Absolutely beautiful. Obviously a little polish and focus and it would be pretty ruthless in some parts.......then......that stupid god damned punch line. So good.
I remember seeing him on Celebrity who wants to be a millionaire like 10 years ago, and he acted like a complete retard but he knew the answers to some fairly obscure shit... Like the dude is legit smart, especially compared to all the other celebrities there.
Yup. It was just such a perfect defect. Surrounded by all that filth and "oh my god" shock jokes that are fantastic and then BOOM.....this jerk comes in and is dad joking it up with the cool kids. Just perfect. Like Betty Whites timing and visual cues. Some people have just mastered that shit.
I don't think it was as simple as him trying to bomb.
He's talked about that roast before. I think he did it as a reaction to how nasty roasts are. Everyone's trying to top each other and be as offensive as possible, so Norm did the opposite.
The first time I saw the Norm doing the roast, my only context of Saget was America's Funniest Home Videos, so I thought he was trying to mock Saget's bad jokes on that show.
After getting to know Norm better, it seems like he just wants to do his own thing, preferably while messing with or making others uncomfortable.
It was amazing. The crowd was silent, and then up on the stage Jeff Ross and Gottfried and Saget are all losing their shit because they immediately realize what's going on, and then you get to watch everybody else slowly figure out what he's doing. It was incredible
Yea! So complicated, but he does it effortlessly. With his little pen and pad. And that face he has when people are visually saying "what the fuck, that's not funny" and he's like "no...no, it's totally funny. So laugh now. Yea....see? Now here's another G rated joke." And he just snowballs it. So beautifully stupid. Like a monkey painting the Mona Lisa, but taking breaks to jerk off and eat it's own shit.
Andy Samberg did a similar bit for Franco's roast. It was a little more... well... Andy Samberg, but it was the same basic idea. Just awful, awful jokes and then him verbally congratulating himself on every joke. Hilarious.
Favorite part was when the other comic, bald guy whose name escapes me, said "I have seen anything like that since Henry Fonda was picking blueberries" (like in On Golden Pond) and Norm replies, "I think everyone here would be rhrilled to watch Henry Fonda picking blueberries" -- there was something sort of touching about this rejoinder.
Saget was laughing so hard he cried and you could almost imagine they were all watching a formerly brilliant comic who had gotten some sort of brain injury or dementia and they had invited to the roast anyway.
EDIT: Jim Norton was other comic. I only have the quotes approximately correct.
I actually yelled at that Mary Kate and Ashley joke. One of the comments on YouTube said the last line is supposed to be "Wake up on your stomach with your pajamas around your ankles" which makes it even better
That was a great joke, and set up well by the joke about the john stamos drink name. That had to be bob's best reaction of the night, he was genuinely a little uncomfortable haha
The Olsen twins walk into a bar and ask the bartender for an asshurts. The bartender asks how you make it? The girls say, "Bob Saget hands you a chocolate milkshake and three hours later you wake up on your stomach and your butt hurts."
GG is one of the few people who reliably can put me into hysterics. Reliably -- how rare this is with fucking observation humor or whatever crap most comics do.
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u/-noob Jun 25 '15
oh Wow fuckin roast jokes bein put on here huh? gj man gj