Norm on Germany Norm McDonald's bit on Germany and WWII is considered one of his best bits. It nails all of his trademark humour and that trademark delivery. pic.twitter.com/CdmbaNJnCD— Courtney Theriault (@cspotweet) September 14, 2021
I've been watching a lot of Norm clips lately and I've come to the conclusion that he's not really all that great.
John Shelby Spong, an Episcopal priest who dragged the denomination into the 20th Century (as late as 1990) has passed at the age of 90. https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...e145a0-1566-11ec-9589-31ac3173c2e5_story.html
I found the clip funny but not funny enough for me to regret the fact that I stopped watching SNL in the late 80's.
He had a reputation as a "comic's comic." But unlike most comics comics of his generation (Jimmy Tingle, Barry Crimmins) he achieved some mainstream success by getting on SNL and actually doing a pretty solid job, esp. on Weekend Update, as I recall. . . . . . but in general, I can't disagree with this.
He had the balls to keep slamming OJ even after the NBC suits told him to knock it off. He gets props for that. Ohlmeyer also tried to ban him when Conan was on NBC but Conan had him on anyway
The real question is: Did he have the balls to slam the LAPD for trying to frame a man who may have been guilty?
Comedy is funny that way. While almost every major comic talks big against a Union or a guild they are all protective as crap of their craft where they watch and make sure other comedians don't step over other comedians. And thus the business of comedy at times can be more protective than anything the gov't could ever implement. I am not a member of their "guild" but from the outside looking in and I can totally see the hierarchy they put in place. It's why so many comedians hated Dane Cook or anyone who broke out before they should have.
That, and he and Carlos Mencia straight up stealing other comedian’s jokes without attribution. The pressure to perform comes at great cost. Think of a lot of great bands who have really bad albums mixed in. There’s a contract and a deadline. Gotta put something out there…..
I originally bought the idea of theft but really it feels like favoritism. I recently saw a bit of Norm McDonald explaining how the moth joke was from Colin Quinn but based on seniority no one cried theft. It was love. Not to mention even odder I saw Chappelle claim Key and Peele stole Dave's idea of a sketch show and I was like get out of here. I love comedy but when you dive in to the politics of it, it can get petty and dirty in my opinion.
Angelo Codevilla, one of the more astute observers of our politics, predictor of the rise of populism and acerbic commentator on our domination by our "ruling class" has died, reportedly in an accident. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/angelo-codevilla-rip/ See this essay for his remarkable prescience, "Who the Hell do They Think They Are?" https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/who-hell-do-they-think-they-are-angelo-m-codevilla/ This is who they are.... America’s “Best And Brightest” — the media’s haughty personages, the college towns’ privileged residents, affimative action’s beneficiaries, the “mainstream” politicians who supported billions for bailouts and “stimuli,” the upscale folks who look down on the rest of us and upon themselves as saviors of the planet See also a detailed interview with a very prickly interviewer, whose questions are "a marvelous recitation of ruling class prejudices" -- if any of you are REALLY interested in how the "other side" thinks. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/angelo-codevilla Choice quotes: On our current low kinetic civil war. We realize that you hate us and therefore we hate you back. And we will take anybody, not that we found this man who fits our description, because Donald Trump didn’t fit anybody’s description of what they wanted. But we will take anybody who’ll take a swing at you. On the source of the ruling class arrogance I should say the defining feature of the ruling class is a certain attitude. And that attitude developed in the academy, and that attitude became uniform throughout the country because of the uniform academy. The uniformity of the academy transformed itself into the uniformity of the ruling class. On why the revolution is just beginning The election of 2016 was precisely about whether anyone in America is above the law. The reason why so many people did not vote for Hillary Clinton is the feeling that she and her ilk were above the law, were acting as if they were above the law, which happened to be entirely true. Now the fact that the Trump administration is acting according to the same premise, i.e., that some people are above the law, is evidence that the revolution that the voters wanted in 2016 has only just begun.
We've only just beguuunnn To liiiiiiiiive White folks and pro-mises Chain him to the truck and we're on our waaayyyyy
I read the first part of the obit. The "pre" in predict means before. He "pre"dicted it after Sarah Palin's massive popularity in 2008. Color me skeptical.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...gVy6dmXy_eks99eOxC-vfXDaLsrJsuwdCmKIiZENV0UOg George Holliday, who videotaped L.A. police beating Rodney King, dies of covid-19 complications Pretty much the Abe Zapruder of the ongoing civil rights struggle. It was also one of the first videos to capture an act of police brutality, specifically against an unarmed Black man, and expose it to a wide audience. “The Rodney King video was the Jackie Robinson of police videos,” the Rev. Al Sharpton told the New York Times last year. In June, the Pulitzer Prize board awarded a special citation to another citizen journalist, Darnella Frazier, whose cellphone footage of George Floyd’s murder sparked a national reckoning over racial justice and police misconduct.
I’d say he was more the Bob Beamon. Larry Doby made his debut a few months after Jackie Robinson. beamon’s record stood a very, very long time.