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By: OGRastamon

OGRastamon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:54:26 +0000

I, too, was disappointed with MacDonald’s performance at the Saget roast. That is until I reviewed it on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggfe1KK7DNI
and chortled my ass off then got choked up by the genuine bro love at the end. Norm is the master of what I call “post-ironic” comedy. That is to say that he plays with the usual joke format of a set-up followed by an ironic twist by doubling back to the original idea. For example you might remember the jokes that got him into trouble at SNL. Instead of “blah blah O.J. Simpson trial” followed by “clever punch suggesting that O.J. might be guilty” he ended every joke with “O.J. Simpson is a murderer”. So I really don’t think his set on the roast was out of character for him.

Lugnut: In the spirit of fraternal support for our small community I won’t criticize your comedic rant further than questioning your borderline racist conclusion. Suggesting that Bud Lime and Cheladas are marketed to Mexicans is akin to saying that Olive Garden is marketed to Italians. They’re marketed towards the same Americans that believe KFC bowls and Hot Pockets are a good idea. Hey, some young comic should run with those premises.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms0TqQEgl30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9c9lAfXQHs

By: Patrick AKA Smiley

Patrick AKA Smiley — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:22:22 +0000

So that bill burr special was pretty good. i really liked his material on supressing his psychotic urges.

By: brian

brian — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:15:38 +0000

That’s very possible. Norm and Sagat are pretty good friends, which is actually nice to see. One of the cool things about the old Dean Martin roasts is that all the people knew each other. I hate that Comedy Central just throws “their” comics into the mix, no matter who is being roasted. It completely contradicts the “We only roast the one’s we love” idea when the people roasting you are complete strangers.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:31:34 +0000

Well then maybe he did it for Saget and the rest of the comics; they probably got what he was doing, do you think?

Carrot Top wasn’t there this year was he? He was at the Gene Simmons Roast1

By: brian

brian — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:01:14 +0000

Nick – I don’t think he “bombed on purpose”. He had an an idea, took a risk, and people weren’t on board. I’m sure he would have preferred that the audience piss themselves laughing.

By: Brian C

Brian C — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:10:01 +0000

I think the Bulmers you know is a different company and the reason that it is called Magners in the UK. I’m sure the English Bulmers is pretty rank too.

I did hear that Alan Partridge’s tipple of choice ‘Blue Nun’ brand wine is expected to make a comeback in 2009. It’ll be interesting how they make that seem “aspirational”.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:01:47 +0000

Sorry to cut the talk about beer short (it is a workign day now) but i’ve got a little bone to pick with Norm MacDonald if he DID purposefully bomb at the Bob Saget roast.

all criticisms about roasts and this specific one in general aside, I imagine it is watched by a lot of people as well as many in the industry. Rather than taking his stand, Norm could have stepped aside and given his five minutes to a struggling up and comer, someone who may need that five to reach that next rung of the comedy ladder. Surely that would mean something better than going all ‘Andy Kaufman’ on our ass?

Nick

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:16:39 +0000

Wow – Brian C – i’ve known the brand name Bulmers since a kid, but always assumed it to be some English scrumpy from the west country or somewhere. Never knew it to be an Irish brew.

Got to give it to those advertising men to transform a drink only previously enjoyed by Irish teens in carparks wanting to get drunk on a budget into a cool hip drink enjoyed by middle income yuppies all over the UK!

It makes you wonder if those Ad people could transform any scuzzy drink into the latest trendy tipple just by a glossy TV ad showing soft-focus shots of the drink in question in a tall frosted glass loaded with ice being drunk in slow motion by some cool and impossibly beautiful model.

(Look out for the imminent Thunderbird wine revival! )

By: Brian C

Brian C — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:18:37 +0000

Ricardo, it’s funny but as I started to write this an ad for Bulmers came on the TV. Magners is called Bulmers in Ireland, and for years was considered a very cheap drink mostly drunk by teenagers in car parks. Most other brands of cider still have that label. But about 15 years ago they had a marketers dream when they the whole down to earth people enjoying a glass of Bulmers with ice in seasonally appropriate settings and the thing skyrocketed. They then exported it to the UK and America under the name Magners as they only owned the ulmers name in Ireland.

The whole Magners thing leads to a lot of drunken Irish people in bars around the UK or US becoming really patriotic and demanding that we refer to the drink as Bulmers and not Magners, we didn’t fight for 800 years to have them Brits call our cider by some other name!

Still can’t tell the difference between Bulmers and any of those other “scumbag” ciders.

Stick to the Irish stout and you wont go wrong!