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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.

Norm MacDonald

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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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Stand-Up Comedian
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