Norm Macdonald: Hitler's Dog, Gossip & Trickery
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6878486/
Thank you for making it possible to laugh in this catastrophe. Rest in peace Norm.
On the language of “losing/winning” a “battle” with cancer:
“I’m pretty sure when you die, the cancer dies too at the same time. So that to me isn’t a loss, it’s a draw.”
It’s worth mentioning that Norm MacDonald died from leukemia in 2021 and the joke was probably written sometime early into his diagnosis or pre-diagnosis. If I were reading into it like an English teacher, I’d say that this is an example of a man candidly coming to terms with his own mortality, vocalizing it in the only way he knew how: third-person comedy. It’s just all-in-all a pretty saddening thing to look back on. Almost reminds me of that tragedy.
Love to see some Norm! His bit about fighting cancer makes me tear up every time I hear it anymore
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Sure thing. Here you go
On the language of “losing/winning” a “battle” with cancer:
It’s worth mentioning that Norm MacDonald died from leukemia in 2021 and the joke was probably written sometime early into his diagnosis or pre-diagnosis. If I were reading into it like an English teacher, I’d say that this is an example of a man candidly coming to terms with his own mortality, vocalizing it in the only way he knew how: third-person comedy. It’s just all-in-all a pretty saddening thing to look back on. Almost reminds me of that tragedy.
Thank you.
Solid follow up for some solid comedy.