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On one of the final episodes of “The Late Appearance With David Letterman” two years ago, actor Norm Macdonald, antic a clothing and aciculate red tie, accomplished his standup set with a aglow accolade to the allegorical host. “Mr. Letterman is not for the mawkish, and he has no barter for the sentimental,” Macdonald told the audience, adopting his duke briefly to advice advance composure. “If article is true, it is not sentimental. And I say in truth: I adulation you.”
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Is Norm Macdonald: Hitler's Dog, Gossip | norm macdonald hitlers dogThen Macdonald cried. And Letterman hugged him.
It was a attenuate moment of address from a actor whose standup is generally skewed, bleak and abounding with alien exaggerations. Like Letterman, Macdonald has “no truck” for the sentimental, either: His ball has a bumbling, barren accent that lulls and misleads afore axis into a acutely abrasive punchline. Still, on the Division 3 premiere of his desultory web alternation “Norm Macdonald Live” on July 25, MacDonald reunited with Letterman for an hourlong interview, and couldn’t advice but complete affected again. The contemplative chat affected on the accompaniment of late-night television and old advisers such as Johnny Carson. “Why don’t you get one of those big ‘Charlie Rose’ desks and get aback on the air?” Macdonald asked Letterman, who laughed but, of course, declined.
“I don’t anticipate I assertive him,” Macdonald says, speaking from a San Jose, Calif., airport amid bites of hamburger steak.
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Comedian Norm Macdonald will accomplish two shows on Saturday, Aug. 12, at the Casino at Dania Beach.
Comedian Norm Macdonald will accomplish two shows on Saturday, Aug. 12, at the Casino at Dania Beach. (The Casino at Dania Beach / Courtesy)
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Norm MacDonald Hitlers Dog Gossip and Trickery 2017 WEBRip x264 ... | norm macdonald hitlers dogReached by buzz advanced of his two performances on Saturday, Aug. 12, at the Casino at Dania Beach, Macdonald sounds bemused aback absorption on Letterman’s constant wit. “Norm MacDonald Live,” his podcast-turned-streaming video show, additionally tries to simulate Letterman’s loose, bold playfulness.
“It was cool to shoot the applesauce with Letterman,” Macdonald recalls of his show, which launched in 2013. “Our absolute accord has been on camera. He’s absolute quiet off-camera, like Howard Stern. Both those guys are added absolute on-camera than they are aback the cameras aren’t rolling.”
The series’ acknowledgment comes at a abounding time for the comic, who will additionally co-star on Seth MacFarlane’s new science-fiction apology alternation “The Orville,” premiering Sept. 10 on Fox. But Macdonald’s accepted fixation is his web series: This division on the appearance (new episodes will arise Tuesdays on YouTube), he will account Caitlyn Jenner, Mike Tyson and adolescent Canadian amount Jim Carrey, who “could’ve been the greatest actor in the apple if he didn’t accept an acting career,” Macdonald quips.
But there’s one guy he hoped to get: the afresh paroled O.J. Simpson, a name intertwined with Macdonald’s career 20 years ago on “Saturday Night Live,” aback he commonly feasted on the ashamed football star’s balloon from the "Weekend Update" desk. (Macdonald appeared on “SNL” from 1994 to 1997.)
The aboriginal affair of conversation? Macdonald capital to acquaint Simpson, due for absolution Oct. 1, that he apparently wasn’t accusable of murder. He says he believes Simpson’s son Jason, who shares his father’s DNA, murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and her acquaintance Ronald Goldman (a cabal approach debunked in several documentaries and account reports). After abutting Simpson’s advocate to agenda an interview, Macdonald says things started off promising.
“At first, his advocate was like, ‘Oh, sure, yeah, he’ll do it.’ But he didn’t apperceive who I was,” Macdonald recalls. “And again the advocate came aback and said that O.J. didn’t appetite to do it because I was ‘too tough’ on him on ‘SNL.’ I’ve additionally been aggravating to get Robert Blake to do [the show]. I absolutely admired ‘Beretta.’ Aback Blake was up for murder, I accomplished why atramentous guys admired it aback O.J. got off. I capital Robert Blake to get off because I admired ‘Beretta.’ ”
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Review: Norm Macdonald's Netflix Special, 'Hitler's Dog, Gossip ... | norm macdonald hitlers dogWhat would he accept asked Simpson if he accepted the interview? Macdonald pauses for a beat.
“I’d ask him if the nine years in bastille aching his golf game, you know?” he says.
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The awning of Norm Macdonald's contempo book, "Based on a Accurate Story: A Memoir," a cheat accumulating of belief that Macdonald calls a "novel."
The awning of Norm Macdonald's contempo book, "Based on a Accurate Story: A Memoir," a cheat accumulating of belief that Macdonald calls a "novel." (The Casino at Dania Beach / Courtesy)
The acknowledgment should complete accustomed to longtime admirers of Macdonald, who affidavit that he was accursed from “Weekend Update” for casting too abounding O.J. zingers by then-NBC arch Don Ohlmeyer, one of Simpson’s abutting friends. Macdonald says he was asked to anamnesis that behind-the-scenes ball by publishers for his 2016 memoir, “Based on a Accurate Story.” He did not. The “memoir” is absolutely fiction, a self-loathing accumulating of cool belief about the ball profession that Macdonald created aback he accomplished that fantasy was added fun than his claimed life.
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Here's your first look at Norm MacDonald's latest special ... | norm macdonald hitlers dog“[The publisher] capital me to address a memoir, and they capital to apperceive about what I do backstage, but backstage is boring,” Macdonald says. “It’s aloof bistro a sandwich and aggravating to amount out what you’re activity to say onstage. Three hundred pages is a lot of pages. People who apprehend my absolute account would be disappointed. My activity would be bristles pages. Maybe six. It would be a pamphlet.”
Other than his show, the abutting Macdonald comes to artlessness these canicule is his standup. On his 2017 Netflix appropriate “Hitler’s Dog, Gossip & Trickery,” he’s added self-deprecating than ever, comparing himself to “some bargain magician” who says “nothing of substance.” Over the phone, Macdonald additionally downplays his accent to comedy.
“I did 20 altered sets, and that was my affliction one,” Macdonald deadpans. “There’s so abounding specials now, it’s affectionate of absent its special-ness. There’s one a anniversary on Netflix. I aloof anticipate to myself, ‘Richard Pryor is the best and he alone did three, and the third one wasn’t alike that good. I’d be blessed to hit aloof one home run.”
Norm MacDonald will accomplish at 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, at Stage 954 at the Casino at Dania Beach, 301 E. Dania Beach Blvd. Admission is $30-$75. Call 954-920-1511 or go to CasinoDaniaBeach.com.
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