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5963326 No.5963326 [Reply] [Original]

Not sure what to think of this, opinions /lit/?

https://twitter.com/NormsBookClub

>> No.5963336

I don't like that he'll RT blatantly misguided interpretations without addressing them. Then again other followers seem to a decent job of keeping that in check. Twitter is not a great medium for this type of discussion. Norm on the whole though seems to have a pretty good understanding of literature, especially for a famous comedian with no formal education.

>> No.5963338

pleb shit loved by plebs

>> No.5963340

I don't know what this is. Does it actually have anything to do with Norm Macdonald?

>> No.5963343

>>5963340

Of course, it's his twitter book club.

>> No.5963349

>>5963343
I didn't know he had a book club

>> No.5963369

>>5963349


http://ballastmag.com/2013/06/norm-macdonalds-weird-wonderful-twitter-book-club/

>> No.5963471

That guy sounds like a real JERK

>> No.5963490

>>5963471

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRPmjlqBFXQ

>> No.5963527

>>5963490
Fucking classic Norm. He is great at his particular brand of humor.

>> No.5963532

>>5963527

7:00 mark is the essence of Norm

>> No.5963564

>>5963532

no, this is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkSMSbFV_q0

>> No.5963567

>>5963564

"Terrible name, reminds me of that tragedy..."

>my sides

>> No.5963590

>>5963336
>Twitter is not a great medium for this type of discussion.

Nor is 4chan.

>> No.5963604

>>5963490
>>5963564
This is considered high-brow comedy in America?

>> No.5963610

>>5963604
Nobody said it was high-brow. I'm not sure where you're getting that, except you needed more fuel for your meek jab.

He's a comedian whose most famous movie is "Dirty Work". There is no high-brow here.

>> No.5963660

>>5963604
what makes you think Norm is high brow?

>> No.5963665

>>5963564

Fucking kek.

>> No.5963681

>>5963604

No, Norm's comedy is a deliberate rejection of "high-brow". He's repeatedly stated that he has great disdain for cleverness and innuendo.

>> No.5963699

"Ill never forgive Russia for perverting the basic tenets of Karl Marx. And also the rules of Roulette." - Norm MacDonald

>> No.5963788

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWGAm55gApk

somebody get in touch with norm for a q&a.

>> No.5963810
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>>5963564
This is fantastic

>> No.5963811

>>5963681
Are cleverness and innuendo high-brow?

>> No.5963817

>>5963681
So he's deliberately bland? OK, I think I get it now.

>> No.5963821

Norm is the greatest comedian alive, it's a shame he can't get work.

>> No.5963826

>>5963811

I think so. As the audience the appeal comes from a sense of decoding the actual message.

“I try not to be clever, I don’t like clever jokes at all, I never liked them, and jokes with sexual innuendo, I never liked them either,” Macdonald said. “I never understood that, because my mother would laugh at that, but then she wouldn’t laugh at the underlying thing that the sexual innuendo was saying. That seems dishonest. She’d watch Will & Grace, and be laughing, and I’d go, ‘You know, they actually were talking about getting fucked in the ass,’ but she wouldn’t laugh at that. But on Will & Grace they’d say, ‘I’d like to go up in that tunnel,’ and then she’d laugh. I never like to camouflage the real joke.”

So in this example you see the humor isn't derived from the actual intention of the joke but the puzzle it's presented within. It appeals to the part of you that wants to feel smart.

>> No.5963828

B.O.R.E.D.

>> No.5963832

See if you can guess Norm's favorite author after watching this joke.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8c4_1306857615

>> No.5963838

>>5963826
>appeals to the part of you that wants to feel smart

Uh, I'm not so sure about that, I think that's just called nuance. But ok, he's pretty funny either way.

>> No.5963839

>>5963817

You don't find anything humorous about a professional comedian who is purposely bland?

>> No.5963852

>>5963838

Maybe. I'll admit Norm has some Luddite tendencies.

>> No.5963854

>>5963832
Clearly DFW

>> No.5963864

>>5963852

oops, I used Luddite wrong. Anti-intellectual then.

>> No.5963866

>>5963564
>>5963532
both great but this will always be the definitive norm performance to me
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/661a77b3da/norm-macdonald-trolls-the-bob-saget-roast

>> No.5963880

>>5963866

Fucking fearless. I always thought the best jokes on Update were the ones where no one laughed. He would just sit and smile into the camera silently for a few seconds and make the audience uncomfortable. No Carson-esque shirt tugging or apologies.

>> No.5963888

>>5963864
I think a large part of it is just his shtick. In interviews he'll often break out a $5 word, then immediately proceed to ask the interviewer what the word means to maintain the illusion that he's not smart.

>> No.5963895

>>5963888

It's part of his shtick for sure, but I feel like it's rooted in a shame or fear of being seen as pretentious. I know he was raised in a poor family by an old-fashioned father, the type of guy who made his kids call him sir.

>> No.5964055

>>5963864
He's not anti-intellectual

>> No.5964062

>>5963895
Ok Dr Freud, but I think a better explanation is that it's just a style of comedy he likes

>> No.5964111

>>5964062

Listen to his WTF appearance, that might shed a little light on what I'm talking about.