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Holy Calamity! posted:He cohosts the show with Adam Eget, who used to jerk off punks under the Queensborough bridge for 15 dollars a Fixed this. This is the funniest loving thing I have ever heard and it's a shame that Norm isn't like Adam and Dr. Drew(my other most listened podcast until recently) and constantly blares about how to support him because I would click through anything and everything and would probably donate too, this podcast is fan-loving-tastic. Where the gently caress is episode 11?
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Can you guys leave him alone? He's stated several times he's gaining weight for a role. Lets all stop having fun at his expanse.
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Jun 9, 2013 04:55
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Just chiming in to say I listen to these almost exclusively audio-only, as I can't really find an hour per episode to watch them like a movie, and I still think this podcast is one of the greatest things to happen in my lifetime. I put one on while I'm running or driving and it's so funny it should probably be illegal to drive with as I've laughed so hard I almost rear ended like two people. The awkward faces are probably hilarious but the long pause implies about the same thing, to me.
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Jun 13, 2013 12:12
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Evil Agita posted:They cut out Owen Wilson's name when talking about his suicide attempt on the Gilbert episode. Did they? I recall a point where they brought him up and I remember it got weird (I'm audio-only), like Norm wanted to stop talking about it or something. Maybe I heard the abrupt cut or something. Was this before he got famous? Holy poo poo why would he ever want to kill himself?
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Jun 17, 2013 10:02
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Well I definitely remember them bringing up his name, I remember thinking it was odd because I hadn't heard about him in a while and they stopped talking about him almost immediately. Maybe I'll catch it again in a re-listen.
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Jun 17, 2013 10:53
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I would eat her rear end in a top hat, for muscular dystrophy! Thanks Gilbert I wasn't gonna finish this set in the gym anyway rear end in a top hat I almost dropped the weights on my head.
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Jun 19, 2013 10:25
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WYA posted:This is the best moment on the show so far. Yeah this has by far the most rewatchability. Everything from the Furley impression to, "Your dad's alive, right? gently caress." had me in loving stitches.
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Jun 20, 2013 23:50
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"Norm, I was six months sober... " "Yeah? What about your fuckin shaving cream poo poo? Huh? You think I liked that?"
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Oct 8, 2013 02:53
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I still listen to old episodes of this podcast all the goddamn time, I've listened to each episode at least ten times and I hope to christ it comes back.
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Oct 11, 2013 00:34
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Not to be the douchebag saying "you don't get it" but I'm pretty sure the joke is he doesn't give a poo poo about anything and in the case of the porn guy, was horribly overacting on purpose, and in the case of Dirty Work, literally played himself.
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May 14, 2014 22:50
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Spade was the best guest we've had since Gottfried. Had me in tears several times.
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May 29, 2014 04:38
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I think it's "You know Neil Armstrong on Facebook." followed by "You know like five guys on there.", part of him ribbing on Norm for having an odd social media presence, like when he asks, "Oh, your twitter about GOLF?" when Norm mentions his twitter.
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May 29, 2014 21:41
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manyak posted:Koechner is the first actual misstep this season really from a booking perspective I felt like Simon Helberg was horribly misbooked and he himself realized it about thirty seconds into his interview.
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Jul 9, 2014 02:06
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Bloody Holly posted:As bad a fit as Helberg was, it was amusing to watch him quickly realize how in over his head he was, and how clearly he was not enjoying himself. And I would actually argue that Helberg could tell a story well, I legitimately re-listen to hear his Michael Jackson and Russian kids in Karate class stories. Koechner had to have Norm lead him by the hand everywhere to be interesting at all.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:00
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My absolute favorites have been Nick Swardson, David Spade, and Gilbert Gottfried. I can listen to any of those three now and be howling with laughter by the end.
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Jul 10, 2014 04:55
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Kull the Conqueror posted:David Spade's mother/daughter porn bit was the hardest I've laughed at anything in a long time. As someone who hasn't paid any attention to the man since Black Sheep and Tommy Boy, I was pleasantly surprised by, at the very least, how well he interviews. His KMart Hat story, the Mother/Daughter Porn, and his Tales of SNL ("When will it be enough for Dana Carvey?") had me outright howling. I gotta check out his standup.
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Jul 11, 2014 08:02
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Seems like he reached out to the "one man whose decision it was" and was hurt that he was never contacted back. To be fair, as much as we all love him, Norm appears to be a nightmare to work with. Flighty as all hell, with a knack for unconventional comedy often at the expense of his employers or co-workers. He can't play the Troll for fifteen years and then suddenly want to be the straight man doing legitimate interviews on a major network program. Not without a lot of hardship, at least.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:10
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By the Troll I of course don't just mean his on-air persona, but how goddamn unreliable he is as far as scheduling, product endorsement, and even comedy, at least sticking to a script. He's a goddamn loose cannon, and one more outburst like that and he's
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Aug 6, 2014 10:02
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Crankit posted:Do you know if there will be more podcasts? The question we're constantly asking ourselves. Norm fans are the most masochistic fans in Hollywood, Norm is famous for flaking on shows and obligations all the time. He's like some insane genius that can be hilarious when he wants to be, but is rarely motivated for too long. Your guess is as good as ours. The guy takes so many hiatuses he makes Artie Lange look reliable.
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Feb 19, 2015 02:41
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My first thought was, "How many episodes will he make it until he needs to be replaced for never showing up?"
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Mar 13, 2015 01:43
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Gyshall posted:No but he is a holocaust denier Say what you will about the man, he sucks a mean rear end in a top hat.
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Mar 13, 2015 04:49
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I really can't see Norm enjoying himself under the restraints of network TV again. He just seems to have so much fun making homophobic Adam Eget jokes and holocaust denial jokes. Can he even work family-friendly anymore?
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Mar 13, 2015 20:10
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Boy, those Salt and Pepper ones are peppery.
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Apr 19, 2015 08:45
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For all you West coasters: Norm is co-headlining with none other than Roseanne on May 8th at the Grove in Anaheim, California. Slam purchased my tickets immediately, it'll be my first time seeing Norm live. Super excited.
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Apr 20, 2015 06:50
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I think a lot of his style is what you might be able to call "in-jokes", it's almost like he's making fun of jokes when he tells them. I really hate using this term, especially negatively, but I think Epoxy Bulletin posted:I like Norm, I like him a lot, but it's a real drat shame to see so much SOME GADGET and KIDS THESE DAYS shtick. God I still love his delivery, but yikes that material. really missed the point. I honestly believe that was half the joke. The man is just over 50, he's not 100 years old. He knows what a smartphone is and how it works, the joke is just how ridiculous the concept of a phone being that powerful really is. Then he stretches it out to see how far the audience will let him take it. First he makes the observation, but he does it in a Normy kinda way, using his mannerisms and tone of voice, "Hey, people take pictures with their phones, etc" and then he takes it further, "If you used a telephone and tried to take a picture, people would look at you odd.", which is classic Norm ridiculousness. Of course nobody ever did that. He takes the classic comedian's observation, but then he takes it like four steps too far until it's ridiculous just to imagine. The whole time using amazing deadpan to make it seem like he's still making common observations. Then he takes it a bit too far, pantomiming the act of using a rotary phone to take a photo, but the audience isn't biting as much, so he giggles and backs off. This was all carefully calculated. If he was in front of a bunch of comedians who were loving it through this point, he probably would have kept going. Norm is definitely not an everyman's comedian. He's no Mencia or Cook, he definitely would never be trusted with a late night endeavor like Leno or Letterman. When I went to see him and Roseanne last week, the crowd was OBVIOUSLY there for Roseanne. Much older crowd, she got a standing ovation at entrance and exit, meanwhile Norm who was technically headlining met with mixed reactions from the crowd. My group was definitely the only ones dying at his entire set. It's just not some (most) people's cup of tea, I guess.
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May 16, 2015 23:40
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Norm is a funny guy who knows a lot of funny people but everything he does outside of the podcast is terrible. Actually, I thought the little bits he brought to Emoji Academy were pretty great. Obviously I don't know if he actually wrote anything or had any say in those bits, but it was funny enough. Him dressed like a little kid going out for his first day at school, complete with "Norm" written on his lunch bag, and his quips were still razor-sharp. I doubt anybody else could have contributed anything more to the bare-bones script. You'll notice as well, his character is the only one to have what I would call "acting" at all in the drat thing. These starlets (none of whom I could tell from anybody else, despite the comments section echoing its apparent love for them; really, you're going to post that she "killed it" or the other one is "slaying"? Nobody had any goddamn lines! The girls all had cookie-cutter training montage lines like "I think you've got it" and "How about this one?". They didn't goddamn do anything but spend four hours in makeup and say three words!) gave him nothing at all to play off of, though that may be the fault of the director as well. It is, of course, a loving Chevrolet commercial six months late on the WACKY EMOJI MEME so who cares, I guess. Good to see our boy getting a paycheck.
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Jun 23, 2015 05:42
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Oh, yeah, you mean the poo poo he does for a paycheck that he obviously doesn't care about or put any real effort into. Yeah that stuff sucks. It's not like his appearance in Grown Ups was meant to nab that Oscar nod, though.
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Jun 25, 2015 03:14
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Hat Thoughts posted:Norm's movie is good tho Dirty Work is the Citizen Kane of my generation and I will physically fight anyone who implies otherwise. PaletteSwappedNinja posted:He doesn't care about or put effort into anything, and that's kinda my point - the podcast is perfectly suited to his temperament and work ethic and it gives him an environment where he can be genuinely funny and not oh-god-Norm's-pretending-to-act-again funny but he still managed to find a way to kill it off. Or it WAS, before they started making him take the ads seriously and pull his leash a little. It's difficult to tell because the second half-block of the podcast episodes he started having on a lot more older comedians that he really respected and couldn't just goof on like he could Fred Stoller or That Guy From The Big Bang Theory, but he really toned it down in the last half, right around the time his advertisements starting being vanilla boring readthroughs. There's no way he was having fun on the podcast anymore and obviously he dropped it. STOP LEASHING THE MAN JUST LET HIM MAKE FUN OF THE MANGRATE IN PEACE THIS IS WHY WE DON'T HAVE ART ANYMORE Advice fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Jun 25, 2015 |
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Jun 25, 2015 05:40
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Yeah you actually would be hard pressed to find a bigger Norm fan than me and even I don't follow him because it's all sports stuff, maybe a good story every two weeks but like 95% golf or football commentary that I don't understand at all.
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Nov 1, 2015 10:40
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No, that's just Roseanne. I feel like this is some huge joke on me. Norm is my favorite comic and he's obsessed with this painfully unfunny comedienne from like twenty years ago. I didn't like her show, I've never heard her say anything funny, and she's painfully obsessed with her ex and the drama surrounding him. I tried desperately to force down some episodes of Last Comic Standing that they judged for, and I swear to gently caress it's like someone's messing with me. Roseanne's contribution for one act is pointing and yelling, "ALTERNATIVE COMICCCCC" while the audience explodes into laughing and applause. Then Norm's insightful commentary is met with silence and light claps.
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Spade, Gottfried, and Swardson are the best podcasts. All are with seasoned pros of comedy who help Norm rip on Adam Egret. Coincidence?
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