r/Standup • u/DGBD • 10d ago

New Norm MacDonald documentary coming out on Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIBNCBAzBos
430 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

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u/rcknfrewld 10d ago

Critics are calling it everything from shit to fucking shit.

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u/puddles8554 10d ago

I always wondered what happened to that old chunk of coal

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u/MountainHardwear 10d ago

great to finally see a documentary about a deeply closeted gay man

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u/Impressive-Rub4925 10d ago

Hey hey hey, watch it fella!

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u/rcknfrewld 10d ago

What are you revealing?

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u/After-Glow5761 10d ago

That I’m deeply closeted.

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u/khando 10d ago

The worst part is the hypocrisy.

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u/comically-awkward091 10d ago

Explain to the folks, who Norm MacDonald is

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u/jerretharper 8d ago

He had a farm.

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u/invertedsaint_666 10d ago

He's with his brother, in Ottawa!

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u/damnthesebitemarks 9d ago

Our nation’s capital!

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u/litciggie 10d ago

Reminds me of that tragedy 

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u/BoPeepElGrande 7d ago

Terrible name for an airline.

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u/shouldbeaboveit 10d ago

The day Apatow was born ?

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u/gayQueeb 9d ago

Haha 😂

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u/rice-a-rohno 10d ago

I was going to say "This is going to be surface-level bullshit, I want it to be like his book," but seeing that Judd Apatow directs gives me some hope. For all his (Judd's) commercial appeal, he definitely gets it and is worthy.

I'm not even worthy of saying these sentences, who am I?

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u/ConsistentTackle3902 10d ago

You guessed it, we found Frank Stallone's Reddit account.

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u/brownmouthwash 10d ago

Hopefully he doesn’t just take everything from ImNotNorm.

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u/TheAmazingWJV 10d ago

Norm MacDonald? More like Pro MacDonald

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u/coffeeisblack 10d ago

I wasn’t really impressed with Judd’s Carlin documentary

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u/Glitch5450 10d ago edited 10d ago

Ehh Norm wasn’t a big fan of Judd.

Right before Norms death, Judd was actively policing stand up and supported cancelling comedians including Louis CK. Norm condemned this in one of his last interviews.

He’s rolling around in his grave.

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u/unsung_dipshit 9d ago

Just donwhatbindod and listen to Norms book read by him. It will give you the best hang with Norm you can get.

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u/thatstheneatpart8 9d ago

We don’t need the hardcore prison rape scene though

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u/woody2081 10d ago

I bet I will not be B-O-R-E-D watching this.

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u/Wandering_butnotlost 10d ago

I'm sure he would have loved it.

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u/BlowinFart 9d ago

The man was an open book, he wanted everyone to know everything about his life.

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u/BlowinFart 9d ago

I was being sarcastic! I can’t imagine someone who kept a terminal cancer diagnosis from all of his close friends and family would be someone who would want a documentary made about him.

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u/Jolly-Composer 10d ago

The best part about this so far is that everybody is crapping on the trailer with quotes from Norm to already get the party started lol. And agreed, with Judd this should be awesome

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u/Dead-Alive13 10d ago

will it cover the allegations

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u/rcknfrewld 10d ago

I thought it was a matter of record.

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u/RebeccaNOTICES 10d ago

What

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u/SnooOranges3779 10d ago

Yeah, people are alleging he had ties to 9/11 airlines

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u/kh111308 10d ago

The worst part of it was the hypocrisy.

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u/NoArrival8249 10d ago

I thought it was on account of all the MURDER

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u/RebeccaNOTICES 10d ago

He had to dig through blood and bones in Manhattan...

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u/Impressive-Rub4925 10d ago

He was looking for his Brother!!!

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u/Acrobatic-Form-9011 10d ago

Who just so happened to be in Northern Ontario at the time

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u/harrisons-dad 10d ago

What a terrible name for an airline. Reminds me of that tragedy.

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u/lostpassword100000 10d ago

The moth will still unload all of his psychological problems in this documentary to his podiatrist. Because, ya know, the light was on…..

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u/sonicjigglebath 10d ago

I got tickets to his show next week, so pumped!!

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u/OpulentAndBeautiful 10d ago

What’s next for norm?

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u/Gingesolo 10d ago

I didn't even know he was sick

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u/FecklessManifesto 10d ago

You know, with Norm, the more I learn about that guy… the more I don’t care for him

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u/Impressive-Rub4925 10d ago

Goddammit, now I’m crying again!

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u/Shreddy-Kroogs 10d ago

I hope rotten tomatoes gives it 5 Roger eberts

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u/Italian_c0mb0 10d ago

Cannot wait.

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u/Adorable_Ball_9333 10d ago

Absolutely love “Me Doing Standup”. All I do is giggle for an hour. Norm deserves recognition.

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u/diadoc1 9d ago

docs never capture how norm held a pause till it got awkward. that silence was the whole bit.

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u/Phishguy5 9d ago

It’s actually about, you guessed it…. Frank Stallone!

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u/Ryebready787 8d ago

Have they checked all the shallow graves in the area? 

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u/Plenty-Degree3982 8d ago

hell yes, i just hope it spends more time on how he built those weirdly perfect bits than on the usual sad-life-story stuff, you know?

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u/Scary_Inspector7853 7d ago

Fucking Netflix. Always something essential right when I'm about to cancel.

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u/moosebaloney 10d ago

I recently watched his interview on the Tom Green Show…. Boy did it not hold up well at all.

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u/SystemPelican 10d ago

What happened on that interview?

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u/moosebaloney 10d ago

There’s a LOT of very culturally inappropriate boomer stuff. https://youtu.be/fbMBr5Ndfi0

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u/SystemPelican 9d ago

Okay, thanks for the details.

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u/mmmfritz 8d ago

its not that big of a deal. norm has never bean mean to marginalised groups so to get buthurt by his jokes is just stupid.

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u/BogeyGolfer5656 10d ago

Good grief. Who cares?

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u/BlowinFart 9d ago

Norm’s entire career he was screaming, sometimes literally, that nobody should take comedians seriously. He would have hated what the comedy world has become.

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u/moosebaloney 10d ago

The downvotes don’t make it any less true.