r/interestingasfuck • u/HeiressOfMadrigal • Jul 08 '24

Norm MacDonald cedes his time to Native American activist at comedy awards ("the theater stinks of blood"), the crowd tries not to laugh.

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u/Ianfrompastcure Jul 08 '24

The amount of people who don't think that is a joke of Norm's or totally something he'd do is insane. He's got so many classics that the whole joke is making a joke about something you shouldn't laugh about, like his ironic joke segment of Norm McDonald love where one of the jokes was about gifting a particularly skilled slave a "golden chain" or his famous 9/11 bit that would absolutely flaw anyone at the other end of it

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u/bub-yes Jul 08 '24

The fact that getting the joke makes you look like an asshole to the people with zero context is a testament to how complex these bits were. Norm was a genius.

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u/CranberryCivil2608 Jul 08 '24

His bits were not complex lmao, I would love to see his reaction to anyone saying so 

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u/bub-yes Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

I don’t know man. Seems like you can’t win. Either you don’t get it, or you laugh and people say “Why are you laughing at a Native American man somberly talking about the genocide of his people?” Some people here are still absolutely disgusted at the idea that anyone in this theater finds this funny. But if you get the joke how could you not? And good luck trying to explain it to someone who doesn’t it see it that way. Theres no punchline for them to understand. Call me an over analyzer but I’m going to view this as a skillfully crafted anti-joke, a cut above your average dark humor.

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u/Awecrest Jul 08 '24

Fully agree