Norm Macdonald Collection on Letterman, Part 3 of 5: 1998

well I'm glad you folks are in a great mood tonight our first guest is one of the funniest men working in television today is the anchor of Weekend Update on the popular Saturday Night Live program please welcome Norm Macdonald armed [Applause] [Music] how you doing good I'm just slow that's okay happy new year but thank you very much for being here yeah you don't mind if I ask you a question well I'm here today I hear this story and as it's like this press release you get your ass fired is that yeah no you didn't get fired yeah they fired all they didn't fire me no I'm serious that guy I talked to a guy that said I'm fired fired from your television job from on the weekend now you know I do the news save the weekend update' and I do the jokes there are some times many times the best part of the show yeah it's all a matter of opinion that's your opinion it's my opinion oh but then the guys that can fire me that's not their opinion now why would they fire you well I've fired your first of all let's get some names here let's get this on the record well I don't know the guys like is the guys that work where I Lauren Michaels and sad Lauren Michaels fired no he did he didn't fire me right he likes me and stuff well he is his show isn't it I I thought it was his show yeah but they're not gonna guy come in from the outside in for you so let's maybe she fired you know there MVC what happens is your work on the show and then there's these guys that hang out like in the hall yeah we got a mirror and they're called executives at NBC executives right I'd see him I didn't know who they were what they did you know now I know what they do they fire me for Weekend Update but they they they said that this guy Don ohlmeyer turns out to be the president yeah now I know Don ohlmeyer yes between you and me is an idiot Oh so I wouldn't take it seriously if this guy fired you you may still have a job you never know I'd wait for some paperwork I phoned him you know oh you had to phone you had to phone him to pick up your messages from but oh man I said hey you know I just say you're like hey how's it going there you know you're trying to talk about something now did you have a turkey there for the thing or whatever and then that so he goes oh yeah I'm firing you there from the show and then I I said oh that's not good and I said why is that now and he goes oh you're not you know you're not funny yeah and then I said I said Oh Lord that's even worse news you know no I got nothing to fall back he just fired you what do you mean is it good what is wrong with you you Quisling stop that I don't know what Quisling means I mean to me like you know you have to be philosophical but these things I mean at first like when I found out you know I was upset but then you know I I really started I started to think about it you know and plus I drank a lot of whiskey and I liked that but then the next day I sobered up and I remembered you know that I still had some whiskey like far be it for me to tell you how to lead your life or your career because lord knows you've been very very successful but if the guy says to you we don't want you on the Weekend Update and that's like your signature piece you're you're kind of like the anchorman not only of that segment but of the entire Saturday Night Live show if things aren't going great they give the ball to you you're the damn quarterback norm you're the one who punches it over the goal line for pay dirt so now I'm history shot Cologne and cufflinks Don ohlmeyer if he says we don't want you on the weekend update' I'd adios yeah I can't absolutely hit the dirt come on over here to CBS we'll get you in that show well put you put you to get that nice show for you all right you're not Quisling never well now will you stay on the and the rest of the show yeah I'm gonna stay like I do also other than ooh an update I do like sketches but like I stink and nose so you know he thinks I'm funny in that oh it's just the weekend update' he doesn't think you're funny yeah he don't think I'm funny in a weekend update and god only knows I mean you know he it's just a matter of opinion he also thinks that oj is innocent don't let this pinhead push you around for heaven's sakes now he's not a pinhead he's a isn't he's a fat guy let's go get a little heat on here no it's better you don't like a guy just cuz he's fat you know I mean it's nothing to do with him being fat no in fact you don't like it cuz he's a dope no no it's just that you know what I've always said is I've said comedy is subjective mm-hm I never really is good no you're very very funny you're you're like the strength of that franchise well do you know any guys over there you can give a call to look yeah well they're gonna take a call from me you're lucky you're lucky they took your call so they could fire you are you kidding Wow but there are you getting some support from the rest of the cast members well you know the people on the cast like they go you know when you work at a place you know some people like it some people hate ya so you know people come after you and go oh man I'm sorry and then either they their story or they're not story yeah that's right so how the hell do you know no you don't really know but you can tell well sometimes you can tell like you walk into a room and then everybody will stop talking and then see you go hey were you just talking about how you were glad I got fired from the other day there you go no no we're talking about hats but now let me go back to this and I don't want to embarrass you again but if if Lorne Michaels the guy who created the show the guy who's kept the show in business all these years yeah it's his show mr. big shot Mr Cable and orso's Lorne Michaels why doesn't he step in why doesn't throw himself in front of this gorilla to save your job what's going on there with that it wasn't me like he's a Quisling yes like maybe we get a dictionary at the break this is didn't Lauren Michaels hire you yes he did who ought to be able to fire you Lauren Mike right sir there was he did he fire you no he didn't fire but he's like your buddy right your buddies will yeah he's a good man and what'd he say to you been very supportive oh well I guess not What did he say to you he said to me he says to me he says he said look norm this is the deal he said I want you to stay on as Weekend Update oh great so you got the job back that's good news [Applause] hang on stay right there think about it we're gonna get this straightened out all right norm good to see you buddy we'll be right back here with Norm Macdonald [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] McDonald is here from Saturday Night Live Peter Wilson from La Femme Nikita Raab you ever seen these strip people other great it's gonna change your life what do you got there none we looked up Quisling yeah I looked at yeah and also this do you know what quizmaster means yeah I feel like yeah like Rebecca no Quisling is a master of ceremonies on a game show [Laughter] a Quisling is a traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his country you sir are no Quisling I thought I was done when I didn't know what Quisling was I think I'm even dumber now because I still don't know this seems so preposterous to me so unfathomable so unreasonable that I'm guessing oh it's like a stunt like a publicity stunt like big-time wrestling or something is that that kind of deal where you and Don ohlmeyer lab have a few Daniel you'll wrestle on the show or something for your job one of those deals this weasel fired you know the other thing I'm funny and yet you like the man sure I mean yeah yes here's what a lot of people don't think I'm fun enjoy your complimentary beverage now tomorrow night it ain't whiskey but it's good now there's a great song now tomorrow night tomorrow night come back on the show or freighting they come back on the show and do Weekend Update you can do Weekend Update here you can be The Weekend Update guy on this show that'd be great who's taking your place on the weekend update' I don't know apparently they had some press release today but I don't read the papers which is what that wasn't good either not if you're in charge of Weekend Update I just bleep the admit what's going on I didn't do any Nixon joke yeah I'll tell you one thing I'll tell you who's taking your place nobody can take your place McDonnell that's what I think you don't seem to be taking this too hard you seem to be taking it pretty well well I mean I don't know because if somebody doesn't like you then and they own the joint you know that's fine I mean I don't know why would you want to work in that atmosphere why wouldn't you want to take a hike and say well I'll show you I'll take my little weekend update' someplace else and bury you punks I don't know I guess I'm like damn Quisling I hope you'll land on your feet I think you get it but you're gonna be in part of the show anyway right yeah yeah you know now I various impression of me you'll be doing that I guess why didn't they fire that now they're saying oh we're putting a whole bunch of sketches without line being because then they're like here you're the scientist and you you're the scientist in charge of monkey boy or some cheerleaders what's going on I haven't seen monkey boy bad let's get possibilities how's everything at home your mom all right oh yeah your mom she came to visit me in New York you know that's nice and she's a real sweet you know she she doesn't know much about show business you know but she always tries he knows I'm in show business yeah I mean until tonight so she always tries to give me like the showbiz news around like couple years ago she phoned me up she goes oh my god have you heard the news Liza Minnelli's a phony now is there like story Liza Minelli's a phone and I thought how can that be like a story like I'm sure she probably is a phony yeah but how would that be a scoop and then like took me awhile figure out she was talking about then I remember Milli Vanilli yeah she must be very excited and proud though I mean what because you work with big big stars like you've worked with I know you've worked with Bill Cosby oh yeah Bill Cosby man he was my favorite guy ever since I was young and I got to open for him at this comedy thing that he was the greatest I got to meet him and stuff and you know when you meet these guys so like you know you're shocked or something you know I can't believe you're talking this guy and and so I told him I said you know he's always funny he has that funny way of talking so I go hey hi nice to meet you mr. Cosby and he goes like yes yes so I go oh man I go you're my favorite you know and there's a little kid I always listen to you you're my dad's favorite comedian ever you know and he goes now where is your dad from yeah yeah that's very good uh-huh it's pretty good maybe I'll do this wig on the show so so I tell Cosby and I say oh my dad's from Ottawa so he turns to his buddy Ben as his manager something and he goes Ben this isn't we got the Ottawa you know and then goes yes we are playing Ottawa soon Ben understand what a Cosby says because yes mr. Cosby we are we do have a gig in Ottawa and coming up and he goes what is your phone give me a paper so you gotta get some favorite he goes here now write your father's name on the paper so he goes the pan the man names the band so I get the pan in the paper you know so I'm right now my father is a thing and then all of a sudden I realized that my father's dead you know I'm in this situation my dad's been dead eight nine years and I got the paper in the pen and so I I know Ottawa area code you know so I write that and then I'm just writing down like random numbers here you go mr. Cosby this is my father is still alive number here so I thought God man that's a stupid thing I did you know and then a couple weeks later I get a call and it's Bill Cosby on the phone and he's like I found the number it is so sweet like it actually found my father's number like what a great man you know and he said the man does not live with the number [Music] so I'm like I'm pretty sure man and well norm I hope we've been able to get you through your darkest hour and that I hope you somehow find the will to carry on and normally this would be the time when we'd mentioned the show on Saturday night but I'm so angry about this and I don't care about the show Saturday no and neither should you [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for five years our first guest was the star of Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live and then he got fired which makes absolutely no sense to any of us here he now stars in a brand new film entitled dirty work it opens in May here he is one of our favorites Norm Macdonald [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] those crazy thank you very much for being here thanks man welcome thanks for having me yeah you know norm the last time you were here it was a traumatic difficult situation because I believe it was like the day after you had been released kind of undone let go yeah I was that it was that very day that go that very day yeah [Laughter] well how has it been since then it's been weird you know like it's been weird rest fire does it turned up yeah yeah I got fired and then when I was talking to you on the show that day cuz this guy Don ohlmeyer fired and I didn't know the guy you know and and you kept saying like he's an idiot he's a pinhead you know and stuff like that and I would say like he's a good guy yeah and turns out you were right [Applause] when I'm wrong I've never been happy let me write about something in my life so because I went and met with him you know I never wait a minute after after you get fired you then have to go to a meeting with the guy yeah because I wanted to leave the show entirely and I thought that would be the next thing right and so uh and then you know I talked my uh all these guys I've paid money to you know and I go hey how about you guys figure out something there you know and then they're like well we were talking to this one guy that said that he maybe we could do you know and it took forever so I said how about I just go talk to the dude that fired face-to-face yeah no I'm on it shows great courage great class grace I believe yeah you're part yeah well I'm a courageous classy dude no I say so I go have to go to his office there he lives in Hollywood California you know and there's a big shot this guy Don ohlmeyer big shot oh yeah one of these guys comes with it comes to work very early and spends most of the day is selecting monograms what he does yeah yeah so his office is like I went to his office and it's this big office you know and then I'm just a guy used to night curb smoking nightclubs you're a hard-working guy yeah so I go in there and that guy down all miners there so I gotta talk and he I was that was it was it cordial was it a bit icy no it was a cordial he gave me a lighter what for being like it's what a parting gift when he's giving you what he had a lighter you know and he goes hey I want a lighter he gave me an umbrella you get fired and you get stuff yeah having a clock ready having a lighter and anything on the top shelf so I just said to the guy I said listen man cuz I appreciate that youyou don't think I'm funny that's now that was the issue that seemed to be the turning point Don ohlmeyer didn't think you were funny exactly right now in your assessment of him in this meeting is he a funny guy well that's not his job his job is picking up them monogrammed yeah but fancy he's one of these guys he fancies himself creative doesn't he yeah well I suppose any yeah well you know I worked for a Don ohlmeyer when I was at NBC for years and years and years and I know the guy yeah and here's a guy who could not create gas after a bean dinner that's not sure I witness that no no he the thing was I said okay so you think I'm not funny that's fine you know who cares but I said why don't we just I'll quit leave the show right you keep your money because you don't have a money - yeah - okay and then I'll go try to be funny somewhere else perfect point and then you know like that idea why not I don't know because it seems to me that you cuz you know there's other networks there's CBS well other networks yeah so my contention was I thought he would love that idea because what better for his network than to have an unfunny guy on another net exactly that's right he can't have it both ways he's a critic but at least there are no quislings in the picture now when you were here before I smelled a quiz on the quislings are gone yeah they're gone yeah good for you and so so the way it stands now is I can leave the show as long as I don't do anything else on any competing show right well that stinks that's yeah how long will that last I god I don't know man it's as long as as long to actually how long are you bound to them I'm down to them contract it sell it you know a stuff that I don't and that familiar but but but in the meantime they are continuing to pay you right yeah they pay me and I go to the show and hang out yeah I know what is that like being around your old friends on the show do they like having you there now or not everybody's gone cut nobody wants you know everybody's uncomfortable and they'd be glad to see me going I'd be glad to see them see me go and just this Don ohlmeyer care yeah yeah you know what you should do though you should now you should come here to CBS and get a show right here you should come to CBS and make make pretty boy make mr. cufflinks McDonald Meyer I want to find out norm how your family and friends are taking this and we'll do that we have to pause we'll return visiting with Norm Macdonald ladies [Applause] [Music] the Husky kid who invented the talk underwater thing well I would guess that one of the the good things about this you had some time off have you taken some vacation have you gone in we're trying yeah I went I wanted to get away from how the showbiz crazy showbiz yeah so I decided I'd go on a vacation and I like to go to hotels cuz all my years of doing my nightclub act I don't like hotels so I decided I'll go you know my buddy tells me goes hey you should go and bed and breakfast every Hotel huh sure yeah the idea is you go there it's a guy's house and you live in his room and then he makes some breakfast right yeah sure so I I looked one up on the internet there and I found one I went to Vancouver Island Victoria which is beautiful whoa yeah it's God's country and so I go there and I look up my place where I'm supposed to go I have a little piece of paper and I knock on the door right there's no answer so I knock again there's still no answer it's a file they look like in the window there and there's no old man sleeping on a couch you know so I banging on the door ringing the doorbell you know it's a fine light here like keep your pants on they're you know fit inside and he comes to door old guy you know but I'd say 80 85 years old Oh Harold Delaney was this Harold Delaney yeah nice and half gentleman you know and so I get in there and I says well I better go to sleep there's no one else there I thought it'd be like a whole bunch of people in different rooms you know yeah I was just me so I grew up and I I go to sleep and I'm ready to go to sleep and I knock comes on the door right knock on the my bedroom door right so I figure uh-oh the landing wants to have sex with me that's the first thought that went through your mind traveling alone and of course as now I didn't come to Victoria the abscess will herald the Lance I can do some sightseeing of course then I hear me gotta play some Scrabble yeah so I say okay that's good sure I'll play some Scrabble so I go down and he pulls out this scrolled Scrabble game there and we start to play you know I like Scrabble you know so I get the first turn you know cuz that picked the lower letter and so I get first turn so I make rabbit yeah pretty good that's a good word and then and then I do it they do it pretty quick I take like a couple of minutes and then old Harold Delaney he takes like a half-hour like beginners worried and the whole time he's not talking he's not telling me whole story so yeah I like hearing all stories you know and instead it was like for a half hours is Harold Delaney go [Applause] so then after a half an hour with that you know I'm just sitting there he comes up with his word it's a hat so he puts it and he takes the word hat and then he puts it like way in the corner on that triple letter score right the triple word the red one right you want to get to yeah sure well you can't just put it the hell noise got on something some relation to rabbit yeah you got it there you know finally get you there but instead he just puts it right there is my turn you know I do something and quickly and then again the same thing like you know time going by and then every word II and that was kind of with good words you know I had sleigh sleigh ride and avocado ooh there's a seven letter word you have 50 extra points I'm still way behind I gotta say something sure so he and all his words were like cop and I think it was just like things he'd see around I'm playing excellently I should be in the lead but instead points behind and finally like I gotta say something you know so he puts a boot you know up on this triple and it really annoyed me because I was building towards your triple letter and he just puts boot and I said if I I gotta say something here and I go hey old Harold Delaney there no there were no blanks you know the blanks in the game it's always good to you any letters sure I realized there's no blanks in this game and I figured old Harold Delaney must have when he got the game figured that the hell is that how was how was the how was the breakfast this is did you have the break was no breakfast I got up the next day I so hungry from playing Scrabble so I says hey how you doing there how about some breakfast and he goes I never been much for breakfast [Laughter] like oh yes like an anemic Donnell's and pick up some breakfast or something merrily goes can you get me an egg muffin norm you got a movie coming out here dirty work opening May 15th so things are looking good for you yeah yeah that's gonna be good movies good for you your landing on your feet buddy that's what I like to see yeah nice day [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] popular a very very popular star of the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update we're always happy when he finds time and is scheduled to drop by and say hello here he is they always amusing Norm Macdonald [Applause] [Music] thank you very funny normal I was enjoy your work and I'm glad you're here me too man you're the funniest do ignore oh I'm just I'm just mediocre funny I got the thousand shows or 1000 show and you're really funny and you'll always have that I'm just a dork you know I'm just a dork you know just a guy trying to make a buck oh hi what do you been doing what even know I know what's going on in your life to take us through some of your your activities your life your free time so you know a couple hours with Norman I got a lot of free time now and so what I did was I returned to my first love you know dance yeah I returned to my first love to stand-up comedy oh you're doing the stand-up okay so I go around the country to different smokey nightclubs and they do my jokes you know and that's great you know if the the doing the jokes is fun but then the rest of the time did you ever go on the road a little bit I didn't care for did yeah and have the stamina for it yeah it's rough man because other than doing the stand-up you just go to a town you're basically like a drifter you show up you hang around then you sit in your - watching the TV all the time you know and I love the TV you know but when you watch it all the time just watch anything I watched an ESPN - they got all the deuce yeah sure and they got they got sports there that you know they're not they're kind of weird sports like they got a kickboxing you know they're a sport yeah and that's a hard sport what they do is they combine the style and grace of boxing with with kicking yeah so it's kind of immature I got a box all of a sudden you catch the guy you know there's just cheating you know I think yeah and then also what you do is you watch they try to get the pay movies they're you know oh yeah you ever dial up any of the you can get like first-run features yeah yeah I got a I ordered pulp fiction you know that movie sure it's a gritty urban satire you know it said that on the little thing I wouldn't have known and so I said yeah I'll get pulp fiction I heard great things about that so I order it right and they sent me a different movie a movie call by the name of a pump friction well it's different than pulp fiction pulp fiction is a gritty urban pump friction is a bunch of dudes and ladies having dirty sex and you know so there's a mix-up yeah and it wasn't a bad movie actually with those dirty movies I find like they're good for about 15 20 minutes I'm really interested right and then there's one point that all of a sudden I'm bored deeply ashamed Norma how is your family been with your recent you know situation with Saturday Night Live you don't work there anymore yeah yeah they're probably very proud when he had the job yeah you don't know that I mean how they've been a bit supportive I would oh yeah they're supportive they my mom came to visit me you know here in the New York City and she she wanted to go to a Broadway play that's her idea in New York she rod way you know they got the Broadway plays she comes in from Canada Canada yeah from Ottawa Ontario Canada and she's a you know should know like she's not a big city person like you and me so she's like she's like oh we gotta go see a Broadway play so but I didn't want her because the last time she came and visited I took her to this Broadway play and I never been to a Broadway play you know so I took her to this one they had this one How to Succeed in Business even if you don't really care to write and I take her to that know Sarah Jessica Parker Sarah Jessica Parker she went there they had some other lady so so we get in there and I never been to a play oh my god it's horrible you go in and you got to sit they have little chairs you're all crunched up cause like 90 bucks it's like and then you sit there you watch it and these dudes come in they're all doing stuff you know and the thing is like and you kind of gotta use your imagination a lot because they'll go like it's an office right meanwhile it's just a chair on a desk and then they have like it may be a window with like a fake moon behind it's nighttime it's like just a hellish you know and then everybody's singing every time and singing and dancing around and and it was about business I know about the business world you know and so at one point there the coffee guy comes you know he's bringing in the coffee and so then they all get excited because the coffee is coming and so they're singing oh here's and my mom she talks she's used to she's watching the TV and so she doesn't know that you're not supposed to talk out loud and so she's like the whole time she's like oh good god that's just like me and then I think the coffee machine broke then everybody went oh and like you know you're just watching this stuff and trying to imagine what it would really look like on the TV [Laughter] finally two damn things over takes like an hour and a half then you go okay let's get the hell out of here you go out it's now it's not over it's intermission you go out into this crowded for a just pack with people they're all discussing it you know they're going hey remember the coffee there I see some dude that works there I go hey listen then you get there you got that Nick Charlotte game on somewhere because I knew that the Knicks were playing the Hornets there and the guy no no sir no no you know and I go anything the sports ticker something like that he goes no this is the theater you know it's not like snooty you know this is the feet and be like yeah it's a theater there's a whole bunch so then she now when she came back I I you know definitely didn't want to take her to this another breath but you know it's my mom and everything and she's got oh you gotta go see a brother Broadway play then I go yeah yeah that uh you know the playoffs they're starting and everything you know but so I go okay well why don't we go to okay you know cats I hear that's a good thing you know so I take her oh you know what an interesting thing we were going to cats we were walking down the street and my mom stops in a donut shop she likes eating doughnuts and she goes in to buy herself a cruller there and I stay outside a cruller a cruller is that right for the type of doughnut cruller is the same as a cruller did I say I think he's a cruller but I could be wrong as well I don't know Carola it's a cruller yeah I pretty sure it's a curler yeah yeah because even on the thing it says CR u Ella and then over the it U is like one of those things yes so I said yeah go get yourself a cruller and she I waited she comes out she goes out oh no oh my god you wouldn't believe it she says your friend David Letterman is in the donut shops at right and she thinks we're friends you know I don't know I guess I told her we were friends yeah we're sort of friend I told her best friends well I like so so she says always in there and I go mom man David Letterman I'm at donut shop you know it don't make sense and you know he's my best friend I would know if he was in a donut shop so she says no no no just go say hi to if you like to see you so I go in a donut shop and there's a dude sitting there he's not you yeah he's just some dude with like a Late Show t-shirt and I didn't he was even like a Mexican guy or something and so I said ah man that can't be David Letterman you know so I walk out and I say mom you know that that was him but he's busy you know we go to the cats you know and this is something I've heard about for years cats been around forever yeah I think that and I go there I go so I go to cats yeah you know I don't know if I'm an idiot or if everybody else is an idiot bet it's probably me it's about cats time to happen it's about actual catfishing so I said to the guy at halftime during the thing I go out and I say there's a dude working there I say good god man that's about actual so the guy goes well what the hell you expect it says cat I don't know I thought it was like a symbolic symbolism I mean if you went to like Dog Day Afternoon and there's a bunch of dog your money better exactly yeah listen Norma it's good to see you again I want you to have a lovely summer and keep us posted as to what's going on okay [Applause] you [Applause] [Music] for many years our first guest was the very very funny and popular anchor of the Saturday and I've Weekend Update now I starring in a brand new motion picture entitled dirty work and it opens June 12th ears Norm Macdonald [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Casilla welcome back huh - nice to see here - how's it going it's going all right good hey you're a movie star buddy how many films you've been in I've been in I was then the People vs Larry Flynt as you know I played one of the people yeah and now you have the you have the the dirty work coming out yeah and I saw I saw a lot of the movie this afternoon I haven't seen the entire room because I couldn't we couldn't get a copy but yeah I got some of it some of very entertaining yeah a lot of good people in it Chris Farley you know it's very when you see Chris Farley in this yeah just one of those things you see that yeah and for and for a second you know mine play strip for a second you think all great it's and then you realize oh well it's probably be his last movie but he's very well I mean I obviously had no but he's really funny he's just naturally funny and he was great to chase in the films with Chevy Chase and Don Rickles yeah fun to hang around here is really fun like we wrote like we just want him to insult people and just wrote these insults that I thought sound like Don rails and then you got there any like insulted the insult yeah they were all horrible so then he just a self you just do whatever you want just insult us and he was fun he's especially funny when he insults you and it makes no sense right yeah let me tell you something why don't you go to Alaska and and suck on a green whale [Laughter] yeah pretty good and and and you feel like you wrote the film right yeah I wrote the film I wrote it like cuz there's all these guys that I really like like Chevy and Don Rickles and Farley and stuff so I just wrote them all in at the movie and then I was lucky that I got them all to do it and you know I was surprised it's hard to write a movie man oh God yeah I mean because people send me scripts um knows to be in and I can't even read them they take like solar hundreds of words and you get all sleepy you know so to write it is even way harder because I don't have a typewriter first of all at all right like I never learned how to type and so my buddy Frank has one so he wrote it with me that's nice of you to it's nice of you to include Frank but he did he write it or just type different no he was a co-writer here to the co-writer my buddy Frank and Fred Frank Sebastiano and Fred wolf you good yeah I always say to Fred wolf he lives in Hollywood and I say to him I say you must be pretty comfortable out there in Hollywood Fred wolf because there's a lot of Wolf's out there a Hollywood rule yeah sure yeah she's perfect chaser skirt-chaser that's right and you know what I've got this was I thought this was interesting you know who directed the movie of course you know you were Bob a TV blooper Bob Saget TV bloopers sake yeah yeah yeah he's not just can he direct uh no not at all just a lot of people get hit with a rake and stuff just playing ball him down at weddings and that kind of thing it was very comfortable with him as a director though because like he would give me like acting notes he'd go I think you should do it this way and then I go I've seen you on that phone I was gonna be talking about so you hired him to direct the movie so you'd have somebody to push around no he actually is very very funny yeah he's a nice guy don't kid yourself he's a smart guy that's my guy wealthy yeah oh yeah well for for several years he had two shows two big popular hot zone shows exactly yeah oh sure they all hold no benefits for this guy now yeah now now there's every time you're on the show there's some kind of controversy some kind of controversy I know and and I pick up the paper this morning and I actually have people who pick it up for me and ran right there bingo another controversy and so I tell you what let's let's hang on to it for a second we'll go away when we come back we'll talk to norm about the latest nasty controversy in this poor man's life we'll be right back [Applause] [Music] beautiful shitty Hollywood now the hill do ya a tractor Olaf Canadian Canadian has grew up in my city and his father was my all-time hero Jill yeah unbelievable did you did you meet him backstage no I haven't I met Randy Travis and I'm a huge country music fan and George Jones is my favorite so this big night do you like the electon you like do you like them the new country you like the old oh the new is gay [Applause] Billie Joe Shea did you ever go see these guys work I said her John's my dad took him me to see George Jones and he was a bit of a drinker George oh yeah yeah and so I was a little kid my dad had seen him like 10 times and when I was like 9 I went to see here John's and my dad said hit the last song george sings is he stopped loving her today a signature piece yeah the greatest country song ever sit so here he is he George Jones his third song he goes he stopped loving her and so my dad goes up Dan holy crap like an eight-minute concert George kind of just got fuzzy a little bit didn't know what he was doing and then everybody got their money back happy ending so anyway the the movie which are from what I've seen it looks very very funny it looks very funny and your your funny man and I think the world of you so I I know the movies gonna be very successful and I know that's gonna be a great thing in your career but what is this attending controversy what what is going on well in the paper sees the problem no in the paper today there you got the TV post right here there this is today's New York Post take that picture of me with a big X through my and what the hell is that all about NBC dirty works the dirty work mixes norm what and what exactly are we talking about there yeah that's the Don ohlmeyer has decided not to rush his little my right here this is a guy who runs NBC yeah I know we're right there a girls did you mind coming up the suite audition oh sure Don always gets a suite so don has decided not to run any ads from my movie on his network in NBC now Norma let's just do the math on this a little bit NBC is owned by General Electric maybe the single biggest global corporate entity on the globe yeah and they're generating they're generating a GE and NBC generating you know several billion dollars a year you know what the hell could they possibly care about you and your movie what is going on I don't understand you do something this guy's you bust into his house or something no I didn't do it I don't understand first of all yeah I act as I get kind of depressed sometimes because this guy he's best friends with OJ Simpson bro right is that true are they best press they're best friends they hang out this guy yeah they play golf yes now how can he not like me yeah hey girls it's going I free the lines we'll see how it goes so the deal is they won't advertise your movie on they won't advertise my movie and then just before I came to the show they tell me they have canceled all these interviews I had with any NBC affiliate Don oh my actually phone to NBC affiliates you know these little station it's great he's got better to do yeah he doesn't have to kiss up the Seinfeld now so that freed up his whole thing so are there they're like worried that your movie is some I gonna put NBC out of business is that what it is they they do not want the movie to be successful this is the this is the guy who fired you from Saturday Night Live yes yeah and I thought it was over and then every I keep reading like whew there's no Feud because no it's not I never did anything that's right I'd have to be gone he seems like a wise just terrorism this is terrorism this isn't completely uncalled-for yeah yeah I say what is they are scared because Seinfeld was cancelled you know and then and then what other big shows do they have over there single guy yeah they're they're afraid because they fired you that somehow you're gonna come back and bite them in the ass that's what they're worried about and I would take this as a great compliment a great compliment to your wit and wisdom [Applause] but I just want to open up a paper and read about who's on the Leeza Gibbons show yeah that's how you start your day it's like a punch in the stomach isn't it yes all right let's go on to more pleasant matters we show a little bit of the film Oh that'd be great yeah yeah this clip I I wanted to show you because it's Chris Farley and I think he's really funny what happened was he came and he's a great writer and like he could off the top he can what's that yeah live I'd live I'm not a good a deliverer myself 80 in it but he he could you know improvise even so there was this scene where I told him just say whatever you want cuz I know like how crazy funny is so he was just supposed to go I come to him for help in this carrot his character has no nose half the nose I'm in trouble in the movie so I come to Chris Farley and I asked him I asked his name's Jimmy no nose and I asked him I said he says I asked him for some help you know you can help me out I'm in trouble and then Chris Farley just improvises this okay really here we go the name of the film of course is dirty work Norm Macdonald Chris Farley take a look [Music] it opens June 12th June that's well if you had a big premieres are gonna be like a big premiere and spotlights they're gonna be but now yeah what do you mean maybe oh my is following me around shutting down all your fun no don't you worry about that yeah don't you worry about it means jealous that's what it is he's jealous yeah in this movie actually I get revenge against this rich jackass that makes my life a living there you go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Don Giller

Views: 1,117,173

Rating: 4.8091722 out of 5

Keywords: Norm Macdonald

Id: S6ke6O4Q8tI

Length: 54min 52sec (3292 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 23 2019