Name: Sam Morril LOVES Norm Macdonald
Uploaded: 2022-10-23T06:07:10.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Sam Morril LOVES Norm Macdonald' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Sam Morril LOVES Norm Macdonald' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-23. Transcript available.

When I first met you, and I saw you, I was like, oh, he's doing like a Jerry
Norm thing.
Yeah, completely.
It's Seinfeld and Norm. I think a tale in Dangerfield were my...
Yes.
Every comic you'd see Joe Mackey was like Hedberg and Eugene Merman.
Wow.
You could always see who people were kind of influenced by in the first couple
years.
And for you, it was Norm Macdonald.
I still remember when he made it to the...
I think he made it to the finals on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
He made it to the million-dollar question, and he bailed because it was for
charity.
But it turned out he knew the right answer.
So this is a guy who, by all accounts, was like self-educated and made it that
far.
I mean...
Tell me what you want to do.
I think Pinehurst is too obvious, so I guess I will say Green...
What's the name? Greenbrier.
What are you making that page for?
I'm scared to death.
Okay, I'll just give it half a million dollars.
All right. What do you think?
I have no idea. I said my guess.
Did you say Greenbrier?
Yeah.
You would have won a million, but...
Really one of the best comedy minds of all time.
I remember Colin Quinn told me a story once that one of my favorite musicians
ever, Leonard Cohn, being a Canadian, would go see Norm Macdonald play.
Whoa.
And Norm was like, who's this guy? Who's this old guy? He didn't care that
Leonard Cohn was a Norm Macdonald fan.
Wow. Unbelievable.
Not just his stand-up, but, I mean, an edgy, underappreciated Weekend Update
anchor.
Oh, the best. Easily the best Weekend guy.
And he followed, I believe he followed Kevin Nealon, who I thought was great as
well.
Nealon was great.
Yeah.
Different type of anchor.
Yeah.
Dennis Miller was always like, Laud is the best one.
And I feel like Norm kind of took it over.
Well, Norm was our guy.
It's almost like people are like, I'm a Letterman guy.
And then we're like, well, we're Conan guys.
Right.
That's kind of what Norm was.
Remember, he did a bit that defended Tiger Woods that I thought was hilarious
on the show.
And the bit was basically like, how many, well, he's like, yeah, he cheated.
But think about how many women hit on him.
Like, he goes, how many women hit on you in this many years?
He goes, one in 10 years?
He goes, Tiger had like this many hundred.
He only slept with this many.
Right.
And he did the math.
He goes, he's more faithful than you are.
That's a great, that's a great angle for a bit.
Great angle.
Also, Tiger is different than you and me.
Now, how many chances do we have in our life to commit adultery?
Maybe 10.
So if we stray once, it's not even 10.
We just think it's 10.
If we stray once, that's 10%.
Now, Tiger may have had sex with 50 or 60 girls.
But what about the 3 million he could have but didn't?
You got to factor those gals in.
Then, that makes the percentage 0.00000000006, which statistically is zero.
So, from a strictly mathematical standpoint, Tiger Woods is the most faithful
man who has ever lived.
A lot of great comics are like, well, you think, I think it was more like the
media was tearing Tiger to shreds.
And even though we can agree what he did was wrong, I think he, he felt for him.
And that was his way of being like, I feel for this guy that is being railroaded.
Like, when you see the Tiger Doc, you kind of, you do feel for him.
Sure, of course.
There's nuance to the picture.
And he added nuance.
That's what I think.
That's what I took from the bit.
He was a true comic legend.
I mean, so many comics revered him.
He was a comics comic.
And it's rare for those guys to break through and have the mainstream success
that Norm had.
But he really did, you know?
Yeah.
I mean, he had a lot of failed pilots.
But he kept getting the pilots because I think he was one of those guys that
even the suits were like, nah, he's good.
Like, he had that kind of pure, tall, good-looking guy, great observational,
could work clean, kind of had all the tools of what a megastar stand-up should
have.
Right.
But he was just so dry and such a disruptor.
Right.
That that would get in the way sometimes.
Totally.
Totally.
I met him twice.
And the first time I met him was I was doing this comedy-style competition at
Caroline's.
And it was the final four.
It was me, Dan Soder, who eventually beat me in the final two.
It was me, Soder, Nick Cobb, and Adam Neumann.
Wow.
And Norm MacDonald was just chilling in the crowd, watching.
Damn.
And he couldn't have been nicer.
He was so freaking nice to all of us.
Yeah.
Complimenting our acts, being like, man, I can never do this type of thing, you
know?
Ah.
So cool.
And then the other time I met him was on Last Comic Standing when he was a
judge, and I got eliminated in the first round.
I had a pretty good set, better than a lot of people who moved on, but it's NBC,
let's face it.
Yeah, that's how it goes.
But I remember I had one joke that Norm singled out and goes, that joke is gold.
And that, to me, was like, to me, I didn't even feel that bad.
I got locked off because I was like, Norm MacDonald, who was the judge that I
connected to his work the most.
It was Roseanne and Keenan.
I connect to Roseanne's politics, of course.
But it was Roseanne and Keenan Ivory Wayans.
And, like, obviously, I love In Living Color, but Norm, I'm a comic.
Norm was the guy I connected with.
And the joke he loved was I said, you know, my last girlfriend was a hoarder,
and she broke up with me, which stings extra hard.
I'm, like, the one thing she can get rid of.
And he said he loved that joke.
And then I got – Keenan kind of digged me in the last comic thing.
He said, no, I like some of your jokes, but not all of them.
And I said, well, I loved all your scary movie films.
And it got a huge laugh.
And he said, I only did the first two.
And I was like, all right.
I remember I saw Norm in, like, the food.
He couldn't let it pass.
He couldn't take the L on that one.
I was about to – I knew I was out after that.
Right.
And then I'm walking through the thing.
It was, like, a break.
I guess they were taking a break, the paid audience, and I see Norm.
And he goes, I really like that you dug it.
So that was a special moment.
He's the real deal.
He really is.
Yeah, I think he could tell.
And I said, I met you once at Caroline's, and I told him I really like that.