Norm on the birth of his child
Posted Dec 5, 2016, 11:52 PM UTC
196
Norm is the only person who makes Dave laugh like the Emperor from Star Wars. https://youtu.be/kcPCUWfQAw4?t=6m15s
1
the king of comedy and making me pee pee hard hard
0
Posted Dec 5, 2016, 11:52 PM UTC
Norm is the only person who makes Dave laugh like the Emperor from Star Wars. https://youtu.be/kcPCUWfQAw4?t=6m15s
the king of comedy and making me pee pee hard hard
This ranks very high on my list of Norm late night moments. Obviously subverting the host's expectations on a late night show is Norm's schtick. The beauty here is that the fake joke he told to the producer is itself a very Norm joke (much more exciting). I could see Norm playing it straight and doing quite well. So he torched a good joke for a great one.
He told the original joke on Letterman in 2003. (Quite possibly his all-time greatest Letterman appearance, which tragically is not available anywhere online in full.)
I don't get the impression that Norm set this up at all; I think Dave just wanted him to retell the joke because he enjoyed it so much the first time, and Norm genuinely didn't recall the punchline and was caught off guard. Meaning his rejoinder here was a pure ad-lib, which to me is what makes the moment magical.
Maybe u/SgtHunter has the 2003 Letterman appearance
The second half of it is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRf-D-eP9t8
Unfortunately, doesn't include the hang gliding bit.