Norm Macdonald Tribute: The Funniest Man Who Ever Lived | Louder With Crowder

basically saying racially charged things to Star Jones. two directly, basically, when people talk about this now, the Clinton body count, yeah, bringing the Clinton assassination conspiracy into live view, that's why it was banned, so it's a longer clip , but you must see this progression, it was not allowed to appear in view. For decades it was fine, what do you think? Well I'll tell you I loved the fathers, that's the best part, there's only one race in the middle and I'm a huge Star Wars fan because Williams, George Bush, is a good, decent man. You don't know any of this and he, uh, you know he's not a lie or a criminal murderer or anything like that, so it would be nice to see him.

I don't think we should take murder out of the White House. a fresh start because we don't want any more murderers I think we can move on to the next question oh clinton, he murdered a guy accusations this is not my week, what can I tell you? oh it's not mine either and I'm being very nice okay and I don't want to hear it and this is not the place to make those accusations and you're supposed to be funny it was very funny there you go and by the way the brilliance here It's the brilliance of that, the last line. manslaughter, okay, there was no conspiracy or accusation of accidental death, not true, in other words, when he says, okay, manslaughter, like he's being conciliatory, yes, no, he's drawing attention to the fact of that this obviously could only have been a premeditated murder and this. george bush is back george w should win so this would have been, you know, 2000, maybe 2001, yeah, very early and oh my god, no one was talking about it and I just remember seeing it.

I must have felt homesick that day. I saw it live. oh and I remember going at this point there was no youtube oh my god what am I? Where am I going to see this again? Stephen and his team, could you give your

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al best impression of what you would say about the California elections today? California voters did so emphatically. their voices were heard rejecting white supremacy by voting against this guy, that's exactly what I was, yeah, because yeah, it would always have to be the perfect fight, yeah, yeah, that's exactly it, it doesn't get any better than that, and this is where we get into the part of the portrait that the media will n

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, you could certainly argue, uh, I would and, um, yeah, you and , like I said, there are objectively funny things you could put at the top, you know people like Richard Pryor. and Mount Rush, if you're having a Mount Rushmore, the George Carlin one, no one would argue with you if you just said I don't think even McDonald should be there, people may disagree, but they won't say, "Oh, that's so out there." of place". line, yes it's true, stand up, true, it's all comedy, it's all comedy, but he personally was quite conservative and later in life a devout Christian and his faith meant a lot to him, he's someone he fought with, he fought , I think it's okay. known with gambling, had problems, talked about addiction problems, and I don't necessarily mean substance addiction problems, one of my favorite things he said about gambling was: yes, it is a disease, but it is the only disease with the one that makes money.

Hi, friend. I wanted to say something about my friend Richie who has a disease and, uh, but it's an interesting disease that he has, he has a disease of alcoholism, alcoholism, and he came to see me, you know, and he told me, and I like to look. I'm the kind of person that likes to see the bright side of things, you know, so I told him, I said Richie, it's true that you have a disease and everything, but I think you have the best, it's the only disease that you can drink alcohol all the time. I haven't looked at all the medical journals, but I think it's the only disease where you can drink alcohol constantly.

In fact, that's the disease you know and I don't think Richie thought he had to do it. He decides that I don't think Richie would go with my uncle Berto. Hey, I understand that you have bowel cancer. Ah, man, I know how you feel. I have to drink a lot of alcohol. Those diseases are hard. Those illnesses, eh, Uncle Burt? What are your symptoms? Uncle Bert, well, I have blood gushing out of my intestine all the time, I have intestinal blood gushing out of my intestine almost non-stop and uh, I have shooting pains, tears, tears, you know, uh, mind, pains creaking intestines and combined with dull pain, soul dulling, battle pain, those are basically my symptoms, what about you?

I get happy and I love that part just because he's talking from an addict's point of view and just saying how absurd it is, but at the same time you know he's right, I take him seriously, yeah, and I love it when he talks about going to aaa, where he is, so, uh, he goes, you go to the basement of a church and you give everyone your name, which doesn't sound so anonymous and you just give them he sends him the last letter because you don't want to that he knows who they are, you know, and then he's just brilliant, I don't want to destroy him, but he says then you tell everyone, yeah, you killed a dog for pine and gin, but he just walks away and who better to trust than in a room full of drunks and you know, the funny thing is you could, just like this is when I talked about this before, the

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is a litmus test because you could be an alcoholic or someone who is an alcoholic. defend alcoholism defend and be offended by it, I'm sure some are, yes there are many people who have been or could be like you and say it's a brilliant way to make it a norm, take something painful and turn it into something fun. really tried to push people's buttons, he wasn't, these weren't anti-jokes, people have misrepresented that they were jokes, they just happen to be jokes that push your buttons like Alice Cooper and that's why I think they're very similar. alice cooper learned to push your buttons and dio also you know dio back then he was talking about images it was like well, how cool, how do you think that's satanic? how do you know what satan looks like with that image and how do you know that? that priest is the good guy, you are the one who has given this kind of meaning to these images and even Macdonald did not allow people to copy and paste what they thought of him, so people would be offended or feel tremendous joy for exactly the same.

Gary is taking opportunities to express his faith and that angered a lot of people, not to mention that if you actually read his writings you get a lot of attention on Twitter for being open about your religious views, what are they? Christian, it's not about style, say now, are you devout? Yes, you believe in the Lord. Yeah, I think you're going somewhere when it's over. Well, I don't think so, but you know what people do. What I don't understand about faith is that you have to choose it, you know what I mean, they think you believe it, but you have to choose it, why a bomber in Boston, because if God, if there is a God, he is omnipotent Yes, if he is omnipotent and could.

Prevent it, yes, why didn't you prevent it? I don't know man, but you gotta stop hanging out in that hot tub with Bill Maher. All sounds like time has a God-shaped hole in your heart. What the hell are you talking about? that just shows someone who doesn't know, yeah, what they're talking about, let me say this emphatically, nor McDonald is the most important voice in all of comedy today, period without exception, the reason why the hashtag I'm with norma, which is what I'm calling. it's so important that he's not just a comedian, he's a real authoritarian, he's a comedian with the most stellar track record of speaking confusing comedy, uh, to shed light on the real taboos of our time, because it's so easy to get up and do. jokes about Christians in New York it's very easy to go up and make middle class Americans look stupid so because no one says what the norm says it's shocking because suddenly being a Christian is more right wing and we talk more about what it was nervous in comedy in 2018 they tried to cancel normal, what was that, comedians started asking for his scalp, yes, Louis ck, and Norm was one of the few people who stood up and defended him and that's when the people came after Noor Canadians faced Louis, yeah, well, I mean.

I was talking to some communities and I said this guy shouldn't be able to act again, but that doesn't mean you can't forgive or that it's impossible to forgive. I also don't feel like anyone owes me an apology. in public, you know, um, I personally believe that you owe an apology to anyone you did wrong to. You owe an apology to the people your actions hurt financially or emotionally, but no one owes me an apology, you know, that used to be called yeah, yeah, right, yeah, yeah, uh, and he talks about too the forgiveness. It seems that it is a concept that we have forgotten in society.

He has been one of the biggest influences in this period of the program. He used to tell people that I was when people. used to say and if you look at some of the jokes that we've written or told on the show, you can clearly see the yeah, um, david letterman and john, that's how you used to describe him to people, i would say david letterman knows a sort of John Stossel and then there's a little bit of Howard Stern and you know, Macdonald's sense of humor isn't always, I think he's the

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The common thread is that everyone put their finger in the chest of authority. from david letterman daring nbc to fire him or sorry to cbs for firing him, showing up at ge studios there with baskets of fruit and then kicking them out of his own office to

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sticking his finger in nbc's chest, you can't tell them. to michael jackson jokes you can't tell oj jokes but i guess you should watch them and then he did john stossel john stossel was vilified on abc john stossel went against the grain and went from informing consumers to reporting on government corruption and if you like what we do whether or not you watch youtube and google is the most powerful company that has ever existed number two to five would be amazon apple facebook twitter so that's the authority you think the media is a fan of us we have content , so there has always been an influence for me.

I have always found it funny when someone makes fun of the king with the gesture. Here are also some quotes from Norm defending free speech and criticizing modern, uh, like you're talking about modern comedians. He says, uh, if you can tell me. a funny, socially relevant joke would give you a million dollars uh comedians when they get really good and nowadays they don't even have to be good uh they get to a point where they feel like they should be philosophers I've heard even that said Modern philosophers They are comedians. I read modern philosophers. I'm sure they feel insulted when compared to people who work in smoking nightclubs and make a living flirting with waitresses.

If you're watching a comedian on TV, he's making a political point, I'd say he's gotten too serious, which is ironic because he would do it, but he would do it through comedy. Yes, in other words, you have to read it. He would do it in a fun way, unlike someone like Trevor Noah. or a Stephen Colbert, well, he's saying, just making the point, yeah, just making the joke, yeah, where they've decided that's their most important mode, you know, modus operandi, why I'm never right, the model used to admit irregularities, show complete contrition and then. We can give you a second chance by talking about both of you and forgiveness.

Now it is admitting bad actions and you are already finished, so the only way to survive is to deny deny deny and that is not healthy, it is not healthy because there is no forgiveness and that unites I think everything that makes norm norm right there in that comment what do you have? You have the point of view of someone who obviously thinks comedy should be funny and thinks that or at least used it for mockery and authority and thinks that not using the term canceled culture is more eloquent than just saying cancel culture or are you saying that it is wrong to treat people this way and the reason it is wrong is because we have a society where we are looking for scalps there is no forgiveness and where does that come from where does all of that come from a world view of norma

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that he has a job to do and his job is not to come out and say you're sorry the party's over cancer, i think a lot of us would have liked to know how much time we had left with him, but that's how Norm he lived his life, whether you like it or not, his job was to be a comedian, you could only know what he wanted. that you knew about him and I wanted you to know that I thought we were going down the wrong path in the entertainment industry in comedy and a big reason for that is that we have lost the forgiveness of someone who was someone and an influence. very important in your life of god that's where that vision of the world without god comes from the glory-shaped hole in your heart larry king there can be no forgiveness I think I think I speak for all of us here when we say that we miss you and uh it was that the world lost a good one