Norm Macdonald Tribute: The Funniest Man Who Ever Lived | Louder With Crowder

stephen and crew would you give your best norm impression on what he would say about california's election today uh california voters emphatically made their voices heard in rejecting white supremacy by voting against we wanted to really do a tribute here to norm mcdonald and let me explain to you why he's been one of the single biggest influences on me professionally uh on this show i've talked about it at length as a matter of fact we'll show some clips of how many times i've talked about uh what my top two guests that i ever wanted to get were were uh nor mcdonald and alice cooper yeah yeah and so that's the real tragedy in all this is i'll never get to have him on the show that's true truly yes there are other ways not to come on the show normally you know that's the thing you don't know who you hurt cooper yeah yeah well he wanted to watch out he won't because his publicist doesn't like me um oh so we're going and not only that but i think a lot of people now jump on this bandwagon look keep in mind that norm mcdonald was reviled not very long ago by the metoo people yeah by the uh uh i don't even know what hashtag we're talking about but people now act as though they appreciated the brilliance that was norm people don't realize also uh what a devout man of faith that he was yeah he tried to avoid politics but was pretty easy to pick up on where he lined up so we're going to be talking about that today quite a bit and i want to paint a more full picture of of who the man was and and hopefully there's some people out there who maybe don't uh don't know about him too much haven't appreciated him as much as you should and and really he should go along certainly with the greats i would put him in funniest man that ever lived i just want to show you this is uh this must be from somewhere in the 90s nor mcdonald and dennis miller this is a joke that may immediately get us banned from youtube which again proves my point but here he is on dennis miller saying something you could never say today on air even on hbo talking about gay pride have you ever done anything in your long and storied career that you consider specifically to be in bad taste as you look back on it maybe at the time you thought it was a good play but you look back on you think that was in bad taste well sometimes like in stand-up i'll do jokes that are uh that i like one time i was doing this thing in san francisco and they were all gay people in the audience they told me so i figured out in san francisco no so i figured i'd do stuff about gay people so that they could relate to yeah let's warm up they love that and so i was talking about because i went to this gay pride parade and i saw in it there were these uh old men and old ladies like with these signs that said we are proud of our gay son you know and so i was saying that's an odd thing to be proud of you know because it's not an achievement you know it's not like something you work all your life to be gay or anything like that and i i just wanted i just i had a hard time believing that these 50 60 year old men are actually bragging you know at work like they're hey bill you know my kid oh my god we're proud of him johnny he uh graduated from harvard you know a first in his class you know what i mean now he's articling over to love him and oh yeah he loves [ __ ] [Laughter] i got a picture of the boy here sucking another man what is what's so amazing about him is everybody yesterday on twitter was fighting as usual right just armchair whatever and then norm died and it just took over yeah it was one of those things where even if people may have gone against him whatever it was it was just nice to see a minute of unity the reason i don't like it is because in the old days they go hey that old man died now they go hey he he lost his battle that's no way to end your life you know what a loser that guy was last thing he did was lose he was waging a brave battle but at the end i guess he got kind of cowardly with what happened and then the bowel cancer it got brave you got to give it to the bowel cancer you know and then and i'm pretty sure i'm not a doctor but i'm pretty sure if the cancer dies i mean if you die the cancer also dies at exactly the same time so that to me is not a loss that's a draw i don't know what's so great about that bit is you know it offended people and he had the card to go well i have cancer but he never never played it he just because he believed you could make fun of anything exactly you may know that he got kicked off a weekend update for making o.j michael jackson jokes the reason that these jokes were the last straw is yes because uh the head of nbc at that time was friends yes right again the elites with oj but also they were concerned about the fact that he was going after michael jackson so aggressively and oj and it being seen as potentially racist so again that's the context you need to understand back then that a lot of people now don't remember because now you're looking at it going well why would he get in trouble oj and michael like we all know no no back then there was still a huge contingency of americans who said going after them was a byproduct of white nationalism so actually uh that was during the trial too not right yeah just when he was being when he was on weekend update making those jokes right like don't talk about o.j he's my friend and boy did he lean into it until he lost his job and it was right after rodney king yep and it was marked firm and edward where they were trying to turn this all into a racial issue and nbc wanted to avoid it and so here knowing that context is a montage during this time of a racial powder cake seems like we've had those a lot uh nor macdonald leaning into it and the pope came out with a book this week which contains a series of essays examining faith and morality in today's secular world and the changing role of the catholic church as it approaches the 21st century the book is entitled god himself told me that oj is jacob in his book o.j simpson says that he would have taken a bullet or stood in front of a train for nicole man i'm going to tell you that is some bad luck when the one guy who would have died for you kills you judge edo was interviewed this week by a local tv station in los angeles asked by the interviewer if it was appropriate for a supposedly impartial judge to be on tv with his case still pending ito said maybe not but how appropriate is it to kill your ex-wife he'd already been told don't touch it told police that nicole brown simpson used to beat him up he also claimed that she and ron goldman killed him [Laughter] o.j simpson's lawyers have decided to skip hearings on dna evidence and go right to trial ask why they did this the lawyers replied we want to get o.j acquitted as speedily as possible so he can get back to doing what he does best killing people you know it's coming and it's still fun let's get to o.j o.j simpson's lawyers say they don't want the families of nicole brown and ronald goldman in the courtroom during the trial they're afraid the presence of the family members will just remind o.j of how much more killing he still has to get what i love about norman update was that he's not even doing that well with the audience and at the time when i was young i was laughing so hard i never noticed until i was a comic yeah and the other joke i love that he did was uh he said uh lisa marie presley and michael jackson are getting a divorce she wishes he was more of a homebody and he wishes she was a seven-year-old boy yeah i remember too i remember he said the closest thing he ever had to a perfect joke and he used it twice he used it with christy brinkley and billy joel yeah but uh he said the most perfect version was julia roberts was she married love it i love it yeah yeah and he said the most uh probably the most perfect joke you know is that i've been trying to search for it and he really was serious trying to search for the perfect joke his whole life yeah the closest i've come is where you know the punchline was the same as the setup where i said uh julia roberts and lyle levitt have filed for divorce today setting the reason that they realized she was julia roberts and he was lyle levitt [Laughter] and uh that was he what he said was probably the best joke he had ever written i just love his the the bravery right so his career was on the line he's being told not to do these things he'd probably be labeled a racist you know like you said that that was the trend that they were heading into and he just came out and was just like i'm absolutely going to double down oh he was going to definitely hurt him because he he didn't do as many movies as his other co-stars did in from no personnel and it's a tragedy because i loved him as the lead in dirty work he was great in that dirty work is underrated i love it i love dirty work dirty works original script though the r-rated version yeah i think it online is like the funniest thing i've ever read so just imagine how funny the pg-13 is yeah but norm being able to do anything he wants like him in prison after they you know oh yeah cause somebody's like you should be a [ __ ] you know what hurts the most it's like it's the lack of respect well actually the anal sex hurts but right now that's the second most secret you know what's funny about those two if you haven't seen dirty because we can't show it they didn't see dirty work yeah he's sitting there he's pulling up his pants he's just been raped in prison hurts the most and has a lack of respect well except for the other thing that hurts the most but what's the second the most is a lack of respect you boys have a lot of growing up to do i'll tell you that right now ridiculous ridiculous this i believe happened uh this the the claim is it was 1991 online but i think he either retold it or they're wrong and it was 92 or 93 because i know i was there both of those years and watching from the crowd and i remember hearing nor mcdonald tell districts is not political at all but i remember as a kid having really only been allowed to listen to bill cosby and like jerry seinfeld not that much at this point keep in mind i was five yeah uh my parents may not have been super familiar with norm stand up because back then they knew him as the weekend update guy but maybe didn't know a whole bunch about a stand-up so i watched his set live and he had a joke about a man killing his family because the devil told him to and it was the first joke that i had heard with the structure that was totally different and immediately he became one of if not my favorite comedian so i was watching this live little stephen crowder in 92 or 93 nor mcdonald tell this joke clip k man there's crazy guys everywhere i was reading about this guy in the paper you get this folks guy was reading but he killed his whole family because the devil told him to can you believe that what a dork huh that was the headline the paper said what a dork imagine that you kill your whole family just because the devil tells you then afterwards you go back to the devil yes devil i did as you instructed i killed my family slaughtered them as they lay sleeping and then i i chopped them up and put them in a duffle bag here they are in a duffel bag i'll be burying tonight the shallow grave by the side of the railroad track as you have commanded oh lord host of the hoary netherworld you know the devil pulls off a mask it's me bob [Laughter] [Applause] you go huh bob yes you got me bob you got me there [Laughter] is my face red or what here got my family in a duffel bag over here [Laughter] one of my favorites is what he's talking about shallow grace yeah serial killer yeah cereal characters like you spent all this time stalking somebody plotting their murder eventually finding them killing them cutting them up then you get to the burial part and you're like yeah just throw some twigs and leaves [Laughter] i forgot to roll clip clip j where he confused larry king and it's not that hard to confuse larry let's be honest but uh he was friends with him though he was yeah yeah him and larry king actually had a pretty funny dynamic larry king had zero sense of humor that's why it was funny yeah serious confusing uh larry king about a sexual uh orientation something people don't know about you i'm a deeply closeted gay guy i'm not coming out though wait a minute what are you revealing here today i'm i'm not revealing anything i'm saying i'm deeply closeted that means you're gay i wouldn't say that why would i say that i'm deeply close that means you're very very gay but you don't want to come out you're so closeted that i refuse to say i'm gay right exactly doesn't that mean you're gay hey hey hey easy buddy hey hey oh he was the best with people who had no sense of humor that's when he shines so you were talking about how dangerous that was in the the weekend update stuff he was banned from the view a lot of you'll notice he was banned from the view and i talked about this back in my grand rapids studio these clips were not available for a very long they were hard to find they were harder the first time we tried to pull these clips they were gone so we'll show you it'll sort of an ascending order him kind of trolling the view a little bit yeah uh just you know basically saying racially tinged things with star jones two outright basically when people talk about this now the clinton body count yeah uh bringing the clinton murder conspiracy to the view live on air that's why he was banned so it's a longer clip but you need to see this progression he was not allowed on the view for decades it was okay what do you think well i'll tell you i did love the padres that's the best part there's just race in the middle of and i'm a big star wars fan because williams [Laughter] george bush man he's a good man decent you know none of this and he's uh you know he's not a a lie or a crook murderer or anything like that so it'd be good to get the see i i don't i think we should get the homicide out of the white house a fresh start because we don't want any more murderers i think we can just go on to the next question oh clinton he murdered a guy accusations this is not my week what can i tell you oh it's not mine either and i'm being very nice okay be and i don't want to hear it and this is not the place to make those accusations and you're supposed to be funny it was hilarious there you go [Laughter] and by the way the brilliance here's the brilliance of that the last line manslaughter okay there was no conspiracy or accusation of an accidental death no right in other words when he says all right manslaughter as though he's uh he's being conciliatory there yeah no he's drawing attention to the fact that this obviously could only have been premeditated murder and this is back george bush george w should just won so this would have been you know 2000 maybe 2001 yeah really early and oh my gosh no one was talking about it and i just remember watching it i i must have been homesick that day i watched it live oh and i remember going i at this point there was no youtube oh my god what am i where am i ever gonna see this again stephen and crew would you give your best norm impression on what he would say about california's election today uh california voters emphatically made their voices heard in rejecting white supremacy by voting against this guy that's exactly what i was yep because yeah it would always have to be the perfect fight yeah yeah that's exactly it there's no topping that all right and this is where we get into the part of the portrait that the media will never paint i would say the funniest man who's ever lived certainly you could argue it uh i would and um yeah you and like i said there's there's objectively funny you could put at the top you know people like the richard pryors and mount rush if you're having a mount rushmore the george carlin's no one would argue with you if you're just saying i think nor mcdonald should be up there people may disagree but they won't be like oh that's just so out of line yeah it's true stand up though right it's all comedy it's all comedy but he personally was um really pretty conservative and later in life a devout christian and his faith meant a lot to him this is someone who struggled he struggled with i think it's well-known gambling he struggled he talked about struggling with issues addiction issues and i don't necessarily mean substance addiction issues one of my favorite things that he ever said about gambling was yeah it's a disease but it's the only disease where you win money hello my buddy i did want to say one thing about my buddy richie who has a disease and uh but it's it's an interesting disease he has he has a disease of alcoholism alcoholism and he came to me you know and he told me and i like to look i'm the kind of guy that likes to look at the bright side of things you know so i told him i said richie it's true that you have a disease and everything but i think you got the best one it's the only disease where you get to drink booze all the time i haven't looked at every medical journal but i believe it's the only disease where you can constantly drink booze as a matter of fact that is the disease you know and i don't think richie would think that he had to decide like i don't think richie would go to my uncle berto hey i understand you got bowel cancer ah man i know how you feel i gotta drink a lot of booze those diseases they're tough those diseases huh uncle burt hey what's your symptoms uncle bert well my bowel i got blood pouring out of it all the time i got bowel blood pouring out gushing out of my bowel almost nonstop and uh i got searing clawing pains ripping tearing you know uh mind screeching bowel pains and they're combined with aching dull soul deadening battle pain those are basically my symptoms how about you i get happy and uh and i love that bit just because he's speaking from a point of an addict right and just saying how preposterous it kind of is but at the same time you know he's right i feel serious about him yeah and i love when he talks about going to aaa where he's like so you uh he goes you go into a church basement and you give everybody your name which doesn't sound that anonymous and you only give him the last letter because you don't want him to know who they are you know and then he just it's just brilliant i don't want to butcher it but he's like then you tell everybody yeah you blew a dog for pine and gin but he just goes and who better to trust than a room full of drunks and you know what's funny is you could just as this is when i've talked about this before norm is a litmus test because you could be an alcoholic or someone who's an alcoholism advocate alcoholism advocate and be offended by that i'm sure some are yeah there are plenty of people who have been or he could be like you and say that's a brilliant way to turn it into a take something painful and turn it into something funny norm really tried to push people's buttons he wasn't these weren't anti-jokes people have sort of misrepresented that they were jokes they just happen to be jokes that push your buttons sort of like an alice cooper and that's why i think they're very similar alice cooper learned how to push your buttons and so did dio you know dio back then talked about imagery was like well how well how do you think that's satanic how do you know what satan looks like with that image and how do you know that that priest is the good guy you're the one who's conferred this sort of this meaning to this imagery and nor macdonald allowed people to copy paste what they thought onto him and so people would be offended or be brought tremendous joy by the exact same bit gary is taking opportunities to express his faith and it pissed a lot of people off not to mention if you actually read his writings you get a lot of attention on twittersphere for being open about your religious views what are they i'm i'm a christian it's not it's about stylish to say now are you devout yeah you believe in the lord yes i do you think you're going somewhere when it's when it ends i uh well i i don't believe it but i you know what people don't understand about faith is that you have to choose it you know what i mean they think that you believe it but you have to choose it why a bomber in boston because if god if there is a god he's omnipotent yeah if he's omnipotent and he could prevent it yeah why didn't he prevent i don't know man but you gotta stop hanging out in that hot tub with bill maher all the sounds like time got a god-shaped hole in your heart what the hell are you talking about and that just shows someone who doesn't know yeah what he's talking about let me say this emphatically nor mcdonald is the most important voice in all of comedy today period bar none the reason that hashtag i'm with norm which is what i'm calling is so important he's not just a comedian he's a veritable authoritarianism weather stick he's a comedian with the single most stellar track record for speaking confusing comedy uh to shine a light on on the real taboos of our time because it's really easy to go up and make jokes about christians in new york it's really easy to go up and make middle americans seem stupid so because no one says what norm says it's shocking because all of a sudden being a christian more right wing is more we talked about what was edgy in comedy in 2018 they tried to cancel normal what was that for comedians started calling for his scalp yes louis ck and norm was one of the few people who stood up and defended him and that's when people came after noor canadians have gone up against louis yeah well i mean i was talking to some communities have said he this guy should not be able to ever perform again but it doesn't mean you you you can't forgive or it's impossible to forgive i also don't feel um anyone owes me an apology in in in public you know um i i i think personally that you owe an apology to anybody that you did ill to you owe an apology to people that your actions hurt in a financial way or an emotional way but nobody owes me an apology you know that used to be called yeah yeah sure yeah yeah uh and he talks about forgiveness too it's like it seems like that's a concept that we've forgotten in society he has been one of the biggest influences on this show period i used to tell people i was when people used to say and if you look at some of the jokes that we've written or that we've told on the show you can clearly see the yeah um david letterman and john that's how you used to describe it to people i would say david letterman meets kind of john stossel and then there's a little bit of early howard stern and the you know sense of humor nor macdonald is always i think he's the funniest person ever the common thread that they is they all poked their finger in the chest of authority from david letterman daring nbc to fire him or sorry cbs to fire him right showing up at the ge studios there with fruit baskets and then kicking them out of his own office nor macdonald poking his finger in the chest of nbc you can't tell michael jackson jokes you can't tell oj jokes but i guess you should watch and then he did it john stossel john stossel was reviled at abc john stossel went against the grain and went from consumer reporting to reporting on government corruption and whether you like what we do or not look youtube and google is the most powerful company that's ever existed number two through five would be amazon apple facebook twitter right so that's the authority you think that the media is fans of us we have content so there's always been an influence for me i've just always found it funny when someone the gesture pokes fun at the king here's some quotes so too from norm defending free speech and criticizing sort of the modern uh like you're talking about modern comedians he says uh if you can tell me one funny socially relevant joke i'd give you a million dollars uh comedians when they get really good and nowadays they don't even have to get good uh reach a point where they feel they should be philosophers i've heard it said even that the modern day philosophers are comedians i read modern day philosophers i'm sure they're insulted when they're compared to people who work in smoking nightclubs and hit on waitresses for a living if you're watching a comedian on television he's making a political point i would say he's gotten too serious which is ironic because he would do it but he would do it through comedy yes in other words you have to read he would do it in a way that was funny as opposed to someone like a trevor noah or a stephen colbert well he's saying just making the point yeah just making the joke yeah where they've decided that is their most important uh you know modus operandi why i never have a point the model used to be admit wrongdoing show complete contrition and then we can give you a second chance talking about the two and the forgiveness now it's admit wrongdoing and uh and you're finished and so the only way to survive is to deny deny deny and that's not healthy it's not healthy because uh there's no forgiveness and that ties up i think everything that makes norm norm right there in that comment what do you have you have the point of view of someone who obviously uh thinks that comedy should be funny and he thinks that or at least he used it to poke fun and authority and he thinks that he doesn't use the term canceled culture he's more articulate than just saying cancel culture or are you saying it's wrong to treat people this way and the reason it's wrong is because we have a society where we're looking for scalps there's no forgiveness and where does that stem from where does all that stem from that stems from a world view of norm macdonald that he has a job to do and his job is not to go out and tell you know have a pity party over is cancer which i think a lot of us would have liked to know how much time we had left with him but this is how norm lived his life whether you liked it or not his job was to be a comedian you only got to know what he wanted you to know about him and he wanted you to know that he thought we were heading down the wrong path in the entertainment industry in comedy and a big reason because of that is because we've lost the forgiveness of someone who someone and an influence was very important in his life of god that's where that world view comes from without god the glory shaped hole in your heart larry king there can be no forgiveness i think i i think we i speak for all of us here when we say we miss you and uh it was the world lost a good one [Music]

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Length: 28min 49sec (1729 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 18 2021