Norm Macdonald is One of the Funniest Guys Ever | Sober October Recap

The show, probably. The difference is that how many people are fans and how many people are just flipping through channels. Because there's nothing else on. I've seen episodes of The View. I watched a... I bet you have. I definitely have. Like when Norm was on... Do you see when Norm was on? I've seen when Donald Trump was on. That was the best. That was the best episode of The View. Norm McDonald says is the greatest. Norm at one point says, I've never had consensual sex with a woman. I just see what they do. No, no, no, no, no, no. He just got tripped up in his words and he was on this apology tour and he was like... It was right at the stage. It's right as his Netflix show is about to air and he gets in big trouble because he's on Stern. No, no, no, no. Hold on. Start it over. He defends Louis first. Okay. Louis and Roseanne. And then... And then... And then he goes on Stern. And when he's Stern... And when he's on Stern, instead of saying like, you'd have to be retarded. To laugh at this or to think this. He'd be like, you'd have to have Down syndrome. So he keeps saying... He thinks that's better because he thinks Down syndrome is okay to say but retarded is bad because it's the right word. Right, right, right. So he says it a bunch and they're about to launch the show. So of course, everybody involved is panicking. You need to make it clear. You have a new show launching. You got it. So he goes on The View and he's like, yeah. He's like... And he is... You can mute this and watch this. He is eating mints. Like as he... And popping them in his mouth. He's literally eating mints. And shaking them in his hand. He's like, yeah, I feel real bad about that. And he's like... Why did I just do it a little bit? I've never even had consensual sex with a girl. And they're like, no, I've never had consensual sex with a girl. He goes, why would I? And they're like, no, but I think you're misspeaking, Norm. Oh my gosh. And then you see him talking to me. And he's like, yeah, I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. I think you're misspeaking, Norm. Oh my gosh. You see him, you're on stage. He's like, he's like, yeah, so I feel real bad about that. He's a fucking wild man. He is the best. He is such a wild man. I was just talking to Adam about this. Do you remember the time you came? We can't tell the full story because I think Norm wouldn't be comfortable with it. But do you remember the time right before the election where you had a vape pen that was really strong and Norm came back? Yes. Do you remember when he said no? No, what did he say? I wish I could say it out loud. Okay. It was the best. It was like, it was the funniest fucked up. He was not ready. I got him fucked up. I smoked weed right before this. Yeah. Well, guys like that don't smoke weed a lot. They just do it occasionally. They think they remember what weed is. Right. This weed that they're fucking with today is a different animal. It's too in the pen. So innocuous. It's just vaporizing. Hash. Hash. But it was hash oil in the pen. It was fucking, it was nuclear. God, man. I smoked with him one time in a parking lot in Irvine right before I was with Ryan Sickler. Ryan always has good weed. And we met Norm and we were about to go in and he smoked. Dude, he's like such a comfortable comic like with any like, you know, he doesn't need like handing some time alone to get my mind right before this. Yeah. That we're in the parking lot. He takes a fucking monster hit of strong weed and he starts coughing, like coughing enough to make like, you know, like a tear come where you're like, and then we walk into the Irvine improv and they're announcing him. He just walks on stage and he just starts talking about the soda he's drinking and killing with it. Like just off the top of his head, just totally not comfortable. He's one of the funniest guys ever. Him and Stanhope changed the way I did this next special. This next special was like, because I love those guys that grow, you know, that when you see them, they're not doing their like, there's nothing wrong with it, but they're doing the exact same type of stuff they did in the last one. They're just changing the names a little bit. Right, right. I know what you're saying. And I looked at, I called Stanhope, maybe one of the most mind bending days of Stanhope. Just when you said that smell thing where your brain goes, wait, what the fuck? I called Stanhope one day and he was like, hey, what are you doing? And he was like, drinking a vodka and grape juice, grape juice, grapefruit juice, trying to write a knock, knock joke. I was like, what? He's like, yeah, I'm thinking of funniest goofs, you know, trying to write a knock, knock joke. We got to be as funny as those guys, right? I was like, yeah. And he goes, so we could write one, couldn't we? He was like, let me tell you what I got. And he's like, reads a couple of knock, knock jokes. And I was like, yeah, why the fuck aren't we fucking with the format? And then Norm, I see Norm and Norm has the best joke. I'm going to tell you the joke is that great. It's the best joke. Are you still doing it? No, no. Norm, this for me was like, this was like, why aren't we going, why aren't we sometimes taking a step back to take a step forward, right? Norm has a joke. He goes, I got a new neighbor. I see the neighbor and I said, hey, neighbor, what do you do for a living? Neighbor says, Norm, I'm a professor of logic down at the University of Science. And Norm says, what's that? He goes, well, Norm, it's hard for me to explain. It's easier to me to just show you what I do. Norm, do you have a dog house? Norm goes, I do. And he goes, well, then you must have a dog, logically. He goes, I do have a dog. And he goes, all right. And if you have a dog, logically I can assume you must have a child. Do you have a child, Norm? And he goes, I do have a child. Because if you have a child, logically, I can assume you must be married to a woman. Are you married to a woman, Norm? And he goes, I am. It was Norm, then logically I can assume you're a straight white male. And Norm goes, wow, that's amazing. So the next day, Norm's down at a bus stop having a cigarette. He sees another one of his neighbors. And the neighbors says, Norm, did you meet the new neighbor? He goes, yeah, I did. He goes, what's he do for a living? He goes, he's a professor of logic down at the University of Science. He goes, what is that? And he goes, well, it's hard for me to explain. It was much easier for me to show. And he goes, yeah. And Norm goes, hey, do you have a dog house? He goes, no. And he goes, well, then you must be a faggot. Why? Like, it's a great joke. It's a great joke. And why aren't we like, we're all funny. Like, why can't we? Because that's a problematic word and it's banned. You're such a piece of shit. You're like, why can't we say it? No, no, no, no. It's your song like that. I can't make jokes like that. Oh, dude, it's like one of the best. It's a great joke. It's a great joke. But like, that old school joke writing, we all stepped away from. But like, what if we could tether ourselves to it a tad bit in what we're doing now? Norman does that. Mark Norman does jokes like that. Mark Norman does. But like, stand up going, I'm writing knock, knock jokes just for like a writing exercise. Mm-hmm. Where you go, what if you just wrote like a banger knock, knock joke? Yeah.