Norm was doing next level comedy. When it seems like he’s just rambling and adding extra time consuming stuff to a joke it’s intentional, he actually has a very good sense of timing based on other stuff. He takes a nothing joke like the moth joke he told on Conan and instead of relying on the mediocre punchline he makes the delivery the joke, that he’s taking so long to tell such a mediocre joke IS the joke. He was a writer on Roseanne back in the day too and there’s lines from that show where I can almost hear them in his voice. The dude fought cancer like 3 times and lost everything gambling as many times so I gotta disagree about not living a life that informed his comedy.
Netflix is releasing a special from Norm called “Nothing Special” soon and I can’t wait.
I finally started watching Letterkenny and am on the 5th season already. McMurray’s a piece of shit.
I suspected that was the appeal for some people. it makes me incredible anxious to give my attention then be left on stand by. Also any pause in a conversation gives me opportunity to interrupt with guesses on what there next sentence is. My family conversation style is a little strange for polite people. interruptions , tangents, 5 open separate conversations that all seem to eventually make there points and conclude. fast, fast talking. Rude by many standers. Natural from my perspective. Roseanne was great.The contrast between Rose and Jacky that was also found in Darlene and Becky was brilliant, Jacky was hilariously played. I never had a clue Norm wrote for that show. Cancer and gambling is something. Not relatable somethings but you have a point. I related to Eddy Murphy incredible as a kid, Alcoholic crazy dad, poor,the home made burgers with egg, green pep, onion lol Knew how important the ice cream man was lol Bill Bur on how women argue may have been the most useful observation I have ever heard. Very expressive animated deliveries with inflections in the voice. Ontario Comedian Russell Peters personally for me being of the same local tapped in on the people around him with imitations. I found his experiences with people very relatable. Also he has immigrant parents and his jokes are hysterical to us first generations kids. Good critic btw.
Playing with that anxiety is the point. It’s mislead after mislead. The whole gag becomes way less about the punchline and more about the delivery. His cadence sells the whole thing but I know some people hate it.
I’ve seen every episode of Roseanne a hundred times probably, one of the best shows ever. Laurie Metcalf who played Jackie is awesome for sure. She said she was a big fan of Don Knotts and the later Jackie was influenced by him, it may have had to do with her becoming a cop too.
There’s a Roseanne reference that pops up in sitcoms sometimes that not many people would even realize was one. I had heard it before but it was done a few times in My Name Is Earl and that’s what made me look it up. I also heard it in Kimmy Schmidt. It’s “who Jackie” and in Earl it was usually done in excitement like whooooo jackieee" but sometimes it’s just worked into dialogue. Turns out it’s a story Norm tells from the Roseanne writer’s room. Roseanne would go to comedy clubs and if she thought a comic was funny she’d offer them a job writing for the show, regardless of whether they had ever done anything like that or not.
She hired a comic she thought was funny and this dude just sat back in the meetings and contributed nothing for awhile. Then one day out of nowhere they were doing like a table read or something and a Jackie part came up and the dude said "who Jackie? Jackie should die, become a ghost, fly around the room. That’d make everybody happy.”. Guy didn’t even know who a main character was on the show he was being paid to write on
I heard Artie Lange say Norm bombed every second show so He definitely was polarizing. I could see the Laura and Knots connection she did the same big eye fluster look at someone freaked, and other like energy invoked. Don was a legend. dedicated to the joke and likeability off the charts. Boo on that clueless writer lol
ZOMG… we “watched” “Fantastic Beasts: Dumblebore” last night and all the “magic and wonder” from this franchise is legit just now adults over-acting in costume while waving sticks around at each other in-front of a green screen.
Although it has the best insult ever in the credits!
“Based on a screenplay by JK Rowling”
So… she wrote a screenplay that was SOOO BAD they had to re-write it completely to hash this crap togther to make more money and try to not let the HP fandom die (like it should tbh).
I swear the Rowling script was about her favourite period in Germany (the late 1930’s…), her love for British colonialism and that the re-writer(s) replaced “trans people” with “Muggles”.
Full shudders here with much cringe so I’m gonna watch “Over the Top” later today because at least that movie is 100% upfront with “why is this even made?” lol.
I haven’t bothered with anything of hers since the original HP series. Not only because she’s a gross person, but it seemed like she just stole bad ideas from fan fiction writers for the “Cursed Child” thing, then I heard the Fantastic Beasts movies were awful and I couldn’t bring myself to bother. Sometimes I’d think about giving them a try, then I see comments like yours and appreciate the reminder to keep pretending they don’t exist. Ha!
I liked this one a lot. It felt more like a stage play than a movie. Loved the simplicity and letting just the script and actors carry it all.
Surprised to see no one recommend Everything, Everywhere, All at Once yet. It felt kind of like a cross between A Hitchiker’s Guide and Kung Fu Hustle. I would suggest going into it as blind as possible so I’m linking the shortest trailer I can find:
I use to watch My Name is Earl all the time, thanks for reminding me! Corner Gas was another one that had a bit of a different sense of humour/style to it.
