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I would love to stay at SNL forever. But you can't stay in the same place. People think you're a loser.

Norm MacDonald

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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it.
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I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.
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I don't know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it's fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up. And then I'm like, There's more work in the States.
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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.
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Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!
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Note to self... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised.
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Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
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The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
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It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
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I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
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It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.
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Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.
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Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
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I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on 'Late Night.' We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.
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When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up.
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