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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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They're like ''You're an alcoholic.'' I go ''No, I'm not.'' and then-apparently that's what alcoholics say too, you know?
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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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've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.
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In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
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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.
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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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Ever see this? It's a homeless guy but he's got a dog... The dog's really thrilled with this idea. The dog's going, Hey pal, I can do this by myself pretty well. The longest walk in the world you got me on here.
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None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.
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My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!
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I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.
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When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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[Televised stand-up] never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was [shot on] film.
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In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
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I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!
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Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
Norm MacDonald
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
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Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
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