Name: Norm Macdonald Interview - Toucher & Rich Radio Show (5/13/2016) #NormMacdonald
Uploaded: 2021-10-02T19:29:57.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Norm Macdonald Interview - Toucher & Rich Radio Show (5/13/2016) #NormMacdonald' from bubbyberry on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-10-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Norm Macdonald Interview - Toucher & Rich Radio Show (5/13/2016) #NormMacdonald' from bubbyberry on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-10-02. Transcript available.

Norm Macdonald Interview - Toucher & Rich Radio Show (5/13/2016) #NormMacdonald

Norm Macdonald, thank you for joining us, sir.
Thank you, man. It's good to hear you guys again.
All right, so we...
Beautiful voices.
They're well-trained.
But we've discussed this with you before, and something always gets lost.
You're a big golf fan.
You say you're watching the Players' Championship right now.
Yeah, you're supposed to have me cover it.
Yeah, you're supposed to come out for the Deutsche Bank,
and every year you say you will, and then...
I'll do it.
Yeah, but how do we get in contact with you?
Oh, well, if I tell you, then everybody that listens will be able to get in
contact with me.
See, there's this many layers around, and I know that you're low-key and that
you're...
No, but seriously, the easiest way to get a hold of me is to tweet me,
because I always read every single one.
Then I'll follow you, and then we can DM each other.
Do you do the tweeting?
Oh, absolutely.
Sure.
And I follow you on Twitter, and it's like a play-by-play situation with you
sometimes.
You'll be watching hockey, golf, and basketball simultaneously at some point,
at some times.
You know, and then everyone hates my guts, all my loyal followers, you know?
What do they say?
It's like, we're here for the quips, Norm.
Yeah, like, shut up.
Like, Steve Martin was telling me, like, you know, he'd go on Twitter every day,
and he'd do two jokes, you know?
And then once every three years, he'd go, oh, I have a banjo album coming out.
They'd go, shut up, you stupid whore.
He's like, I thought he'd earn some points.
I saw Steve Martin, Martin Short.
They performed, they went on tour together, and they were here in Boston.
And I saw them, and he plays with the banjo band, Steve Martin.
Do you find that entertaining when Steve Martin does his banjo stuff?
Would you pay to see that?
I hear he's flying in between, but I feel like I would do that if I really
loved something, you know, just force people to listen to us.
But, you know, those two together, you can't, you know, do better than that,
right?
Well, I mean, I purchased the tickets, and I was aware that the Bluegrass band
was coming on, but Martin Short, you know, attempted to be funny the entire
time.
And then Steve Martin, when he wanted to be, was funny.
And then twice, the band came out, and I don't know if you know this about Bluegrass
songs.
They're not brief.
They have a running time that's not like a pop single.
You go, oh, it's over, and then, nope, this guy's soloing.
So it's a lot.
I was talking to Martin Ball, and he said he went over to Steve Martin, and he
said, you know who's here is Earl Scruggs, whatever that is.
And so, you know, Martin Ball plays the banjo also, so he went over to Steve
Martin's house, and he played banjo with Earl Scruggs, and he was all amazed.
And then the next day, he phoned Steve Martin, and he goes, wasn't that amazing?
Like, how many people can say they, you know, they went to Steve Martin's house
and played banjo with Earl Scruggs?
And then Steve Martin said, about 5,000.
So I guess she did sports with Earl Scruggs.
He keeps them in the basement and brings them up for visitors.
Well, Norm, I went online because I was getting...
What's that?
What?
Oh, well, I'm going to talk while I'm doing my interview.
God damn, Fred Stoller, the opening act.
Oh, I know Fred Stoller.
Fred Stoller's fantastic.
Hey, how are you, Fred?
I read his book.
He read your...
Oh, man, I'm a sore.
He read your book.
About Seinfeld.
Yeah, you read my Seinfeld year?
Yeah.
Holy crap.
Hi, who's this?
Hey, this is Fred Toucher from Boston.
How are you doing, Mr. Stoller?
Hey, good.
How are you doing?
I'm, uh, yeah, I read the book about your year at Seinfeld.
Yeah, people read that, but I had an actual real book, but, yeah, my Seinfeld
year.
Okay, well, I'm sorry.
That was the e-book, and then you...
Yeah, no, don't be sorry.
Well, you said it like it was almost insulting that I had read that.
No, no, no, it's not insulting.
It's funny because I did a thing called the Kindle single, and a lot of people
read that,
and then I had an actual book, and no one read that.
Well, now I'm aware of it.
I think that it was more of a lack of awareness than it was anything.
No, no, um, no, but it's, uh, we have the...
Breakfast is coming, so this is Boston, so I'm excited, but...
Yes, he said Boston.
Yeah, this is Boston.
Was Norm unaware of that?
All right, Norm is mad at me.
No, no, no, um, because of you on the Horn Inn.
Norm thought he was talking in New York City.
No, no, it's a much smaller market, so, uh...
No, it's a big market.
It's, uh, well, um, this is great, so I'm...
Well, Norm said, ask me what you thought of my book.
Well, I just, I guess I didn't read the real book.
I read the...
No, no, but the Kindle, but did you like it?
I did, I thought it very insightful.
It shows how it's not easy to be a writer on a popular sitcom.
It's not easy to be a writer on a popular sitcom.
I hope that's what people took from that, yeah.
Yeah, and I saw you on Marin very recently as well.
That's so funny that I did, like, three seconds on Marin, and people tweeted
that they saw that.
Yeah, you were, uh, you're on TV a lot.
People know who you are, and then you, you pop up from time to time, and it's
exciting for people.
So whenever I'm on the road with Norm and someone recognizes me, he swats them
with a newspaper, get out of here.
Yeah, they don't care for that.
He wants all the attention to himself.
I mean, he swats them, goes, who, no, you don't know who he is.
Get out of here.
He pushes me sometimes I fall, so it's kind of not nice.
No, he's the greatest guy.
He's, uh, I'm having as much fun as you would think it is to work with Norm MacDonald.
He's just so silly and, you know, and, uh, funny, so it's great.
All right, Fred.
Can we have Norm back?
Yes.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Dang, man.
Kind of hijacked that thing.
Have you ever had that?
I don't know.
I just kind of hijacked the interview, and then he got a little upset that I
didn't know about the real book instead of the e-book.
Oh, man.
He recognizes your e-book, and he knows it, and then you get mad that he doesn't
know all your work.
Oh, jeez, man.
You can't see.
I mean, you know, I guess Stoler's just got that kind of fame.
I know, right?
If you don't own the beat.
Yeah, we asked to talk to you again.
Well, because it's my interview.
Right.
At one point, I'm like, this has gone on about three minutes too long.
All right.
Oh, my God.
That thing is David Foster Wallace off of it.
Are you a fan of David Foster Wallace, or did you find him to be pretentious?
A little mannered, but, you know, as good as anybody else, I guess.
Because you're writing a memoir, correct?
Yes, I am, yeah.
But you're taking it seriously.
You want it, because you are a fan of literature, and you want it to be, you're
taking a certain pride in the style of writing that you're doing.
Correct.
Yeah, I'm trying to write it as best as I can, like, because I just feel sorry
for, you know, actual writers that can't get on the bookshelves.
And then, you know, that sees Benzari as the number one book, or Bill O'Reilly.
You know what I mean?
Like, I just feel sorry.
So, I feel you should work as hard as possible to do as good as you can with
the medium.
Now, I know a memoir doesn't always have to be completely factual, but is this
something that's going to be completely factual?
Are you going to take some license with things and kind of create a truth
without all the facts?
Well, it's a good old-fashioned tell-all.
Is that what it is?
Yeah.
Do you guys like bombshells?
We do, certainly.
Are you going to hit us in the face with some sexual revelations?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
There's other kinds of bombshells, you know, than sexual ones.
I'm straight into the sex.
What?
Hey, get away from my ass!
Jeez.
He's going to meet you in the stoler?
Well, he's an odd duck, because he demanded a key to my room for some reason.
And then last night, I woke up, he was staring at me.
Like, not in any way sexual, but in a very disturbing way, just sitting on a
chair.
He's like, I couldn't sleep.
I'm like, okay.
Oh, my God.
He's a good guy.
He's a good guy.
Toucher and Rich are on your phone with the radio.com app.
I wish you were here to join us.
From 98.5 The Sports Hub.
98.5 The Sports Hub.
We're Toucher and Rich.
We'll simulcast on Comcast Sportsnet.
Norm MacDonald's going to be at Foxwoods tonight.
Well, Norm, with your show coming up, I wanted to go buy a ticket because we
have no connection
whatsoever with the promoters.
So, I went online.
I can get in.
All right.
Well, then, yeah.
Maybe we'll hook that up.
But all I know is I went on Ticketmaster.com.
And you know that they have, I don't know if you noticed this, but they have Yelp-like
reviews under each person.
And there are Yelp-like reviews under your name for the comedy shows you've
done.
Have you ever read any of those?
Oh, no.
That would be frightening.
Norm, I found, like, I went to see, like, what were the worst ones that you got.
And it made me want to see your show even more.
I have, as a matter of fact, I have a couple.
I bet I know what a lot of them say.
I bet a lot of them say he was drunk, he was stoned.
I see drunk and stoned about 58 times here at the bottom.
But these are some of my favorites.
This one was titled, Bring Back the Opening Act.
And it said, Norm's didn't have an act.
He was talking to an audience member about what medications the man was taking
for back
pay.
That's my closer.
Is it a setup?
You always set up.
In the second.
I find some poor soul with sciatica.
And we have a long discussion about it.
Now, does he have a key to your room?
The touring sciatica guy?
Oh, yeah.
That guy's all over the place.
Don't you have sciatica?
Huh?
I got another.
He just got it after a hernia operation.
Oh, there's one here that says, McDonald and others were sophomoric.
It said, all three comics were stuck on overused sex humor.
Humor that says, Norm seemed to riff for far too long on the naming of apples.
Oh, Brent says he doesn't have sciatica.
He has Lincoln Continental.
Oh, my God.
I don't know what that means.
But you know Michael O'Donnell, who used to be on the show?
Yes.
He told me that sophomoric was code for funny.
So you shouldn't be upset if you see that.
All right.
Excellent.
That phrase.
Just know that it's very entertaining, and just sort them by worst reviews last,
and you
will laugh the entire way.
It makes me want to see the show even more.
Yeah, I don't think you'll feel insulted.
So you go to, oh, no, I love reading bad stuff.
It's fun.
You go to Ticketmaster, and then you go to Yelp?
No, it's Ticketmaster, and type in Norm MacDonald, and it's got reviews
underneath it, and you
have like 290 of them.
And most of them are positive, but I just wanted to see what the bad ones were.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I get bad ones even from my supposed followers.
They're like, I hate your guts.
I'm like, what?
Why are you following me?
They're like, I'm going to unfollow you.
Shut up.
Well, it's your passion for the game of golf.
It makes you seem untouchable.
It makes you seem like you're in an ivory tower.
Oh, my God.
We've got to do that Deutsche Bank thing, man.
Absolutely.
All right.
Well, Norm MacDonald.
That would be awesome.
I'll be looking for your tweet.
We will definitely do that.
We will do that.
Why don't you do it now so that I can hit, like, follow, and then we can be.
Because I don't follow that many people.
I don't want those people to follow 35,000 people.
We'll both reach out to you, Rich and I.
So, Toucher and Rich and Fred Toucher.
We will have that out to you post-haste, and we will organize this thing.
You're going to be at Foxwoods.
That is tonight at...
What is Deutsche Bank in September?
It's Memorial Day weekend, or Labor Day weekend.
Labor Day weekend.
Labor Day weekend.
Oh, yeah.
That's perfect.
What is special about the Deutsche Bank?
It's the only tournament that what?
Do you know?
It's the only tournament that denies the Holocaust.
Tha