Originally Posted by BigRichard:
This one was great... you could tell Walters was getting really pissed. It is like they had never seen him before. It played into his schtick very well.
Putting Norm on that show was like having Jimi Hendrix open for The Monkees. I get that it was the network trying to promote one of its shows, but still ... [Reply]
Norm was from the old school of comics who roasted everyone. You’d laugh at every other demo he roasted until he got to yours. Then you would...laugh as he roasted yours too.
You’ll note how people across the spectrum all loved his style. That’s real humor. [Reply]
For me, the quintessential Norm joke @0:17 - just the perfect level of surprise and zig-zag and overall delivery.
It's kind of a weird uncanny valley [Norm's passing, not the joke in particular], because usually when someone passes suddenly you have these pangs of 'I wish I'd praised more, or I wish people knew how much. . . ' etc. But in Norm's case, everyone knew I loved everything he did and was always on the lookout for more. So I couldn't have been more expressive in my admiration without being annoying.
Even watching the clips immediately after his death, my primary impulse is laughter, . . . at jokes I've heard a million times before. That's rare. [Reply]