Name: Bill Burr Admires Norm Macdonald
Uploaded: 2023-04-26T12:50:12.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr Admires Norm Macdonald' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr Admires Norm Macdonald' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-26. Transcript available.

just go to hulu plus dot com slash norm what trying to speed up through this
right now sign up for hulu hulu plus dot norm mcdonald's podcast copy slash
norm
slash norm you don't get any money from norm this isn't supposed to be it's
supposed to be slash bill slash bill they said norm well you know what i like
norm mcdonald let's let's give him let's give him the money for the week i didn't
even know he had a podcast oh yeah dude norm mcdonald
hey welcome to the show uh this is a podcast but it's on the tv also
and uh i'm here with uh my trusty sidekick adam egas that's right how are you
norm good how are you
adam fine excellent yeah did you see him on conan telling that moth joke no
yeah you got to see it
no i haven't a moth goes into a podiatrist's office a moth goes into a podiatrist's
office you are
correct
dude like you know how many comics out there don't give a fuck but kind of
still do you have to kind
of still do to eat that guy norm doesn't he's so fucking funny one of my one of
my best opening
monologue jokes ever did you ever see uh you know remember that whole thing
when he was doing weekend
update and they told him to make it funnier so he and he didn't he just he just
was more norm the next
week so eventually of course he gets fired so then you know he goes you know
goes off into the uh
hollywood world he's got a tv show or a hit movie or some shit so now they
bring him back to guest host
on snl and he i'm gonna butcher this but he kind of came out he's like yeah so
uh you know i get yeah
like people know i got uh fired from this show so uh now they got me back
hosting which means either uh
i got a lot funnier or this show sucks that's what he opened up with and i know
that that wasn't
approved sorry for the bad norm i'll have jay moron to make up for it that was
a great norm i haven't
gotten funnier the show has gotten really bad so yeah i'm funny compared to you
know well you'll see later
okay so let's recap the bad news is i'm still not funny the good news is the
show blows
norm listening to norm on stern or anything any podcast listening to i don't
know if you remember
when charles groden would uh do letterman and just knowing he's going on there
that it was always a
great show oh yeah that's what people didn't get that he was around yeah that's
how norm is anytime
if norm's the guest i'm listening i was at a party with a friend so i noticed
you first and you return
my gaze knew how to crush my thirst you took me to that room like a dream come
true the dance you
perform was just for me kisses on the neck then you work your way down let
yourself go for me all around
time seductively for obvious reasons we lost norm mcdonald this week um which
was just
you know i had no idea that he was even sick and um he's a guy that i knew a
little bit i was definitely
friendly with him if we saw each other we said hello and we shot the ship but
it wasn't like someone that
i talked to on the phone or anything and i was such a huge fan of his and i
would just always end up
running into him and he's always had that smile on his face like as you talk to
him he would have that
smile just just a really great warm guy and i remember um i was trying to think
what norm's story
to tell you this one isn't necessarily funny it was just sort of random i went
out to go see bill
cosby in concert right before all the bullshit happened out in pasadena and he
played this
theater out there which interestingly enough was where they had the 25th
anniversary
of motown celebration which is the first place michael jackson publicly did the
moonwalk
um i saw bill cosby at that theater and i remember they had it all set up where
like
they almost built him like a little living room he had like an archie bunker
type chair
a little square rug and then like a side table where he put his water and he
just came walking out and
it was the mic there's no mic stand it was just sitting on the chair and he
just came out
you know he kind of walked a little bent over came walking out waved to
everybody sat down picked up
the mic and for like almost two hours just you know hour and a half just killed
just killed had the crowd in the palm of his hand master class of stand-up
right
so i leave with my lovely wife and i go out front who's standing there is norm
mcdonald
he was like hey uh bill hey how you doing and i talked it was like no what's
going on i was so
psyched that he knew my name and all that stuff and uh i think i had met him
before
and then we just stood there talking about comedy and how amazing it was to see
bill cosby and how good he still was like i said this is before all the
happened and um
my admiration for the guys it went even higher that you know i understood why i
was there but i didn't
i thought norm was so good that he didn't need to be there and he was still
there still trying to
learn and everything and i was thinking like wow this is why this guy is so
amazing and um
you know he's just with somebody that
um you couldn't just watch one video of him like you know i was saying to verzi
how like guys like
rick flair norm mcdonald there's a few people if you click on their videos it's
like say goodbye to
the next two hours of your life because everything that they did was is so
interesting and so different
and so funny and um one of my favorite norm mcdonald things that he ever did
you know because so many people like pretend that they don't give a you know
both
in my business and in other businesses you got i don't give a hey you know me i
don't give a
you know those people that advertise them like that guy clearly in the best way
didn't give a
fuck he really cared about people and stuff but like like he did what he wanted
to do
and when he was on snl how big a gig that was because there was so few channels
the internet
hadn't blown up yet and even with basic cable and everything i mean it was
still if you were on
saturday night live and you were doing weekend update it was one of the most
coveted gigs
a comedian could have and you were part of this lineage of you know at that
point it was uh
you know chevy chase um jane curtain right on through to dennis miller's reign
when he did it
and you know i did colin quinn come after i think colin came after but it was
always just like the best of
the best comics that they had doing it and continued on with tina fey and all
of them
and no one's walking away from that job i mean if some suit at nbc tells you
they don't like the
jokes you're doing and be funnier you know you're shaking in your i would i
would be i'd be like oh
fuck you know i'm gonna lose this big gig i don't want to get fired i don't
want to piss these people
off or whatever i guess he was doing all those oj jokes and somebody i forget
how the story went
there was somebody there that knew oj or something and
was telling him telling norm to back off and move on to something else
so what does norm do he just doubles down and he just does even more oj jokes
which is like
you know the balls that that took to do that and he ended up losing the gig he
got fired
and he was and people loved him he was hilarious but he you know he didn't back
down to the to the
to the big guy over there and he ended up losing the gig so
you know as luck would have it i think it was dirty work came out like a year
and a half later or so
so he has to promote it and he's on the press thing so lauren has him back and
has him host the show
and i remember he went out there and his opening joke
this opening joke he just comes out and he was just like uh yeah you know
something something like
this was yeah it's good to be back you know i actually got fired from this show
about a year and a half ago because they said it wasn't funny and uh now here i
am i'm hosting the
show so that means one of two things either i got a lot funnier or this show
sucks and they did that
big eating grin on his face and he started laughing and then he proceeded to do
a bunch of oj jokes
then it occurred to me i haven't gotten funnier the show has gotten really bad
so yeah i'm funny compared to you know well you'll see later
and it was just like like that thing about him and the whole time
the whole time i just felt the whole time when people were with them or
whatever and trying to
take what he had he always just still had that smile on his face and he just
still did exactly what um
he wanted to do and um i got so much respect for him and um i feel so fortunate
that i got to see him
live so i remember oh my god i saw him right after 9 11.
um the aspen after 9 11 aspen comedy festival is this big festival that was
always a nightmare to get
in and out of every year it would snow and people would get stuck in denver or
you get snowed in you
couldn't get out it was a nightmare and then as a comedian you had to perform
it was like a mile
higher than denver and no one could breathe and you're performing in front of
all these super rich
people in front of industry and you just go up and you would eat your balls and
you're like why did i
come out here and i remember i saw uh i saw joe rogan do a full set that i
still remember and then
i saw norm mcdonald it was at the same theater and uh and i remember norm came
out and he you know he
was doing bits on race racial profiling and all of this stuff i'm not going to
butcher the guy's bits
but i remember just watching that full set and i was like this guy is one of
the greatest comedians
i've ever seen in my life and i thought that every time i saw him and um i don't
know it was a pleasure
to know the guy even on a little level um just a massive massive massive loss
to not have him around
and especially now with all of this stupid
fucking cancel culture horseshit that is going on which has way way way overstepped
its bounds
as it always happens no matter who's behind it it always ends up you know
starting off with something
that makes sense and then that becomes the overreach and then it just becomes
like hey is it me or did you
literally become what the you were trying to stop and we you know i don't know
as a comedian really
needed a guy like norm out there to be eviscerating it making fun of it and
still doing what the you
want to do so if there's any other young comics out there if you want to see
how it's done watch that guy
because he was the real deal all right
once again rest in peace to the great norm mcdonald um just truly one of
without a doubt one of the
greatest stand-up comedians i ever saw in my life and um just such a great guy
and it's just so sad
that he won't be around anymore but i am also
i actually got off the plane in a better mood from just watching
literally the beauty of who he was and his work when i got off the plane i was
actually like
i don't know there's something about him i just thought he understood life um
just a really warm
guy uh god damn it it's always those guys that go so there's your lesson don't
be nice you'll live
forever all right