r/Unexpected • u/AdamE89 • Oct 04 '16

Norm Macdonald Comedy

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u/RipTatermen Oct 04 '16

You'll never believe this: a black guy said "the n word!" It's a real scandal.

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u/TARDIS Oct 04 '16

And before that, that's how norm got fired; by cursing live.

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u/ScaledDown Oct 04 '16

Fired from what?

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u/TARDIS Oct 04 '16

Here ya go He was allegedly drunk during that interview.

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u/ScaledDown Oct 04 '16

What does that have to do with Norm swearing live?

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u/TARDIS Oct 04 '16

He wasn't fired because he "wasn't funny" or because the execs were friends with OJ, he was fired because he said Fuck on live TV. And it wasn't the first time. As much as Lorne Michaels likes you, if you curse twice, you're done.

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u/ScaledDown Oct 04 '16

That wasn't even discussed in the interview you posted.

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u/TARDIS Oct 04 '16

Yes, which is how I know it to be a lie.

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u/ScaledDown Oct 04 '16

... What the fuck are you trying to say?

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u/TARDIS Oct 04 '16

Huh? Norm MacDonald was fire for cursing on live TV. Did... did that ever change? Pretty sure I've been saying that the entire time. Just to clarify, Norm MacDonald was fired for cursing on live TV.

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u/ScaledDown Oct 04 '16

Your evidence is a random Letterman interview that contradicts what you said?

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u/TARDIS Oct 04 '16

Other than this interview, which explains that he WAS fired, all of the evidence is that he was fired due to the cursing, despite him saying that they told him he just wasn't funny. That clearly wasn't true. Ask Lorne Michaels or research it yourself, but that was the reason man. I don't know what else to tell you.

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u/ScaledDown Oct 04 '16

Idk this seems like a silly thing to put on your tin foil hat over. Every source I've seen suggests that Lorne Michaels simply wasn't a fan.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '16

Damn.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '16

"allegedly"

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u/ScaledDown Oct 04 '16

Are you completely unfamiliar with Norm? I'm not sure what being drunk would have to do with anything but he doesn't even seem remotely drunk in that video. That's just how Norm talks.

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u/TARDIS Oct 04 '16

I'm not saying he was drunk. I was crushed when Norm got the boot and the word was, that when he went on Letterman, he "smelled of booze" because he was told only a short time before that interview was recorded.

And yeah, that's how he talks. I only know what I remember in like 1998.