I loved Norm. He has a sense of humor I can relate to. I read a story where he was working with an opening act who only had 5 minutes worth of material. Norm went over his material with them and then told the person, he’d go out first. Norm did his set and in the last 5 minutes, did the other guys material right before he came out!! Mean? Yes but I find that funny.
I remember watching Norm do his roast of Bob Saget and how badly his performance and jokes were until I realized he was doing it on purpose. Saget said later he was in tears with Norm purposely bombing. Saget had helped Norm get started in comedy.
Norm liked Saget, and a producer had told him to really put it to him in the roast. That producer had to be sweating bullets during Norm’s speech.