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Skip My Posts posted:thats because he's more intelligent than you are and it bothers you It's insane to me how much people on the internet idolize Norm Macdonald. He's well-read but he's not much smarter than the average comedian. Read his Bob Dylan story from twitter, it sounds like undergrad aping of Cormac McCarthy. Whenever he "gets real" he uses a lot of embarrassing, grandiose literary flourishes and you can see why he sticks to his plainspoken style most of the time.
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Norm can be a sanctimonious bore but he mostly keeps it to twitter and other venues that are easy to ignore so who gives a poo poo.
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Past Tense Ragu posted:It's insane to me how much people on the internet idolize Norm Macdonald. He's well-read but he's not much smarter than the average comedian. Read his Bob Dylan story from twitter, it sounds like undergrad aping of Cormac McCarthy. Whenever he "gets real" he uses a lot of embarrassing, grandiose literary flourishes and you can see why he sticks to his plainspoken style most of the time. He's no IT guru, that's for sure
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Jerome Louis posted:He's no IT guru, that's for sure Were you groping for a putdown and you only came up with my avatar?
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Jan 18, 2017 04:23
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I really like norm, but reading comments and people responding to him on twitter is the saddest most frustrating thing in life. it's just a bunch of goddamn references to bits he's done twenty years ago and that have no relevance to the subjects he talks about. It's got to be really depressing to him.
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Past Tense Ragu posted:Were you groping for a putdown and you only came up with my avatar? He's no bird using a computer that's for sure
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Past Tense Ragu posted:It's insane to me how much people on the internet idolize Norm Macdonald. He's well-read but he's not much smarter than the average comedian. Read his Bob Dylan story from twitter, it sounds like undergrad aping of Cormac McCarthy. Whenever he "gets real" he uses a lot of embarrassing, grandiose literary flourishes and you can see why he sticks to his plainspoken style most of the time. I don't think you've ever read Cormac McCarthy, Norm's book, the Bob Dylan story or anything else for that matter. Norm's writing lacks pretension, McCarthy's style is intentionally florid. All you need to do is listen to an interview, an earnest one (one of the handful to exist) to know that he is much smarter than your average comedian. I don't know what literary flourishes you're alluding to, but the only times I've heard him use big words awkwardly is when he's doing so deliberately (zeitgeist).
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Odddzy posted:I really like norm, but reading comments and people responding to him on twitter is the saddest most frustrating thing in life. it's just a bunch of goddamn references to bits he's done twenty years ago and that have no relevance to the subjects he talks about. It's got to be really depressing to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZmmLaX90Q
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hog fat posted:I don't think you've ever read Cormac McCarthy, Norm's book, the Bob Dylan story or anything else for that matter. Norm's writing lacks pretension, McCarthy's style is intentionally florid. All you need to do is listen to an interview, an earnest one (one of the handful to exist) to know that he is much smarter than your average comedian. I don't know what literary flourishes you're alluding to, but the only times I've heard him use big words awkwardly is when he's doing so deliberately (zeitgeist). I have read almost all of McCarthy but what serious reader hasn't? He's an entry-level author and his style is so easily copied that everybody who reads him writes like him for a week. "When Bob Dylan speaks, his words seem chosen long ago, his sentences are spare, and he looks right at you, and his countenance is stone." This appears to me to be a direct lift of McCarthy's biblical style of stringing together clause after clause with the word "and," except it's not done well. Too many commas and the word "countenance" is awkwardly deployed (wouldn't "face" suffice?). This is the sentence of an avid reader but a pretentious writer. I think Norm Macdonald is one of the funniest people alive but his deification is so embarrassing. I suspect his fans think being a degenerate gambler and recluse is actually cool and a more authentic way of living in the world. I don't want to beat up on him or his fans any further, I just can't stand this aggressive defense of him for everything he says.
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Past Tense Ragu posted:I have read almost all of McCarthy but what serious reader hasn't? He's an entry-level author and his style is so easily copied that everybody who reads him writes like him for a week. Who cares retard
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I have read almost all of McCarthy but what serious reader hasn't? He's an entry-level author and his style is so easily copied that everybody who reads him writes like him for a week. "When Bob Dylan speaks, his words seem chosen long ago, his sentences are spare, and he looks right at you, and his countenance is stone." This appears to me to be a direct lift of McCarthy's biblical style of stringing together clause after clause with the word "and," except it's not done well. Too many commas and the word "countenance" is awkwardly deployed (wouldn't "face" suffice?). This is the sentence of an avid reader but a pretentious writer. I think Norm Macdonald is one of the funniest people alive but his deification is so embarrassing. I suspect his fans think being a degenerate gambler and recluse is actually cool and a more authentic way of living in the world. I don't want to beat up on him or his fans any further, I just can't stand this aggressive defense of him for everything he says.
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Past Tense Ragu posted:This appears to me to be a direct lift of McCarthy's biblical style of stringing together clause after clause with the word "and," except it's not done well. Too many commas and the word "countenance" is awkwardly deployed (wouldn't "face" suffice?). This is the sentence of an avid reader but a pretentious writer. I think Norm Macdonald is one of the funniest people alive but his deification is so embarrassing. I suspect his fans think being a degenerate gambler and recluse is actually cool and a more authentic way of living in the world. I don't want to beat up on him or his fans any further, I just can't stand this aggressive defense of him for everything he says. This is incredible
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All this time I thought I liked Norm Macdonald because of his acerbic wit and willingness to say the impolite things nobody wants to say for a laugh. But it's actually because he writes in a certain style.
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Jan 18, 2017 22:01
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I'm actually the current Norm MacDonald Chair of Standup Studies at the University of Canada eh
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Past Tense Ragu posted:I have read almost all of McCarthy but what serious reader hasn't? He's an entry-level author and his style is so easily copied that everybody who reads him writes like him for a week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX1SojKfgNI
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Past Tense Ragu posted:I have read almost all of McCarthy but what serious reader hasn't? He's an entry-level author and his style is so easily copied that everybody who reads him writes like him for a week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KQDIkD_BFQ
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Past Tense Ragu posted:I have read almost all of McCarthy but what serious reader hasn't? He's an entry-level author and his style is so easily copied that everybody who reads him writes like him for a week. I'm getting in on the ground floor on this one. I was here to read it
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Past Tense Ragu posted:I have read almost all of McCarthy but what serious reader hasn't? He's an entry-level author and his style is so easily copied that everybody who reads him writes like him for a week. This is one of the funniest posts I've ever read these forums. Norm is cool because he's thoughtful.
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gently caress you Past Tense Ragu for posting that dumb poo poo and making people read it also gently caress you norm where's the new episodes? where are they
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gently caress Norm McCarthy
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please do not close this thread
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Back on topic: Looking at the way Norm is back into sports and gambling on twitter I can only hope he's broke again soon and the podcast comes back for another partial season until he digs himself out of debt. E: don't close thread
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I like Norm's stand up, his writing, and his jokes. I do not think he is a good role model. I would never ask for his opinion or discuss with him religion/spirituality. gently caress I wouldn't even talk to him about loving sports. close it
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Normstradamus is the only sports news I follow.
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An Apple A Gay posted:I like Norm's stand up, his writing, and his jokes. I do not think he is a good role model. I would never ask for his opinion or discuss with him religion/spirituality. gently caress I wouldn't even talk to him about loving sports. close it Yeah but what if the podcast starts ag- Close it
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ol yeller posted:Who cares retard
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Atheists should ask themselves "What would Norm do?" We might be funnier then. Leave the thread open, I like when people share links to funny Norm material.
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There were pictures of Norm and Letterman on the set THERE WERE PICTURES
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Anyway I choose to blame that kid who killed himself in Norm's house for this delay What a jerk
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Jan 21, 2017 01:03
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Thid thread is fun, very very slow but it's nice to have other fans of good comedy around and see their suggestions.
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I was on a Norm on YouTube wormhole and I watched this for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztszNnfgwrw&t=276s He knew, yeah? Or am I reading too much into this, because it seems like you wouldn't say that about a normal person. I know I've heard from lots of comedians that it was a known thing but without proof, but this is the earliest video I've seen about it. Ariza fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jan 21, 2017 |
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Ariza posted:I was on a Norm on YouTube wormhole and I watched this for some reason: He was kinda obsessed about Bill Clinton and a supposed hit he put out on a dude back in Arkansas. No idea about the backstory but most Weekend Update bits he did on the subject are online. No idea about the Bill hit but as some youtube commentary said, when they brought out a picture of GW with Norm on it, he took the gloves off and dished it out in their direction a little.
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Jan 21, 2017 06:31
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Pretty sure Ariza was talking about Cosby.
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I am seeing Norm's special taping in Boston next week. I bet he got fat again, but hell, so did I.
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Ariza posted:I was on a Norm on YouTube wormhole and I watched this for some reason: Public allegations started that year: http://nypost.com/2000/03/02/actress-bombshell-cos-rubbed-me-the-wrong-way/ It only gained steam recently after Hannibal Buress brought it up in his act and it went viral.
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Keith Raza opened for norm yesterday so thats the level of hope this rumor operates on
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Michael Huettner and Dagwood MacDonald had a YouTube channel a couple of years back that Norm heavily promoted on Twitter. Here's Michael and Devery in a sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSA5rUzhzcc hog fat fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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