Name: The Worst/Greatest Sidekick Ever
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Worst/Greatest Sidekick Ever' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Worst/Greatest Sidekick Ever' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-18. Transcript available.

- Nora Ephron walked off the show.
- Yeah.
- And so did Sinead O'Connor, I think, right?
- I was there for that one, too.
- You were there for Sinead O'Connor?
- Yeah.
- It was Nora Dunn, by the way.
- Oh, no, I meant when Dice did it, Sinead--
- Was that the same show?
- No, that wasn't the same show.
- No, she said she didn't want to do it
because Dice was performing Sinead
to get a different musical guest.
- This guy, you can hire this guy
to ruin all the interviews?
No, so, how about this?
- Adam had a question he wanted to ask you
about your comedy.
- Yeah, I've been chomping at the bits to ask this one.
I've been thinking about it all week.
Norm told me to come up with some questions for you,
and I've just been dying to know.
Where do you get your ideas from?
Yeah, I've been dying to know.
Where do you get your ideas from?
I think it's been really a thorough interview.
I just wanted, I mean, I always wanted to know
where he got his ideas from,
but I think we've, I think it's been really a thorough
interview, I just wanted, I mean,
I always wanted to know where he got his ideas from,
but I think we've, I think it's been a thorough interview.
I just wanted, I mean, I always wanted to know where he got
his ideas from, but I think we've, you know...
- I've never been asked that before.
- Well, where do you get your ideas from?
- I don't know where I get my, I don't know.
I don't know, I don't know.
Jeez.
What, do you have a specific idea you want to know where...
- No, just all of them.
- All of them?
- Yeah.
- I don't know.
- Why didn't you answer his question?
- What was his question?
- Ask him now.
- Don't ask that again.
That was the dumbest goddamn question I've ever heard.
- You just want to know where you got your ideas from?
- Yeah, I gotta tell you where I got it, at Ralph's.
That's where I got it.
- Any particular Ralph's?
- Yes, no, it's at Beverly Hills, Ralph's.
- Okay.
- Got it in the meat section.
- The one on Beverly.
- Beverly Drive, okay.
- Listen, the next story we have is in health news, actually.
And no offense, Norm, but I think you should probably
pay attention to this.
Let's take a listen.
- A new study out of Harvard linking one in 10 deaths
in this country to excessive salt.
- A lot of things would have to go very, very right
for me to die of salt.
The only thing I can pray for is that I die of salt
and not, you know, begging for mercy.
So, I think that's nonsense.
That people should be afraid of too much salt.
Now, I know you eat a lot of salt, though, Norm.
We were discussing this earlier.
Entertainment news.
This is something you guys both wanted to discuss.
- Get to it.
- Let's roll the clip.
- Oh, not another one.
- Oh yeah, you know what, there is no clip.
- We have a picture.
- Let's roll the clip and it's a picture.
- This show is just so, I tell you,
even the prisoners are going back to bed.
- Well, I'll explain what's going on.
- Adam Inker told me something I didn't know.
He said you worked with Red Fox on a variety.
- Yeah, I heard that.
I'm dying to hear.
- I produced Red Fox variety.
- You told me he just worked on it.
- Worked on it.
- I mean, according to your Wikipedia.
- What do you think I was, a stagehand, you douchebag?
Worked on it.
Did you do your notes?
- I want you back on drugs, I'm serious.
I want you back on stuff so you know.
- I'm going to do a shot next break.
- No, no, no, no, it's true.
- I'm just teasing you.
- This is good, huh?
Here, play.
- I'm Adam.
- Whatever.
Well, that name's a name.
Jesus Christ, he gets fucked up.
- You knew what he meant.
- Yeah.
Did you know that Adam Inker did comedy film?
- You did?
- Very briefly.
- What, you performed?
- Very briefly.
- In L.A. or in Phoenix?
- No, Arizona.
- In Arizona, he was famous for thrusting out his cock.
Like he'd push, like he'd stand at the mic
and he'd push forward so it was.
- He was a nervous, yeah.
- But he has a hell of a hug, yeah, right?
People say that.
- Yeah, I guess.
- Do you have a big day?
- Uh.
- No, people said you have a big day?
- Yeah, I guess.
- That's, you know, would you say no next time?
- No.
- Brian Regan plays Salt Lake City
and he does it for a month straight.
- He does?
- That makes sense.
- They love him.
- He's one of the few that's just that good
and works so clean.
- He's so clean.
- Perfectly clean.
- He's hilarious, too.
- That's tough, to be that good and clean.
- And clean, yeah, it's impossible.
- That's so impressive.
- I'm impressed with clean comics.
- Me too.
Way more impressed than anyone that's superior and dirty.
It seems like a crush a lot of times.
- I like dirty ones, too.
I like one.
- It's a real meeting of the mind.
- Remember when he had jokes about Yule Gibbons?
You know, he'd always--
- Oh, yeah.
- He'd always pick one guy.
- He'd always pick one guy.
- And I didn't even know he wasn't as a kid,
but I just laughed.
- I still don't know.
Who's Yule Gibbons?
- He, I think he did a Grape Met Cereals commercial.
I love now I have to explain to this fucking guy.
- It was like about like roughage and, you know,
organic roughage.
- Got it.
- So what did he, I didn't even know Grape Met's had a--
- Jesus Christ.
- I didn't know they had a commercial.
- Shut up.
- I shut up.
- For one fucking minute, you know?
Trying to talk to a legend of comedy.
You're talking about--
- I'm sorry.
- I'm sorry, yeah.
- How did you guys meet?
Did you have to audition for this?
- We covered that in the Tom Green episode.
No, we met at Tempe Impro.
- I like he's mad.
He's like he's mad at you.
We covered that in the Tom Green episode.
I'll say it to you.
I met him when I used to manage the improv in Tempe.
- I didn't ask you if you managed the improv.
I just asked you where you met him.
I'm gonna show you how I act by reacting.
- How are you feeling, Kevin?
- In my head of me, how am I feeling?
All right.
- Jesus, how long is he good?
- I'm not finished.
- Oh.
- Yeah, I'm all right.
You?
- I guess I'm all right, I don't know.
- Worst reaction ever.
Doesn't even know how he fucked.
But whatever, you know, you need a sidekick.
- My favorite sketch of all time you were actually in
was the Mr. Belvedere fan club.
The great Fred Wolf.
- Oh yeah, that was good.
Fred Wolf, that was a good one.
- And the other one you were also in,
I always loved Sabra Price was right.
And both Tom Hicks, which is actually--
- That was, old Smigel wrote that one.
- Yeah, those were my skits.
- You were talking about it.
- Hey, that was my first skit ever.
- Oh, the Mr. Belvedere.
- Oh, it's Sabra.
- Sabra Price is right.
- Oh.
- This is your greatest instrument, this right here.
- You ever think about revisiting some little rules?
- God, you're sweating like a whore in church, Adam.
- They cut the budget on the show.
They, we don't have air conditioning anymore.
- Ask your question.
- You think about revisiting it?
- Everybody's gonna be okay, buddy.
He's very nervous.
- I don't have a laugh.
Do you have a good laugh?
- Yeah, I have like a real annoying laugh.
- Yeah.
If you don't have one, that sounds fake.
- Yeah.
- I try, but it comes out weird.
What about you?
- Yeah, I have a real obnoxious laugh.
- I forgot he was here.
- Yeah, I know, the minute you said that,
I was like, "She'd be talking to the crew, do we cut?"
- Now that story's not in the book.
- No.
- Why isn't that story in the book?
- That should be in the book, because--
- Oh, thanks, Adam.
Welcome back.
Are you out looking for apartments?
Jesus.
- You told me that we should go our separate ways.
But I say, I just wanna live my life without a foot.
- This is Adam Egan, by the way.
- I noticed he was at the end of the table smiling.
Should we bring him into the conversation?
What do you think?
- Adam, do you know Caitlin?
- I just did, yeah.
- The whole commercial break was you asking questions.
- Yeah, I know.
And then as soon as we come on camera,
you do all the work, you know?
- It's like Ralph Crandon.
- Is he to help out with just your commercial breaks?
Keep his mouth shut after that?
- I really don't know why.
- We don't know?
We haven't found a position for him yet.
- I think that's so cool how you said that,
about how, let's see what Caitlin can do
in the last quarter of her life,
'cause that's traditionally where you always excelled.
- Yeah.
- In the comebacks, in the fourth quarter.
- Yeah, I did.
- And that's pretty interesting.
- Well, he said that he'd beat the guy by 18 seconds.
- Oh, no, no, no, no, that was the trials,
but in '76, he came in at the second day.
- Yeah, I know, I'm talking about the trials.
- Yeah, I know, yeah.
- What do you think is the most difficult sport
that you haven't tried?
- He said it was the most difficult.
- Well, if I haven't tried it,
I wouldn't know if it was difficult.
Where do you get him?
- I don't know.
- Did you get him off the street?
- He said it as if it was the best question ever.
- It's probably not even in,
I hope it's not in his notes.
What sport that doesn't exist--
- Yeah, it's the hardest, yeah, that's it.
- We'll be back with more humanity.
I don't know what it is.
What is it that makes a woman more flexible than a man?
- How the fuck am I gonna know?
- He's a great sidekick, isn't he?
He's absolutely no help.
He came up with Pastor Brad, which was great.
- Yeah, he came up with Pastor Brad,
and then you having to imagine a sport that doesn't exist?
- Yeah, and how you would--
- Carl Reiner said to me,
- You hold your hand, Tim?
- I'm gonna do it, yeah, you gotta say this.
The only problem I have is short-term memory loss.
The only problem I have is short-term memory loss.
- Sometimes I'm beginning to worry
about my short-term memory loss.
- That was the, oh.
- Sometimes I'm beginning to worry
about my short-term memory loss.
Sometimes I'm beginning to worry
about my short-term memory loss.
That was it.
- I thought he was talking about his first Twitter,
and I was like, that's a really long Twitter name.
- Thanks so much for calling in, Super Dave.
Please come back.
- I didn't call in, asshole.
I didn't call in.
You called me.
I'm not calling into this.
Let me explain to me.
If I'm homeless, I'm not calling in.
- Duly noted, Super Dave.
- Do you understand, do you understand?
- Yes.
- There's something beautiful about this one.
- I'm so glad--
- I'm not joking, I'm not being ironic.
- No, I really loved it too, it was great.
- Oh, that's great.
- It's too bad this guy was here.
- Yeah.
- Real Ed McMahon over here, huh?
- Ed McBoy.
- Ed McBoy.