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Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.
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Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.
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I've shown people Richard Pryor who've never seen him, and most of them don't like him.
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[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].
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The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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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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A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.
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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.
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I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.
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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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In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
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I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you're all right. I don't have to go to premières.
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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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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Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.
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On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.
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I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.
Norm MacDonald
