Norm Macdonald, that was a bummer to hear. For the last few I have been appreciating his comedy a lot. YouTube has some great bits of him. I think the one where he gives Conan a belated congratulations on his Tonight show run is priceless.
Norm Macdonald, that was a bummer to hear. For the last few I have been appreciating his comedy a lot. YouTube has some great bits of him. I think the one where he gives Conan a belated congratulations on his Tonight show run is priceless.
I remember one his first HBO comedy specials and must have watched it 100 times. RIP
That’s a legend that even legends tip their hat to. I love how he’d get pro comedians in tears and everyone wanted to riff with him. I was not a fan at first when he took the news desk at SNL. I thought I knew what he was doing and thought it was dumb. I was 13; I was dumb. You know when you’re 13 and you’re the smartest person on the planet? But that quickly turned into this guy is brilliant. This word gets over applied a lot but inimitable. There should just be Norm’s portrait in the dictionary for that word. No cap.
I love this latter day bit on Seinfeld’s interview show. Just all the subtleties of Norm on display. When he says “What?” and slays Jerry I am right there with Jerry. His delivery isn’t something that can be taught and rarely ever mastered. He was so great.
Holy shit... I can't believe I've never seen this before. What a legend. I was just talking to a friend about how unique he was, and that he managed to carve out a voice that was virtually immune to joke theft. This is a perfect example. Could you imagine Carlos Mencia trying to do this bit?
Did he get called out for doing or saying something inappropriate a long time ago? Way before the me too/cancel culture movement? Maybe I got the wrong comedian.
Did he get called out for doing or saying something inappropriate a long time ago? Way before the me too/cancel culture movement? Maybe I got the wrong comedian.
He did but it was pretty tedious, then the right tried to position him as some anti cancel culture warrior and the reason we barely remember it is cause Norm didn't give a shit about any of it so it never became that much of a thing.
Damn...I know most people won't know him from this, but Willie Garson was in one of the best episodes of Quantum Leap. He plays Lee Harvey Oswald who Sam has to leap into for a two-part story.
broken about Willie Garson. Sex and the City is one of my favorite shows (shocker, I know) and Stanford Blatch was one of my favorite characters on the show. He was such a sweet man IRL too.
RIP Gary Paulsen. Hatchet was my favorite book as a kid. As a kid born in the country and grew up one foot in the city and one foot with family in the TX hill country, a Cub Scout & a Boy Scout, I was completely entranced by Hatchet. I almost 2 weeks ago bought it for my 4th grader so I could slowly slide it to him all weird and saucer-eyed breathing heavily. I instead got him Indian in the Cupboard another childhood favorite. Seriously Paulsen sprinkled the magic dust of wanderlust for the outdoors over me as a young boy. RIP, sir.
Oh wow, I was trying to explain to Lil recently how iconic Tom Cruise was as Lestat, and trying to get her to watch Interview With The Vampire. I remember Anne Rice going off like a frog in a sock over his casting, and then after seeing the film being like, okay, I was wrong - in a full page ad. Bless her - she was a little nuts, but in a good way.
Interview With The Vampire and Anne’s other books were the eye-opening intro to homoerotic sexy vampires for those of us of a certain age.
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Man, rough 8 days for beloved performers gone too soon.
He did but it was pretty tedious, then the right tried to position him as some anti cancel culture warrior and the reason we barely remember it is cause Norm didn't give a shit about any of it so it never became that much of a thing.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/willie-garson-dies-age-57-sex-and-the-city-actor-stanford-blatch/
https://apnews.com/article/colin-powell-dead-covid-9c918dc1c137ebf368f2cbb461e4fad4
https://www.eonline.com/news/1307036/friends-star-james-michael-tyler-dead-at-59-after-cancer-battle
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/david-gulpilil-famed-indigenous-actor-dies-at-68