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Apparently more than once the Conan show told Norm at the last minute before his going on that he needed to talk for say, 12 minutes. Having only a quick joke or two planned he'd run with it stretching one out. The result was always funny. His famous moth joke is perhaps an even better example of Norm's ability to tell a joke in this unique way.
THIS!!!
I keep the moth joke on my cellphone... classic Norm !
They knew it would be gold
czcams.com/video/jJN9mBRX3uo/video.htmlsi=dIdSts5Jl-rDSZxa the moth joke and czcams.com/video/R07ijRHIdgM/video.htmlsi=7HUEf0qMgq6aST_m
Chairman of the bored is still my favorite moment.
A porpoise is a dolphin-like animal.
He said "I believe I'm serving a youthful porpoise" AKA feeding a baby dolphin, but it's also supposed to sound like "serving a useful purpose".
It's basically a play on words between "youthful porpoise" and "useful purpose". The whole idea is he goes on a 5 minute ramble to make a terrible pun at the end.
His moth joke is even better in my opinion.
Exactly, Norm style is unique and genius in my opinion
That’s true, but where the hell is Janice!? 😂
@@ninja_tonyThe woods? Oh, man. Nothing good happens there.
*🔔ding🔔ding🔔ding* _we have a wiener!_ 🌭
Imo this is why norm is a bad comic. That's a lot of set up for such a minor pun. The real joke is that you wasted time excepting more. But imo that's only funny once
The moth joke back story is really interesting....Conan wanted him to do an extra segment but Norm didn't prepare for an extra segment, so he took the 10 second moth joke and stretched it out to 5 mins....it was gold!
And heard the joke from Colin Quinn
he is a master of towing the line between a joke being the punchline or the joke being literal.
"He feels like a scholar, rather than a comedian." That's because he was a genius. That part were he said he was scrabbling to get out of high school was a joke.
“Well you know, a man grows” absolute genius 😂❤ Then the child’s joke punchline 😂😂😂 Andy was actually very funny 😂
Norm, without a doubt, was a genius.
Was he good at math or something?
@@mostawesomecomment6553yup.
@@mostawesomecomment6553 Possibly, since he always got his money's worth, under the Queensboro bridge. Also, he invented sarcasm.
He actually was very good at math and he finished high school at the age of 14
He was also big into Russian literature.
There is no one else like Norm. My favorite moment from him is when he was on Dave Letterman's last show.
He told a few jokes. Some old, some new. But he ended with his turning to Dave and telling him that if it weren't for Dave, he would not have had a career. He was on the verge of calling it quits, and Dave reached out and asked him to do a set on his show.
Watching Norm wipe tears from his eyes is not something I ever thought I'd see.
You need to watch Norm's moth joke..or Conan - Courtney Thorne Smith segment...
Yes!! I second this request!! The moth joke for sure! But the Norm & Courtney Thorne-Smith segment is so freaking epic!! Norm had Conan laughing so hard that he couldn't get a word out through the whole thing.... stills gets me in stiches all these years later!!😜 Courney was a trooper! lol!!😅
Yes, Ottawa is Canada's capital and Norm is Canadian. He's one of the best comics ever, he's your favourite comics favourite comic.
I'm sad he's gone but his appearances on Conan are amazing, I'm glad they're available for everyone to watch.
It was a LOOOOONG road to get to a REALLY BAD PUN. No one but Norm could have gotten away with it. This was GREAT talk show fodder back in the day. Norm did podcasts that seemed to go on for days. You could listen & watch him for 10 minutes and it literally felt like HOURS of conversation going nowhere. There is just no one else like him.
Many times on Conan when he was a guest they would ask him to stay longer then he was booked for when they needed to stretch out the show. He would do whatever joke or story he could think at the time and they would go with it.
The norm Macdonald roast of Bob Saget is a legendary set.
Norm Macdonald was a literal genius. A mathematician, and truly great man.
He was a professor of logic.
He changed that name intenationally...yes, he was absolutely genius!
I doubt that. He said he made some of these long jokes up on the spot, only having a punchline prepared and improvising the rest, which would make it very easy to make such a mistake.
He was so good that you can't be sure if it was intentional or not. Either way, it works and that is where his genius is on display.
No one could draw out a joke like Norm. You should watch the clip of him telling the Moth joke. He takes what's essentially a 2 line joke from a joke-book written for children, and makes it a hilarious 6 minute journey.
He was also a genius, even as a child. He could have been a world class mathematician if he wanted to, but luckily for us he didn't like all the school work and chose to do comedy.
He's truly one of the best to ever do it and belongs on the Mount Rushmore of comedy
Norm was very intelligent. He just throws crazy stories out there somewhere 😂
He did celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for charity. Would make a great reaction 😊
I don’t know why but it makes me happy that you appreciate Norm😊
He won $500,000 and would have won the million but was persuaded not to take the risk
He also used all his lifelines on the first question, if I remember correctly
@@G02372 he actually didn’t use his first life line until the 10th or 11th question
Few comedians have the balls to do a shaggy dog story like that on a major talk show. So much respect for Norm.
The back story is hilarious. As a previous commenter mentioned, sometimes guests would bow out and they needed to fill time. Norm would come prepared for his segment only to find they needed him for the final segment of 7 to 10 minutes. Off the top of his head, he would come with these silly jokes that he poetically turned into 10 minute stories. The best example of this is the famous MOTH joke. Here he intertwines Russian literature into the story. Once again as a last minute save for Conan. Check out the Moth. You won't be disappointed....
You get it! The part where you cracked up at the end while being at the edge of your seat giggling and trying to see what the heck I’d going on… that’s what it’s about. That’s what makes Norm the funniest ever!😂😂😂❤ great reaction
Noem was a Genius and Super Funny. The way he told jokes was second to none.
Témiscamingue is a city north of Montréal in the Québec province, Norm grew up in Québec for a part of his life.
Yes, Ottawa is our Nation's Capital, Toronto is the Capital of Ontario, and our "States" are called Provinces. Also, haviing been born in Niagara Falls, the place Norm was talking about is called MarineLand.
Norm is my comedy goat. Keep norm coming. You will not regret it.
I will!
Never about the punchline, always the journey❤️
The journey was bad tho
Norm’s secret is that he tells jokes to amuse himself. He loves stringing people along for these long, meandering stories, only to abruptly end them with an anticlimactic punchline.
Yep this is one of Norm’s specialties! But not only is he amusing himself, but taking the audience along for the ride as well, with an anti-climactic punchline or corny pun making it almost like an Anti-joke, where the Joke is actually on the audience, host or listeners etc. 😂. In a mischievous kinda way.
Otherwise known as a shaggy dog story.
Dear Britt, it's about the ending; and it was quick and easy to miss.
Remember, Jacque was feeding baby dolphins. So when Norm told him he was wasting his life, Jacque replied, "I feel I'm serving a youthful porpoise."
Feeding baby dolphins, serving a youthful porpoise.... as in A USEFUL PURPOSE, get it?
Funniest part of this entire clip was Co-Host, Andy Richter a.k.a. No. 1 Sidekick, Comic relief champion, and always gets the bigger laugh. 😂😂🤣🤣 "Like taking him on a four mile hike to show him a dog turd." 😂😂🤣🤣
Dad jokes cause sooo much pain to people (like my wife) and the fact that he dragged it out into the longest dad joke ever, making the suffering greater, was just awesome!
Marine Biologist; with all that education. What is it you do??
“Serve a youthful Porpoise”
The short version
Norm on SNL as Turd Ferguson is a must....😂
Comic Gold every time with Norm. Genius!
“The professor of Logic” joke by Norm is my fav Norm Joke but there are many other greats. People will say “The Moth joke” by Norm which is genius. But he was also just naturally funny and quick off the mark. Check his many appearances on Conan or David Letterman or find a compilation of his Weekend Update jokes from SNL or type in “Norm MacDonald looses his sponsors” (off his hilarious podcast). He was a genius. IM NOT NORM CZcams channel is a great resource.
All of what you said. Norm was indeed a brilliant mind and a professor of sorts. His ever present smirk and the gleam in his eye as he mixes up word salad just to make himself laugh…He wasn’t even worried about whether or not we laughed…He was entertaining himself often at our expense…There will NEVER be another. Norm was the man.
Your insight into the intelligence of Norm MacDonald is right on the money, Britt. After his tragically young death many of the tributes from people who knew him said that he was the best read man they'd ever met, and that his curiosity about everything in life from history to science to the art of comedy was highly advanced.
Your first remarks, you nailed it right on the head. You got Norm down. It’s awesome how Norm is making the rounds with all the reactors again man it was inevitable.
Yes, you are right, he was a genius - insightful He enrolled in University at 16, but graduated a few years earlier. He was gifted at Mathematics. His brother is a CBC foreign correspondent. And I agree with you, we are taken on tornado ride only to realize the punchline was a mile storm - very unusual.
A guest on The Norm Show asked him his process to his jokes and it was the first time I’d ever seen/heard him actually explain it to someone, just in plain sight for us to hear.
He said on stage, he knows the punchline then purposefully digs a hole that he has to recover from to reach it. And that’s what keeps him interested in his comedy.
So, I think that’s what most fans already know but it was so rare that he wasn’t messing around with his guest and just explained his comedy, in plain sight on the show.
I wish I could remember which guest it was.
This is a great preparation for the Moth Joke
Norm had this thing on talk shows, and I think he was the only one who did it, where he told old, sometimes stinkers of jokes as actual events in his life. Conversational. Sprinkled with detail and funny asides on the way to the usually groaner punchline. An example would be, "NO! Not THAT pig - that's Kitchner Leslie's girlfriend!" Conan became a master at playing the straight man, and usually found a way to add to the funny - like pointing out the name change in the bit you just watched. And the banter at the end. Andy scored as well with that great dog poop line.
norm had a unique ability to appear completely oblivious and totally in-control at the same time. you could never tell which it was. and i think that's exactly how he wanted it to be.
He was indeed a genius. He was a student of Russian literature and he could recite entire passages at the drop of a hat. He was a compulsive gambler with an encyclopedic knowledge of sports trivia, and really any trivia. Recently I learned from the Harland Williams podcast that he fashioned his rambling delivery on Archie Bunker. A lot of his work blurred the lines between truth and fiction. He stole or borrowed a lot, especially from obscure old timey places, and was never easy to tell when he was being sincere. And who is this man? You guessed it: Frank Stallone
I love Norm. He can be funny in so many different ways. He can do the traditional set up punch if he wants, he can do roasts like on the espy awards, he can do impressions and skits and so much more. Here, he trolls the audience by telling a long setup and intentionally delivering a lame punch line for his own amusement.
Norm will take you to the very top of the mountain just to deliver the cheesiest dad joke you’ll ever hear 😂
Im loving watching you meet Norm! Please keep it up and thank you ❤
youthful porpoise sounds like useful purpose. that's the joke
"I believe i'm serving a youthful porpoise" haha took me a while
I promise you, his "frog gets a bank loan" joke will put an eternal smile on your face. I still get the giggles at this absurd yet hilarious joke. Please do yourself a favor and listen to it.
There was one time I actually met Jacques de Gateneaux and it was at Sea World. An amazing man feeding the baby dolphins. So brilliant of a man. Made me wish I had a youthful porpoise.
RIP Norm there will never be another people like you
Norm was a genius. He’d lead you down some winding path with no apparent destination and then, when you least expect it, he’d drop some perfect, dumb@$$ double entendres punch line and it made the journey worthwhile. I really miss him. 😢😊❤
Love your channel, you're brilliant!
Norm is the master of silliness!
LOL, gotta love Norm. Most of the time the rambling story, not the pun at the end is the joke. You know he finds it extremely amusing everyone really paid attention to that whole story just for it to end with a corny pun.
"serving a youthful porpoise" ---> feeding a baby dolphin ---> sounds like "serving a useful purpose".
Norm was a very thoughtful person; in that he thought about weighty subjects. I've heard him ponder existence.
Norm saving bad interviews on Conan is by far the best of Norm. Complete improv at its best.
"Norm Macdonald, the Moth Joke" is the perfect example of Norm's particular brand of comedy.
Norm never got hugely famous or successful but amongst the people who truly mattered to him, his peers and fellow comedians/writers, he was genuinely beloved and respected.
Norm Macdonald a true legend not just for his comedy and his acting but the fact he battled canceled for 9 years and didn't let anybody know does battled lived his life and continued to do comedy as well as well tv
A Canadian icon Legend... He is missed 😢❤
I love this man!
Somebody probably already mentioned it but yes, Ottawa is the capital of Canada, not Toronto (the biggest city)
Glad to see you've caught on. Norm, speaks like a doddering old man from a bygone era. He was very well read & intelligent.
I love hearing a good story teller, and I think most people do, but a lot of people struggle with the story itself.
With Norm, it's always the journey that makes the joke funnier than if he just told the joke, which is a simple pun that a kid would tell. If you watch his other jokes on conan and on letterman etc, you'll see the same thing happen, they all know the game. absolutely nothing you hear matters. the real joke is that he gets you to listen to all that in the process.
Norm, explain to the folks out there what a youthful porpoise is 😂
I said it on your last Norm vid but he was the absolute king of the shaggy dog story. Lots of people will recommend the Moth joke (as will I) as a perfect example but I also love his story about the bed & breakfast trip and the story (stories?) of Dirty Johnny…
So if you didn't know Norm actually recorded a last "special" during the pandemic and its on netflix. When it came out they also did a companion to that there is a discusion with Letterman, Conan, Chapelle, Sandler, David spade, and Molly Shannon just talking about Norm.
Brit Brit Beautiful Brit ,such a beautifully intelligent and funny woman . Norms loss is felt so deeply in the comedy world , for those who are fighting cancer, let us pray for a cure asap.❤
It's all about a long, dragged-out story leading to a corny punchline (if there is a punchline). Genius.
I'm glad I discovered your channel. I get to re-watch Norm through a new set of eyes.
Check out his University of Science/Professor of Logic/Doghouse "joke".
He's great at the short jokes too. Watch some of the compilations of him on SNL's Weekend Update.
Very perceptive of you. Norm was indeed a humble genius. He claimed he dropped out of high school at 16. But in fact he graduated at 14 and enrolled in College at 16
This dude was definitely a smart guy. You should watch the time he won who wants to be a millionaire and then get robbed at the last minute. Like legit robbed.
my cottage is not far from the community of temiskaming shores which is in northern ontario (and the only place with that in it's name). lake temiskaming is in both provinces ontario and quebec; but like a lot of the rest of the joke the fine details meant next to nothing. the punchline still cracks me up and it probably wouldn't nearly as much if he hadn't built it up so much and in such a roundabout way and on national US television.
Norm WAS a Genius!...He graduated high school at a young age and was very gifted in math but he would tell people he dropped out of high school to do comedy. He mentioned in an interview how the smartest guy in a room is always hated by everyone and never funny so he always acted like he was dumb. You should really check out his Moth Joke on Conan and then watch his appearance on The View where he pisses off Barbara Walters
SNL Weekend update with Norm is 🔥
listening to norm, mostly early norm on conan, norm said that he was on zanax pills for alot of them and also never told ow long he was on for, so he show up high and only 5min of stuff and be told hes on for 30min instead, and now we of the MOTH jooke and such lmao
Norm has to be on the Mount Rushmore of comedians.
welcome to Norm. enjoy the ride
I had a twitter encounter with Norm probably 12 years ago. It was it was 2:00 am and I was watching the movie "Spinal Tap," with the French subtitles on. In the movie Spinal Tap sings "Listen to the Flower People." I don't speak or read French, but I knew Norm did. I tweeted Norm the line "Listen to what the flower people say," as it was in the French subtitles. Norm responded why. I explained what it was from. Norm wrote that the line translated into "Listen to the smelly people." The funny thing was that Rosanne Barr was also in the thread. I got to ask him a question.
I don't know about that. I live in solitude. Solitude isn't great but I have my hound resting beside me.
Very “common” Norm McDonald behavior. And it’s why we all loved and adored him.
More norm please!!! The channel [I'm not Norm] has a lot of great content eddied great for reactions
I'm not Norm is great, but Conan's channel, Team Coco, also has a few Norm videos and the quality is much better than most other channels. For Norm/Conan videos it's best to first check out that channel. If only David Letterman had something similar.
He was a genius. Graduated high school at 14.
Whenever Norm started a joke/story you always knew to buckle up
And yes . This is his style a genius
im half quebecois. this joke always gets me. love norm
"norm macdonald courtney thorne smith" This is my favorite Norm appearance on Conan.
czcams.com/video/bKmadR4Ye54/video.html
That is the genius of the great Norm Macdonald!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
You have such a beautiful smile 😊
The point of it all is the fun along the way of the journey --not the destination.
It's all about the journey. Norm has an amazing way of getting you to hang on every word, because we're all waiting for the punch line, and we CAN'T WAIT TO LAUGH!!! And he's so meta, I would not have been surprised if he named a person "X", because their name isn't central to the joke, though it could be funny. Surprisingly, Quebec and Toronto are NOT Canada's capital; Ottowa is.
quebec is a province, quebec city is a city and ottawa is spelled ottawa.
He's in the tradition of the old English "shaggy dog story." Look it up. :-)
He is a genius 😢
His best ever bit might be "Norm Macdonald is married to a complete battle axe".
His bit about being a deeply closeted man is the best
Jacque was “serving a youthful porpoise 🐬 aka a baby beluga 😂
Actually, it was classic Norm MacDonald humor. A lengthy set-up of a convoluted story, only to deliver a groaner of a pun. I loved watching Norm, because he would always deliver a surprise ending -- some hilarious, some not so hilarious, but always entertaining (or on occasion, downright shocking)! RIP Norm.
What makes it so funny is that you realize that he had you completely invested in the joke and the story just to show you that he could do it and then, at the end, he crushes every dream you had that there could be some meaning behind it all.
1:42 why yes, he was a scholar AND a gentleman