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Where were you when you discovered the finest memoir ever written?

>> No.8618861

>>8618859
it's NOT a goddamn memoir.

>> No.8618867

>>8618861
Norm never took Adam Eget's gun?

>> No.8618868

>>8618867
Oh sure, that happened.

But other than that! NOT a memoir, get it into your head!

>> No.8618874 [DELETED] 

>>8618868
Adam Eget didn't suck callers off under the queensboro bridge for $15 a man?

>> No.8618883

>>8618874
Admittedly, that's an ol' nugget of truth to be found in that tome, but if we put that aside, you simply must accept: The book just is no memoir.

>> No.8618910

>>8618859
norm is the only comfy comedian who knows how to play with the edges without thinking that being shocking and acting like a retard equates to being funny.

>> No.8618912

Is Norm the most /lit/ comedian?

Is Seinfeld the least spooked?

>> No.8618960

>tfw I used to be a punk and Adam Eget jerked me off under the queensboro bridge for $15

>> No.8619513

>>8618859
How is this? I absolutely love Norm but have hesitated getting this because I don't want to be dissapointed

>> No.8619537

>>8619513
Genuinely the funniest memoir I've ever read. If you like norm you're not going to be disappointed.

>> No.8619549

>>8618859
Literally Plebbit: the author

>> No.8619609

>>8619549
>apolitical, theistic comedian with no aspirations but comedy and writing, a man trapped in introspection, the main theme of his life being death, frustrated by PC culture but too lazy to fight against it, instead reading books, the classics to be exact.
That's classic reddit? how so?

>> No.8619614

>>8619609
He thinks women and nonwhites are equal to the white man

>> No.8619622

>>8618910
Pynchon is like that if you count him as a comedian.

>> No.8619627

>>8619614
equal in what way? When did he state that?

>> No.8619631

>>8619627
He's friends with them

>> No.8619646

>>8619631
Astute observation

>> No.8619650

>>8618859
>watching some norm Macdonald vids on youtube
>open /lit/
>Norm Macdonald thread literally on the top of the page

the fuck is happening?

>> No.8619651

>>8619646
But true. He's a cuck

>> No.8619655

>>8619651
complete unconnected gibberish. You're like a random word generator.

>> No.8619656

>>8619650
He's promoting a book, retard.

>> No.8619667

>>8619656
Norm Macdonald promots a book
E-I-E-I-O

>> No.8619669

>>8619667
Now that's some good clean humour.

>> No.8619681

>>8619609
>theistic

Into the trash it goes.

>> No.8619685

>>8619681
>communicates in memes

that sure demands to be taken seriously.

>> No.8619709

>>8619685
u mad?

>> No.8619711

>>8619709
The acceptance cooperates inside the valued silver.

>> No.8619829

>>8619537
Will definitely check it out. I heard he's into Pynchon and this seems to have that influence which I'm all for. Norm is the greatest

>> No.8619841

>>8619829
Even the cover is vaguely reminiscent of Inherent Vice.

>> No.8620357

>>8619655
Nuh uh

>> No.8620375

>>8618912
Stewart Lee is the most /lit/ comedian, actually

>> No.8620425

Just read the whole thing. It's very funny, laughed at the very first page. However, you have to know some old comics to get all of the jokes. I bet I missed a lot of them.

>> No.8620435

>>8620425
It's the Ulysses of comedy books.

>> No.8620487

>>8619614
He certainty doesn't think most ladies are funny.

>> No.8620493

Haven't read Pynchon, but he cited Hunter Thompson as an influence.

>> No.8620963

>>8620375
never heard of Stewart Lee. What's a good clip? The one I'm watching ain't doing the trick

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8620987

Reminder of when he btfo talentless hack Bret Easton Ellis

>> No.8621085

>>8620987
God dammit he is so based

>> No.8621117

>>8620987
>Alice Munro
>best writer alive
Norm's a funny guy, but c'mon.

>> No.8621125

>>8620987
bee was right about dfw but jesus christ that's about the only thing that he was ever right about what an edgy annoying cunt otherwise

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8621180

>>8620963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw9qN6_eXOg

>> No.8622778

>>8621180
Yeah, i get it. But the whole premise is that Polacks are inherintly better at trades than the english.. Thats just not true. The premise is false, and the joke is only funny if you think its not false.

Its basically propaganda. They're not coming from Poland with a new amazing hammer, nail gun or mortar, they are coming with two empty hands devaluing the industry. They're not sending heart/brain surgeons with a revolutionary new way of doing things, its cheap labour that benefits nobody but employers. You think English employers charge less because the labour is cheap? Nope, they just pocket more. Polish (half) slave labour benefits nobody more than the kikes that employ them.

They've built an entirely new industry. The temp industry. Which is entirely fucking insane, and should not have the right to live - yet it does.

So employers make money charging the same rates for employees they pay less.

Temp agencies charge a bit for doing the (unecessary) middle man shit of connecting the two.

Regular english workers suffers because the pay stays the same for longer since the work is devalued.

But you know whats not devalued? What they build. Property becomes more and more expensive. So the math is - its getting cheaper and cheaper to build a house with foregin workers and you get to charge more.

t. a guy who walks in this fucking increasingly mafia looking blue collar job market. Foregin labour only works if they were treated as equals, they're not, and do not object to it, so the entire industry is fucked long term if there isnt some serious overwatch put in place.

>> No.8622791

>>8622778
>They're not sending heart/brain surgeons with a revolutionary new way of doing things, its cheap labour that benefits nobody but employers.
And polacks (which doesn't excuse the employer scum of course).

>> No.8622820

>>8622778
no wan cares you wee spastic

>> No.8622828

I read the excerpt published on newyorker.com, about him driving out to do a show at a mental hospital in the frozen wilderness. It bored me. It was not funny, and did not contain anything that structurally resembled a joke. Norm's only attempt at humor in the piece seemed to be describing the symptoms of the inmates in a manner that suggested those symptoms were, all by themselves, hilarious. He's just not funny like he was on SNL. Sorry.

>> No.8622836

>>8622791
I honestly see how it can benefit them in any way but staying alive.

The young ones 20-30 i can understand, but most of them are 40-50. They have houses (mortages) and expenses at home, and they have to rent abroad.

They're not a development country, and they say the best tradesmen stay at home and always find work (since they're the best).

The story i've heard is that russians are devaluing the Polish market - which in turn forces the Polish to wander out and devalue other countries. Its a fucked up situation and i dont really blame the workers, but i'm not a fucking nigger so i cant blame "the system". I blame the nearest KURWA saying cunt i see.

Scummy employers isnt the exception, its the rule. Owning a business makes you more of a fucking kike than being a foreskin cutting Rabi spouting white genocide.

>> No.8622857

>>8622778

It's almost as if immigration serves the interests of the business elite and not the ordinary people.

Ah, what am I saying! Diversity is our strength, and opposing immigration is racist hate speech. Sorry about that, I'll have to keep a closer watch on that privilege of mine!