Norm 2/2: Norm speaks about Men of Promise - such as Jacques de Gauthier de Gatineau and Oscar Pistorius Conan Season 4 Episode 89: May 21, 2014: Norm Macdonald, Mackenzie Davis, Veruca Salt
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I’ve seen Norm get to a lot of dead ends and recover but “you know a man grows…” may be the most brilliant
@MrEzekiel1982 Жыл бұрын
Ay nigra
@ConanVictor11 ай бұрын
I honestly think Norm said it on purpose. Always two steps ahead.
@sfonylx10 ай бұрын
@@sfonylx at 3:03 he set it up. Brilliant
@TA-tg1cf10 ай бұрын
@@sfonylx he did it ALL on porpoise
@TA-tg1cf10 ай бұрын
@@TA-tg1cf 😄
@sfonylx9 ай бұрын
Oscar Pistorius may have been an alleged murderer, but I’ll tell you one thing he was not: a legged murderer.
@doctrinmontreal3 ай бұрын
Clever 👍
@fr.mcgreer83492 ай бұрын
🤌
@martinadrianarcenas867Ай бұрын
Brilliant, Norm would've loved this one.
@Grateful2ExistАй бұрын
he out now running around a free man on his stilts.
@SirRandyofcxcheshireАй бұрын
Almost the best joke I have ever heard or read!
@longtalljayАй бұрын
I only regret that we never got to see Norm as an actual old man.
@constantreader7483 Жыл бұрын
Damn... that was deap
@pooriasheikhi50425 ай бұрын
He skipped from lanky nasal-talking 20-something, to baritone backwoods geezer before he was 40. We was robbed of Old Man Norm.
@carlodave94 ай бұрын
I’d say we did. He knew he was dying. Norm embraced his full transition into Grandpa Norm in those last years. He seemed so at peace and care-free.
@HalConick4 ай бұрын
I don't knew i was goin to cry again.
@sollognelle29293 ай бұрын
To be fair he's always acted like an old man
@quainejohnson48083 ай бұрын
"You're not a biped" kills me.
@Havok259 Жыл бұрын
"Scram"
@leobender29102 ай бұрын
Scram! Take all the time u need...
@donbarone47992 ай бұрын
I GUESS IT ALSO DID THE WIFE A NUMBER
@user-yp1oz3zf5c2 ай бұрын
Just like oscar
@jaredm.16202 ай бұрын
All it’s missing is an “on accounta”
@ChrisStoneinatorАй бұрын
“Allegedly…. Also, really.” Brutal, and re-usable!
@rg34124 ай бұрын
Hahahahaha. "And re-usable" is great and reusable too
@kozhikkaalan2 ай бұрын
That's what I thought, "I'm gonna have to stick that one in my back pocket".
@witchking67874 күн бұрын
My God, his transition from Oscar to Jacques is the most beautifully non-connected thing i've ever seen.
@morehumanthanyou Жыл бұрын
It serves a youthful porpoise.
@knowsmebyname7 ай бұрын
@@knowsmebyname😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@joshuapeterson23664 ай бұрын
Is that even a real person?
@maximilianschulz64554 ай бұрын
I've only ever seen the second half, but damn, that transition was masterful!
@tomgrus6043 ай бұрын
@@knowsmebyname Youthful porpoise.
@BowlCrossy3 ай бұрын
The way Norm falls out of his chair and shakes Andy's hand, you know he took that as a massive compliment.
@mitch_sorenstein7 ай бұрын
Andy has never been a dunce, nor an empty vessel. He's always caught the astute folly of Norm and Conan. He was well-suited as a sidekick, much more substantive than Ed McMahon. I've always felt a little sad for Andy, that he may have regretted that he hasn't done enough with his life...I could see him in a dramatic role and be surprisingly convincing...
@fenwayify27 күн бұрын
@@fenwayifyhis show was really funny too, shame it didn’t last
@Leonisel16 күн бұрын
@@fenwayifyshut UP
@RespectProcess3 күн бұрын
"Well you know, a man grows." is the best bit of this entire segment. Funniest man who ever lived.
@Barberfrog Жыл бұрын
I don't get it. What does that have to do with the last name changing?
@mayedalshamsi Жыл бұрын
Growth is one of the manners in which things change.
@HeraldJohnson Жыл бұрын
@@mayedalshamsi The joke is basically that it's an absurd comment. Norm accidentally changed the last name of the guy in the joke. Instead of acknowledging that or explaining it, he said "a man grows" which is kind of a literary, fortune-cookie-esque way of saying that people change over time. But generally that sort of thing refers to someone growing emotionally or growing in wisdom. Not someone changing their last name. It's the sort of joke that isn't particularly funny when you explain it, but it's fantastic as an off the cuff response to Conan pointing out that he made a mistake.
@clayton229 Жыл бұрын
@@clayton229 - Thank you for that explanation! I'm sure it's less funny now that I've had to have it explained to me, but I'd take that over not understanding the joke at all, any day. 😜
@mayedalshamsi Жыл бұрын
I’ve used this line and it kills
@harbinger_9152 Жыл бұрын
“Something Wile E Coyote would order” is my favorite line
@thomaskorycinski576310 ай бұрын
For some reason it flies under the radar. Love that line.
@stabyourcat3 ай бұрын
It’s the word order that is so funny. Like he went on Amazon.
@evansevansevans115 күн бұрын
I'll be real. I'm with Norm on that. His cardiovascular system didn't need to pump oxygen as hard, he didn't need to train his ankles or calves, and he genuinely had actual fucking springs for legs. He DID have an unfair advantage. The murdering I can live with, but cheating is unforgivable.
@highestsettings10 ай бұрын
Worst thing about Oscar Pistorious is the hypocrisy.
@lepari99869 ай бұрын
the more i learn about this oscar pistorious guy, the more i don't care for him
@ryanfox24788 ай бұрын
The spring thing is obvious isn't it?
@knowsmebyname7 ай бұрын
also, weren't his blades longer than his legs? longer legs are definitely an advantage.
@BouncyBrown4 ай бұрын
Some say the hypocrisy was the worst part
@T25de4 ай бұрын
I am reasonably confident that Norm liked Andy's idea so much that he did, in fact, take someone on a 4 mile hike to show them a dog turd.
@jaredhaas41683 ай бұрын
The way Norm falls out of his chair to Andy’s retort is the best
@linkage432 Жыл бұрын
Yes! I've never seen Norm laugh that hard! He loved that analogy from Andy and even shook his hand soon after. That's big praise coming from Norm! 😅
@pats53754 ай бұрын
@@pats5375 Yes. Norm is usually only left to laugh at his own jokes, and give the audience a side eye as an indication that they should laugh too. I thoroughly enjoyed Norm getting a belly laugh for once.
@landon42783 ай бұрын
Hes just trying to recover from the beat down hes getting from conan and andy if youre astute like that. Thinking about it any other way is off.
@Optim403 ай бұрын
I absolutely loved that part and the fact Norm felt he had to shake Andy's hand. Talk about giving approval. Awesome.
@GameTime-yj6qv2 ай бұрын
@@Optim40 Norm didn't "try to recover from a beat down." Throughout his career he actively pursued subverting expectations, told bad jokes on purpose, and wasn't afraid to walk an entire room. Going into this Conan appearance, Norm absolutely knew his shaggy dog story had a terrible punchline -- puns are the worst -- and when Andy fearlessly jumped on it with a hilarious rejoinder, Norm was genuinely delighted. The handshake was respect, not recovery.
@billmartinson4205Ай бұрын
He takes us on these long journeys on Porpoise.
@grahamdonaldson90695 ай бұрын
And we have a whale of a time. Sorry, just seven words. Norm would have spun it out to several minutes of comedic majesty.
@TimonofIlford3 ай бұрын
@@TimonofIlford10/10 for effort anyway haha. Man he was the best.
@tripmcquagg496920 күн бұрын
@@TimonofIlford Don't sell yourself short, my friend! That was eight words.
@torchmark66Күн бұрын
"Take your time, as long as you want. But get the hell outta here!" - As long as you want is the funniest damn thing Norm was able to slip in there
@cmase19917 ай бұрын
Conan: “No one is going with you on this !” Norm (internal): “precisely”
@graemecreegan6749 Жыл бұрын
I dunno. Conan even joking around that it’s weird to not like that guy enrages me. He wore springs and bullied people to let him compete with people who were not allowed to wear springs. Yes, that is the kind of person who is so full of themselves that they’ll shoot their girlfriend. I called it years before. Never liked that guy. If he allowed the other participants to wear springs then maybe. No. Seriously. The Paralympic runners who ran with the modern prosthetics of the time were known to be much faster than people with legs. Which means if Jocko could do it, then everyone with no legs should have been allowed. But only he was allowed and he could obviously run way faster because he had springs for legs. Anyone who liked that guy was a complete moron.
@thetruthexperiment Жыл бұрын
@@thetruthexperiment yeah man, Pistorius is so lame 😁
@graemecreegan6749 Жыл бұрын
I live in Gatineau, Quebec, I'm sure there's a Jacques around here somewhere.
@chadparsons50 Жыл бұрын
Hello fellow québécois
@etiendre Жыл бұрын
Just don’t pin your hopes on him
@MehYam21123 ай бұрын
@@MehYam2112 nice.
@chadparsons503 ай бұрын
hey I'm from Gatineau too!
@ButtPins2 ай бұрын
I hope he's out there serving a youthful Porpoise.
@Stanzi182 ай бұрын
“4 mile hike to show you a dog turd” It’s the journey, not the destination
@simon4187 Жыл бұрын
Andy clearly has never been on a hike
@nomnom1124 ай бұрын
Underrated comment.
@chadparsons503 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure Oscar hasn't been on a 4 mile hike either, not with those rob9t legs. He'd probably fall down face-first into the dog turd, which is what he deserves for all those races he cheated in.
@apollobro91_2Ай бұрын
“I had no problem with the murder.” 😂😂😂😂
@spontaneousphil3175 Жыл бұрын
Well, it was tragic, at the time
@alvareo923 ай бұрын
The fact that Norm so thoroughly won over both Conan and Letterman tells you all you need to know about just how brilliant he was.
@aldersmoke1Ай бұрын
The man was a true comedic genius he reached deep into peoples minds and not everyone got it but to those that did he was the best truly.
@dp1582Ай бұрын
3:30 "well, you know, a man grows" 😂😂😂😂 one of my all time favorite Norm lines. No one but Norm could deliver it like that.
@random-nz7dy4 ай бұрын
'I started to travel to here and there...and to here again'.
@CrStrifey4 ай бұрын
" I don't have a problem with the MURDER." What a delivery. 😂
@lonewolfe25023 ай бұрын
Seen this a half dozen times and it gets me every time. We pinned our hopes on you Jaques De Gatinau!
@johnnymossville4 ай бұрын
Or de Gauthier.
@kyon8133 ай бұрын
@@kyon813 Hey. A man grows.
@torchmark66Күн бұрын
Andy’s comment after the youthful porpose joke is the sugar on top.
@DBEENE123 Жыл бұрын
The most "youthful porpoise" the German swede ever served.
@khester7397 Жыл бұрын
wow full clip. Only segments of this were on KZhead before. Thanx. Not only are you a scholar and a gentleman, but you must have a lot of doghouses.
@prashantnegi0072 жыл бұрын
After the punchline Norm’s “Now I believe…” and the explosion of facial expressions that go with it was the pay off.
@CaptainCologne5 ай бұрын
I love post-punchline riffs like that. I think what I like most about it is it's very risky if the punchline doesn't get a laugh. Because then the riff is just a half-sentence that you have to keep going.
@jakelover17313 ай бұрын
@@jakelover1731Agreed. It gets funnier the more I watch it, the way he plays innocent and darts his head back and forth at Conan and Andy.
@CaptainCologne3 ай бұрын
The faces he makes when Conan calls him out on changing the name.
@RaulCastilloАй бұрын
That little shrink when he realises he mixed up the last name, that is what i love about Norm so much. He was such an honest kid just trying to have fun, it was so endearing. Was really painful to learn he passed away but like a dear grandfather i will always come back to watch these videos and remember Norm and his kindness and fun with people. Missed always
@MrCWLАй бұрын
conan just can't contain himself whenever norm is on the show lol
@Eralen00 Жыл бұрын
No one else tells jokes quite like Norm did. He’s the only person I’ve seen intersperse punchlines throughout his ramblings that way. Genuinely the most unique voice in comedy.
@mjr_schneiderАй бұрын
Herald Johnson, you're a scholar and a gentleman for uploading this. 👍
@edwardh10032 жыл бұрын
Whether Herald knows it or not. He's found a youthful porpoise.
@GarthKnight18843 ай бұрын
He really loved the dog turd joke!
@kvps27 Жыл бұрын
It was more of a comment, really.
@krugbit9642 Жыл бұрын
@@dejuren1367 That's not hate for Andy, it's referencing a line from Norm MacDonald Live.
@Jagar_Tharn2 ай бұрын
Until Conan reminded us, “There’s only one like him…”. So true ❤️😢❤️
@riverjao3 ай бұрын
Not many people could go on Conan and just tell a 40 minute story for a pun. Mr McDonald was a legend.
@jebwatson3 ай бұрын
And he did it more than once - IMO his moth joke is the best joke I've ever heard. It's poetry, "I no longer love my son, I no longer love him because when I see his face all I see is the same cowardice I see whenever I look into a mirror" - just outstanding
@galenburghardt3272Ай бұрын
The 4 mile hike to show you a dog turd line is pretty great
@piercewilson40293 ай бұрын
The worst thing about Oscar Pistorius was the hypocrisy…
@rosscockcroft56624 ай бұрын
those blades were objectively superior for running than actual legs.
@heliopyre Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love how at 6:30 Andy so succinctly sums up Norm's comedy that Norm falls out of his chair and has to shake Andy's hand. Idk how, but Norm always managed to come off as a class act while also playing a total fool. His acknowledgement of Amdy's searing read on him is part of what makes him so entertaining and lovable.
@crancelbrowser54782 ай бұрын
"I feel that one of the basic requirements of being a sprinter, is having legs" ....... it's hard to articulate why he's the greatest comedian of all time
@stephengrigg5988Ай бұрын
The amount of gold from Norm during this single appearance (his entry bit and gypsy Jack Macdonald, the 1-min-audition, Pistorius, Jacques De Gautier/Gatineau, his messing with Mackenzie Davis) is staggering
@Chunkieta3 ай бұрын
"I'm serving a youthful porpoise" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@daniel.s.stefanov20 күн бұрын
The smartest comedian ever.
@jasonnoble3971 Жыл бұрын
This hits different as a Canadian. The funny thing is Norm knows our SeaWorld is called Marineland but is purposely calling it SeaWorld for an American audience.
@kennysmith19254 ай бұрын
He definitely loves Andy's joke more
@LucasTOrz Жыл бұрын
I love how much he enjoyed that 😂
@sandworm952827 күн бұрын
Seriously, that just gave me the idea of taking my children out on a long walk - I'm going to tell them I've got something to show them. After an hour, I'm just going to point to the most mundane thing I can spot and tell them "there it is!"
@keithws27793 ай бұрын
I run a city hiking group in Forest Park Queens. I ran an internet ad saying "Take a hike to Freedom". After 90 minutes we arrived at Freedom Road and I showed 30 hikers the street sign.
@kevinabel23703 ай бұрын
Did you do it?
@clark24912 ай бұрын
blows me away what kind of a talent he is
@ezanadaniel91493 ай бұрын
Thank you many many thanks OP for this clip. I had never seen this clip in its entirety but just some of the bits and pieces of this one floating around including present in TeamCoco channel. Thanks for sharing and loved enjoying every moment with this piece of coal , Norm !!🎉❤👌👍😅😊
@videosextra94345 ай бұрын
When Norm was at the Niagra Falls part and Conan said he saw Jacques and Norm said no it's just some attendant I thought it was really brilliant and hilarious. Norm could've just said "I went to Seaworld and saw Jacques" but Conan kind of interrupted him and Norm had to subvert Conan's expectation a bit in a very hilarious way
@anonfinally169221 күн бұрын
Norm could make you want to take that 4 mile walk to see the dog turd.
@angrysquirrel1874 ай бұрын
2:35 and 2:52 . That mischievous glint in his eye, the laughter prior, knowing how unnecessarily long and underwhelming that joke is 😭 and then taking us on the ride anyway 😁👌🏼❤ LOVE
@TA-tg1cf10 ай бұрын
Norms long form dad jokes are the fucking greatest
@peterhoffmann502Ай бұрын
I love that at the end of it all, it was good ol' Andy Richter The Swedish-German, who got Norm to fall out of his chair laughing.
@G4rm0nb0zi4Ай бұрын
I fully agree and said this from when i first heard about Pistorius. Those blades gave him an unfair advantage as a runner. But the world insists on being stupid about this.
@CT25074 ай бұрын
100%
@johnnymossville4 ай бұрын
If he’d only changed his gender…
@objectiveobserver27923 ай бұрын
This is amongst my top 10 all time favorite KZhead videos
@pooriasheikhi50425 ай бұрын
5:17 Conan's expression here is the best!! 😄
@UarehereАй бұрын
I thought that Pistorius should have been in the Special Olympics with other comparable competitors
@LlyleHunter Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry but I only discovered Norm thanks to The Orville and only started watching his comedy after his death and I'm loving his humour. He's passed but still making us laugh
@Mark01962 Жыл бұрын
the more you will learn about norm the more you will not care for him
@iskandar.bakshi Жыл бұрын
he's the greatest
@maxonmendel5757 Жыл бұрын
"the funniest man formerly alive" is the best compilation
@maxonmendel5757 Жыл бұрын
Although he did Letterman's last show, a very competitive last show was the last night Conan had on NBC. Norm showed up with a gift basket, the bit was genius. Little harder to find though.
@chadparsons50 Жыл бұрын
@@iskandar.bakshi why not? Dudes a legend
@ijij8191 Жыл бұрын
You know, the more I hear about this Pistorius fella, the less I care for him…
@neofunq9024 Жыл бұрын
He had a GREAT girlfriend from his hometown, she was with him for years in all his early inspirational videos, only to foolishly ditch her for a gold digger that he came to hate enough to kill.
@eldermillennial8330 Жыл бұрын
I think the worst thing about the Pistorias story was the hypocrisy
@RhysMoggАй бұрын
He could really get on a roll with other funny people. Feed each other the jokes, fantastic to watch.
@PainflyErect3 ай бұрын
Best Norm....and I have just watched the first two minutes so far.
@MA-iridium3 ай бұрын
Norm we miss you so much!! With love ❤ RIP
@fpvflyer47584 ай бұрын
LMAO. “You’ve done so many benefits for me and the gypsies.”
@mfinn27 Жыл бұрын
Just odd pairing?
@ilexevergreen54052 ай бұрын
norm absolutely LOVED that needle from Andy after his story lmfao. I love to see him genuinely laugh at a joke, it's rare someone gets one over on him
@badfdsify22 күн бұрын
Andy's never fallen for the 4mile hike trick.
@AnarchyEnsuesАй бұрын
This never gets old 😂
@pintkobe Жыл бұрын
Just like Reeva Steenkamp.
@polreamonn9 ай бұрын
I don’t know which was ballsier: the Oscar Pistorius joke, or delivering a deeply Québecois based joke to an American audience. I’ve always held this particular Norm appearance very dear because my mother was in fact born in Témiscaming, Quebec; a town remote enough that it’s citizens receive isolation pay from the provincial government. It just made me feel that much more connected to Norm, a comedian whose specialty was making you feel like you were in on the inside joke. Couldn’t get much more inside than that.
@brianmathews29263 ай бұрын
That's a real place? I thought Norm just made it up for the joke.
@Elriuhilu3 ай бұрын
@@ElriuhiluYep, real place, pulp and paper mill town along the Ontario-Quebec border on the Ottawa River. Around 2,500 people, quite isolated geographically. Their Wikipedia page actually reference this segment. Also when he calls the man Jacques-de-Gatineau, Gatineau is a big city in Quebec, part of the National Capital region directly across the river from Ottawa. And when he mentions the "Three Wise Men of Quebec," he is referencing three actual politicians from Quebec, who, during the 1960s, were dubbed as such by English media in Canada, seen as men who would change the course Canadian poiltics. Correspondingly, one of those men, Pierre Trudeau (Justin Trudeau's father) became one of the longest tenured Canadian Prime Ministers ever, championing multiculturalism and bilingualism, and having a major impact on the country's history, leaving a significant but somewhat divisive legacy.
@brianmathews29263 ай бұрын
This is like the 25th time I have watched this and I have never laughed so hard
@chinaasia45845 ай бұрын
When I'm feeling down I watch Norm he always makes me laugh
@bobnethan54744 ай бұрын
There’s many comedians that could make me us laugh at suicide and murder jokes. But only one that could make us smile
@skyluke94763 ай бұрын
One of the most knowledgeable. Rip my dear friend
@mathias4891Ай бұрын
Makin Norm fall out of his chair laughing would high on my list of life achievements
@christiananderson67613 ай бұрын
I have to write that I appreciate your channel. Not reuploading other people's work or trying to profit, like that guy selling access to NML.
@Dylan_Valentine2 жыл бұрын
Aww God bless! Do people not know about the internet archive? No need to pay a scoundrel: archive.org/details/Norm_Macdonald_Live
@HeraldJohnson2 жыл бұрын
@@HeraldJohnson To my knowledge he has 3 specials, do you have them?
@kaikaisen2155 Жыл бұрын
Just realized two are there, just Hitler's Dog, Gossip & Trickery that´s not
@kaikaisen2155 Жыл бұрын
His specials are HBO One-Night-Stand (it is on youtube: kzhead.info/sun/eL6AcsavpX-ipIk/bejne.html ), Me Doing Stand-up (Comedy Central, blocked on YT), and Hitler's dog (Netflix), plus Nothing Special (Netflix) which is more like a Cameo than stand up.
@HeraldJohnson Жыл бұрын
After he says “Ottawa” and Conan gives an exhausted look
@Talkitrhrough3 ай бұрын
Andy laughing that hard after Norm saying he has no problem with him murdering someone 😂😂😂😂😂
@spontaneousphil3175 Жыл бұрын
Andy explained almost exactly what Norm’s real joke was with these long deliberately hack but still entertaining stories on the talk shows. The insider piece, which Conan notes in an interview, was that it was such a big opportunity to be on this show or Letterman and Norm was entertainingly self destructive by throwing it away on drawn-out street jokes when he was a great comic with a unique perspective.
@Dan148339 күн бұрын
Norm reminds me of Andy Kaufman. He wasn't the performer. He was the audience, and we were the performers to his own personal show.
@scottsycamore82092 ай бұрын
Norm Nailed it.
@THEJOHNiVERSE Жыл бұрын
Its currently 2024. Norm's ridiculous humor is as funny as ever.
@motley3313 ай бұрын
The Swedish-German really gave it to Norm there.
@brawnydasco4 ай бұрын
That joke set up was truly Norm.
@matti100328 күн бұрын
Norm on Conan was the peak of the American Empire
@iancole853 ай бұрын
Oscar may have been armed when he murdered that poor woman, but he wasn’t legged.
@BKPSАй бұрын
Alleged murderer but not a legged murderer
@rounick284 ай бұрын
I miss you norm.
@chrisnelson3668Ай бұрын
I love Norm!!!
@NulJern4 ай бұрын
Ill never stop watching Norm
@ChristopherJohn43897 ай бұрын
GOAT!!! dood just had it, 100% of the time, so brilliant
@Batterystang4 ай бұрын
Only post-humously have I begun to develop and appreciation for Norm Macdonald
@Spumoon3 ай бұрын
I grew up in the Ottawa Valley, and hearing Norm's cadences as he tells a atory, always takes me back to the bullshitters I grew up around. None were as funny as Norm though. That nod he gives at the start of his story is a big part of that-it's a bit like a knowing wink.
@QueuePeaАй бұрын
I just realized this was the same show where he saved the interview view with the lady from Halt and Catch Fire.
@jonasking36703 ай бұрын
Andy must've felt great getting Norm to laugh like that
@austin21x4 ай бұрын
Norm is a master at putting people on the defence of something they don't believe. Pure art. 2:05 - 2:26
@rickylafleur1446Ай бұрын
"but I'm not gonna tell you my last name!"...different video....keep watching....lol....I love these guys
@CowboysCastlesandIndians14 күн бұрын
Such an unique style of comedy. And I love how he always had a way of trapping others into "biting" into what he said, where he always had a good retort. I still find it so hard to accept that he's gone.
@Massacretalitor4 ай бұрын
Miss him
@KaninTuzi Жыл бұрын
Norm admitting that it was way out off line is the cherry on top of the sequence lol
@emanuel588014 күн бұрын
"Youthful porpoise" joke is pretty poetic if you think about it. Some could say - unintentionally meta.
@kojimbek2817 Жыл бұрын
Intentionally meta
@amaro9085 Жыл бұрын
I hate meta
@iji6249 Жыл бұрын
@@iji6249 lol
@lucastaylor8321 Жыл бұрын
@@lucastaylor8321Meta ****** his mom.
@natwolf6878 ай бұрын
Andy's reactions are the best...
@kadesh1112 ай бұрын
Just realized that Norm was a modern Jonathan Winters🤔. Funnny
@68orangecrate263 ай бұрын
Norm! The guy is missed, genuinely.
@jonathankieranwriter4 ай бұрын
This is a great LESSON: don’t give up on the joke. Andy tried to tell his 3 (maybe 4) times and each time got cut off and then nailed it!
I’ve seen Norm get to a lot of dead ends and recover but “you know a man grows…” may be the most brilliant
Ay nigra
I honestly think Norm said it on purpose. Always two steps ahead.
@@sfonylx at 3:03 he set it up. Brilliant
@@sfonylx he did it ALL on porpoise
@@TA-tg1cf 😄
Oscar Pistorius may have been an alleged murderer, but I’ll tell you one thing he was not: a legged murderer.
Clever 👍
🤌
Brilliant, Norm would've loved this one.
he out now running around a free man on his stilts.
Almost the best joke I have ever heard or read!
I only regret that we never got to see Norm as an actual old man.
Damn... that was deap
He skipped from lanky nasal-talking 20-something, to baritone backwoods geezer before he was 40. We was robbed of Old Man Norm.
I’d say we did. He knew he was dying. Norm embraced his full transition into Grandpa Norm in those last years. He seemed so at peace and care-free.
I don't knew i was goin to cry again.
To be fair he's always acted like an old man
"You're not a biped" kills me.
"Scram"
Scram! Take all the time u need...
I GUESS IT ALSO DID THE WIFE A NUMBER
Just like oscar
All it’s missing is an “on accounta”
“Allegedly…. Also, really.” Brutal, and re-usable!
Hahahahaha. "And re-usable" is great and reusable too
That's what I thought, "I'm gonna have to stick that one in my back pocket".
My God, his transition from Oscar to Jacques is the most beautifully non-connected thing i've ever seen.
It serves a youthful porpoise.
@@knowsmebyname😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Is that even a real person?
I've only ever seen the second half, but damn, that transition was masterful!
@@knowsmebyname Youthful porpoise.
The way Norm falls out of his chair and shakes Andy's hand, you know he took that as a massive compliment.
Andy has never been a dunce, nor an empty vessel. He's always caught the astute folly of Norm and Conan. He was well-suited as a sidekick, much more substantive than Ed McMahon. I've always felt a little sad for Andy, that he may have regretted that he hasn't done enough with his life...I could see him in a dramatic role and be surprisingly convincing...
@@fenwayifyhis show was really funny too, shame it didn’t last
@@fenwayifyshut UP
"Well you know, a man grows." is the best bit of this entire segment. Funniest man who ever lived.
I don't get it. What does that have to do with the last name changing?
Growth is one of the manners in which things change.
@@mayedalshamsi The joke is basically that it's an absurd comment. Norm accidentally changed the last name of the guy in the joke. Instead of acknowledging that or explaining it, he said "a man grows" which is kind of a literary, fortune-cookie-esque way of saying that people change over time. But generally that sort of thing refers to someone growing emotionally or growing in wisdom. Not someone changing their last name. It's the sort of joke that isn't particularly funny when you explain it, but it's fantastic as an off the cuff response to Conan pointing out that he made a mistake.
@@clayton229 - Thank you for that explanation! I'm sure it's less funny now that I've had to have it explained to me, but I'd take that over not understanding the joke at all, any day. 😜
I’ve used this line and it kills
“Something Wile E Coyote would order” is my favorite line
For some reason it flies under the radar. Love that line.
It’s the word order that is so funny. Like he went on Amazon.
I'll be real. I'm with Norm on that. His cardiovascular system didn't need to pump oxygen as hard, he didn't need to train his ankles or calves, and he genuinely had actual fucking springs for legs. He DID have an unfair advantage. The murdering I can live with, but cheating is unforgivable.
Worst thing about Oscar Pistorious is the hypocrisy.
the more i learn about this oscar pistorious guy, the more i don't care for him
The spring thing is obvious isn't it?
also, weren't his blades longer than his legs? longer legs are definitely an advantage.
Some say the hypocrisy was the worst part
I am reasonably confident that Norm liked Andy's idea so much that he did, in fact, take someone on a 4 mile hike to show them a dog turd.
The way Norm falls out of his chair to Andy’s retort is the best
Yes! I've never seen Norm laugh that hard! He loved that analogy from Andy and even shook his hand soon after. That's big praise coming from Norm! 😅
@@pats5375 Yes. Norm is usually only left to laugh at his own jokes, and give the audience a side eye as an indication that they should laugh too. I thoroughly enjoyed Norm getting a belly laugh for once.
Hes just trying to recover from the beat down hes getting from conan and andy if youre astute like that. Thinking about it any other way is off.
I absolutely loved that part and the fact Norm felt he had to shake Andy's hand. Talk about giving approval. Awesome.
@@Optim40 Norm didn't "try to recover from a beat down." Throughout his career he actively pursued subverting expectations, told bad jokes on purpose, and wasn't afraid to walk an entire room. Going into this Conan appearance, Norm absolutely knew his shaggy dog story had a terrible punchline -- puns are the worst -- and when Andy fearlessly jumped on it with a hilarious rejoinder, Norm was genuinely delighted. The handshake was respect, not recovery.
He takes us on these long journeys on Porpoise.
And we have a whale of a time. Sorry, just seven words. Norm would have spun it out to several minutes of comedic majesty.
@@TimonofIlford10/10 for effort anyway haha. Man he was the best.
@@TimonofIlford Don't sell yourself short, my friend! That was eight words.
"Take your time, as long as you want. But get the hell outta here!" - As long as you want is the funniest damn thing Norm was able to slip in there
Conan: “No one is going with you on this !” Norm (internal): “precisely”
I dunno. Conan even joking around that it’s weird to not like that guy enrages me. He wore springs and bullied people to let him compete with people who were not allowed to wear springs. Yes, that is the kind of person who is so full of themselves that they’ll shoot their girlfriend. I called it years before. Never liked that guy. If he allowed the other participants to wear springs then maybe. No. Seriously. The Paralympic runners who ran with the modern prosthetics of the time were known to be much faster than people with legs. Which means if Jocko could do it, then everyone with no legs should have been allowed. But only he was allowed and he could obviously run way faster because he had springs for legs. Anyone who liked that guy was a complete moron.
@@thetruthexperiment yeah man, Pistorius is so lame 😁
I live in Gatineau, Quebec, I'm sure there's a Jacques around here somewhere.
Hello fellow québécois
Just don’t pin your hopes on him
@@MehYam2112 nice.
hey I'm from Gatineau too!
I hope he's out there serving a youthful Porpoise.
“4 mile hike to show you a dog turd” It’s the journey, not the destination
Andy clearly has never been on a hike
Underrated comment.
I'm pretty sure Oscar hasn't been on a 4 mile hike either, not with those rob9t legs. He'd probably fall down face-first into the dog turd, which is what he deserves for all those races he cheated in.
“I had no problem with the murder.” 😂😂😂😂
Well, it was tragic, at the time
The fact that Norm so thoroughly won over both Conan and Letterman tells you all you need to know about just how brilliant he was.
The man was a true comedic genius he reached deep into peoples minds and not everyone got it but to those that did he was the best truly.
3:30 "well, you know, a man grows" 😂😂😂😂 one of my all time favorite Norm lines. No one but Norm could deliver it like that.
'I started to travel to here and there...and to here again'.
" I don't have a problem with the MURDER." What a delivery. 😂
Seen this a half dozen times and it gets me every time. We pinned our hopes on you Jaques De Gatinau!
Or de Gauthier.
@@kyon813 Hey. A man grows.
Andy’s comment after the youthful porpose joke is the sugar on top.
The most "youthful porpoise" the German swede ever served.
wow full clip. Only segments of this were on KZhead before. Thanx. Not only are you a scholar and a gentleman, but you must have a lot of doghouses.
After the punchline Norm’s “Now I believe…” and the explosion of facial expressions that go with it was the pay off.
I love post-punchline riffs like that. I think what I like most about it is it's very risky if the punchline doesn't get a laugh. Because then the riff is just a half-sentence that you have to keep going.
@@jakelover1731Agreed. It gets funnier the more I watch it, the way he plays innocent and darts his head back and forth at Conan and Andy.
The faces he makes when Conan calls him out on changing the name.
That little shrink when he realises he mixed up the last name, that is what i love about Norm so much. He was such an honest kid just trying to have fun, it was so endearing. Was really painful to learn he passed away but like a dear grandfather i will always come back to watch these videos and remember Norm and his kindness and fun with people. Missed always
conan just can't contain himself whenever norm is on the show lol
No one else tells jokes quite like Norm did. He’s the only person I’ve seen intersperse punchlines throughout his ramblings that way. Genuinely the most unique voice in comedy.
Herald Johnson, you're a scholar and a gentleman for uploading this. 👍
Whether Herald knows it or not. He's found a youthful porpoise.
He really loved the dog turd joke!
It was more of a comment, really.
@@dejuren1367 That's not hate for Andy, it's referencing a line from Norm MacDonald Live.
Until Conan reminded us, “There’s only one like him…”. So true ❤️😢❤️
Not many people could go on Conan and just tell a 40 minute story for a pun. Mr McDonald was a legend.
And he did it more than once - IMO his moth joke is the best joke I've ever heard. It's poetry, "I no longer love my son, I no longer love him because when I see his face all I see is the same cowardice I see whenever I look into a mirror" - just outstanding
The 4 mile hike to show you a dog turd line is pretty great
The worst thing about Oscar Pistorius was the hypocrisy…
those blades were objectively superior for running than actual legs.
I absolutely love how at 6:30 Andy so succinctly sums up Norm's comedy that Norm falls out of his chair and has to shake Andy's hand. Idk how, but Norm always managed to come off as a class act while also playing a total fool. His acknowledgement of Amdy's searing read on him is part of what makes him so entertaining and lovable.
"I feel that one of the basic requirements of being a sprinter, is having legs" ....... it's hard to articulate why he's the greatest comedian of all time
The amount of gold from Norm during this single appearance (his entry bit and gypsy Jack Macdonald, the 1-min-audition, Pistorius, Jacques De Gautier/Gatineau, his messing with Mackenzie Davis) is staggering
"I'm serving a youthful porpoise" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The smartest comedian ever.
This hits different as a Canadian. The funny thing is Norm knows our SeaWorld is called Marineland but is purposely calling it SeaWorld for an American audience.
He definitely loves Andy's joke more
I love how much he enjoyed that 😂
Seriously, that just gave me the idea of taking my children out on a long walk - I'm going to tell them I've got something to show them. After an hour, I'm just going to point to the most mundane thing I can spot and tell them "there it is!"
I run a city hiking group in Forest Park Queens. I ran an internet ad saying "Take a hike to Freedom". After 90 minutes we arrived at Freedom Road and I showed 30 hikers the street sign.
Did you do it?
blows me away what kind of a talent he is
Thank you many many thanks OP for this clip. I had never seen this clip in its entirety but just some of the bits and pieces of this one floating around including present in TeamCoco channel. Thanks for sharing and loved enjoying every moment with this piece of coal , Norm !!🎉❤👌👍😅😊
When Norm was at the Niagra Falls part and Conan said he saw Jacques and Norm said no it's just some attendant I thought it was really brilliant and hilarious. Norm could've just said "I went to Seaworld and saw Jacques" but Conan kind of interrupted him and Norm had to subvert Conan's expectation a bit in a very hilarious way
Norm could make you want to take that 4 mile walk to see the dog turd.
2:35 and 2:52 . That mischievous glint in his eye, the laughter prior, knowing how unnecessarily long and underwhelming that joke is 😭 and then taking us on the ride anyway 😁👌🏼❤ LOVE
Norms long form dad jokes are the fucking greatest
I love that at the end of it all, it was good ol' Andy Richter The Swedish-German, who got Norm to fall out of his chair laughing.
I fully agree and said this from when i first heard about Pistorius. Those blades gave him an unfair advantage as a runner. But the world insists on being stupid about this.
100%
If he’d only changed his gender…
This is amongst my top 10 all time favorite KZhead videos
5:17 Conan's expression here is the best!! 😄
I thought that Pistorius should have been in the Special Olympics with other comparable competitors
I'm sorry but I only discovered Norm thanks to The Orville and only started watching his comedy after his death and I'm loving his humour. He's passed but still making us laugh
the more you will learn about norm the more you will not care for him
he's the greatest
"the funniest man formerly alive" is the best compilation
Although he did Letterman's last show, a very competitive last show was the last night Conan had on NBC. Norm showed up with a gift basket, the bit was genius. Little harder to find though.
@@iskandar.bakshi why not? Dudes a legend
You know, the more I hear about this Pistorius fella, the less I care for him…
He had a GREAT girlfriend from his hometown, she was with him for years in all his early inspirational videos, only to foolishly ditch her for a gold digger that he came to hate enough to kill.
I think the worst thing about the Pistorias story was the hypocrisy
He could really get on a roll with other funny people. Feed each other the jokes, fantastic to watch.
Best Norm....and I have just watched the first two minutes so far.
Norm we miss you so much!! With love ❤ RIP
LMAO. “You’ve done so many benefits for me and the gypsies.”
Just odd pairing?
norm absolutely LOVED that needle from Andy after his story lmfao. I love to see him genuinely laugh at a joke, it's rare someone gets one over on him
Andy's never fallen for the 4mile hike trick.
This never gets old 😂
Just like Reeva Steenkamp.
I don’t know which was ballsier: the Oscar Pistorius joke, or delivering a deeply Québecois based joke to an American audience. I’ve always held this particular Norm appearance very dear because my mother was in fact born in Témiscaming, Quebec; a town remote enough that it’s citizens receive isolation pay from the provincial government. It just made me feel that much more connected to Norm, a comedian whose specialty was making you feel like you were in on the inside joke. Couldn’t get much more inside than that.
That's a real place? I thought Norm just made it up for the joke.
@@ElriuhiluYep, real place, pulp and paper mill town along the Ontario-Quebec border on the Ottawa River. Around 2,500 people, quite isolated geographically. Their Wikipedia page actually reference this segment. Also when he calls the man Jacques-de-Gatineau, Gatineau is a big city in Quebec, part of the National Capital region directly across the river from Ottawa. And when he mentions the "Three Wise Men of Quebec," he is referencing three actual politicians from Quebec, who, during the 1960s, were dubbed as such by English media in Canada, seen as men who would change the course Canadian poiltics. Correspondingly, one of those men, Pierre Trudeau (Justin Trudeau's father) became one of the longest tenured Canadian Prime Ministers ever, championing multiculturalism and bilingualism, and having a major impact on the country's history, leaving a significant but somewhat divisive legacy.
This is like the 25th time I have watched this and I have never laughed so hard
When I'm feeling down I watch Norm he always makes me laugh
There’s many comedians that could make me us laugh at suicide and murder jokes. But only one that could make us smile
One of the most knowledgeable. Rip my dear friend
Makin Norm fall out of his chair laughing would high on my list of life achievements
I have to write that I appreciate your channel. Not reuploading other people's work or trying to profit, like that guy selling access to NML.
Aww God bless! Do people not know about the internet archive? No need to pay a scoundrel: archive.org/details/Norm_Macdonald_Live
@@HeraldJohnson To my knowledge he has 3 specials, do you have them?
Just realized two are there, just Hitler's Dog, Gossip & Trickery that´s not
His specials are HBO One-Night-Stand (it is on youtube: kzhead.info/sun/eL6AcsavpX-ipIk/bejne.html ), Me Doing Stand-up (Comedy Central, blocked on YT), and Hitler's dog (Netflix), plus Nothing Special (Netflix) which is more like a Cameo than stand up.
After he says “Ottawa” and Conan gives an exhausted look
Andy laughing that hard after Norm saying he has no problem with him murdering someone 😂😂😂😂😂
Andy explained almost exactly what Norm’s real joke was with these long deliberately hack but still entertaining stories on the talk shows. The insider piece, which Conan notes in an interview, was that it was such a big opportunity to be on this show or Letterman and Norm was entertainingly self destructive by throwing it away on drawn-out street jokes when he was a great comic with a unique perspective.
Norm reminds me of Andy Kaufman. He wasn't the performer. He was the audience, and we were the performers to his own personal show.
Norm Nailed it.
Its currently 2024. Norm's ridiculous humor is as funny as ever.
The Swedish-German really gave it to Norm there.
That joke set up was truly Norm.
Norm on Conan was the peak of the American Empire
Oscar may have been armed when he murdered that poor woman, but he wasn’t legged.
Alleged murderer but not a legged murderer
I miss you norm.
I love Norm!!!
Ill never stop watching Norm
GOAT!!! dood just had it, 100% of the time, so brilliant
Only post-humously have I begun to develop and appreciation for Norm Macdonald
I grew up in the Ottawa Valley, and hearing Norm's cadences as he tells a atory, always takes me back to the bullshitters I grew up around. None were as funny as Norm though. That nod he gives at the start of his story is a big part of that-it's a bit like a knowing wink.
I just realized this was the same show where he saved the interview view with the lady from Halt and Catch Fire.
Andy must've felt great getting Norm to laugh like that
Norm is a master at putting people on the defence of something they don't believe. Pure art. 2:05 - 2:26
"but I'm not gonna tell you my last name!"...different video....keep watching....lol....I love these guys
Such an unique style of comedy. And I love how he always had a way of trapping others into "biting" into what he said, where he always had a good retort. I still find it so hard to accept that he's gone.
Miss him
Norm admitting that it was way out off line is the cherry on top of the sequence lol
"Youthful porpoise" joke is pretty poetic if you think about it. Some could say - unintentionally meta.
Intentionally meta
I hate meta
@@iji6249 lol
@@lucastaylor8321Meta ****** his mom.
Andy's reactions are the best...
Just realized that Norm was a modern Jonathan Winters🤔. Funnny
Norm! The guy is missed, genuinely.
This is a great LESSON: don’t give up on the joke. Andy tried to tell his 3 (maybe 4) times and each time got cut off and then nailed it!
2:38😂😂😂. You know shits about to happen!