Norm McDonald - Canadian comedian becoming a USA citizen due to Canada not supporting USA

from The View show | 10/30/03 | ILMH-vanity

[Welsh Rabbit]

I don't know why, but he just does it for me. I enjoyed the debut of his new sitcom last night.

[CJ Wolf]

Norm's new show was pretty funny last night. That Good ole fox network!

[flashbunny]

I forgot to add, I didn't hear anything about it, but there's a website devoted to norm at http://www.fakenews.net

[subterfuge]

Note to self:- Norm MacDonald's new show is on Wednesday nights.

The story I heard was that SNL's producer Lorne Michaels didn't think Norm was funny enough so he canned him. I always did. The guy that replaced him was HORRIBLE and didn't last long.

[ChuckShick]

I think the NBC exec was Don Ohlymeyer. He didn't think Norm's jokes were funny so he had Lorne Michaels take him off the air. After it happened Norm went on Letterman and excoriated Ohlmeyer. It was great.

[madison10]

Ummm...yup. You're more than welcome to join the States. We could use more of you. (I'm sure the young, single women would agree. ;))

[Politicalmom]

How old are you? Married? (My nieces need husbands....) heehehee

Anyway, regardless of your answer: COME ON DOWN!!!

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Canada ping!

[Republican Red]

Thanks, I was just going to correct myself. Googling Norm MacDonald I see I few interesting facts among which is that indeed it was Don Ohlmeyer who axed him.

Norm will be on Letterman Nov 10 (Barbara Bush on Leno Nov 4)

[gathersnomoss]

Thanks for the Letterman update for 11/10

[Huck]

I thnk he's very funny, but I never see him on TV.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

I remember that.

One of the things I googled up just now about Ohlmeyer is that he is (was??) on the Board of Advisors to Salon.com!! (year 2000).

I stopped watching SNL after they canned Norm.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

He's got a show on Fox now I understand.

[Huck]

I'll try to look that up. I watch 0 sitcoms, but I'll try to check it out. He's a funny guy. I really don't like sitcoms, but you never know.

[Sloth]

Norm was the funniest Weekend Update anchor ever. One of my favorite bits was one time he reported about Michael Jackson being in the hospital for exhaustion or something, and how he had two gigantic posters of a young Shirley Temple put in his hospital room.

Norm said "But don't get the wrong idea! Michael is still a homosexual pedophile."

Another time, he was reporting the 'best jobs' according to some industry survey -- stuff like systems analyst & college administrator, or what have you, then he revealed the worst job on the list: "Crack whore." The next year he did the same bit again, saying that a new job had displaced crack whore from the 'worst job' designation: "Assistant crack whore."

[Pagey]

Rumor was he was canned from SNL for going after president clinton too much.

That was no rumor. He publicly called out O.J. Simpson on National TV regularly during the trial,and the President of NBC (who happened to be a personal friend with the murderer) took a big chunk out of Lorne Michaels ear and said "you do something about that guy",the rest is history. Someday, something horrible will happen to that guy,whateverhisnamewas for, as we say 'marginalizing' him, that type of behavior always comes back to get you eventually.

[conservativecorner]

GO NORM!! Here's a great read on the left-wing double standard: The Intolerance Of The Tolerance Movement

http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/ellis/20031012-fss.htm

[flashbunny]

Yes, it was amusing - it shows promise. First episodes are never usually 'great' because they try to introduce and set up all the characters first.

Hopefully fox won't give it the same schedule switching kiss of death they gave to the andy richter show.

[Chunga]

"O.J. Simpson did not spend Mothers Day with his children. When asked about it he replied,

'Duh! Because I killed their mother!' "

[krb]

Norm is cool as hell, and I thought that before this, too...