“I caught my parents having sex once. It was the most embarrassing thirty minutes of my life.” If Norm Macdonald stood out for anything, it is for dedicate your life to humor. What we did not know is to what extent this was true. The comedian, who died in September last year after nine years of illness, did not want his last jokes to remain unpublished and recorded one last special… in the living room of his house.
comedy will prevail
In the summer of 2020, Norm had already prepared a new special entitled, paradoxically, ‘Nothing Special’. And as Bo Burnham said in her fabulous ‘Inside,’ “And then the funniest thing happened.” The Covid became stronger in the United States, all the comedy clubs were closed and, given the possibility that it would not reach the public, the comedian decided to take a camera and record it in one shot in the living room of his house.
No one apart from his family and best friends knew this hour existed. Now, according to THR, Netflix will release the special May 30and, although they are jokes without an audience in a untested monologueeveryone who has seen it says they are some of the best Macdonald has ever done.
Along with the special, Netflix will release a video with statements from his friends: Conan O’Brien, Adam Sandler, Dave Chappelle, David Letterman or Molly Shannon will talk about what it has meant for the history of comedy. Eight months have passed since he left, and he is still missed. Probably always.
If you want pay tribute Before May 30, you can have his monologue ‘Hitler’s dog, gossip & trickery’ and his show ‘Norm Macdonald has a show’ on Netflix.