Sports Show with Norm Macdonald

Yeah, it's got it's spot on my DVR list.  His brand of humor is just so far up my alley.  The joke about Favre's resume being a picture of his junk is okay, but Norm having the sense to continue lingering silently over the picture for so long makes it funny as hell.  I love that he seems to be genuinely pleased that "Wait, what?" is catching on.  Also his putting himself in the videos as a player just kills me.  The swear jar with the Texas coach last night was great.

What the H?!

Yeah. I'm totally enjoying this, too. It feels so much like Weekend Update that I swear I'm having deja vu sometimes. Pretty funny stuff.

I'm a fan of this as well, but it needs a better time slot.

Love.

Gotta thank Norm for introducing me to NANOOK, the rampaging polar bear.

"Nanook just obliterated three college campuses!

Undergrads quietly studying in libraries, lab students looking for cures for diseases, but now no....THEY'RE ALL GONE."

RIP brave crew of "the seawolf"

This was his worst show so far, other than the "Wait, what?" segment with Tyson on the Brazilian Dancing With the Stars.  They need to figure out their correspondent pieces because it's easy for the show to die there (and it did, again, with the search for natural Korean golfers).

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This was his worst show so far, other than the "Wait, what?" segment with Tyson on the Brazilian Dancing With the Stars.  They need to figure out their correspondent pieces because it's easy for the show to die there (and it did, again, with the search for natural Korean golfers).

That correspondent sketch was brutal. The guy's joke about dog meat managed to be both hacky AND uncomfortable.

But that's Ben Hoffman's schtick.  Anyone here watch Infomania on Current?  He's a correspondent for that, too, and he's just hacky on purpose.

Then again, so is Norm.

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But that's Ben Hoffman's schtick.  Anyone here watch Infomania on Current?  He's a correspondent for that, too, and he's just hacky on purpose.

 

Then again, so is Norm.

I think everybody gets that he's supposed to be hacky.  Just like everybody gets that Norm's "nephew" is supposed to be incompetent.  The problem is that the entire flow of the show is interrupted for these bits which are a lot more miss than hit and seem to go on entirely too long.  Part of what makes Norm amazing is his natural understanding of exactly when to drop something, often pushing it into that uncomfortable period where it kind of stops being funny but ultimately comes back around to being funny again because he refuses to drop it.  These bits stop being funny and never get back to being funny again.

I like Norm a lot, but is this more Daily Show or Tosh.O? (both of which I dig, but I couldn't see Norm handling the latter)

It's more Daily Show.  Basically think of Norm era Weekend Update but covering the past weeks sports stories.

Okay cool deal. I couldn't care less about the vast majority of sports, but I'd probably still dig it just to see Norm back in his element.