Name: Colin Quinn Remembers Norm Macdonald w/ Gilbert Gottfried
Uploaded: 2021-11-07T11:00:14.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Colin Quinn Remembers Norm Macdonald w/ Gilbert Gottfried' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Colin Quinn Remembers Norm Macdonald w/ Gilbert Gottfried' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-07. Transcript available.

On the subject of SNL, and it's sweet when you took over for Norm, and Gilbert
and I haven't
said anything. Gilbert, I don't know, have you spoken publicly since Norm
passed about him, Gil?
I think, I don't know. We haven't said anything on this show, which we would
like to do now. You
both knew him well, but the bartender speech when you took over, and obviously
it was a very awkward
period for you. Oh, God. To be stepping into that role, and also a friend's job.
Yes, yeah. It was
like, it was like, we lived in the same building, too. You know how you go to
your favorite bar,
and your local bartender isn't there? You ask, where's Jeff? Jeff no longer
works here. I'm Steve.
And you're thinking, hey, who's this idiot? I like Jeff, but you still want
your drink?
And even though Steve doesn't mix your drink the same way you're used to, like
Jeff,
you still like the bar, you don't have to go to a different bar. And even Steve
might feel kind
of bad because Jeff trained him. Did he ever say anything to you about that?
Did he ever give
you a blessing? He was so, no, but he was so classy and not saying anything.
Yeah. You know what I
mean? Yeah. So that's all. You have that great, I'm Steve, what can I get you?
Yeah. The bartender
piece. Well, I'm Steve. What can I get you? I wish you would have stayed the
way it was,
but you know, it is what it is. But yeah, Norman said, he's so funny. He was so
distinctively funny.
Nobody like him, really. No, no. He had his own thing. You know what I mean? He
was just very,
uh, well, like Gilbert. I mean, you just, they just have their own, they march
to their own
drummer, even in a business where everybody marches to their own drummer. They
both have that,
you know, idiosyncratic thing where it'd just be like, um, this is how I am and
that's it. And it's
great. But you know, you have to tune to their frequency, you know, it's not
like you can just,
you know. You know, what's funny about that first update you did, here's Norm
being fired,
as we all know, by Don Olmeyer. Right. Because of, because of coming to,
cutting too close to the
bone with the OJ jokes, when in fact, he was doing a public service by telling
those OJ jokes. And
I'm watching you do your first update. There's an OJ joke. It's like the third
joke. Yeah.
In the February issue of Esquire magazine, OJ Simpson said that if I had killed
Nicole,
it would have been because I loved her very much. And then he said, and if I
had killed Ron Goldman,
it would have been because he accidentally witnessed me loving Nicole very much.
Somebody should buy this guy a John Gray book. All right.
You shook his hand once? OJ? Getting out of a car? Or he was getting out of a
limo?
He was getting out of a limo, middle of the afternoon. And I have no psychic
energy. I've
never had those kinds of things, you know. But for whatever reason, this was in
an afternoon.
He's getting out of a limo with a girl. It's spring break. It's packed with
people. It's Florida.
And they're like, hey, do you want to meet OJ? I go, yeah, OJ. He's great. He's
running back
of all time. You know, great, charming movie star. I shake his hand. He shakes
my hand.
And he's not even looking at me. He's looking past me. He shakes my hand. And I
felt like
a jolt of, like, evil. I swear to God.
It's like the dead zone.
That's what it was like. That's what it was like. And I was like, I go, that
was weird,
OJ. I love OJ. That was weird energy, you know.
Wow. So you picked up on something.
I feel like I did, you know. It's, of course, in retrospect. But I remember
telling people at
the time, so.
I was also fond of, going back to your SNL bits, Colin Quinn explains the New
York Times.
Yeah, yeah. That was a good one.
And the St. Pat's editorial and Joe Blow.
You look like you were having fun. And the best stuff is you and Norm together.
That's right. That's right.
It's obviously an affection that comes across on the screen.
Yes. Yeah. And that was the early days of it. It was great.
I'm sorry we never managed to get him here. We tried it for whatever reason.
He was as elusive as you.
He's more elusive. He's like, I love to do it. I'd love to.
You're like, oh, good. How about next week?
Yes. What day?
And you're like, okay. He's like, all right, call him and we'll set it up.
Next week is perfect because I'm doing this.
He's like, hey, I'll see Norm.
Years later, what happened?
What?
I thought I was going to come on your show. What happened?
It's like, oh, Jesus, Norm.
Well, like you said, march to his own drum.
Yeah.
Well, I remember meeting OJ at a party years ago and it turns out he was a fan.
Uh-oh.
And he did an imitation of me.
And to this day, I wish I had like that on film.
Of course.
Because it would be like Charles Manson doing an imitation of people.
Yeah, yeah.