09-21-2021, 09:20 PM
I was only vaguely aware of Norm Macdonald. He came along after I'd long since stopped watching much TV. I have been catching up, reading about him, watching some of his bits (The Moth Story in particular), listened to part of one of his records on Apple music.
It's strange how many comedians die young and he was relatively young, but cancer is no respecter of age.
He somewhat repented his OJ obsession: "All he’s guilty of to me,” he said on a Comedy Central program in 2019, was of being “the greatest rusher in the history of the N.F.L. Maybe I was the greatest rusher — to judgment.” and said he was more likely fired for his non-sequitur jokes and not getting enough laughs to make the executives happy.
Reading about him has made me thoughtful about faith, something I lack. A very unique guy.
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"In a wry online exchange with the biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins, Mr. Macdonald asked why organisms that exist solely to replicate their genetic material would ever commit suicide."
It's strange how many comedians die young and he was relatively young, but cancer is no respecter of age.
He somewhat repented his OJ obsession: "All he’s guilty of to me,” he said on a Comedy Central program in 2019, was of being “the greatest rusher in the history of the N.F.L. Maybe I was the greatest rusher — to judgment.” and said he was more likely fired for his non-sequitur jokes and not getting enough laughs to make the executives happy.
Reading about him has made me thoughtful about faith, something I lack. A very unique guy.
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"In a wry online exchange with the biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins, Mr. Macdonald asked why organisms that exist solely to replicate their genetic material would ever commit suicide."