Norm MacDonald
Norm MacDonald
Norman Gene "Norm" Macdonald is a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, producer and actor. He is best known for his five seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, which included anchoring Weekend Update for three years. Early in his career, he wrote for the sitcom Roseanne and made appearances on shows including The Drew Carey Show and NewsRadio. He starred in The Norm Show from 1999 to 2001. Comedy Central named him #83 on the five-part miniseries 100 Greatest...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth17 October 1963
CityQuebec City, Canada
CountryCanada
I've shown people Richard Pryor who've never seen him, and most of them don't like him.
There's no such thing, of course, as an old-fashioned gay guy. They're the most decadent people.
If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated.
[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].
In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
I can't be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I'll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.