of the jokes in his act, you remember this joke?
I'm sure you remember this joke.
But he'd say, I can't do Leno like everybody else, I guess.
I go, I'll try.
I've never done them.
I've never tried.
It'll be here, exciting.
Why will that come out like?
So he goes, he goes, he goes, he goes, oh, no, they got, he goes, he goes, he
goes, you know, when he'd go on Letterman, he'd be really funny.
And he goes, hey, they got, now that I was reading that the number one reading
material in all of America is a TV guide.
Is this considered reading material there, ladies and gentlemen?
TV guide, is there a guy down smoking his pipe reading, you know, in his armchair
and his wife's like, he's like, I'll be right up, buddy.
I'm just finishing.
Who's on this week on Crosswits?
You remember that night, we're talking to Jason Sudeikis and Norm's taking us
down memory lane.
Sorry about that.
Who needs Google?
Norm used to write for me at an old show I had for like six months at the
Chicago Tribune.
I got whacked.
But Norm and Drake Sather, who was a genius, Drake, no longer with us, God rest
his soul, but he was a genius and a good cat, a sweet, sweet cat.
But they used to tinfoil the windows, they'd sit in there, they would never
send jokes out.
I would stick my head in, there'd be two cigarette lights in there like fireflies
in the night.
I'd go, you poison bastards have anything?
They'd slide jokes out later.
But I remember one night I'm with Drake at the improv and Jay was very avuncular
then.
He was like the paterfamilias for the comedic community.
He would come in in a corncob hat or a corncob pipe and a straw hat and he
would lecture on comedy up in the attic.
And I remember that I'm sitting there with Drake one night, Norm's writing mate,
and Jay goes off in his ten cardinal rules of comedy.
You never save a joke for the next shot.
If you have 14 jokes and they want 13, you do the best 13.
We'll tell you that Jay is the next shot.
Yeah, exactly, get the check, tell Joe, get the check.
So anyway, he gets to the end of these ten roles and all these comedians are
sitting at the hem of his cloak looking up at him like he's Aristotle and Drake
goes,
Hey, thanks Jay, but I have a father.
What was he the best?
Tell me a little Drake, man.
Drake and I had the same show, like he gave us a job, Dennis, because we were
just doing stand-up.
Oh, come on, can you imagine that?
You're luck, Jason, you're lucking up.
What year is that?
So my manager, I had a manager, I can't say his name, but Bombastic Bushkin.
Right.
So he said, I said, hey, I heard that guy, Dennis Miller, is doing a talk show,
you know.
Maybe I could do some jokes for him.
I've seen him talk on TV.
Right.
So maybe, like I've heard, I would always have to tell him what I'd heard about
show business
from watching the Dick Van Dyke show years ago.
I go, he'll probably need writers, like Buddy Sorrell.
So anyways, they look into it, and you have to send in jokes, like a big packet
of jokes.
So, like, it's about the news, you know.
So I never read the newspaper, right?
So I go to this Denny's, and I start reading the newspaper, trying to pick up
jokes, nothing.
Every story is real serious, you know.
And I'm deep into it, and getting sleepy and stuff, you know.
So anyways, I wrote like ten jokes, and then nine of them really sucked, you
know.
And there was one, like, all right.
So I didn't know what to do.
So I said, I found my manager.
I said, maybe I should just write in this one, you know, send one.
Because if he looks at ten, you know, he's going to go, oh, he's at 90%, he's
horrible.
That one was pure, though, baby.
That was uncut.
But anyway, so I sent him one, and then I got the joke.
And then I think people thought I did it on purpose, but I didn't do it on
purpose.
It was just a...
Norman, you were a monster right out of the box.
I saw, Sudeik, I saw Norman do a joke once.
You remember the joke about the homeless guy's dog?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Could be the greatest joke ever written.
I feel sorry for the homeless guy.
I really feel sorry for his dog, though.
Because you know the dog's thinking, this is the longest walk.
Does this thing have a payoff, pal?
Because I could do this on my own.
I remember the first moment I saw that joke.
Oh, yeah, I could do this on my own.
Thanks for the leash.
Norman McDonald and Jason Sudeikis was...
Now, Jason has a film coming out.
We're going to talk about it on the other side of the break.
And Norman's got the sports show.
Jason is a guy I didn't pick from Saturday Night Live to become a major motion
picture star.
Oh, he's a killer.
Why not?
Come on.
I'm happy for you.
I picked Dennis.
I got you.
I thought he was going to be a big movie star.
Oh, no, it's not a bad thing.
I didn't pick Sandler.
Yeah.
I didn't pick Sandler.
Well, you know what, Sandler?
Early on, though, I remember thinking...
Because he was in Mixed Nuts.
I don't think he's going to be the number one box office guy.
No, no, but you've got to admit early on there was something that made me quizzical
about him.
Women dug him.
You know, women liked him a lot.
But also in a room, he was hilarious.
Oh, I remember...
He was the funniest.
My first year at SNL, you came back, like, around Christmas time, and you came
walking
into the office.
Well, don't tell...
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And you're just, like, looking around...
No, I'm not.
This is a story where you raped someone.
It's not a good thing for me to yell.
Don't tell.
This is more insulting to me than you think I would.
But you came walking in, you're kind of, like, looking around, and it was Forte's
office,
and he was in there with Fred Armisen, and it was, like, their second season,
my first
year as a writer, and you're just kind of looking around, like, hey, uh, hey,
uh, who's
it going to be, huh?
Like, what are you talking about?
I go, who's going to be the big star?
Nobody here knows.
Could be any, could be none.
You just kind of, like, stirred it up, then you walked out.
Norman, a true original, and Sudeikis, the young pup.
We'll query him and Norman after the break.
This is the Dennis Miller Show.
Remember seeing these cats do this at SNL that night?
That's how long ago I was.
I was, I was in on rap before rap became wiki, wiki, wiki, wiki, wild, wild
west.
You remember the hard streets?
You know what you were good at at Saturday Night Live and Spade was good at?
You'd know who was good, you know, instantly.
And then you'd be their friends, and then you, you know what I mean?
And I would, I would, especially with music.
What are you, Yoda?
No, I only knew old guys.
Like, I wouldn't know anybody that was in movies at the time, because Saturday
Night Live was always breaking people.
So the host would be someone that was just in a movie, her first.
Yeah, I worked there, man, I know.
Yeah, you know, you know.
So, but you would probably know them, because you're an actor and stuff.
A little bit, yeah.
Yeah, some of them, yeah.
Me, I wouldn't know them.
So, so, Lauren would go, anyone want to see, anyone want to, you know.
And so, then people would go, what about Anna Faris?
And I'd go, oh, yeah, I've heard her name.
And I wouldn't know.
And I'd be like, what about the, uh, Jim Jarmusch?
He'd be good, you know.
I wouldn't know, I wouldn't know who they were talking about.
And I'd be like, Norm, and I'd go, uh, Bob Newhart.
Mary Tyler Moore, you know, what?
They're dead.
You were in