Name: "Stand Up is SH*T" - Rodney Dangerfield
Uploaded: 2023-08-16T04:36:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video '"Stand Up is SH*T" - Rodney Dangerfield' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video '"Stand Up is SH*T" - Rodney Dangerfield' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-16. Transcript available.

You emailed me and said, I should ask you about Rodney Dangerfield when he was
on the show, you had some experience with him.
Can you tell me that story?
Rodney came on the show to do Update.
Like sometimes Lauren would just go, oh, Rodney Dangerfield is here.
You know, and you go, we don't know, how do we use him?
It'd be hard to use him on Update.
So then Jim had this idea, Jim Downey, where I would go, you know, he would go,
I tell you, I got no respect, you know, do a joke.
And then I go, that seems funny.
Rodney, you don't get any respect.
What about your kids?
They must give you respect, you know.
You're doing good.
My kids, they don't give me respect.
Do a few more jokes, you know.
I go, that seems hard to be.
What about, certainly, like if you went to a bar, like a bartender would give
you respect, right?
I go, I tell you, dude, I go, like, this is atrocious, you know.
But anyway, Rodney's like, what the fuck?
He didn't understand any of that.
He's like, why, doesn't this motherfucker know?
I don't get no respect.
So, anyway, that's when you get, you have to do the show at 8.30 and then the
dress rehearsal and then at 11.30, you know.
So, he had to get there real early, you know.
And he said, Norm, I got to talk to you.
I was like, why the fuck?
He goes, I know how to do my jokes.
Why can't I just leave and come back at midnight, you know.
I'm like, well, I don't know, Rodney.
Like, you have to do the dress rehearsal.
You know, they make us do the dress rehearsals.
He goes, I don't mind.
He goes, I don't mind fucking acting a million times.
I go, yeah, I know.
I don't know.
So, then he goes, then he said, I tell you, we were all alone, you know.
And Rodney was like, my hero and stuff.
And he goes, he goes, I tell you, kid, it's all waiting, you know.
He goes, just fucking waiting.
He goes, you do TV, you just sit in a room and you wait all the time, you know.
He goes, the same with movies.
You just sit in a trailer and you wait the whole fucking time.
He goes, that's no life, you know.
He goes, oh, you know, all there is is stand-up.
He goes, oh, the rest of it's all shit, you know.
Movies are shit, TV is shit, you know.
He goes, always remember, kid, let's just stand up.
So, it was very, like, moving and everything.
And then he goes, he pauses, and then he goes, stand-up is shit, you know.
And so then, I was staring at him all alone in a room, you know,
after he's told me everything in the world is shit.
Well, that was Rodney, man.
The heaviness, that's what I would always say.
Oh, the heaviness, Norm, the heaviness, you know.
He would have been really old at that time.
Yeah, he, I guess the thing with Rodney is he didn't make it until he was, like,
50 or something.
So, he didn't care for that, you know.
He didn't like all the other people getting the fruits of show business,
which to him were just drugs and women.
You know, he came from that era where it was like,
brah, brah, I tell you, booze, you know.
So, he didn't like that he had to wait until he was older to get that.
Um,