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A driving, wild and hilarious ramble of a book, what might have happened had Hunter S. Thompson embedded himself in a network studio.” — The Washington Post It's hard to get too much into what makes this book so special without "spoiling" it. Ultimately, it proves how vivid and accurate a picture you can create of a person when you're not restricted to facts alone. The more the book (a novel) plays around with the memoir format, the more true to Norm's mind it gets, and the more meaning you'll find if you're paying attention. Zinoman, Jason (September 15, 2021). "Here's Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It's Not 'S.N.L.' ". The New York Times. Anderson, Kyle (March 27, 2013). "Norm Macdonald talks new video podcast". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved October 6, 2013. Earlier this week, Marlon Brando met with Jewish leaders to apologize for comments he made on Larry King Live, among them that “Hollywood is run by Jews.” The Jewish leaders accepted the actor’s apology and announced that Brando is now free to work again.”

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I’m trying to write it but trying to write good,” he told me. He claimed to be putting in up to three or four hours a day on the project. “Usually it’s stories from my life.” Wynne, Kelly. "Norm Macdonald Receives Three Emmy Nods for Posthumous Netflix Special". People . Retrieved July 12, 2022. Adrian Burns (June 11, 2012). "SNL's Macdonald will hawk Safe Auto policies". Bizjournals.com . Retrieved November 26, 2021. Letterman, David (March 6, 1998). Late Night with David Letterman (TV series). New York: CBS . Retrieved February 23, 2007.Based On A True Story is the autobiography of famed stand-up comedian Norm MacDonald - or so he would have you believe. Rather than tell you his real life story, Norm decided to write of his one-time plan to borrow millions of dollars from various casinos in Las Vegas, turn that money into millions for himself, then retire to a ranch in Montana. As the story moves along, Norm, strung out on morphine, tells a completely skewed, often fictionalized version of his life to his pal and real-life podcast co-host Adam Eget as he drives them from LA to Vegas. Disorienting, funny, sometimes stupid, and often wildly beautiful . . . Macdonald is a pretty extraordinary wordsmith, capable of working in an impressive range of styles and genres.” — The Week There’s a whole, twisted plot running through the book involving a road trip to Vegas and a mad plan to win a million dollars or die. It sounds preposterous but it is probably uncomfortably close to the truth. Macdonald is candid about his gambling addiction and when Louis C.K. writes in the introduction —“Please buy this book. He probably needs the cash. He’s really bad with money”— he means it. He attended Quebec High School [19] before his family moved to Ottawa, Ontario. In Ottawa, Macdonald attended Gloucester High School. He claimed to have dropped out at sixteen, but may in fact have graduated two years early. [20] [21] He studied mathematics and philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa before dropping out. [22] [23] Macdonald was later also briefly enrolled in Algonquin College's programs for journalism and broadcasting-television, following his elder brother Neil Macdonald's footsteps. He worked a variety of manual labor jobs in between periods of school and before starting in comedy. [24] [25] Norm Macdonald makes me laugh my ass off. Who is funnier than Norm Macdonald? Nobody.” —Judd Apatow

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This “autobiography” is almost completely made up, but yet from that fiction a lot of truth emerges. It is so so smart that it left my mind reeling. I mean, this was the dude on SNL who deadpanned not so funny jokes on Weekend Update. For years! a b c Edgers, Geoff (August 18, 2016). "Will somebody please give Norm Macdonald another TV show?". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 2, 2016 . Retrieved September 12, 2016. Macdonald, 56... [...] He tells everyone he was born in 1963, but he was really born in 1959. Norm Macdonald: Me Doing Stand-Up" (Press release). Comedy Central. March 1, 2011. Archived from the original on March 17, 2011 . Retrieved March 20, 2011. Andreeva, Nellie (September 23, 2021). " 'The Conners' Pays Tribute To Norm Macdonald In Live Season 4 Premiere". Deadline . Retrieved May 30, 2022.Maron, Marc (October 17, 2011). "Episode 219 – Norm Macdonald". WTF with Marc Maron Podcast. Marc Maron. Once I learned this truth, I began to see examples of it everywhere. A picture hung on the wall of our parlor. In it, a woman was taking a shirt from a clothesline. She had clothespins in her teeth and it was windy and a boy was tugging at her dress. The woman looked like she was in a hurry and the whole scene gave me the idea that, just outside the frame, full, dark clouds were gathering. But that was not what it was. It was paint. So I decided right then and there to see the picture as it really was. I stared at the thing long and hard, trying to only see the paint. But it was no use. All my eyes would allow me to see was the lie. In fact, the longer I gazed at the paint, the more false detail I began to imagine. The boy was crying, as if afraid, and the woman was weaker than I had first believed. I finally gave up. I understood then that it takes a powerful imagination to see a thing for what it really is.” Evans, Bradford (April 26, 2012). "The Lost Roles of Norm Macdonald". Vulture . Retrieved August 28, 2020.

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Norm is one of my all-time favorites, and this book was such a great read I forgot how lonely I was for a while.” —Amy Schumer He would recur as Yaphit, the gelatinous engineer, on the Fox science fiction series The Orville, whose third season, New Horizons premiered June, 2022, and Macdonald appears posthumously. [90]

Macdonald returned to Saturday Night Live to host the October 23, 1999, show. In his opening monologue, he expressed resentment at being fired from Weekend Update, and then he concluded that the only reason he was asked to host was because "the show has gotten really bad" since he left, [50] echoing a perennial criticism of the show. Mwangaguhunga, Ron (March 26, 2013). "Review: 'Norm Macdonald Live' ". Independent Film Channel. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013 . Retrieved October 6, 2013. The ghostwriter narrative of the story is riveting. At first glance I expected Keane to be used as another voice of self-deprecation, but his spiraling storyline is both entertaining and haunting. Hahn, Jason Duaine. February 14, 2020. " You Could Meet Your Valentine on This Video-Only Dating App Created by Comedian Norm Macdonald." People.

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There are a lot of gems and beautifully written passages. He also asks the important questions, like:Comedian Norm Macdonald dies at 61 from cancer". BBC News. September 15, 2021 . Retrieved May 24, 2023.