Norm MacDonald
Adam and Norm MacDonald
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Show Summary
Adam welcomes Norm Macdonald back to the podcast, and talks with him about how they’re always confused for one another. They both vent about frustrating fan interactions, and publicists that get excited over nothing. Adam then asks Norm about being a little reclusive, and talks to him about why he doesn’t drive. Norm expresses his personal fears, and Adam imagines the ‘Navigeddon.’
Later in the show, Adam and Norm talk about how he got into comedy, and the guys do an improv scene about being a bad pimp. Norm also talks about being on Star Search, and the guys watch a video of the rival that beat him. As the show wraps up, Adam tries to convince Norm to let him teach him how to drive, but Norm thinks it may be used for a comedy bit.
Links
Check out http://NormMacdonald.com, or follow him on Twitter @NormMacdonald
VIDEO LINKS
Bushman Challenge
Show Credits
Producer: Mike Lynch
Producer: Mike Dawson
Audio/Voice Over/Post-Production: Mike Dawson
Newsgirl: Alison Rosen
Sound Effects: Bryan Bishop
Technical Director: Chris Laxamana
Researcher: Gary Smith
Show Summary: Matt Fondiler
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Adam teaching Norm to drive sounds like a Car Show segmemnt
HAHHAHA, Could not stop laughing about the “potatoes!”
Awesome show
Nice up.
Now can all you blowhards shut up already? You’ve been whining for this to be posted for over a week.
Um, you aren’t using the word ‘blowhard’ in the correct way. I shall alert Adam promptly.
WHERE ARE THE ARCHIVES?
Wow. Jan Hooks aged well…..
…..cough.
A little bummed to see this ones not even an hour…
At least there was no news or games. Usually when it’s Ace, BB and Alison, the guest gets maybe a 15 min. of interview and then they move on to more news. This was all Norm and the gang.
I wish Bryan would come down with the flu for a month so I wouldn’t have to listen to his torturous drops. The absolute worst part of the show.
HOW DARE YOU!
Bryan is good pod..I agree with May! How Dare you sir!!
GOOD DAY SIR!
Hmmmmmmm…..sometimes.
If only Norm was on at least semi-often. He’s so goddamned funny.
Great episode, nice when they know that a guest can hang for a whole episode without the usual news/bit structure.
“peek-a-Bush!”
This has now been a complete and satisfying year. You are God Ace!
Adam, you teaching drivers ed should be a reality show all together…. Get a group of teenagers, ditsy chicks, old people, and crazy immigrants…. and you…. then the person that does the best at the end, gets a free car…
I’d watch that…
GET IT ON!!!!!!
Good Pod! I will have to listen to this one again… Podado
Merry Christmas Snoochie Boochies
Too bad this wasnt a 1 on 1 interview, it would have been even funnier.
Bro, I gotta go, I’m on the phone!!
Awesome show!
get it on
This episode was epic.
I could have listened to that for hours…not long enough!!
I feel the same way. When I see the show isn’t at least 1.5 hours I get a little teary eyed. It means it’s a one on (sometimes good or bad) one or Adam is in the car banking podcasts on the way to a gig.
LMFAO! Best show in a long time!
The best part is Norm is so unbridled and didn’t conform to the “Yes…and” format that most of the guests do!
Rusty Wallach?
Eli Wallach’s grandson and Nascar legend
Wallach Wallace what ever it takes
Man, I was hoping for 90 minutes of Norm gold and I got 54 minutes of third-rate Norm
“you rarely see black guys, uh, alter the rims on their vehicles, this is interesting” lol
I love Norm! I wish he was on the show regularly.
Adam: “It’s hard to convince people that you don’t like what they like…”
Two words… John…Hiatt.
Great show. You gotta do teaching Norm to drive as a podcast.
What happened to Jan Hooks?
This picture is so confusing. I CAN’T TELL WHICH ONE IS WHICH
luv norm, …”and here’s the tailpipe…” rofl
correction : ” I can smell tailpipe…” remove ur left foot from the brake??? wtf, make it simple…
What a relief to see Adam show some compassion on this podcast, esp when the guest is the great Norm Macdonald.
Ironic that one of the better recent shows has to be so short.
Been far too long since we last saw Norm. Can’t wait to listen to this while on the road.
wonder if norm did this one the same day as jon stewarts show http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-31-2011/norm-macdonald
or hes not a fan of changing cloth
Great show, two of my favorite comedians. It doesn’t sound like Norm would want this, but Speed should do a show with Adam teaching Norm how to drive.
Look, I enjoy Bald Bryan on the show, but cool it with the drops. Far too many today, messed with the rhythm.
More Alison, more Alison
“Why did I say podados wrong?!” bahahah I love Norm
Love the Norm! Why in the F#$% doesn’t he do more movies/shows/whatever? Need to have him back like tomorrow.
Love me some Norm. All I need is Harland Williams to be a guest tomorrow and I will have officially blown my laugh-load.
Worth the wait for Norm…had me laughing at work today on my headphones during the pimp improv so much my coworkers were looking at me like I rode the short bus.
NORM ROCKS. I Pray they roll tape when Adam teaches him how to drive.
Awesome episode, I wish norm came on every week, like larry miller. btw why was this episode so short, It was so good I wish it was the normal 90 mins.
Fucking love Norm…Mancrush.
Bald Bryan’s B-Sides……now, please!
Adam is a hack. Every interview sounds completely the same regardless of the guest because he’s afraid to let other people just be funny. Norm comes on and we have to hear him react to another one of Adam’s shitty bits, laced with a bunch of terrible drops that add nothing to the show. Good podcasts like WTF actually let the guests shine, and each episode is different and interesting as a result. This show sucks. A wannabe comedian, a hole, and a guy inserting overused soundbites – sounds like every shitty radio show on the air right now. Wait, I Can Be Funny Too w/ Adam Carolla.
Why would you listen to Adam’s show if you think he’s a hack? I like WTF just fine and it’s funny in it’s own way and is repetitive in it’s own way ( Cats, whining about his relationships,biting Richard Lewis’s style, and being bumbed about his parents and all his wierd compulsions) When I want to feel morose I listen to WTF. When I want to here a 40 something year old guy bitch like an 80 year old dude about everything Ace is the pace. Comedy is subjective, so to each his own, but there is all kinds of funny and it people like you who make Maron come on Adam’s show and say high school shit about how he here the two of them should’nt like each other.
what at surprise . . . Maron was jealous of another comedian back when they first met! And is “condescending” the only negative adjective he knows? And how fake is that “what, you found me intimidating. . .” routine he puts on? he practically gets a boner at the idea of his massively insecure former self having the capacity to intimidate. yes, WTF is great. Maron is a superb interviewer. But Ace hardly has cornered the market on redundancy.
the “why-would-you-listen-to-something-you-don’t-like” is actually far more tiresome than the fairly predictable complaints of those who don’t like the show. i’d prefer to occasionally hear from people who don’t like it as opposed to the comments just being people who like it, as i do.
I don’t get why people think Norm is funny, maybe I am missing something. Do people think he is funny…for a slow person? Do people think he is funny… because that’s the trendy thing to do? I’ve never actually laughed at his jokes. They are slow and not witty (seems like that is the intent).
great show…SET IT ON!
SPORTS! thanks for this everyone
I was hoping Adam was going to ask Norm, “what happened to the Sports Show”? The “Wait. What?” segments were laugh out loud! It was the best show on regular TV last spring and “poof” it vanished.
This was everything a podcast could be and should be and more. Norm and Adam are complimentary. I wish these bastards would do a podcast once a week or something like that. Alison was good to and you could tell that Norm was considering plowing her. Great episode. One for the history books.
Puh-day-do With an accent on the second syllable? Norm, you say potato wrong.
Every inch hilarious.
-But the pimp-hooker thing is flat-out SIDESPLITTING. Had to hear it over and over and OVER … !!!
Podcast the driving lesson
it was fine; but not even one of the top 100 shows of the year
Adam! Tell Norm there is a very practical reason to learn to drive. That is if he is with someone anywhere remote and they get seriously injured, say, break both legs or worse, and he needed to drive to get medical help.
adam and norm doing the pimp and ho bit had me laughing my ass off
Why did Adam keep interrupting Norm’s stories for this learning to drive bullshit?
Clearly Norm doesn’t want to drive. Adam keeps wanting to get a straight answer from him and Norm keeps deflecting the question over and over and over and over. Got pretty irritating.
I loved the bad pimp improv. Norm is the best.
wink wink on the phone call, Norm
SHOES!!!!!