Name: Lori Jo Hoekstra - Norm Macdonald's Longtime Friend
Uploaded: 2021-12-10T15:51:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Lori Jo Hoekstra - Norm Macdonald's Longtime Friend' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-12-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Lori Jo Hoekstra - Norm Macdonald's Longtime Friend' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-12-10. Transcript available.

Do you want me to call Don Olmeyer right now and ask him if he could have your
job back?
Sure.
Okay.
Gary, let's take a break.
Get me the phone number for Don Olmeyer.
Where is he?
Do you have a number on him?
Lojo probably has a number on him.
Lojo?
Who's Lojo?
Lojo.
Is that the guy you're with?
No, she's my assistant.
Oh, Lojo.
Let me see her.
Is she here?
Yeah.
Let me take a look at your assistant, man.
What's that about?
She's just my assistant.
Is she hot?
No, she's not hot.
Really?
I don't want to say that.
You just did.
You just did.
He goes, I don't want to say that.
No, no, no.
Is she like a sexy assistant?
No.
I don't want to.
You know, she's a very nice girl.
Lojo.
I don't want to say she's not hot.
You know what Lojo rhymes with?
Oh, bloke.
Oh, I'm sorry.
It actually doesn't rhyme with that, does it?
No, it doesn't.
No.
Lojo.
Yeah.
I brought my friends, Lojo and Frank Sebastiano and Artie Lang, my buddy that I
did this movie with.
So, a shout out to Jim Downey, and I'm thinking about him.
Because Norm so loved him and admired him.
And a shout out to a very special person, Laurie Jo Hoekstra, who was Norm's,
you know, right hand partner in crime.
And she, I did have a chance to speak to her since this all happened.
And she's just such a lovely person.
And I'm thinking of her because she just did so much for Norm over the years.
And Norm was so lucky to have her.
So, I just wanted to address those two people who I think deserve our love and
thoughts right now.
I was asking, I was talking to Laurie Jo.
And I asked her if it's okay if I related this, and she said it was okay.
But she said that not too long ago, someone asked Norm about the moth story
that he told on our Tonight Show.
And that she said, the guy wanted to know what made you have the nerve to do
that.
And that he said that, you know, is that goddamn Frank Smiley?
He said, I was only supposed to do one segment.
And then suddenly in the commercial break, Frank came over and said, like, you're
doing another one.
Because whenever I had Norm, I was greedy.
I wanted more Norm.
I always wanted more Norm.
And so, he didn't know that he was, that we were going to ask him to do a
second segment.
He had nothing planned.
Absolutely nothing planned.
That's true.
And so, as recently as like, not that long ago, I think this was a couple of
months ago, he was telling somebody,
Damn it, that was Frank Smiley.
Hey, get back out there.
Conan wants more.
So, he heard that joke from Colin Quinn.
Uh-huh.
And he did the segment, and it was, he had seven minutes prepared.
Yeah.
And so, he basically, you said, you know, and then he's done.
He's done.
You say, we'll be right back with more Norm.
And he goes, I've got nothing to say.
Yeah, yeah.
So, then he remembered the Colin joke.
And it was a 20-second joke.
So, he asked you, how long is the segment?
Uh-huh.
And he was hoping you'd say 20 seconds.
Right.
But you said seven minutes.
Yep, yep.
So, it became a seven-minute joke.
Yeah.
I did say, I said to, I said to Laurie Jo, today I said, on the flip side,
because I brought this up.
And I said, on the flip side, if Norm, if in a magical world, Norm had been
presented with all of this incredible praise, he would have found a way to
deflect it.
Yeah, yeah.
Probably would have made his skin crawl.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, absolutely.
And so, you know, he wouldn't have, this might have been the way he wanted it,
you know.
But, uh...
It's been a while, and I still like the way you look at me.
I'll see you next time.