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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'We Might Be Drunk Ep 41: Guatemala' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-09-20. Transcript available.

We Might Be Drunk Ep 41: Guatemala

well you want to do you want to break the news cronkite or should i well we you
know we
have recorded this a few days earlier so uh we've just discovered part of my uh
i'm a little
speechless we just discovered that uh one of the best comedians of all time
norm mcdonald has died
yes uh one of the funniest guys on the planet one of my heroes huge influence
on me i've seen
everything i watch his youtube probably every other day i just went on when i
first met you
and i saw you i was like oh he's doing like a jerry norm thing yeah he's seinfeld
and norm where
i think a tale in dangerfield with my yes every comic you'd see joe mackie was
like hedberg and
eugene merman wow i could you could always see who people were kind of
influenced by in the first
couple years and yeah and for you it was norm mcdonald yeah i just uh i'm floored
i cannot
believe this is real i'm crushed i'm hurt i'm my body's doing that thing where
i it keeps avoiding
it my brain keeps avoiding it but then i have to remind myself that it's real
it's crazy to discover
this literally maybe three minutes before we just recorded yeah a live stream
ep by the way and uh
oh my god he's just one of those guys you just never thought this i had no idea
had cancer he was
very young 61 61 very young he had another special in him he's great on
podcasts i just wish he made
more and uh i mean look he's got a lot of stuff out there so i'm getting greedy
but uh i think he's
one of the funniest people i mean no one sounds like him amazing jokes great
takes brilliant comic
very sophisticated i mean i still remember when he made it to the i think he
made it to the finals
on who wants to be a millionaire he made he made it to the million dollar
question and he bailed because
it was for charity but he turned out he knew the right answer so this is a guy
who by all accounts
was like self-educated yeah and made it that far i mean really one of the best
comedy minds of all
time i remember colin quinn told me a story once that you know one of my
favorite musicians ever
leonard cone being a canadian would go see norm mcdonald play wow and norm was
like who's this guy
who's this old guy he didn't care that leonard cone was a norm mcdonald fan wow
unbelievable yeah
his gambling stories on howard stern are incredible i read his book i'm i've
just i've seen everything
he's done this is dirty work is a great comedy i love dirty work i met him i
met him once at the
cellar and i got a photo with him and now i'm so glad i did he did uh last
comic standing he was the
only honest judge he would tell comics they were hacks it was awesome uh the
comics hated him joe list
did it and he goes joe you're a very good writer and anthony jesner goes hey joe
that norm just
called you ugly which is such a great line damn oh my god i met him twice and
the first time i met
him was uh i was doing this comedy style competition uh at caroline's and it
was the final four it was
me dan soder who eventually beat me in the final two it was me soder nick cobb
and adam newman
and uh norm mcdonald was just chilling in the crowd watching damn and he couldn't
have been nicer he was
so freaking nice to all of us yeah complimenting our acts being like man i can
never do this type
of thing you know so cool and then the other time i met him was on last comic
standing when he was a
judge and i got eliminated in the first round uh i had a pretty good set better
than a lot of people
who moved on but it's mbc let's face it that's how it goes but uh i remember i
had one joke that norm
singled out and goes that joke is gold and that to me was wow it was like it
was to me i didn't even
feel that bad i got locked off because i was like norm mcdonald who was the
judge that i connected to
his work the most it was roseanne and keen i connect to roseanne's politics of
course but uh no but it was
roseanne and keen and ivory wayans and like obviously i love in living color
but norm i'm a
comic norm was the guy i connected with and the joke he loved was i said you
know my last girlfriend
was a hoarder and she broke up with me which which stings extra hard i'm like
the one thing she can get
rid of and he said he loved that joke and then uh i got keen and kind of digged
me in the in the
last comic thing he said no i like some of your jokes but not all of them
and i said well i loved all your scary movie films and it got a huge laugh
and he's i only did the first two and i was like all right i remember i saw
norm in like the food
yeah he couldn't let it pass he couldn't take the l on that one i was about to
i knew i was out after
that right and then i'm walking through the thing it was like a break i guess
they were taking a break
the paid audience and i see norm and he goes i really like that you did that
you dug oh so that
was that was a special moment uh he's the real deal he really is uh yeah i
think he could tell
and i said i met you once at carolines and i i told him i really yeah yeah he
quinn said he's the
him and david spade are the funniest hang of all time them together yeah i did
last comic with keenan
was one of my judges as well and uh he zinged me and i said appreciate it damon
and i got a big
whoa yeah but i got kicked out after that we both got a we both went down
swinging yeah as they say
exactly yeah i mean norm really was brilliant i mean not just his stand-up but
i mean an edgy
underappreciated weekend update oh the best easily the best weekend guy and he
followed i believe he
followed kevin nealon who i thought was great as well nealon was great yeah
they said type of anchor
yeah dennis miller was always like lauded as the best one and i feel like norm
kind of took it over
norm was our guy it's almost like almost like people like i'm a letterman guy
and and then we're like
well we're conan guys right that's kind of what norm was but he would come in
and he would bomb a lot
he would have jokes that the audience would be like oh he had this one great
joke he's like
something something women are bad drivers and they went oh and he went well i
want you to know a
woman wrote that joke and they went oh and he went i'm kidding we don't hire
women
you're like yeah that's a comic come on he just kept teasing him that's a
fucking combo he went
this way that way that way then that way i mean he's he's the best before we go
on i should say
that we're not drinking alcohol this week uh we decide we've been doing so many
day episodes i'm
gonna go ahead and say i don't like getting day drunk i'm a night drinker sure
we work at night
it's hard being groggy for these sets all the time yep yep we decide they go we
say we might be
drunk we're not saying we are drunk the title is we might be yes and this week
we're doing coffee
but it feels weird not drinking now i know i mean i might pull up pull that
angel's envy off this
shelf and have a have a toast because it's the we should do we got to do a shot
for him we got
i think we drink coffee but we do a shot it's irish baby he's irish mcdonald
canadian grew up on a
farm dad was a whatever his mom was a teacher he comes from humble beginnings
red dostoevsky i mean
he had a son he lived in an apartment in in la ate cereal from for dinner can't
drive i relate to
that right there yeah yeah it's a it's a huge blow huge loss and we literally
just found out before
recording this well should we play i mean let's play a couple great norm clips
as as just to honor him
and yeah his greatness here here all right this is by request norm on letterman
his last time doing
his world war ii joke yes i love this this is where i met him at the cellar he
was running this
i watch the tv i watch the news make you afraid of the news you know put all
these stories on iraq iran
north korea you know try to scare you you know but does it ever really scare
you like you ever wake
up in the middle of the night ah north korea that little tiny country across
the ocean i wonder if
they'll get me
plus didn't mash settle that like 20 years ago
one day after once that's a stupid show
there is one country that worries me though not iraq not iran not north korea
the only country that really worries me is uh the country of germany
i don't know if you guys are history buffs or not but
in the early uh part of the previous century germany decided to go to war
and uh who did they go to war with the world
it's never been tried before
and uh so you figure that would take about five seconds for the world to win
but uh no it was actually close
uh
then about 30 years pass and uh germany decides again to go to war and again it
chooses as its enemy the world
the world
i wasn't supposed to be at the same time
and this time they have that guy
strangely kindly that guy
i'm not even going to dignify him by saying his name but i think you know what
i'm doing
but you think at that point the world will go listen germany
here's the deal you know you're gonna be a country no more
on account of you keep attacking
the world
third time
what do you think you are mars or something
there it is
ah i got misty i'm getting misty
ah it's a great bit i mean it's so it's so simple those are the best bits the
ones who are like how has no one done that
i know the world
ah god i'm a fucking queef
i love when when you do a joke that's like uh the setup it all hits the crowd
at the same time
yes
i don't know if you guys are history buffs it all just hits them i mean that's
that's a great
amazing that's a beautiful way to bring an exact feeling to everyone in the ed
sullivan theater
yes here here well said that's a great point yeah he he was the king he was the
best i mean if you can play the the chairman of the board thing is probably his
crown jewel in his panel because he had so many great panelists the moth joke
uh all that shit but the one with the snl because a lot of comics like i don't
give a fuck i say what i want this is the ultimate not giving a fuck he goes on
he gets fired from snl
he gets rehired to host years later he's like really okay he he's always hated
them because they fired him so he comes back and tanks the whole show in the
monologue and then just does the show the balls his return monologue you mean
yeah yeah comes back all right let me yeah start doing the coffee sorry we'll
we'll move on from norm but i uh i'm freaking out here so yeah i think you were
touched by this a little more than most people mark yes
yes uh oh i think he said put it on 10. oh god we might need peters oh we can
figure this out what is this
push the button
yeah good grind not his first time on grinder oh i was just about to go there
not his first time on grinder that doesn't look good looks like shake bad weed
oh my phone's blowing up
everybody every comic you've ever heard of
i get a million insults on youtube comments and i always get i thought this was
norm mcdonald
and then when i realized it wasn't i turned it off and i'm like i get it
yeah i did i did a bit once that they were like that's a norm i didn't know i
had to pull it i was i
was wow yeah i mean that hit and i was like it was bill that's a good bit and
then someone was like that's
a norm bit i'm a fan i was like fuck i pulled it yeah yeah well that's very
flattering that you're
thinking like norm whoo he got in trouble remember he defended somebody and he
got in trouble and it's
like so petty what was it was very petty and uh it just and he got in trouble
saying uh down syndrome
or something yeah but either way it just like doesn't this put it all in
perspective this guy is
dead now it's like he defended matt damon as i recall i think it was matt damon
it's like you
can't do that you can't do that that's where we're at all right oh matt's
coming in matt peters everybody
the producer you get to see the man behind the more trouble than it's worth at
this point oh god
just pour it in the filter see what happens yeah no i'm joking but these are
from guatemala jj roasters
sent these in so thanks jj it's good coffee i had some at home we don't know i
don't k