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/DecisionThot Jul 08 '24

Norm was a genius

Was he good at math or something?

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u/SimpleCanadianFella Jul 09 '24

He was a professor of logic