Norm Macdonald's Moth Joke

[Applause] now not all your material comes uh from the from the news is that right you know some of my material comes my strongest material comes from real life real life like for instance today i was driving in a car you were kind enough to bring a car to bring this old chunk of coal here to the studio we send we send cards for our guests yeah yeah so i got in it and that's i you know i get material that way so much what do you mean how do you get material that way you get in the car and what happens uh my driver tells me a joke the driver we sent to pick you up told you a joke yeah and you're going to tell it now on the show yeah that's how i get all of my material okay why don't we just have him on next time that guy you yeah that guy now wait till you hear me do it [Laughter] so the guys he goes uh i say uh i'll be the guy okay a moth a moth goes into a podiatrist's office a moth goes into a podiatrist office you are correct a moth goes into a podiatrist's office and the potatoes office says what's the problem and the moss says what's the problem where do i begin man he goes i go to work for uh gregory olinovich and all day long i work honestly doc i don't even know what i'm doing anymore i don't even know if gregory olinovich knows he only knows that he has power over me and that seems to bring him happiness but i don't know i wake up in a malaise and i i walk here and there the podiatrist says oh yeah and the moth goes yes and he goes uh at night i i sometimes wake up and i turn to some old lady in my bed that's on my arm a lady that i once loved doc i don't know where to turn to my youngest alexandria she fell in the in the cold of last year the cold took her down as it did many of us and my other boy and this is the hardest pill to swallow doc my other boy gregaro ivana lidodovich i no longer love him as much as it pains me to say when i look in his eyes all i see is is the same cowardice that i that i catch when i take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror if only the cowardice was stronger then perhaps perhaps i could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me and then this hellish facade how long a drive was this do you live in the valley where do you live please sorry he says doc sometimes i feel like a spider even though i'm a moth just barely hanging onto my web with an everlasting fire underneath me i'm not feeling good and so the mosque the the doctor says moth man you're troubled but you should be seeing a psychiatrist why on earth did you come here and then the ma said because the light was on [Applause] my congratulations to anyone who stuck it through to the end so so norm what we're pretty much out of time i no well listen uh it's over what's that do it oh we have a i understand you've been you've been pitching television shows recently to networks and you want to pitch one here on the history channel i uh we just did the pilot i don't know if you guys like ice road truckers a lot of people love that show yeah it's a good show well this is the uh this is the sequel i started it's called ice road toll booth operator let's take a look hey i see enough for you it's cold out there today johnny be careful there with that big truck this road's a death trap uh earlier i saw down the ways a bit there was sirens and all sorts of emergency vehicle belching black smoke i think a truck went on fire 50 cents [Music] be careful out there yeah this is when you realize how those snow tires were a good investment after all so anyway what the hell was that sound sound like ice like cracking ice whoa some ice crack beneath my feet [Music] all right very good show uh normal b at the comedy works south in greenwood village colorado september 11th and 12th and at the improv in irvine california september 24th yeah if you go there early through the 27th norm mcdonald everybody we'll take a break thomas hayden's shirt

Channel: Team Coco

Views: 2,485,282

Rating: 4.9519978 out of 5

Keywords: Late Night with Conan O’Brien, late night with conan obrien, late night with, conan classic, best of, late night, original, comedy, sketch, humor, funny, celebrity, interview, first, late late show, late, night, show, special, classic, talk show, talk show hosts, triumph the insult comic dog, andy richter, max weinberg, norm macdonald

Id: YxD3pT8C9-A

Length: 6min 26sec (386 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 15 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/BigHeadSlunk]

It's nice to see this video in HD and not cropped to all hell.

[u/icyflakes]

If you're in a Norm memorial mood over these last couple of days, Bob Saget (the guy he roasted in that incredible video) has posted a tribute/long-form-eulogy sort of video that is really lovely. I didn't really know much about Bob outside of his relationship with Norm, but he's managed to sum up the situation in a really great way, as a close friend but also someone who wasn't in the inner circle about the sickness. He knew something was happening, but not what exactly what was going on. It's quite tough to listen to, Bob chokes up a fair bit during this, but it's a really beautiful tribute to a man who very rarely showed his emotions in public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEYu-7BkNDM

[u/santichrist]

“So Norm…”

“What”

Somehow that makes it even funnier

[u/Wolfgang_von_Goetse]

I never really got the appeal of this until I heard Conan explain the joke from his perspective in his latest podcast talking about Norm.

He lays it on so thick you dont realize that a professional comedian on The Tonight Show, in front of millions of people who he can make laugh and later pay to come see his shows, has decided to spend six and a half minutes telling an aggravatingly pointless, intentionally un-funny joke about a moth going to the doctor. Like his intention was to waste your time. And he absolutely loved it.

It's still not a funny joke. But I get why it's funny now. I think.

[u/at0mheart]

You need 5 min of setup for such a lame and simple punchline and Conan set it up from the start. This is genius

[u/hoponpot]

Another great joke by Norm in the same style, "Dirty Johnny": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-q8gHe414s

[u/b0nk3rs4u]

That was comedy solid gold.

[u/smegmaroni]

An all-time legendary moment in comedy. Love you Norm

[u/mosnil]

Hadn't seen the ice toll booth bit before but he goes on to voice a similar character in Klaus.