Norm MacDonald Quotes - Page 8

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• [Televised stand-up] never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was [shot on] film.

  Norm MacDonald

  Laughing, Saws, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The only two TV shows I saw do that, where they don't warm them up and you can really bomb, was Saturday Night Live - and that's why it gets a lot of heat, too. Obviously it gets criticism fairly, too. But a lot of it is because Lorne [Michaels] lets the audience decide and doesn't force them to laugh.

  Norm MacDonald

  Night, Tv Shows, Two

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up.

  Norm MacDonald

  Canada

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

  Norm MacDonald

  Canada, States, Shows

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Louis [C.K.] is great. But I don't know how many you could do.

  Norm MacDonald

  Know How, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

  Norm MacDonald

  Talking, People, Guy

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

  Norm MacDonald

  Art, I Like You, Kind

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.

  Norm MacDonald

  Cutting, Weekend, Updates

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

  Norm MacDonald

  Real, Trying, Updates

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

  Norm MacDonald

  My Favorite

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• [sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].

  Norm MacDonald

  Bombs, Canada, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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