comedians

TheBig3 · 09-14-2021, 09:23 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Gp2lQGCag

**Frownland** · 09-15-2021, 01:00 AM

I chalked his weight gain and generally rough lookingness up to aging when it came out, but it seems like he's in pain on this episode

. I wonder how different his career would be if he wasn't facing cancer for nine years, his recent stuff has a higher grade of don'tgivea****itude where he really shined.

~~jwb~~ · 09-15-2021, 05:27 AM

Can't lie, kinda disappointed at him that he would decide to keep it secret kinda a bitch move imo all that being said RIP to norm, easily GOAT contender as far as stand ups go imo.

jadis · 09-15-2021, 06:00 AM

Doing comedy when your audience knows you have cancer is impossible. Every laugh you get you would chalk up to pity.

My favorite UK comedian, Sean Lock, who died of cancer a month ago, made the exact same choice. Only a few close friends knew he was ill.

The Batlord · 09-15-2021, 06:37 AM

Seems in character. It would be super weird hearing anything serious, let alone a cancer prognosis, come out of Norm ****ing McDonald. His whole shtick speaks to being a very private person girl.

Plankton · 09-15-2021, 08:34 AM

I think we're all a little bit of a private person girl. IMCHPO.

Plankton · 09-15-2021, 08:41 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Yasi99n-o

Plankton · 09-15-2021, 10:13 AM

He had the vocal timbre of Bob Dylan.

The Batlord · 09-15-2021, 11:28 AM

Rodney Dangerfield is definitely underrated with the kids today.

Plankton · 09-15-2021, 11:32 AM

Yessir. This is a brilliant observation posted in the comments:

Quote:

Norm once mentioned in some interview that the beauty of Dangerfield's delivery is the flash of pain in his eyes after each joke.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I chalked his weight gain and generally rough lookingness up to aging when it came out, but it seems like he's in pain on this episode . I wonder how different his career would be if he wasn't facing cancer for nine years, his recent stuff has a higher grade of don'tgivea***itude where he really shined. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x

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~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	Can't lie, kinda disappointed at him that he would decide to keep it secret kinda a bitch move imo all that being said RIP to norm, easily GOAT contender as far as stand ups go imo.

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jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,359	Doing comedy when your audience knows you have cancer is impossible. Every laugh you get you would chalk up to pity. My favorite UK comedian, Sean Lock, who died of cancer a month ago, made the exact same choice. Only a few close friends knew he was ill.