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Is he the most /lit/ comedian alive?

>> No.14724088

>>14724065
In one of his web series shows he alluded to meeting with some big deal author to discuss his book, said the author was a fan gave Norm some further writing advice. The implication was it was a Thomas Pynchon-tier author if not Pynchon himself.

>> No.14724092

>>14724088
lmao no way when does he say that?

>> No.14724094

>>14724065
He's so funny he stops himself from being too funny

>> No.14724098

>>14724065
No. I am.

>> No.14724151

Norm is lit but I'd say it's between him and Gervais. Maybe even Louis, he's a bit of a Socratic gadfly now and always has a new hour written every year. I wonder if any of them post here like Pynchon sometimes does

>> No.14724181

>>14724098
David?

>> No.14724183
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14724183

>>14724151
>Gervais

>> No.14724188

>>14724151
What's /lit/ about Gervais? Isn't he just some secular humanist twitter drama queen?

>> No.14724192

>>14724065
Love norm, but I don’t see him as /lit/ necessarily
Care to elaborate?

>> No.14724199

>>14724065
I've always like the archetype of the wise man playing the fool.

>> No.14724204

>>14724188
agreed

>> No.14724241

>>14724092
I guess he tweeted about it too

https://mobile.twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/899367320006443008

>> No.14724258

>>14724241
Norm /lit/ confirmed.

>> No.14724270

>>14724192
It's like gaydar, you just know. A man cant come up with that moth joke without being lit

>> No.14724278

>>14724065
No, Conan is.

>> No.14724285

>>14724065
least funny man alive desu

>> No.14724292

>>14724285
pleb

>> No.14724300

>>14724285
No, that'd be me.

>> No.14724316

>>14724151
Pynchon doesn't post here but some gay guy who people think is Pynchon sometimes does.

>> No.14724319

>>14724300
You are mistaken, that's me. You are on the second place though.

>> No.14724321

>>14724300
like clockwork, go check out norm’s twitter and see if you can find something funny. just because he’s the only comedian you know who isn’t an sjw doesn’t mean he’s good

>> No.14724322

>>14724192
he's read the meme trilogy

>> No.14724326
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14724326

No, Stewart Lee is

>> No.14724330

>>14724321
>go check out norm’s twitter and see if you can find something funny.
Why are you retarded?

>> No.14724331

>>14724321
watch his videos. His style works better in action.

>> No.14724332

>>14724321
he only sometimes uses twitter for jokes, it's mostly for livetweeting golf games

>> No.14724349

>average comedian is now considered great because the current scene is so shit

Fuck off with the Norm sucking. You all probably never watch his stand up and only have seen clips on YouTube so fuck off. He isn't that good.

>> No.14724354

>>14724321
That was unnecessarily rude.

>> No.14724356

He's great but the most /lit/ comedian is easily Chris Morris. No one else compares.

>> No.14724357

>>14724349
Feeling insecure, anon? Need mommy to tell you that you have good taste?

>> No.14724370

he thinks dostoevsky is shit and praises tolstoy, which is based but not /lit/

>> No.14724377

>>14724326
His comedy is, but his political writing is godawfully sincere and cringeworthy.

>> No.14724378

>>14724357
No.

>> No.14724379

>>14724370
He doesn't think it's shit. He just likes it way less than Tolstoy. A very /lit/ opinion.

>> No.14724405

>>14724378
Suddenly sparse of words. Lol

>> No.14724414

>>14724349
his stand up isn't that good and neither is his old shit, but he's fucking hilarious off the cuff as an old man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxtkks_a3dI

>> No.14724417

>>14724192
He defended Alice Munro against Bret Easton Ellis on twitter. He loves reading. He's written a book. And the moth joke is very Kafkaesque and Russian lit-inspired.

>> No.14724443

Can someone please post a transcript of or a link to that Norm joke he did on Conan about the guy getting picked up by a taxi at the airport and then flying back home immediately to tell the joke wrong to his wife, I can't remember the progression exactly or the video I originally saw it from but I remember it was a mindblowingly good joke. The punchline goes that the driver had said 'me' as the answer to his riddle and then the husband tells his wife 'this guy who picked me up at the airport'

>> No.14724474

>>14724316

That's bologna. Maybe there is a gay guy who larps as Pynchy but he's definitely posted here before

>> No.14724482

>>14724474
we call him not-pynchon, and he is not pynchon. pynchon has never posted here, and you have no proof he has.

>> No.14724542

>>14724482

Guess it's part of the hermetic schtick. I think he has, in fact I'm sure he has, and you'd have to provide me evidence that he hasn't to convince me otherwise. Why don't you ask him, you himself?

>> No.14724582

>>14724542
You can't make a claim and say "I'm right unless you disprove me" you mongoloid

>> No.14724588

>>14724582
He absolutely can, but should he? That's the real question.

>> No.14724598

>>14724443
i know what you're talking about but i couldn't find it

>> No.14724604

>>14724588
He cant, because what he does will not have been a claim.

>> No.14724608

>>14724604
i claim that you are a faggot

>> No.14724614

>>14724608
Grab hold of whatever you like, drowning man.

>> No.14724648

>>14724614
better a drowning man, than a faggot on dry land.

>> No.14724863

>>14724088
He said it was one of the best authors alive and these are, according to him, Alice Munro and Cormac McCarthy. So probably the latter.

>> No.14724906

Norm is a genius, is his book any good?
https://youtu.be/BpVUdDUCEqE

>> No.14724965

I would actually say Craig ferguson is (was) the most /lit/ comedian.
He would often dedicate an episode to one author and frequently mentioned Kirkegaard.
Plus he was an alcoholic drunk and not American which is a major plus to being /lit/.

>> No.14725011

>>14724906
Yeah, it's pretty funny and enjoyable. Not quite a memoir, not quite a novel...

>> No.14725030

>>14724151
Doug Stanhope is by far the best comedian alive material-wise. He is not the best at structure and delivery. But purely on content he is the best. He's also a good writer.

>> No.14725057

>>14724443
I'm not where I can browse youtube but try looking up "Norm french uncle" or something

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14725163

So /lit/ they tried to kill him.

>> No.14725190

>>14725030
Not really, no.

>> No.14725217

>>14725190
Yes, and by an incredibly wide margin.

>> No.14725219

>>14724542
Where do I start with hermeticism?

>> No.14725232

I've seen him make a Don Quixote reference which nobody in the audience got.

>> No.14725237

>>14724241
He did meet Pynchon ffs

>> No.14725244

>>14725232
Link?

>> No.14725251

>>14725244
What am I, a Youtube?

>> No.14725344

>>14724356
Well he's more of a comedic writer than a comedian. But yes.
>We would swish to the sea, my Pierrot le Fou to her Anna Karina. I would light up Gitanes and exhale clouds of Baudelaire. And she would beg me for horizontal Baudrillard in a sand dune.
>Lauren slithered into the fleshy wash next to me. She teased me with wit and restraint. How perfectly Gallic. And the very Frenchness of it set me off.

>> No.14725358

>>14724863
nah it was definitely pynchon

>> No.14725411

>>14724241
Him and John Larroquette back in the day.

>> No.14725412

>>14725344
What's a comedian if not a comedic writer? He doesn't do standup afaik, but who cares, standup is stupid. He's great at off-the-cuff humor anyway, listen to this interview where he runs circles around Bret Easton Ellis (who Norm has trashed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56h96nFN8_g

>> No.14725423

>>14724443
i wrote out a whole fucking paragraph of the joke and then i found it, here it is, starts after the first clip around 1 min 30 in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNF-bFzk8Kg

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14725550

yuuup

>> No.14725575

>>14725217
Nope. Post any joke of his if you think you can prove it.

>> No.14725745

>>14724965
Norm isn't American

>> No.14725772

>>14724906
Yes, read it

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14725775

Just saw the guy perform, was hoping to see him after the show to recommend Tobacco Road and see if he read Thurber

>> No.14725793

>>14725030
I love Doug Stanhope and think it's fair so say that he perfectly executes the kind of comedy he aims to achieve, but Norm is like an ascended master who would be happy to live in quiet solitude but allows us to see glimpses into his mind out of the goodness of his heart

>> No.14725794

>>14724965
Norm is Canadian.

>> No.14725800

Depends on if Longmont Potion Castle counts as a comedian or not

>> No.14725804

>>14724088
reminder, pynchon played himself on the simpsons

>> No.14725811

>>14725745
>>14725794
Canadians are Americans retard. I didn't say US American.

>> No.14725828

>>14725811
No, in English they aren't. Only people from the US are Americans.

>> No.14725903

>>14725800
LPC comes off as a major stoner. Nothing /lit/erary about him

>> No.14725917

>>14725828
Doesn’t even matter. The guy was just saying being born not American was a good thing. Nothing more need be applied

>> No.14725959

>>14725811
that's some shitty damage control

>> No.14725976

... or so the Germans would have us believe.

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>>14724088
>>14724241
Fuck

>> No.14726100

>>14725903
LPC comes off as a unique master of the English language who has found an extremely niche outlet for it

>> No.14726488

Dylan Moran. Under appreciated comedian, well read. Heard him talk about being a longtime Delillo fan.

>> No.14726831

>>14725219
Answer me, hermetic sages

>> No.14727491

>>14725575
Maybe you're too stupid to get them. My favorite is the hooker rambling about keynesian economics. Most comedians who just talk about relationships and race are hacky as fuck.

>> No.14727501

>>14727491
>My favorite is the hooker rambling about keynesian economics.
ho ho what a corker

>> No.14727739

>>14725800
I used to love LPC so much. Ahhh good times

>> No.14727791

>>14724414
I think his stand-up is perfectly fine, it's really just that he needs a straight man. All of Norm's funniest bits are him doing shaggy dog jokes, and those work best if you've got someone like Conan there to be completely nonplussed by the punchline

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>> No.14727877

Conan O’Brien is the most /lit/ comedian imo

>> No.14727891

>>14727877
You want to see Norm outclassing Conan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL0WayC7jW0

>> No.14727930

The right wing is incapable of being funny. Their laughter is just derision. Their satire merely cruelty. They are incapable of introspection and so incapable of self deprecation.
You have to be correct and your opponent incorrect to make fun of your opponent in a way that is satirical. There is nothing correct about bullying, deception, arrogance, ignorance and stupidity.

There is nothing funny about being a racist or making fun of the disadvantaged unless you do it as irony, and there is nothing ironic about a nazi killing a baby then making excuses that it is all just a joke.

You need no more proof than the fact that you cannot find a video of trump really laughing anywhere. His body is incapable of actual laughter.

>> No.14727939

>>14727930
>Norm
>right-wing
???

>> No.14727945

Gervais has only read one fiction book in his entire life, catcher in the rye. He didn't like it that much.
>>14724151

>> No.14727946

>>14727939
Anon, why would you reply to obvious bait? Have you learned nothing in all your years here?

>> No.14727947

>>14727930
fun bait

>> No.14727972

>>14725163
What did they do? Throw money at him so he would OD on crack?