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Norm Macdonald is getting a podcast.

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demon

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A few episodes in so far. The Super Dave episodes was fantastic. The others not so much. This will be a show where episodes live or die based on the guest.
 
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demon

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This is now my go-to podcast for when I'm bored. Shame there's only one a week, although I suppose that's better than having several watered down episodes a week.

Only Norm can make you laugh by saying "ya know 9-11 was a national tragedy". I don't get how he does it but he does.
 
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Elwood Blues

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My only chance at losing 15 pounds is at a British Casino.

Also Andy leaving to get the View joke out of the trash in the restroom was hilarious.
 
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demon

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Finished the Simon Helberg episode today at the gym. I quit midway earlier because I found him boring but I'm glad I stuck with it, it got better towards the end. I let out a short burst of laughter in the middle of set when I lost it at University of Bob Seger. Kind of embarrassing.
 
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demon

I don't mean to alarm you but you have dogs on your face
Kind of an off-topic bump, but are there any episodes of other podcasts (Maron, Carolla etc) with Norm as the guest from the past year or so?
 
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Tom_Cody

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demon said:
Kind of an off-topic bump, but are there any episodes of other podcasts (Maron, Carolla etc) with Norm as the guest from the past year or so?
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He kind of dropped off the face of the earth for a few years. He did a bunch of podcasts to promote Sports Show when that was on but he's been pretty much MIA since then.

As Polari said, his WTF episode was really good. Also, not really podcasts directly, but he has done a bunch of great long Howard Stern appearances over the years that are on youtube.
 
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ElectricBlue187

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demon said:
This is now my go-to podcast for when I'm bored. Shame there's only one a week, although I suppose that's better than having several watered down episodes a week.

Only Norm can make you laugh by saying "ya know 9-11 was a national tragedy". I don't get how he does it but he does.
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I knew he called 911, as "nine/eleven" on purpose and I still lost it
 
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PotatoeMasher

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This may not be the right place to ask, but when has Marc Maron been funny? Best I can tell he just seems unpleasant to be around, says fuck a lot and he still somehow gets amazing guests.
 
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Tom_Cody

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PotatoeMasher said:
This may not be the right place to ask, but when has Marc Maron been funny? Best I can tell he just seems unpleasant to be around, says fuck a lot and he still somehow gets amazing guests.
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I agree but I still think he does good interviews. He is insightful and to some extent his own flaws help to draw interesting things out of his guests.
 
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PotatoeMasher

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Was there an episode last night?

edit: Looks like there wasn't. Video Podcast Network absolutely sucks. Any decent "podcast" has a schedule or at least a place where announcements are made.
 
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SlowRevolution

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PotatoeMasher said:
Was there an episode last night?

edit: Looks like there wasn't. Video Podcast Network absolutely sucks. Any decent "podcast" has a schedule or at least a place where announcements are made.
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I think new episodes normally stream live on Mondays at 6 PST (that's what the banner says, at least; I've never checked at that time to see if they're consistent with it), but they took the week off. I'm not sure when they go up for download, though.
 
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tw1164

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demon said:
Kind of an off-topic bump, but are there any episodes of other podcasts (Maron, Carolla etc) with Norm as the guest from the past year or so?
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I searched Carolla and Greg Fitzsimmons, but his last appearance was at the end of 2011.
 
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Helmholtz

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Was expecting the Gottfried episode to be bad for some reason, but it turned out to be pretty damn funny. The Michael Douglas stuff was hilarious.
 
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Tom_Cody

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Helmholtz said:
Was expecting the Gottfried episode to be bad for some reason, but it turned out to be pretty damn funny. The Michael Douglas stuff was hilarious.
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Another amazing episode. The intro kind of didn't land for me though. I guess you can't have a 100% success rate.

Gottfried was an amazing guest. Norm seems to bring out the best in all of these comedians.

Edit: I hadn't listend to the entire episode when I made my comment about the intro. I guess that was partly salvaged by the ending of the episode. The clips of Bill Hicks and Janeane Garofalo were just painful. So important.
 
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strobogo

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I love this. I just finished up Larry King. I think the jokes segment is my favorite. And that Adolf Hitler....a real jerk!
 
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PotatoeMasher

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He's one of those guys you just somehow get conditioned to think isn't funny until you really just hear him flow and he's so funny and so natural about it. His stuff on Penn Jillette's podcast is great too.
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His old sit-ins during the news on Howard Stern are legendary. The new politically correct Stern doesn't quite go for the same thing, but thankfully his old appearances are up on Youtube.
 
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Tom_Cody

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Kevin Farely is the guest tonight. Looking forward to 1 hour of Chris Farely stories.

Kano On The Phone said:
He's one of those guys you just somehow get conditioned to think isn't funny until you really just hear him flow and he's so funny and so natural about it. His stuff on Penn Jillette's podcast is great too.
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That's so true. I had always thought he would be awful. He's also great on the comedy central roasts.
 
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Toparaman

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PotatoeMasher said:
This may not be the right place to ask, but when has Marc Maron been funny? Best I can tell he just seems unpleasant to be around, says fuck a lot and he still somehow gets amazing guests.
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This. There are a dozen comedians who do the whole "neurotic Jew" schtick better than he does. He complains about the stupidest things. My best explanation for his success is that he was the first one to do the "comedian interview" podcast format.

PotatoeMasher said:
His old sit-ins during the news on Howard Stern are legendary. The new politically correct Stern doesn't quite go for the same thing, but thankfully his old appearances are up on Youtube.
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Gilbert and Howard making fun of Jerry Seinfeld. Hilarious.
 
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Extra Sauce

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I just wasted 30 minutes waiting for a broadcast because the message that the show is only returning next week doesn't show up for me (had to find out from a friend):

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Fuck you YouTube and/or Canada!
 
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PotatoeMasher

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I just wasted 30 minutes waiting for a broadcast because the message that the show is only returning next week doesn't show up for me (had to find out from a friend)
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To be honest I didn't see it either. I had to look elsewhere (maybe Twitter, don't even remember) to find it.
 
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Tom_Cody

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Goddamn this episode was funny. Kind of bummed to see the same guest two weeks in a row but this segment was fantastic. I lost it when Gilbert started to roll all the callbacks together.
 
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