Name: David Spade Talks About Norm's Memorial
Uploaded: 2022-05-13T01:00:09.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'David Spade Talks About Norm's Memorial' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-13. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'David Spade Talks About Norm's Memorial' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-13. Transcript available.

would like to say a few words about his memorial yeah norm uh dana thank you we
uh went to a
memorial and i'm only bringing this up because downey's on today and um we did
an intro for him
but i just wanted to do because i just went to this thing and it was supposed
to be more of a
celebration you know it was kind of a funeral we never had a funeral for norm
so it was like
a good way to everyone get in the same room i think it was called a mom normial
but i thought
that wasn't too catchy and they shouldn't trademark it uh it's not catchy like
toyota thon you know
what i mean so we had it was supposed to be like a light-hearted thing but you
know those things do
get heavy yeah no matter how how fun you want it to be and no matter how much
no one would have wanted
it to be light um and so we all gathered the only interesting thing was it was
i think they're doing
some sort of documentary for netflix because it was filmed and that's you know
they wanted me to speak
and that's harder when people are filming it as you know because it's a serious
thing and it's
embarrassing it's hard to speak anyway in front of people and uh the funny part
you know so conan
went up he kind of hosted it the audience was peppered with like you know snl
people writers
comedians david tell bill murray from snl sandler conan i mean any smigel all
these people are everywhere
so a little intimidating but all friends and dana i don't know if i told you
this so
conan speaks he brings up laurie joe who's norm's right hand man been with him
forever uh she's the
greatest she set the whole thing up ted sarandos had covet he couldn't come and
he's the biggest
fan of this whole thing so when i by the time uh downy spoke and he was great
and then i went up to speak
and there's stairs going up there and conan goes to shake my hand i wipe out in
front of one on my face
i don't even do any jokes i don't go uh not funny norm you know i didn't say
anything i just said
got up went to the stage did my little speech four minutes got off and then a
couple of people molly
shannon a lot of people spoke kneeling and then we went we were sequestered to
another room
another whole building where six of us watched his special that was the
interesting part
so you told me about that what was it how did his special happen norm so you
know how i used to do
those nonologues uh during corona where i'd sit at my desk it was like that he
was had a microphone in
his hand and laurie joe was filming him and he just said you know i keep trying
to do my special but he
was getting weaker which we didn't know and they kept shutting down theaters
and they wouldn't let
him go and then he goes i'm just gonna run it once just kind of say it out loud
and then he never got
to shoot it so they said let's use that and kind of make a documentary so six
of us watched it
mm-hmm so he's just in his room with laurie joe with the mic going no audience
no nothing
yeah even even speaking at the funeral memorial it's very hard when there's
like a dolly shot you
know when you're talking and it's like push in he might cry no no i'm not
crying at this part
okay pull back pull back yeah it's just definitely something you know they
filmed the comedy store
with bob saget i thought that was just odd because i think people at home don't
know when you make fun
of someone at something like that as a comedian they probably think it's very
mean but it's all of us
just lightheartedly making fun of norm also saying something sad you know
whatever so here we are
watching the special dana and uh very interesting it's about almost an hour he's
got classic norm
stuff some's a very rough you know where people would be offended which is good
and some stuff just
really kills and some stuff he meanders but you know he hasn't had a chance to
polish it or anything
it's just hey i'm gonna run through it so it's not really we were discussing
that would this work in a
crowd yes but norm has his for what he does it was perfect they're gonna really
like it and we talked
about it discussed about mostly everything was just positive of course and uh
and excited to be a
witness to that did you ever get like a wave of just the surrealness of it or a
wave of like sort of
it's just so strange to see your friend you know knowing i definitely cried
yeah i definitely cried
i i didn't at the uh at the memorial but that one he starts talking about his
mom and you're watching
a guy and this is the last time i've seen him because i've seen him before that
but it was right
before corona so i haven't seen him and he looks a little different you know
and he's a little gaunt and
and then you hear him talk and and he was pretty sharp i mean it wasn't like he
was smoother than
my special like he never looked down i'm like does he have a set list what is
he looking at how does
he know what's coming up there's like no maybe they added tighten it up but
yeah so definitely we're
seeing and then we talked and then you know we had that adam sandler taping
after that so which is
coming up soon so it was a long day sandler was in there too and uh and we i
just thought it was
interesting and i thought people should know we finally got to have something
for norm we never
talked about it ever i never talked about it and um i'm glad i'm glad i got to
see it but it was a
little bit of a crier at times you know i always like to think when someone's
gone that they're still
here i kind of hear their voice in my head sometimes and i think what they
would say about
everything i don't know i just i'm in denial about people being gone and and
and also in the last
two years when i haven't seen him or a lot of people you just you just think
they're out there
you just don't see them you know like you'll run into them and with norm you're
just thinking if
norm was alive he wouldn't want to be here because it's just it's an odd
situation and it's hard to be
to get those things and uh
picking up the pieces that you left behind
knitting under top of flow
breathing in the smoke and clearing up my mind
the thoughts of you
i never knew what the hell you got me into