Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special

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Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special

2022

Directed by Norm Macdonald, Jeff Tomsic

In his final comedy special, Norm Macdonald ponders casinos, cannibalism, living wills and why you have to be ready for whatever life throws your way.

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SilentDawn
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ Liked 4

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Norm waiting for the dog to stop barking so that he can continue his one-take comedy zoom call. I laughed a lot.

Will Sloan
Review by Will Sloan Liked 1

Norm Macdonald's posthumously-released last comedy special, recorded in his apartment with a very basic camera set-up during the COVID lockdown. If you're the sort of person to lose entire nights falling down Norm Macdonald YouTube rabbit holes, as I am, this will feel like a compendium of jokes and ideas he'd spent the last decade-or-so honing in podcasts, interviews, and all the other ephemera from which his current-day legend has been largely built. If this special has a thesis, it is that he doesn't know anything - about politics, about health, about death, about happiness, about living in this crazy changing world - and it's absurd to assume he does. Of course, he actually knows plenty, but the smartest guy…

john semley
Review by john semley Liked 8

I found this incredibly difficult to watch, for a few reasons.

First: I had to reactivate my Netflix account, which was annoying.

Second: Norm is probably my favourite comedian ever, and while I'm not the kind of person who habitually over-invests in the lives of celebrities, he meant a lot to me. I interviewed him once and made him laugh, and it felt like a genuine triumph (though he was an easy laugh, just one of his likeable qualities). Watching someone you really admire--and even care about--while knowing that they are dying, on camera, is challenging, and sad. And especially so when the jokes get into the morbid terrain he could trod so gamely, like the bit about being plugged…

📀 Cammmalot 📀
Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★½

”There’s more in this world than anybody can understand”

Just to be clear, this is not a stand-up special.

This is the comedy equivalent of finding a lost John Lennon recording that was made in his final years where he simply set up a mic at home and said, “Oh, by the way, here’s 50 minutes worth of new songs I’ve been tinkering with”

It’s raw, it’s messy and it’s packed with comedy gems that are just waiting to be polished up and presented to an audience...

Thank you for all mirth you gave us Mr. Norm, and of course for your tireless devotion to the anti-cannibalism cause.


”I would drop the mic… but I paid for it”


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marsaint
Review by marsaint 1

I don't know what my point is, really.
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Oh yeah I know, I don't wanna suck her tits!

DaOConnman
Review by DaOConnman ★★★★★ Liked 1

Listen, I have so many feelings wrapped up in Norm. He was my first favorite comedian, my very first boss in comedy, and somebody that I spent 5,000 hours with on the road. He’s a key piece of my life and his death truly felt like I lost a dad, so I was going to love whatever this was. It’s a wonderful farewell to my favorite comedian. RIP Norm.

Jacob
Review by Jacob Liked

it was nice to hear more from norm. the post-special round table discussion was some real “comedians in cars jerking each other off” stuff.

Kevin Y
Review by Kevin Y ★★★½ 1

Norm answering a phone call during his special and telling the other person he can't talk because he's filming a special is peak Norm