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What baffling opinions, too.
As someone who has watched a shitload of his interviews, routines, and even listened to some audio-only interviews, one thing I eventually learned is: Norm MacDonald is thoughtful, methodical, and pre-meditated in the joke and delivery. Even Conan eventually started to recognize the twinkle in Norm's eye when he was about to strike with a particularly groaning groaner and pointed it out.
I only wish other comedians put as much thought into the jokes and delivery as he did. And he wasn't shy about making light of "topical" people such as Michael Jackson, O.J. Simpson, and then a few years ago Bill Cosby. In fact, one of the things that got him fired was a west-coast guy who was friends with O.J. and called Norm into his office, where -- as Norm would later describe the scene -- give weird football analogies about how Norm wasn't right for SNL and not funny, leading to him being fired.
And he has no compunctions about long drawn-out old-guy jokes, hence the five minute plus infamous moth joke he told on Conan.
He also was a fan of speaking off the cuff around the planed jokes. As Conan once told: they do -pre-interviews where he talks to the guest before air and they find out what is going to be discussed. Norm wouldn't do pre-interviews. And when they tried, he wouldn't speak about anything said in the pre-interview.
By the way, anybody who saw the "Chairman of the bored" Conan EPIC, you might also enjoy another one where he was kind of hitting on this black girl with big boobs (I think Rushumba or some such name). Not on the same level, but still good fun.
I'll have to search for it, but in the last few years we had a thread for Norm here...
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