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Norm Macdonald made an art form out of saying the funniest thing in the room as if nothing particularly funny had happened. Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald looks beyond that legendary deadpan delivery to explore the comedian’s life, career and contradictions.

The documentary traces an uncompromising comic who followed his own instincts, built a singular career and remained famously difficult to define.

Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald streams October 16, 2026 on Netflix.

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00:04ID. There's a strange abbreviation when you think about it. I is short for I, and then D is short
00:15for dentification.
00:20It's funny with Saturday Night Live, isn't it, that people either go on to huge fame or they fizzle into
00:25oblivion.
00:25And then there's you. It won't go away.
00:29When I was a kid, I walked in on my parents having sex. It was the most embarrassing half hour
00:35of my life.
00:38I think it's kind of useless to go to school. I never graduated college or I never went to college.
00:45I don't know if I believe that.
00:48Remember when you came and visited the set of Man on the Moon?
00:51Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah. I was also in the film.
00:55I'm not political.
00:56In my opinion, if you're going to fight the war on terror, a good place to start would be this
01:02nation's haunted houses.
01:04They're terrifying.
01:06We all went on a tour to do stand up and he goes, I'm the best comic out of all
01:11of us. And everyone went, yeah.
01:13Yeah, that's true.
01:14No one fought back.
01:17Now why would they fire you?
01:18This guy, Don Ohlmeyer, who turns out to be the president.
01:20Yeah.
01:20So he goes, I'm firing you there from the show.
01:23And then I said, oh, that's not good.
01:27And then I said, why is that now?
01:29And he goes, oh, you're not, you know, you're not funny.
01:32And then I said, I said, holy Lord, that's even worse news, you know.
01:39I don't like to act.
01:40Actors look on me the way vampires look on Count Chocula.
01:44We regard you as the best of the best.
01:47The guy who has it in every fiber of his being.
01:51You know, there's no such thing as unconditional love with human beings.
01:55But dogs, they don't care.
01:57Hitler had a dog.
01:58Now you think of that.
02:00There was a dog in history who loved Hitler more than anyone.
02:05He would wake up in the morning and go, where's Hitler?
02:14And he was a friend toize?
02:16Oh, yeah.
02:18And soy.
02:19There was a new tradition.
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