Norm Macdonald Greatest Radio Moment (Jason Sudeikis Couldn't Get a Word In)

joining me in the studio live from snl jason sudeikis and anne's lovely norm mcdonald with a milwaukee brewer hat that i haven't seen anybody wear since uh harvey's wallbangers cecil cooper at tao in milwaukee in the mid 70s this segment brought to you by google a day the popular new trivia game where the questions are so tough you're actually encouraged to find the answers using google see if you can solve today's question visit a googleaday.com jason norman welcome to the show my friend good to be here the the object of the game is to cheat by looking at the computer exactly it's a google thing it's you see they've made the questions so and you've got there's no way for anybody to know them and therefore they have to use to go to the next level you know zuckerberg says he's only eating his own meat that he kills now have you read that with his bare hands yeah he's a monster he tries to do one thing to alter his modern lifestyle every year and this year he says he's only going to eat meat that he's actually killed and i was wondering what are you adhering to a vegetarian strict vegetarian oh have you done that well i eat chicken that's not vegetarian i'm not i said i'm not strict i eat chicken and [Laughter] froze are making you hungry that's better than a soybean yeah you're right which sounds better that or soybean listen some of the best meals i've had is that mongolian thing over at dahmer's on wednesday night literally we ate a mongolian right did i tell you i ate a live fish in real life no no no yeah i was at a sushi restaurant and the the guy's like japanese and uh so i go i eat just sashimi like raw fish i don't eat with rice or anything like that yeah am i trying to impress him so he goes uh eat raw you eat the live fish i go yeah even though i don't and you guys i never think he's going to call you yeah and uh plus it sounds kind of cool and he goes i get you live fish i go thanks man like i was an inside guy and then he brought out a fish and uh and hid it and knocked it out and put it on a stick it was live and that clears out a sushi bar a lot of people my the girl i was in was barfing in a bathroom and the only people interested was the guy the japanese sociopath the guy and all the uh and all the mexican help they were all like looking like i'd eat it and so i had to cut it and then they leave the the the fish that's on the skeleton that looks like the one sylvester found on a garbage thing to go to move it's moving and like a dead bobble head and you had to put water in its mouth to keep it alive so you could watch it die as you ate it was a nice meal jesus i'm living such a pale like i mean you are out there remember what you said remember the joke you did about the time that you were you found yourself on your couch with cheetos and you're watching and you realize you weren't living remember norma i've told thousands of jokes what was that no i'm whispering yeah the other day i was sitting there on the couch and i was eating cheetos watching uh america's funniest home videos with tom bergeron and uh i realize i might not be leaving la vida local you remember that one hello i do i built my whole career are you a dennis miller cover comic man this is like well dennis dennis was always kind to me he gave me my first job in the show hey worst moment in my marriage ever is akin to that joke i'm laying in bed one night with my wife she's reading gabriel garcia marquez and i'm watching dancing with the stars and we're in bed and i lean over to a guy i think bruno tommy only has a new scoring paddle tonight she says if you ever talk like that again i'm leaving the marriage overnight you won't even know i've left i've got to sleep with you you how did you notice that they have a different scoring battle tonight so maybe you've been watching you remember leno jason's younger than us so he probably thinks of leno was terrible but remember but leno yeah so he was probably the funniest but he had a joke one of his jokes and zach do you remember this joke i'm sure you remember this but he'd say he'd say yeah i can't do i can do that i like everybody else i guess i go i'll try i've never done them exciting so he goes uh he goes uh he goes i was reading that the number one reading material in all of america is that rita is a tv guide is this consider reading material there ladies and gentlemen tv guide is there a guy down there smoking his pipe reading you know in his armchair and his wife's like he's like i'll be right up buddy i'm just finishing uh who's who's on this week on crass wits [Laughter] [Music] you remember that night uh we're talking to jason sedakis the norm's taking us down memory lane norm used to write for me at an old show i had for like six months at the chicago tribune i got whacked but norm and drake sailor who was a genius drake no longer with us god rest his soul but uh he was a genius and a good cat a sweet sweet cat but they used to tin foil the windows they'd sit in there they would never send jokes out i would stick my head in there'd seem to be two cigarette lights and they're like fireflies in the night poison bastards have anything they'd slide jokes out later but i remember one night i'm with drake at the the improv and jay was very evocular then he was like the potter families for the comedic community he would come in in a corn cob hat or a corncob pipe and straw hat and he would lecture on comedy up in the uh the attic and i remember that i'm sitting there with drake one night norm's writing rate and he jay goes off in his ten cardinal rules of comedy you never save a joke for the next shot if you have 14 jokes and they want 13. i mean the best that you say there's an action yeah we got it yeah exactly get the check tell joe get checked so anyway he gets to the end of these ten rolls and all these comedians are sitting at the hem of his cloak looking up at him like he's aristotle and drake says hey thanks jay but i have a father [Laughter] was he the best tell me a little drink man drake and i had the same like he gave us a job dennis yes we were just doing standout oh come on can you imagine that you're like jason you're like what is that so so my man 92. i can't say the name bombastic bushkin right and he uh so he uh he said uh i said hey i heard that uh and that guy uh dennis miller is doing it uh talk show you know maybe i could do some jokes for him i've seen him talk on tv right so maybe like i've heard that yeah i would always have to tell him like what i'd heard from about show business watching the dick van dyke show years ago he'll probably need writers like buddy so uh so anyways they look into it you have to send in jokes packing a joke so like it's about the news you know so i never read the newspaper anything so i go to this this denny's and i start reading the newspaper trying to pick up jokes and nothing every every story is real serious you know and i'm deep into it and getting sleepy and stuff so anyways i wrote like 10 jokes and then nine of them really sucked you know there was one like all right one so i didn't know what to do so i said i found my manager i said maybe i should just write in this one you know send one because if they look if he looks at ten you know he's gonna go yeah ninety percent he's right horrible that one was pure though that was uncut but anyway so i sent him one and then i got the joke and then i think people thought i did it on purpose but i didn't do it on purpose it was just that norman you were a monster right out of the box i saw siddique i saw uh norman do a joke once you remember the joke about the homeless guy's dog could be the greatest joke i've ever written i feel sorry for the homeless guy i really feel sorry for his dog though because you know the dog's thinking this is the longest walk does this thing have a payoff thanks for the leash [Laughter] norman macdonald and jason centennial now jason has a film coming out we're going to talk about it on the other side of the break jason jason sports show jason is a guy i didn't pick from saturday live to become a major motion oh he's a killer why not come on i picked dennis i thought it was gonna be a big movie oh no it's not a bad thing i didn't pick sandler yeah i didn't pick sandler well you know what sandler early on though i remember because he was in mixed remember nuts don't think he's going to be the number one box office but you got to admit early on there was something in a room about him women dug him you know women but also in a room he was hilarious i remember he was the funniest my first year at snl you you came back like around christmas time and uh you came walking into the office well don't tell there's no no no no no no uh and you're just like looking around no i'm not this isn't the story where you're right now no yell don't tell [Laughter] more insulting to me that you think i would uh but i you came walking in you're kind of like looking around and it was forte's office and he was in there with fred armisen and it was like their second season my first year as a writer and you're just kind of looking around hey yeah hey uh so who's it going to be huh like you're like what are you talking about who's going to be the big star nobody here knows it could be enemy it could be none you just kind of stirring it up then you walked out i was i was in on rap before rap became wicky wicky wicked wild wild west at saturday night live and spade was good at you'd know who was good you know instantly and then you'd uh be their friends and then you know what i mean and i would i would especially with music no i only knew old guys like i wouldn't know anybody that was in movies at the time or because saturday live was always breaking people so the host would be someone that was just in a movie just for first yeah i worked there man i know you know so but you would probably know them because you're an actor and stuff a little bit yeah yeah some of them yeah me i wouldn't know them so uh so lord would go uh any anyone want to see anyone that want to you know and so then people would go what about anna ferris and i go oh yeah i've heard her name and i'd be like what about the uh jim jarmish i wouldn't know i wouldn't know who they were talking about and i'd be like norm and i go uh bob new heart mary tyler moore they're dead you were in a barbershop you always act like you're in a barbershop quartet you're the most subversive cat i know you know everything though no i just like old guys i like where you at when you got old guys in asia now though from when you were a kid right are you not more impressed by them than guys that got yeah like when shatner came i was impressed yeah that was kirk if the guy is 20 you just hate him yeah at some point some people would come in and you'd think i didn't can this kitty this kid could not even get on this show outside of hosting the show right yeah yeah um no yeah you were with uh you saw all the big guys because at dennis's time would be gigantic stars the stones probably at the year time or something like that yeah i remember clapton playing uh layla at the end of the show we'd gone off the air he turns right bars the electric guitar from the band yeah it's like 105. you know that feeling just wired anyway and you've had a drink i would have a problem i met laura linney really [Laughter] what what what did she have any insight into that scene where she uh makes love to uh in john adams where she makes love [Music] it was in her early days but there's always those moments at snl where you just think god i'm in the center of the universe you can't believe i don't know you're from kc right yeah yeah well i'm from pittsburgh he used to watch the show like what must that be like it's just oh absolutely yeah we i mean we had that with paul mccartney this last year i mean even the the that you're talking about like older stars like having betty white and jay-z in the same show is like so great it's like it's like a little little bit of both old and new one time i was hosting and there was three guys i've never hosted them how many times have you just one time it was a mistake did it not go well it was all right did you do update no it was real after i got fired from update i thought it'd uh uh guys doing music you know i don't know music i just know old music like again lauren would go who do you like and i go you like the you know this guy uh [Laughter] that i should everyone else knew except me it was snoop dogg he just changed his name and he was angry because i kept getting it wrong he used to be snoop doggy dog the snoop dogg at eminem and dr dre so it's a pretty heavy lineup yeah but to me it was two black guys so i go to introduce them and they're all just trying to get this into the barn don't go black and white they were all standing under they were all standing like in in there was francis farmer they were about to go up and take me with him they were standing in their rap positions as you know like like against and i'm about to introduce them so they're standing in that rap position where it looks like they'll either start singing rap or pull a gun and kill you so uh so then i go as a joke i look at them because i remember this is kind of a lettermany thing to do but i go fellas are you ready are you ready which forces them to go like so i thought that was funny but then i learned later they were geniuses and i should have befriended them you're a freaking genius norman and that letterman impression is still one of the most live you ever seen his letterman yeah when you when you get out of the coat before you finish the last or look you can't take a comment look at me what are you doing you're going all bubble boy on me you noticing that how quickly he had to take his coat off to get back into the real world where he didn't feel phony it's one of the most brilliant ticks i've i've seen on that show now tell me what's your dvd what do you got here man let's do a little commerce real quick you're the only guy i know i come in here i have to extract it out of everybody else wants to sell the soap don't you have something it's called me doing stand up it's your comedy central special and every caller this hour will receive a copy of it for free but you can buy it if it sells like two million or if it sells nothing i get the same amount of money so you're not pushing hard i don't i don't make it but i get a cup so we need to sell it you play best in susie yeah this is what happened i did i didn't ever want to do a stand-up special i always said i'll never do one you know why decided that yeah because i because i never wanted to do one i always thought it would be fun just to do in the stand just to do standards you get a little andy kaufman in you so then they uh said uh if you do this you get to go on and do a sport in this sports show so you did it well talk sport show can you guys stay for one more i want to talk to somebody about whoever was not supposed to sports vegas was in sports you're kidding me big basketball danny quisenberry who's the only only guy ever to graduate from the ewig kaufman school and play for the royals frank white oh i didn't know that yeah frank white the only uh graduate of the ewing kaufman baseball academy to ever play for laura's dennis dennis miller show [Music] [Music] i love what's his name uh that does austin powers uh and i liked it and he was in it you play a french canadian accent yeah timon was pretty it was pretty funny yeah like a young chevalier i'm talking to norm mcdonald and he loves everybody and uh we're all serious you think i'm curmudgeonly like i've got no no at some point i come in you're like burl lives in the in the voiceover studio for the rudolph cartoon i'm not reading this again uh sudeikis is with us too tell us about the new flick here dake what do we got horrible bosses that's the one yeah boy look at that that's the advertisement what are you charting everybody's thing i love that you got a master board at home let's face facts these kids went by us at the speed of light i'm okay with it we're tied up in the water hazard and the three thousand meter speeds will chase they're all drying at home uh what's who else is in the flick it's uh myself jason bateman and charlie day from it's always sunny in philadelphia and then uh i was early i was early in early on that sunday in philadelphia i told everybody to watch it from there who else got nothing from it and then i even phoned their age and i said hey that's a good show nobody's watching it but i like it and i'm i'm in tv on that show why because of the fist fight i have with christopher lloyd back jason bateman came up to me once i went to a parkinson's benefit from michael j fox at this mansion in l.a this is the first thing bateman ever says to me how funny is this i i say hi to michael we do this pictures and then i go over i'm sitting in the corner because i'm sort of ill at ease i see bateman coming in he walks all the way across this huge gatsby-like lawn and waves to me i've never met him but i'm excited because i always dug arrested development he comes up he hugs me and he looks at me right there the first thing he says what's it like to be at a party with both teen wolves [Laughter] i met that guy uh michael j fox yeah people know him it was before he was love star yeah it was before it was it was out there he was he had that thing it was parkinson's yeah yeah yeah that was before that all right so i met him at uh at uh holly uh what do you call that what i might ask you to go to the black and white thing in around five seconds no it's quick it's quick disney world i meet him you know i'm excited to meet him you know so i meet him like 10 years later and here he is now he's got parkinson's and i go you remember me you know i met you when i was young and i met you at disney world and everything and he goes yeah i just got a thing i'm not crazy you're not going to flip on these cats anybody who loves you you have to torch that's your m.o why am i jeffrey ross [Laughter] let's go to brooks in alabama brooks you're on with jason sudeikis and the obi-wan mcdonald obi-wan mcdonald and mr jason love you both especially you too mr miller it's my pleasure thank you the third one number one uh am i the only one that thinks the new writing on snl is just not up to par i've spoke to you about this before miller and i don't get it man i just i've tried watching uh and it's not on you uh sir believe me than the guy that's on uh he just reads yeah i just read it yeah but he's in the trenches with these cats listen brooksy the show goes up it goes down i'm telling you sometimes for it to have an up year it needs to have a year where people are pushing on they're seeing who they can who they can keep who they can go all i can tell you is it's an evergreen you just got to watch it and there's there's ups there's dons oh i know i saw enough stuff this year you were in a kind of a golden cast but when i was in the cavs everybody hated everybody everybody like everyone hated the show and then you'll see something like uh they do the special saturday night live in the 90s and the 80s there's a lot of camaraderie on the special yeah and then they showed the part you were on they go everybody yeah it was good but you know wasn't everyone hated us [Music] but they just change it so you just wait and then they like you because someone else comes along even worse there you go that's what you're waiting for very what you know i had lorne on the other night years ago about the writers for sid caesar they're like clary yeah that that's a great special yeah and they're all like they become kids right away they're looking at sid like he's you know the godfather yeah and i remember thinking that must it must stay true that lauren's always learned you i was interviewing the other night as a nervous wreck i mean i'm a 57 year old man now i'm talking to lauren and he takes a pause and up just for a millisecond i think i've got them blowing this up right it's pretty uh pretty weird how when they get your dna in one place or your hard drive it's tough to get them into another place we're always sort of talking about that like when doing the movie awards that even though he wasn't involved with it at all but we had a few friends a few of those awful writers that the fellow was talking about earlier and uh and just in the back your head you sort of hear lauren's laugh a little bit and sort of like him sort of you know just that feeling of the look that he gives you under the bleachers when your sketch is like either dying or living or regardless you just kind of always have it going on now which is nice one time he told me he's uh he's like smothers brothers i go oh man that show sucked because i remember when i was a kid anyways turns out he did something yeah yeah he was one of the few guys that wasn't on the starlight vocal band summer replacement series like every great comedy mind i've ever met where's your first gig letterman in sketches on the starlight vocal bed summer replacement strange bed fellas folks 866 509 rant eight six six five one nine seven two i heard that i heard that song was about sex what's that starlight welcome back skyrocketed [Laughter] kelly you're on with norman and jason how are you i'm good dennis and i want to thank you for allowing me on this show with so much uh comedic uh genius well if i if i would say i'm here too i'm here too and it's up moments that i said now it is a great sense of salon you gotta admit the night's there i was in that room and everybody was exhausted you know it's like four in the morning what do you call this mom what do you call this you would know you know all these words what would you call this this is what uh the great dane carvey did once one second kelly we'll be right back go ahead i'm sorry dan is the best you know the best ever so he was my book me too he killed waldo so that was before me but anyways but i was there and he came one time and they had bob costas do those interviews at 1 30. right and then afterwards he came up to us you know he's such a nice guy but he said this funny thing and i don't know what you call this in real life but he goes on because i was talking to bob costas guy called me a genius i mean uh einstein's a genius i'm telling this guy okay so he's probably yeah you're complimenting yourself you're calling the other guy an idiot you know we uh paula pell who's one of the great writers that uh like um they're now like written a ton of character stuff has a great term for that called backdoor bragging exactly right and like the way it sort of goes at work is like so i'm so like going to lauren's office and he's like you're incredible on the show but we need you to do a little bit more it's like it's like wait man you need to tell us the first part we did back door bragging but that was in the west village [Applause] yeah i'm watching you live on the internet there i feel like i'm right in the room with you yeah is there cameras on it that's good to tell before you go on a radio wait one second kelly you got to jump in again spade goes and does a benefit for lord this is one of the great old-time spade lines and he's lauren sent a jet for me and i always you know lauren a lot of things but he was a little panorious at least with ourselves uh it was like a cat scan in the air anyway what's up kelly how are you yeah i'm good this could address uh you any of you guys in that room including christian could address this i was wondering when did each of you feel like you were going to make a success in in the entertainment field was it actually before you got on saturday night live or um well thanks kelly we'll queue it up with norman first i just wanted to be a i just wanted to be a stand-up yeah yeah actually because dennis if i think about i just this just occurred to me right now but uh i never wanted to do anything on tv except right because i was a stand-up and then i saw that dennis did saturday night live and he was i think it was the first stand up to do it yeah that's all i had in my you know i didn't want i thought i was a standout but i could do this because uh before that was all like you know guys would do characters or some stupid thing i mean cherry was the closest to just being himself and everybody else would do something stupid like everybody else remember everybody remembers jane you ignorant but they don't remember the rest of the boring thing where he played an old guy from the 50s or something like that with a teletype so i mean you were the best uh guy doing stan and then i said i could just stand up maybe i could do that so that dennis probably jason wanted to click on for you that you were no longer a writer on there what was the first thing you nailed on the air where you thought this could happen um well i auditioned for the show and then got hired as a writer so i never got the hand in the packet or anything so i felt like an imposter for the first two seasons when i was writing that's the best way to do it you don't have to go up in front of the stupid uh you didn't have to audition right right yeah sure i did oh they told me they finished his brutal i mean and then i just uh gosh i went in last five episodes of my second year and told lauren i was kind of like you know i don't know how much longer i can do just the just the writing thing i'd really love to perform good for you and uh and then a couple weeks later they they put me into the cast and uh you know and that was it but i didn't really feel comfortable until the next coming back the next year with the killer haters don killer yeah you and haters on the show me all right they go up in front of us these guys are the two best yeah i had to go up in front of lauren's friends you know that moment it looks like you're at the playboy up on the penthouse with hefner you're over in this studio in times square and lauren says you got eight minutes do what you want eight eighths you grew up and you don't do standing uh we did at a uh a rehearsal space over in times square lauren had yeah i got paul simon sitting yes that sort of vibe and i can see i had a good moment of clarity where i remember thinking listen no individual joke's gonna make these people give you this show this is about not freaking out and becoming a kid yeah just get bulletproof here man so i did some i i you know i had some jokes but it was more about when the joke didn't work i i didn't sweat once i think that's 100 like you see like bill's audition or kristen's audition or uh andy's audition like the three people from my generation and they're all it's all pure me my audition is horrible i think it's 100 what i did in between because we did i had to follow we did it at a stand-up place the first the first time and then had to do it the the screen test on you know a home base and the first time was the first time i ever did stand-up and i told this story just on leno just uh this week but i had to follow chris rock chris came in with jeffrey ross to like try out material for the video music awards and then i had to follow him and i just my whole thing was like well i'm not going to mention it but this is the opportunity that if i don't get this i will be able to go back home to kansas you know and over beers be like yeah i had to follow rock that's why i didn't get it but but and that kind of made you a little bit like bulletproof like we were kind of like oh well hell this is not it's not supposed to be like i had to you know follow one of the best ever and uh why it always had the nagging voice in my head that you can't do all that crap all that neurosis that anybody brings with them it was the first time i ever heard some champion voice saying listen you are you gonna be glory days your whole life are you gonna try this go do it don't don't freak out for eight minutes and see what happens you know it just comes down to that i would tell any kid out there the worst thing you can do is put fear in the air it's like when you used to watch the dating game and the guy was given a bad answer and you had to walk out of the room because it was making you so uncomfortable say anything stay in the moment if it's eating it concede that it's eating it and you've got a better guy tells me like what to do is start stand up and i go you don't wait you know because you know how you wait because when i first started doing stand up i i waited six months and i figured it all out what i'd say and i sucked yeah so you might as well just yeah jump in and find out perfection paralysis like you're waiting for it to all be perfect it's like you're just sitting there no no i can't do it i remember live lauren said i said i said can i be on the show and they're like you gotta do two characters and two uh you gotta write two sketches two characters and two impressions i said i can't do any of those that probably got you on the show right there it's that sort of attitude we're with the great norman macdonald jason sudeikis take some more of your phone calls they've been nice enough to stay here the entire hour jason's got horrible bosses coming out in the theaters in july 9th and norm's got some film called uh bob crane's mistress wait that's a webos series [Music] all right starlight vocal bend joined by a uh third of my favorite comedians jeffrey cesario how are you brother he's in here doing bobby wall show give it a check out let's take a phone call real quick we got frank in chicago frank go ahead you're on with jason sedakis who has horrible bosses coming to theaters july 9th and norman mcdonald and july oh july 8th too sorry go ahead baby uh hey guys i love all three of you thank you thanks i i can't disagree more with the guy who called and said jason's era is no good i got to tell you a story and then i'll let you go and you guys can talk about it my daughter who's 13 wants to be in show business this kid is hilarious she breaks me up every week and the one thing that we love to do she loves jason so she t-mo saturday night live she gets her little bowl of cereal she climbs into big bed with her mother and i and we then we watch it every week and he breaks us up every week whether it's the guy dancing around in his jumpsuit in the background or it's the newscaster with hater slapping people in the face with the microphone just i mean i can't disagree more we love it yeah he's like feral he's like uh phil they just hit the ball everything they're giving yeah he's a killer and hater's a killer too and uh norman i'm going to say goodbye to you now you know i love you but we're at the end of our hour yeah all right what's your expectation how are the puppets how's the holocaust denier puppet you still listen listen out of context it sounds bad i bought him only knowing he was crusty yeah you had no idea that he denied the very existence of us yeah i thought he was a curmudgeonly guy i don't know what the hell you're talking about are you familiar with uh paul winfield no anyway during the estate i got a puppet i probably is that did he do like macarthur yeah yeah i thought he was crazy holocaust tonight yeah i thought he was just cranky

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