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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (2 Viewers)

tuffnutt said:
RIP Norm.... was probably my favorite comic. loved the Professor of logic joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oseqh7SMIvo
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You know what's funny about that? Everybody intuitively knows that it's denying the antecedent as a logical flaw about p.

If doghouse (p), then straight (q)

Not doghouse (~p), therefore not straight (~q)

It's a logical fallacy, and that joke does it to perfection. Rock on, Norm! RIP.

 
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The Football Freak said:
My favorite thing about Norm was when he’d purposefully bomb sets just to make himself laugh. He was exactly the same in person as you’d see in interviews, with the same distinctive delivery and half smile. I’ve never met a funnier comedian or person, and he was a great guy, too. RIP, Norm.
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There's a lot of joy in this but a lot of sadness. I'd ask how you knew him, but don't want to really muck anything up unless you feel like sharing.

 
Norm was naturally really really funny.   He was very funny even when delivering only an average joke.  That is supposed to be a big compliment.   

 
In addition to his standup and talk show appearances, Norm was also in sitcoms like My Name Is Earl. 

As "Lil Chubby", the son of "Chubby" (played by Burt Reynolds), who both owned the local strip bar.

 
Been watching Norm youtubes for the last hour.  Just incredible. 

RIP Norm.

ugghh.... he's three days older than me.   Glad I'm coming off a bucket list weekend.

 
rockaction said:
There's a lot of joy in this but a lot of sadness. I'd ask how you knew him, but don't want to really muck anything up unless you feel like sharing.
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No worries, Rock. I won’t go back and forth to derail the thread, but I don’t mind. He worked for a long time with a close connection of mine. I met him when I was a teenager in the 90s, and was lucky enough to say he was a friend.

I loved when I saw him after he bombed some random appearance, and he’d be like “yeah, uhhh, you gotta see this. Really. It’s the funniest thing.” Then 15 minutes of rapid fire Norm and crickets, and he would just cackle. He’s the only person that has ever made me laugh so hard I had to run to a bathroom and pee. 

 
A one-man Three Stooges. The closest The Funny ever got to Dostoevsky. To watch revelation play across that hare-brained face before he slapped us silly with syllables was the most closely i've ever been invited to art in progress. Pure alchemy...Norm MacDonald was the philosopher's stone of comedy. RIP -

 
I just went down the rabbit hole too. so so funny. a compilation of his friends and peers imitating him. and somebody's list of favorite jokes:

1. “Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.”

2. “You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.”

3. “I don’t care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.”

4. “All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.”

5. “It’s a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you’re good at it, then they go, ‘How would you like to be a horrible actor?’ Then you say, All right, that sounds good. I’ll do that.”

6. “I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.”

7. “There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.”

8. “OJ Simpson was in a different kind of courtroom this week attempting to regain custody of his two children. In order to prove to the court how much he loves his kids, OJ pointed out quote ‘Hey, they’re still alive, aren’t they?’”

9. “Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.”

10. “He has the disease of alcoholism. And he came to me... and he told me, and I’m the kind of guy that likes to look at the bright side of things. So I told him, I said, ‘Richie, it’s true that you have a disease and everything, but I think you got the best one.’”

11. “I saw this one - it was for cat food - at the end of it, it says, ‘All natural food for your cat.’ All natural food? But cat food’s made out of horse meat. Yeah, that’s the way it works in nature: the cat, right above the horse in the food chain.”

12. “You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin’ life again? Man, that’s rough, eh?”

13. “I went to a hypnotist. He put me under a spell, and every time I had a craving for a cigarette, I would throw up. It’s very embarrassing right after sex. I find it pretty hard to get that second date after that. Girls get all snobby after you barf on them.”

14. “They’re like ‘You’re an alcoholic.’ I go ‘No, I’m not.’ and then-apparently that’s what alcoholics say too, you know?”

15. “When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.”

 
Pat Fish of Jazz Butcher died last week unexpectedly at 64.  I only saw him perform twice, but both were memorable.  I know I have a couple cassettes and some vinyl - will have to pull that out.

http://jazzbutcher.com/

He was performing right up until the day he died. The last time I saw them was 25 years or so ago at O'Cayz Corral in Madison, WI.  I was taking a piss during the opening band and recognized one of the guys from the bad next to me so I struck up a conversation.  I asked him to play Cowgirl Fever and he said they never do that song live, but holy #### they played it for me - the last song of the night!  That was awesome.

 
A blessèd man. One who always sought that music be for the playing and not the players and purely loved the view from the back of the house. Virtually every Irish person of a certain age has a story of finding Paddy enjoying the craic of a publick house in deeply sought anonymity, yet used his visibility to advance the case of his homeland's folk music. May every available of God's mercies be upon him. RIP -

 
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(CNN)Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84.

 
Cjw_55106 said:
(CNN)Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84.
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I had thought he was going to be our first black president- always respected the hell out of him. Covid related? So sad.

RIP

 
El Floppo said:
I had thought he was going to be our first black president- always respected the hell out of him. Covid related? So sad.

RIP
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Unfortunately it’s now en vogue for nobody to be popular with everyone but he seemed like a great guy who tried to serve his country and was respected by almost everyone (my observation which could be totally off base).

RIP.

 
Runkle said:
Peter Scolari, Bosom Buddies actor, 66. F### cancer.
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I met him with Tom Hanks when the Happy Days softball team came to Albq in '83, i think. Their Bosom Buddies show was produced by Miller-Milkis, the showrunners for much of the Gary Marshall sitcom empire. my gf's brother had been NYC roommates with Hanks and we got to hang out for the weekend. You could tell that Scolari went into BB thinking it was his show, but had made his peace with the fact that being Mindy to the Hanks juggernaut was gonna be a pretty, pretty, pretty good deal. Both of them unfailingly decent and clever (a rare combo in showbiz), a joy to engage on any subject in th short time i got to know them. RIP, Peter -

 
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