Name: Will Norm Macdonald Final Special Kill in Front of an Audience?
Uploaded: 2022-06-07T15:32:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Will Norm Macdonald Final Special Kill in Front of an Audience?' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Will Norm Macdonald Final Special Kill in Front of an Audience?' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-07. Transcript available.

The great gift could have been to be in a room full of people when Norm did
that for those people.
Because that would have evaluated, measured, and directed what he's talking
about.
And for us to sit here and look at it is not a true test of anything, really,
other than we all love Norm.
And my God, he's certainly prolific, certainly energetic.
But we weren't watching stand-up comedy because it was impossible.
But there's something there, for sure.
The element that I always admired was the connection to the audience.
And his asides and his looks and his pauses were interpreted exactly the way he
knew they would be interpreted.
And that fueled the ridiculous nature of some of the presentation.
And without that audience, you don't get the full measure of Norm.
It was like the audience was his partner.
Everybody was in this together.
His timing is like a drummer's.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like a jazz drummer.
But what would the timing have been with an audience?
Still perfect?
I can't tell.
You know, he's so nice with it.
I feel like it looked like it was supposed to be that.
I can't.
It's hard to explain it.
This is like listening to a good book on tape.
How would those have registered in front of a live audience, do you think?
That one of the suckers' mother's tits would kill.
Oh, well, that would have burned.
He had a bunch of things that would have burned.
Yeah, he went all the way around the barn.
That's the right.
He went all the way around the barn.
He had this great way of making you.
He'd plant the seed, walk all over the hill, around the silo, down to the brook.
You've forgotten about it, and then he lands that again, and it's joyous.
It's just joyous.
Do we know if he did any of this material in front of an audience?
I knew some.
We knew some from that tour.
That tour was right before corona, I think it was around.
If he were alive and were doing this show that we watched tonight somewhere in
front of 200, 300, 400 people,
Killer, Standing O, what would be their impact?
He didn't have to leave on a big lap.
He would go on, some of his shit would murder, some of his shit would eat it.
Some people would be annoyed, upset that he said it.
And then, like most of us, you go, let me get out of this fucking hole and come
up with a big joke because I'm about to get off.
He'd go, all right, let's keep going down and we'll get out on that.
And it's fun to watch him acknowledge what would be the silence.
Yeah, yeah, I can see...
Oh, and enjoy it.
Yeah, and I can see the...
In his mind, there was a crowd there.
He was anticipating this crowd, which reminds me again.
This guy was very deliberate in how he approached this because it does seem
like jazz.
It was very methodical.
I'm used to say goodbye, nothing new to me
Baby, I'm trying to survive, and I know that you'll believe
Live in a world with happy endings
So tired of pretending
There's some stuff that's for sure Laugh Lines that would work anywhere.
And then he pulls you away from it for a while.
And they're trickier stuff.
It's trickier to figure it out.
And he would lose some people.
It's hard to separate.
I buy it.
You know what I mean?
Like, I'm in.
Yeah, that's right.
And it's like watching a four-hour moon, he said, at a certain point.
He's like, I'm just invested in this as an experience.
That's true.
And it's really hard to separate myself from this.