Name: Andy Richter Bitter About Norm Macdonald?
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Andy Richter Bitter About Norm Macdonald?' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-07-20. Transcript available.

He also was really drawn to touchy subjects.
So it's like a brutal murder.
He got pleasure in being dangerous.
Yeah, how many anal rape jokes did we hear?
Including, I must bring it up, the Swedish German.
Andy Richter, the Swedish German.
That became a thing.
Yeah, and actually Conan and I were talking about this yesterday.
I had forgotten about this.
And of course, you said that you sometimes see it online.
I'm like, okay, well, let's hear about that.
Because, you know me, I'm in the nose cone of the rocket.
Right, right.
I'm at the top of the pyramid.
Right, right.
You're an ivory tower.
There's a lot of clouds underneath your window.
I'm up there counting my gold coins.
I can't be concerned with what you're doing down in the moat.
No, people, I mean, every weekly,
someone will just arbitrarily just call me a Swedish German.
Explain what that means.
I know, well, I mean, I know they're Norm fans because Norm would do,
and Norm was also like kind of a traditionalist.
So he did the, you know, talk to the talk show host,
but then there's this guy over here, this one, let's make fun of him.
Yeah, yeah.
And a lot of his jokes, he, like I say,
he was drawn to the things that you're not supposed to say.
So a lot of his jokes were about being queer, gay porno.
This fellow over here, he enjoys the gay porno.
And that became a thing with me.
And at one point he was talking about your ethnicity, you're Irish, I'm
Scottish.
What are you?
And I said, uh, Swedish German.
And for some reason he was like, really?
And I was like, yeah, why would I make that up?
But that then later became a euphemism for gay.
You know, the old prospector comes to town and wants a prostitute,
but no, there's no prostitutes.
There's just Andy Richter, the Swedish German.
And I've been in that mine for a hell of a long time,
and I'm only flesh and blood.
I need a woman.
Well, a bartender says, hell, there ain't no women in this town.
If you want to do any of that business,
all we got is Andy Richter, the Swedish German.
It's outrageous because it's Norm.
It's outrageous because it's on a talk show.
And it's you.
And it's me.
But like, and I think that some people think that like,
I was somehow, and well, and somebody else,
a friend of mine pointed out, there's nothing,
you can't do anything with that.
Right.
Like, there's nothing to do with that.
When Norm Macdonald says, this fell over.
Like, and he, you know, and it would go to like,
hey, Conan, have you met his wife?
But then you did say, at least I had my dignity.
And says, you were raped.
Yeah, he goes to rape, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, my God.
And I had to be all secret.
Nobody.
I say, nobody can know about this.
Bartender says, well, four people will know about it.
How do you figure that?
He says, well, he says, I'll know about it.
He says, you'll know about it.
Andy Richter, the Swedish German, will know about it.
And the fellow that has to hold down Andy will know about it.
Well, at least you left me my dignity.
Yeah.
I like the way that story ended.
Yeah, because you weren't good.
Yeah, right, right.
But that's not beside the point.
You were raped.
No, it's more of my...
It's more that I wasn't prostituting myself.
And I said, but I never was that crazy about that because I would think, you
know, I'm sitting there and we're in a studio and we're laughing about it now.
And it is like, the point of that joke is, this fellow's a queer.
Yeah.
And it's a very, very old-fashioned retrograde joke that we just don't do
anymore.
Right.
And some jokes that we don't do anymore, we don't do them anymore because they
shouldn't be done.
Right.
And we shouldn't have been doing them in the first place.
So I was always thinking about the gay people that work on the Conan O'Brien
show.
How do I look them in the face after being there and hardy-harring about the
punchline being that I'm a gay fella?
And, you know, and we're thinking about the people in my family who are gay.
Like, if they're going to watch that, how are they going to think when the real
bottom line, what's funny about that is that I was supposedly a homosexual.
And that I was, which to me, I always was like, it's like, it's like saying,
like, this fellow over here, he's a, he doesn't want anybody to know it, but he's
a secret Jew.
His kitchen's full of matzahs.
You know, it's like, you would go like, what are you talking about?
You know, what is that?
How is that funny?
My kitchen's full of matzahs.
I know, but you're, you're not a secret.
But, but you know what I mean?
I just, it always, it made me uncomfortable, not because I was afraid that
people would think I was gay, because if I was gay, everybody would know that I
was gay.
It made me uncomfortable because there were people out there in the audience
who, whom I love and care about, who would be left thinking like, what's so
terrible about me that I am a joke, that I'm a punchline, you know, that how I
am and who I am is a punchline to a joke.
But that was, when, when you're the kind of comic that Norm is, and you are
going after any uncomfortable subject, and you're like, oh, let me get in there
and, you know, roam around and really get my elbows.
Right, right.
You know, it's, you're gonna, it's gonna, it's gonna be ugly sometimes.
Yeah.
And I, it's gonna be uncomfortable.
Yes.
He also really enjoyed being around other comedians.
Like, that's where he seemed to really come alive.
I mean, he was a standup, but he also really liked being on, in a, in a, in a,
you know, a situation with other comedians.
And I've had people say to me, like, did it bother you?
Because, you know, I, like I said, he would, I would be the butt of the joke
sometime.
And I would say, like, no, that's, that's him.
That's, like, practically, like, him showing love to me.
Yeah.
Like, he would not insult me if he thought that I, you know, was somehow
inferior.
Well, I think it's like being insulted by Rickles.
Yeah.
It's like he, he, I'm, he's inviting me to play when he's making fun of me.
Will Ferrell is definitely one.
Really happy to see you, Will.
So good to see you.
So good to see everyone.
Yeah.
Okay.
I like when my friends are on.
Like, I like when Andy Daly's on.
Oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, mother.
Will Arnett's a lot of fun.
You did a lot to promote Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, including you retweeted
a picture
of Miley Cyrus' underwear, wearing her underwear.
Well.
I think we have the photo here.
Yeah, she, she tweeted that out, and I figured, you know, it's, if you retweet
a person's crotch,
maybe it'll go viral.
Right.
So just because.
But, like, in historical terms on the Conan show, Scott Thompson was a
wonderful guest.
She used to come on all.
She hasn't been on in ages, though.
Everybody, it's my little sister, Stacy.
Yeah.
Hi there, uh, hi there, Stacy.
It's really great to see you again.
Thanks a lot, Conan.
It's awesome to see you again.
Wait, what? What was "waiting"?
This has been "Wait What?"