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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.

Norm MacDonald

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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.
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Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!
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The only two TV shows I saw do that, where they don't warm them up and you can really bomb, was Saturday Night Live - and that's why it gets a lot of heat, too. Obviously it gets criticism fairly, too. But a lot of it is because Lorne [Michaels] lets the audience decide and doesn't force them to laugh.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer.
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I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized this the other day, I get hit my a truck tomorrow - a big truck could hit me - paralyze me from the neck down. Wouldn't effect my lifestyle a bit really.
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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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The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
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There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.
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The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.
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I had a show that people thought used a laugh track. It wasn't it was the real audience going crazy after everything that resembled a joke, that they could technically call a joke.
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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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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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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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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
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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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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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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.
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