Name: R.I.P. Gilbert Gottfried R.I.P Bob Saget, R.I.P. Norm MMacdonald, Jeff Ross, Next?
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'R.I.P. Gilbert Gottfried R.I.P Bob Saget, R.I.P. Norm MMacdonald, Jeff Ross, Next?' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-04-13. Transcript available.

which brings us to two uh notable comedians and two friends of gilbert's and gilbert
you might
have to do the driving on this one uh let's start with the late great norm yeah
i remember i remember
doing norm's podcast and you know as always it turned with any of my comic
friends who would
turn like deranged and uh he was he was very funny with that he'd always talk
with like a
sneer you know it's like and and i remember right at i i put that photo up a
few times it's one of my
favorite photos afterwards after doing norm's show uh norm and i joined uh uh
jeff jeff ross and
of course uh uh bob saget yeah and i remember that being a night of just non-stop
laughs you could
tell even from the still photo yeah that you guys were ripping it up yeah it
was just so much fun
truly original truly original i i never met him you know it's funny i'm i i'm
in comedy a long time and
i know a million comedians and i've gotten to work with a million comedians and
for some reason our
paths never crossed and we wanted to get him on this show gil as you know yes
and he and he was he
was norm so he was strangely he was strangely hard to pin down or non-committal
or could do it and then
couldn't do it and well i i i i i know i don't really know yeah i i i pass i i
know i'm working
what what are the truly great comic minds though and that last that that his
last appearance on
letterman where he got so emotional um you know and in ways i it sounds corny i
felt i knew him
uh uh uh through his work and obviously a lot of mutual friends that letterman
appearance you really
kill your your appearance on his podcast that that whole podcast was so good it
was so funny let's
not let's not diminish that gilbert it was it made history your appearance and
also the einstein episode
yeah yeah norm yeah i remember when i when i was on norm's podcast afterwards i
just felt like
i like i ran a marathon it was it was just like just got crazier and crazier
netflix owns those
owns that show now and they're not because they're not available to the public
unfortunately and yeah
and they're sitting on them hopefully one day it would be great if if that
podcast was re-released
because yeah there's that bob einstein episode is also legend yep uh uh you
know what can you say
about the guy i uh i mean a really rare a red truly original comic voice oh it
just really and i love
such a loss and more than life itself oh yeah by the way norm's book uh based
on a true story not a
memoir which is so funny the the audio book he narrates it so if you're if you
miss norm and you've never
heard him reading his book it's it's brilliant now i got to get it yeah i i
regret never meeting the man
and uh gilbert i'm glad you had such wonderful times with him yes he was a lot
of fun it's a big
loss it's a loss just like a total smart ass yeah i i wish i wish my our paths
had crossed
so let's move on to bob last but not least which was a blow and not expected
and i had just i will say
that i had just reached out to bob we just recorded our 400th episode a couple
of days ago
gilbert and i and i reached out to bob uh and i said will you come and do this
with us and he said
i think i'm on a plane that night and we were going back and forth and trying
to arrange something and
then i sent him the link which has been shared online i sent him the link to uh
to don rickle's uh
a state auction did you see that oh yeah they posted on a couple things you've
been on a couple of things
and i got none of them bob bob's face was on a couple of items that you know
like there was pictures
of them together and a poster or something and i said hey you might want to bid
on some of these
things and he wrote me back and he said that this just makes me sad actually
and he said but but life
goes on and i was i had said to my wife i have to call bob i have to text bob
we have to we moved the
date of the 400th episode and i got a phone call from my sister-in-law probably
20 minutes later
telling me she just heard that he was gone it was very shocking and still is
um and i had just spoken to bob like a few days before he died and we were on
the phone and
as always the minute anything turned at all sincere or uh serious we we turn it
to just complete filth
and and make it perverse and and it was always fun and and it was like i always
remember like
when the aristocrats came out people were saying can you believe bob saget
talks like that and to
people who knew him they said we couldn't believe he could speak any other way
it wasn't danny tanner
i didn't know him that well i certainly didn't know him well as well as gilbert
but uh uh you know
but that was part of him but there was a but there was such a a a gentleness to
the guy yes i mean his
humor was so edgy and so dark and so it could be so scatological as you'll hear
because we're
re-running the uh the second episode that we did with him uh but but he he didn't
want to he didn't
want to injure he didn't want to hurt anybody he was very very very sensitive
guy did he always
tell you that he loved you before he hung up the phone gilbert yes as dara as dara
shared with me
that there was a real a real kindness to him that you couldn't miss and and uh
yeah and i were i
i remember i i got a call from jeff ross who said uh oh sad news bob saget died
and i swear i thought
oh this is gonna be a funny sick joke and i said oh okay and i was waiting for
the punch line and then
he said uh no seriously he died and i i still have a hard time grasping that it's
a gut punch it really
is and you know you gilbert went you you made the rounds you you went on cnn
you went on television
you you said some you said some lovely things about him but you know it's 65 i
mean it's it's it's it's
too young it's it's too big a loss for for and and it seemed like he was
another one starting out again
like he he would just would did a live show yeah and he was really excited to
be getting back to
live performing and uh going back to the second podcast with him and he started
that podcast bob
saget's here for you and it did seem like he was entering another phase of his
career and another
phase of his life it seemed like he was he was more wistful and and and and
trying more to be of
service i mean he was you know that's why he was pleasant to be around there
really was no show
business at all to the guy yeah you know um and he struck me again didn't know
him well but he struck me
as as as also having a sadness about him do you think the guilt you feel yeah a
depth and a sadness
about him and and he also well he had two sisters who died yeah that's right
one from scleroderma
which was a a charity he did loads of work for yes to his credit and um and see
there's another thing
that shows that i've always said about comedy and tragedy i he he he made i
remember being with him
a few times where he made jokes about his sister you know really deranged stuff
but then you see i mean
you know he loved his sister of course and his family was totally traumatized
by it but he he could just
be completely sick i i i think if you could communicate with the dead and get
in touch with bob saget he
would make completely bad taste jokes about his own death he he was that that
kind he would just
really staying staying true to his art to the yes yes to the bitter end it's a
big loss for us
personally for gilbert and and jeff and and uh and stamos and and obviously a
lot of his friends and fans
and and i i i put up a photo too i was on the beach with jeff and we're holding
up a phone and on the
phone is bob saget because we're was sitting on the beach and said hey let's
call bob i saw the picture
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah not much else we can add uh rest in peace bob