A video about Norm, his incident in Iowa, his philosophies, and the things he kept quiet. I tried to communicate what I enjoy about Norm into this.
Hopefully I didn't misrepresent any of his thoughts or events, just trying to spread Norm far and wide and add to all the awesome content out there, and hopefully introduce more people to him.
Thanks for watching and thanks to r/NormMacdonald which led me to many useful links/articles/clips.
Apologies if you experience incessant ads, a music label is controlling this entire video for a 15s song clip I used. Learned my lesson.
Revisions:
-On graduating at 14…someone brought up a good point I didn’t put together. Norm used to lie about his age haha so it’s possible graduating at 14 was just a confusion with his actual birthdate. Hard to find anything on this. I saw somewhere else that he reportedly “skipped the last two years” of HS (and Norm would always lie and tell people he dropped out.)
-It’s possible Regis was genuinely concerned about Norm potentially “losing” the $500,000 for charity. Reportedly Regis doesn’t know the answers beforehand so idk.
-(typo) Comedian Lara Ray should be “Lara Rae”
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Podcast episode sources:
WTF Marc Maron: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6c4O2B2L1V6OMgzDHh1Vua
Comedy Album Bookclub: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fpZUV08br5vpQPdJnQ0Lz
Theo Von/Jim Breuer (Iowa Story): https://open.spotify.com/episode/18GDB8paYnHA8h7IYTeVka
Conan O'Brien: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1PRdqcSkRnZuYpznfIubu4
All 45 Full Norm Macdonald Live Video Podcast episodes are available for free viewing/download on the Internet Archive, there's a real jerk of a channel on YouTube is trying to charge people for them: https://archive.org/details/Norm_Macdonald_Live
I uploaded all the newspaper clippings I found using a newspaper archive site here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1schs3Ouhg8Xhm3OWJHhgB2fYU3EcxBsR?usp=sharing
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