re: Norm Macdonald has passed away at the age of 61

Posted by Gatorbait2008

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 7:43 pm to RollTide1987

Can anyone account for OJ’s whereabouts?

Posted by BilJ

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 8:03 pm to Fewer Kilometers

Spade

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Normie One of the last comics who just didnt give a frick

This is sadly true

Posted by Boo Krewe

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 8:13 pm to saintsfan22

his movies screwed and dirty work

Posted by SPEEDY

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 8:29 pm to Gatorbait2008

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Can anyone account for OJ’s whereabouts?

Norm’s Charles Woodson Heisman joke at the ESPY’s still makes me laugh

Posted by Crow Pie

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 8:41 pm to hg

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Absolutely loved his style of comedy and he was one of my favorites. RIP

I just re-watched his ESPY monolog and he was dropping deadpan BOMBS as if he was ordering a vanilla milkshake. RIP Norm M

F' Cancer

Posted by BilJ

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 9:02 pm to SPEEDY

Norm on the view

Posted by memphisplaya

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 9:04 pm to RollTide1987

"if I'm elected we will cure cancer"

Still waiting...

RIP Norm,

you were one of the greats and in a time where SNL was actually enjoyable.

Not his best movie but I'm gonna watch Screwed tonight because after this week because that's how i feel we are.

Keep them laughing and thankfully your battle with that terror is over. It has taken too many from us.

Posted by skrayper

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 9:10 pm to RollTide1987

Damn man... I am going to miss him.

Posted by OMLandshark

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 9:26 pm to skrayper

I’m at cry 4. I’ve idolized him since I was 8 or 9. Regardless I’m sure it was single digits. Outside of Robin Williams, I’m confident he was my second comedic love and became enthralled with his comedy and humor at an early age. He was a truly decent man on top of being the funniest person in the world. Norm really shaped me as a human being, and I’m probably in his top .1% fans. I’m thankful to see his standup in person, but in addition to be the funniest person who has ever lived, he was a truly good human being. I’m going to miss him.

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Posted by ehidal1

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 9:38 pm to BilJ

That was great. Sorry fat fingered the upvote and gave a downvote.

Norm dgaf and is one of the last of his kind in the biz

Posted by CocomoLSU

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 9:39 pm to OMLandshark

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I’m at cry 4

Relax, dude. You’re gonna be okay, I promise.

Posted by OMLandshark

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 9:45 pm to CocomoLSU

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Relax, dude. You’re gonna be okay, I promise.

I’m going to be and hopefully the world will be, but I’ve idolized this guy since elementary school. He was just great, funny, and an all around great person. He’s a great person to try to emulate. Yeah, you knew I’d be devastated by it, but let us live in Norm’s legacy, humor, and kindness. He was just the best, and I don’t think I made a poor choice on people to idolize, even if he’d certainly bust my balls for doing it.

Posted by vandelay industries

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 9:45 pm to RollTide1987

Definitely on my Mount Rushmore of comedians.

His Norm Macdonald Live eps with Gilbert Gottfried and Super Dave are the among the funniest I've heard on any podcast.

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Posted by molsusports

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 9:58 pm to StrongOffer

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Tbh he hadn't looked healthy for awhile. I always just thought it was because he was getting old, but it makes more sense now

In retrospect it seems obvious. He had some appearances in recent years where he was very bloated. I remember thinking that he looked like Jerry Lewis near the end of his life (Lewis was on corticosteroids and those can be part of some combination treatment protocols for some cancers).

RIP to a funny and nearly fearless comedian and joke writer. It was amazing to see him completely control places from tough rooms, to adversarial talk shows, angry Twitter mobs, or rooms full of unsuspecting celebrities. And the kicker would be an unexpected punchline told with a beatific smile and a dry delivery.

Tell St Peter the moth joke Norm, he'll let you right in.

Posted by ReedRothchild

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 10:41 pm to RollTide1987

Whenever I see a celebrity dying in the news or on this board, it’s just another story to me and I just shrug it off. This one actually stopped me in my tracks and I felt genuinely sad. Norm is a fricking legend, and this is truly awful. Like others have already said in this thread, keeping the whole cancer thing to himself really speaks to who he was as a person. No posts on Twitter seeking sympathy likes or any of that horseshite. He truly did not care about stuff like that. They don’t make em like that anymore.

Posted by Jack Ruby

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Posted on 9/14/21 at 10:51 pm to OMLandshark

The funniest and most insightful entertainment figure of most of our lifetimes in now gone.

This side of the plane just became quite a bit dimmer.