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He was one of a kind, and we're here to prove it. Join us as we count down the greatest moments from the legendary Norm Macdonald! Our list spans his iconic "Weekend Update" O.J. Simpson coverage, the unforgettable Moth Joke, Turd Ferguson on "SNL," and so much more. Which Norm Macdonald moment is your all-time favorite? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down the moments that made Norm Macdonald a comedy legend.
00:05You know, there are times when Bob has something on his mind, when he wears a hat.
00:15Number 20. Ripping on Bill Clinton. White House Press Correspondents Dinner.
00:20Had Bob Dole won the 1996 U.S. presidential election,
00:23Macdonald would have had more opportunities to showcase his impression on SNL.
00:27Of course, Bill Clinton won, but Macdonald would still drop by the White House Correspondents Dinner.
00:32Ironically, Macdonald opens with a joke about bombing in front of the president, only to receive a muted response.
00:39When I accepted the honor of performing here tonight, one thought crossed my mind, and that was,
00:45please God don't let me bomb in front of the president.
00:53Even when the room isn't vibing with his material, Macdonald has a way of making it work.
00:58The audience's attitude shifts when Macdonald brings up Clinton's recent knee injury.
01:02Macdonald reminds everyone that this is what medical marijuana is for, instructing the president to inhale.
01:08You must inhale, sir. It's the only way you're going to get better.
01:17After Clinton applauded that joke, Macdonald's set only got funnier,
01:21with several more jabs at the president, as well as an M.I.A. Al Gore.
01:25Unfortunately, he broke down and they had to leave him in the shop overnight, but...
01:34They say he'll be all right later with that.
01:37Number 19. Voicing Death.
01:39Family Guy.
01:40Macdonald only voiced this cartoon's incarnation of the Grim Reaper once in his debut episode.
01:45How are you?
01:47I'm Calista Flockhart. Who the hell do you think I am? I'm Death.
01:50Which one of you is Peter Griffin?
01:52Adam Carolla subsequently took over the role,
01:55but Macdonald's sardonic voice always felt like a natural fit for the character.
01:59To Death, claiming a soul is another day at the office.
02:02He keeps it casual upon arriving on the Griffin's doorstep, telling Peter his time has come.
02:07Even when Death becomes incapacitated and must crash on the Griffin's couch,
02:12everyone is pretty chill about having a talking skeleton in the house.
02:15It's your turn, Death.
02:17Yeah, I know I should find this ironic, but really I'm just bored as hell.
02:20When Macdonald is voicing him, it's easy to forget.
02:23While other commitments prevented him from returning,
02:26Macdonald set a tone for the Death character,
02:28making it feel as if he never left.
02:31Family Guy later honored Macdonald's memory.
02:33We're gonna miss you, Death.
02:35Hey, don't worry. I'll be back really, really soon.
02:40Is he joking?
02:43Okay, see you later.
02:45Number 18. A Gift Basket for Conan, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
02:49When it was announced that Conan would be leaving The Tonight Show prematurely,
02:53Macdonald dropped by to support his friend.
02:56Macdonald figured he'd kill two birds with one stone.
02:58Well, I want to drop by, show my respects, you know?
03:01Well, you know, for you to bring a basket commemorating sort of the tough situation I'm in is really nice.
03:10Well, that's not what that is.
03:12Well...
03:12You see, Macdonald explains that he got O'Brien a gift basket when he landed The Tonight Show gig.
03:17Macdonald kept forgetting to deliver the basket, this being his last opportunity.
03:21The basket also came with a card, which Macdonald proceeded to read.
03:25Let's just say that what Macdonald supposedly wrote months earlier did not age well.
03:30Congratulations, Conan, on finally securing your place as permanent host of The Tonight Show.
03:41What would have been a sweet message at the beginning of O'Brien's run now only adds salt to a
03:47fresh wound.
03:48O'Brien takes it in jest, knowing full well that Macdonald's bit comes from a place of love and encouragement.
03:54You are the new king of late night!
03:57Thank you so much!
03:57Long live the king!
04:04Number 17.
04:05Little Chubby.
04:06My Name is Earl.
04:08Burt Reynolds briefly appeared on the sitcom as the eccentric Chubby.
04:11After the character's death, Macdonald stepped in as Little Chubby.
04:15Hey, Randy.
04:16There's a spot on your shirt.
04:18I'm not looking down.
04:19I'm not falling for that again.
04:20Come on, look down.
04:21I'll be a lot of laughs.
04:23All right, fine.
04:23You win.
04:25Having Macdonald play Reynolds' son is ingenious casting for reasons that will become clearer later.
04:31The name Little Chubby is also a brilliant oxymoron.
04:34Earl wants to set things right.
04:36Having once kicked Little Chubby in his Little Chubby.
04:39Unfortunately, the lack of testosterone is what was preventing Little Chubby from acting like a complete sociopath.
04:46It's gonna be a kinder, gentler club Chubby from now on.
04:48Got a heated stripper pole for the gals.
04:51Screening for Hep C, free of charge.
04:52And, uh, I finally put a light bulb in the VIP room.
04:56Can I touch the heated pole?
04:58Yeah, sure.
04:58Knock yourself out.
04:59McDonald has a ball.
05:00Or, we guess, balls as a rich SOB who torments others just for giggles.
05:05Little Chubby eventually has a moment of virtue, taking a shot for Earl.
05:09It isn't long until Little Chubby is back to his mean-spirited ways, though, thanks to a ball transplant.
05:15Occasionally, a cow will lift its tail and all hell will break loose, but, you know.
05:19Number 16.
05:20Bartending with Bigelow.
05:21Deuce Bigelow, male gigolo.
05:23Even with limited screen time, McDonald gets one of this comedy's biggest laughs.
05:28Rob Schneider plays Deuce Bigelow, who, as the title suggests, is a male gigolo, albeit an amateur one.
05:34With a going rate of only $10, Deuce experiences buyer's remorse when McDonald's bartender tells him how much a martini
05:40costs.
05:41$8.50.
05:47$8.50.
05:48He switches to cheaper cranberry juice, although there is a miscommunication.
05:53Deuce explains that despite taking a sip of the martini already, he's substituting one order for another.
05:59McDonald's bartender then explains where he's going to shove a stick if Deuce doesn't pay for both drinks.
06:04If you don't pay me now, I'm going to take this swizzle stick, and I'll be shoving that right up
06:10your pee hole.
06:11That is McDonald's only scene.
06:13But he leaves such a memorable impression that he gets his own little end title card, noting that he worked
06:18for one day.
06:20Number 15.
06:21Pigeon's Origins.
06:22Mike Tyson Mysteries.
06:24Of all the animated shows he lent his voice to, Mike Tyson Mysteries perhaps got the most mileage out of
06:30McDonald's.
06:30He voiced a pigeon named Pigeon.
06:33Technically, he was a human named Richard who got turned into a pigeon.
06:36Maybe before we take on the next mystery, we solve the mystery of figuring out how to turn me back
06:41into a human being.
06:42I mean, I have an actual interest in solving that mystery.
06:45That is not even the strangest thing in a show where Iron Mike leads a mystery-solving gang.
06:50Pigeon was always a standout member of the team, but the cartoon's best showcase of McDonald's one-of-a-kind
06:55delivery was a season 2 episode delving into his origins.
06:58His ex-wife Sandra caused the transformation through the power of prayer.
07:02God made him a dirty pigeon, not me!
07:05When the estranged couple reconciles, it appears Pigeon will get to be human again.
07:10Instead, Sandra wishes to become a pigeon herself, which works and immediately backfires.
07:16Fly with me, my love!
07:18Are you f***ing crazy?
07:26Oga booga!
07:29Oga booga!
07:34Despite lasting only three seasons, this sitcom had inspired moments, including a reality-breaking Pokemon parody.
07:42Following an opening statement from McDonald's, his social worker character talks with a young boy who insists he's Ash.
07:48He isn't joking.
07:50This kid has his own Pikachu.
07:51Pikachu!
07:52Pikachu!
07:53I choose you!
07:57Pikachu!
07:59As it turns out, Norm has a Squirtle, who says more than his name.
08:03Also, remember that time Laurie Metcalf dressed as Butterfree?
08:06Butterfree!
08:07Whirlwind attack!
08:08I don't want to do the whirlwind attack.
08:10It's too girly.
08:11I want to do something else.
08:12I'm gonna throw a chair at him!
08:13Things get explosive when Team Rocket shows up, with Pikachu lighting up the room.
08:19Norm is left standing, although the Pokemon battle leaves him crispy.
08:23At the peak of Pokemon's initial popularity, McDonald answered two questions on every kid's mind.
08:29What would this look like in live action?
08:31And what if it starred the Weekend Update guy?
08:33You're a worthy adversary.
08:35We will meet again.
08:36You know, providing I survive the series of skin grafts and years of painful physical therapy.
08:43Number 13.
08:45His opening monologue, the 6th ESPY Awards.
08:48You didn't have to be a fan of sports or award shows to enjoy the 1998 ESPYs.
08:52What the hell are you doing when God takes the ESPYs?
08:58Serving as that year's host, McDonald interrupted the lavish opening number,
09:01noting that it felt out of place for the ESPYs.
09:04While he made room for the chorus line's big finish,
09:07McDonald eventually commenced his monologue.
09:09In typical Norm fashion, he immediately ignited a shocked reaction
09:13with a joke about Anthony Mason amid his misconduct scandal.
09:16It's hard to believe, huh, that the ESPYs are six years old.
09:20Although...
09:24Although Anthony Mason swears they're 18.
09:27So...
09:33McDonald also commented on Michael Jordan's pending retirement.
09:37From basketball, not baseball.
09:39Tiger Woods got a shout out as well.
09:41Along with the other golfers who had to compete with him.
09:44Oh, and since this event was for sports,
09:46McDonald couldn't resist an OJ Simpson joke.
09:49McDonald was that year's true MVP.
09:51He became the first defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy.
09:55And congratulations, Charles.
09:56That is something that no one can ever take away from you.
09:59Unless you kill your wife and a waiter.
10:01In which case...
10:05Number 12.
10:06Crashing Courtney Thorne-Smith interview.
10:08Late night with Conan O'Brien.
10:10Courtney Thorne-Smith of Melrose Place was among Conan's guests in 1997.
10:14Also on the couch was McDonald,
10:16who could not help but interject.
10:18I liked it when she was on the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder.
10:22Not the Tomorrow Show, but the Later Later Show.
10:25He says to me in the break...
10:26You know I do who I am.
10:27Yeah, no, I know from that show.
10:28That's all.
10:29We dare say that he even hijacked the interview.
10:32Not that O'Brien was complaining.
10:33Too much.
10:34Thorne-Smith didn't seem to mind either,
10:36as McDonald started sharing anecdotes about tourists
10:38and inquiring about the actress's role in chairman of the board.
10:42McDonald and O'Brien were equally baffled
10:44as to why anyone would leave Melrose Place
10:46to do this particular comedy.
10:47From there, McDonald suggests alternative titles
10:50like Nine and a Half Seconds and Box Office Poison.
10:53Only Norm could trash a movie that another guest is there to promote
10:57and still win everyone over.
10:59There's this movie coming out.
11:01Yes.
11:01Title undetermined at this point.
11:03Chairman of the board.
11:04Oh, all right.
11:05Do something with that, you freak.
11:11I bet the board is spelled B-O-R-E-D.
11:20Number 11.
11:22Being Frank.
11:23Billy Madison.
11:24McDonald popped up in a few movies with his buddy Adam Sandler.
11:27Arguably, his funniest supporting role was in Billy Madison,
11:30playing the titular man-child's equally immature friend Frank.
11:33What's today?
11:35October?
11:37As Billy revisits the Institute of Higher Learning,
11:40Frank carries on with his carefree life,
11:42hanging out by his best friend's pool,
11:44stealing lunches from elementary school kids,
11:46and reflecting on the good old days
11:47when they used to light bags of poop for old men to stomp on.
11:50You know, the usual stuff guys in their 20s and 30s get into.
11:53This is the best night of my life.
11:56Whereas Billy matures throughout the film, kinda,
11:59Frank apparently never followed through
12:01with his dad's request to get a job.
12:03At least that gives him more free time to feed beer to donkeys.
12:06Hey, you want to feed that donkey some beer?
12:08Get it all messed up?
12:10Maybe later.
12:12I'll go put some beer in a bucket.
12:14Number 10.
12:14His David Letterman impression.
12:16Saturday Night Live.
12:17David Letterman once said of McDonald,
12:20quote,
12:20If we could have,
12:21we would have had Norm on every week.
12:23Letterman still regularly welcomed McDonald
12:25following his first late-night appearance in 1990.
12:28McDonald picked up on Letterman's quirks along the way,
12:31developing an uncanny impression of the host.
12:33So, Paul, I'm on the subway today.
12:36You ever been on the subway, Paul?
12:38Ah, subway.
12:39Subway, right.
12:40Yeah.
12:40Yeah, yeah.
12:41His Letterman impersonation made its SNL debut in 1997.
12:45Despite still sounding like Norm MacDonald,
12:48he mimicked Letterman's mannerisms,
12:50speech patterns, and smile to a T.
12:51By the time McDonald breaks out the Letterman laugh,
12:55you forget you're watching an impression.
13:00The sketches could almost be mistaken
13:02for an actual Letterman episode.
13:04That is largely because McDonald's impression
13:06didn't mock Letterman.
13:08It was a testament to how much McDonald respected him,
13:11and the feeling was mutual.
13:13Crunch.
13:13Ah.
13:14Ah, ah, ah, ah.
13:15Number 9.
13:16Getting his hands dirty.
13:17Dirty work.
13:18It's a dirty shame
13:20that one of McDonald's only big screen star vehicles
13:22went overlooked upon release.
13:24We dare even say that it was ridiculous.
13:27Ridiculous.
13:28Completely ridiculous.
13:29The good news is that dirty work
13:31eventually found a cult following.
13:32So, perhaps it's fitting
13:34that a revenge comedy would get the last laugh.
13:36McDonald plays revenge for hire entrepreneur Mitch,
13:39who has a knack for screwing over jerks
13:41who have it coming.
13:42There's two kinds of people in this world,
13:43those who get stomped on
13:44and those who do the stomping.
13:47Where'd you come up with that theory?
13:49That famous guy said it.
13:50What's his name?
13:52Oh yeah, Jesus.
13:53His targets include a movie theater owner
13:55with a Don Rickles attitude,
13:57a car dealer with a dead sex worker problem,
13:59and noisy neighbors who learn the true cost of smelly fish.
14:03Even if some of the jobs backfire,
14:05McDonald makes you wish that a guy like Mitch
14:06could do your dirty work.
14:08Note to self,
14:09remember no matter how bad life gets,
14:11there is always beer.
14:13Number 8.
14:14The most convoluted joke ever told.
14:17Conan.
14:17Visiting Conan,
14:19McDonald shares a tall tale
14:20about an old classmate
14:21with a name so fake
14:22that McDonald changes it midway through.
14:25While I was scrambling to get out of high school,
14:28Jacques Zagatineau had already...
14:31I think he just changed his last name.
14:38Well, you know, a man grows.
14:41He, uh...
14:46The name is only part of what makes the ensuing joke so convoluted.
14:50As McDonald continues,
14:51you begin to wonder whether he had this story carefully mapped out in his head
14:55or if he's improvising as he goes along.
14:57The bigger question is what this monologue is building towards.
15:01Okay, so I was checking out the beluga whales and stuff and I look over and who do you think
15:05I see?
15:06I hope it's that guy.
15:07No, it was, uh...
15:09It was just an attendant, but, uh...
15:13The answer is a play on words that wouldn't be especially funny if the joke was quick and to the
15:17point.
15:18The fact that McDonald dragged out this story for three minutes, antagonizing Conan along the way,
15:23turns what Andy describes as a dog turd into comedic gold.
15:27Well, he said, I think I'm serving a youthful porpoise.
15:30Now, I believe that, uh...
15:39No!
15:41No!
15:42I knew that was gonna happen.
15:45Number 7.
15:46Roasting SNL.
15:48Saturday Night Live.
15:49Former NBC West Coast president Don Ohlmeyer isn't remembered for his accomplishments at the network
15:54so much as his clash with McDonald over O.J. Simpson jokes.
15:58Supposedly, this led to McDonald's exit in 1998,
16:01but he returned to host SNL the following year.
16:04That didn't mean McDonald was going to play nice.
16:07A year and a half ago, right, I had a sort of a disagreement with the management
16:11at, uh...
16:12at the NBC.
16:13Uh, I wanted to keep my job, right?
16:20And they felt the exact opposite.
16:24If anything, the fact that McDonald was already fired gave him more incentive to say whatever he wanted.
16:30He pointed out management's hypocrisy,
16:32claiming they thought he wasn't funny enough to remain in the cast,
16:35only to invite him back.
16:37McDonald's conclusion?
16:38SNL went downhill after he left,
16:40lowering the bar enough for his homecoming.
16:42Then it occurred to me,
16:44I haven't gotten funnier.
16:46The show has gotten really bad.
16:52It's a brutal dig at the show,
16:54but McDonald is making fun of himself just as much.
16:58All right, folks, we got a bad show for you tonight.
17:00Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, and Eminem are here.
17:04Number 6.
17:05The Roast of Bob Saget.
17:07Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget.
17:09Despite rising to fame on the family-friendly Full House,
17:11Bob Saget's stand-up was as racy as comedy gets.
17:15McDonald was never afraid to be vulgar either.
17:17So when McDonald was invited to participate in the roast of Bob Saget,
17:21you'd expect the lewd levels to be off the charts.
17:23Instead, McDonald essentially told dad jokes from the mid-20th century.
17:27And Cloris Leachman is here, Cloris.
17:36Cloris, if people say you're over the hill, don't believe them.
17:39Why, you'll never be over the hill, not in the car you drive.
17:43This wasn't Norm cleaning up his act.
17:46It was an act of rebellion.
17:47McDonald claims the showrunner asked him to be shocking.
17:50Not wanting to insult a friend,
17:53McDonald told jokes that not even Danny Tanner would find shocking.
17:56The occasional profanity aside.
17:58Bob, you have a lot of well-wishers here tonight,
18:00and a lot of them would like to throw you down one.
18:03A well.
18:05They want to murder you in a well.
18:10Seems a little harsh, but...
18:12Since McDonald's voice is so well-tailored for anti-comedy, though,
18:15his trolling of the audience still got some of the night's biggest laughs.
18:18No, he's a good guy. He's a good guy.
18:21He's never bought Christmas seals.
18:22He told me he wouldn't know what to feed them.
18:27Number 5.
18:28Turd Ferguson, Saturday Night Live.
18:31Along with writer Steve Higgins,
18:33McDonald devised an SNL sketch based on Celebrity Jeopardy,
18:36noticing that bigger names got easier questions.
18:39This condiment is made from mustard seeds.
18:43French stewart.
18:44The answer, of course, is onions.
18:46The main reason that McDonald wanted to do Celebrity Jeopardy
18:49was so that he could demonstrate his impression of Burt Reynolds.
18:52Other than Daryl Hammond's Sean Connery,
18:55few celebrities got more chances to annoy Will Ferrell's Alex Trebek than Reynolds.
18:59Or should we say Turd Ferguson?
19:01Burt Reynolds.
19:02That's not my name.
19:08Okay.
19:09Turd Ferguson.
19:14Yeah, what do you want?
19:17You buzzed in.
19:19No, I didn't.
19:19When McDonald returned to host SNL in 1999,
19:22he once again broke out his Reynolds impersonation.
19:25This time, he insisted on being called Turd Ferguson.
19:29Why?
19:29Because it's a funny name.
19:30The line made for possibly McDonald's funniest appearance as Mr. Ferguson,
19:35whose giant foam cowboy hat only made the sketch more iconic.
19:38It's funny.
19:39It's funny because it's bigger than a normal hat.
19:42I see that.
19:43Number 4.
19:44Last Letterman.
19:45Late Show with David Letterman.
19:46When McDonald performed on The Late Show in 2015,
19:50David Letterman noted that it had been 25 years since he first had him on Late Night.
19:54With Letterman's tenure as host ending that same year,
19:57it was clear that this would be McDonald's last performance on his show.
20:00It was back then,
20:02I remember if you wanted to take a picture,
20:04you would use a camera.
20:08Not a telephone.
20:11As a matter of fact,
20:12if you used a telephone,
20:13people would look at you odd.
20:15Few realized that this was farewell in more ways than one.
20:18There's a strange abbreviation when you think about it.
20:21I is short for I.
20:26And then D is short for dentification.
20:33McDonald had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma two years earlier,
20:37keeping his declining health private.
20:38It now hits even harder watching Norm get choked up at the end of his monologue,
20:43telling Dave that he loves him.
20:44As sarcastic and savage as McDonald could be,
20:47moments like this exemplify how much sincerity was in his heart.
20:51If something is true, it is not sentimental.
20:53And I say in truth, I love you.
20:57Oh my god.
20:59Oh my god.
21:00Number 3.
21:01His farewell special.
21:03Norm Macdonald.
21:04Nothing special.
21:05Two years before his cancer diagnosis,
21:08Macdonald made an eerily prophetic yet still humorous observation about cancer.
21:12Can anyone lose a battle to cancer if the cancer dies with you?
21:16If the cancer dies, I mean if you die,
21:19the cancer also dies at exactly the same time.
21:22So that, to me, is not a loss, that's a draw.
21:25That's a, you know what I mean?
21:26Even when discussing the bleakest subjects,
21:29Macdonald could find the comedy in it.
21:31That didn't change when it became increasingly evident
21:33that Macdonald wasn't going to survive his own
21:35quote-unquote battle with cancer almost a decade later.
21:38If you know anything about my work,
21:40you will know my tireless devotion to the anti-cannibalism cause.
21:47Due to COVID restrictions,
21:49Macdonald was unable to record a planned special with a live audience.
21:53All Macdonald truly needed was a microphone,
21:55leaving the world with one last stand-up special he recorded in his living room.
21:59Then God goes,
22:00Well, I made your hair white.
22:02What do you think that was all about?
22:04I was telling you,
22:06get your affairs in order, for God's sake.
22:08Funny, heartfelt, and reflective,
22:11Macdonald demonstrates why comedians may actually be modern philosophers.
22:14Either way, Norm was something special.
22:17I would drop the mic, but I paid for it.
22:21Number 2.
22:23Weekend Update Coverage on O.J. Simpson
22:25Saturday Night Live
22:26Macdonald was far from the only comedian
22:29who took shots at O.J. Simpson amid his highly publicized murder trial.
22:32Yet, Macdonald's Weekend Update tenure essentially became the roast of O.J.,
22:36holding nothing back.
22:37According to retailers,
22:39the most popular Halloween mask this year is O.J. Simpson.
22:43And the most popular Halloween greeting is,
22:45I'll kill you and that guy who's bringing over your glasses,
22:49or a treat.
22:50When many were still defending Simpson,
22:52or at least leaving room for doubt,
22:53Macdonald bluntly accused him of murder even after his acquittal.
22:57Well, it is finally official.
23:00Murder is legal in the state of California.
23:07There is nothing funny about what happened to Nicole and Ron.
23:10Through his unapologetic delivery, though,
23:13Macdonald turned Simpson into a punchline
23:15that could always get a shocking laugh.
23:17At the time,
23:18the Simpson coverage made Macdonald
23:19one of the most divisive Weekend Update hosts,
23:22likely costing him the gig.
23:23History remembers Macdonald as one of the all-time greats, however.
23:27Not just for Simpson,
23:28but especially for Simpson.
23:30In a brilliant mood during closing arguments,
23:33Simpson attorney Johnny Cochran
23:35put on the knit cap prosecutors say O.J. wore
23:38the night he committed the murders.
23:40Although O.J. may have heard his case
23:42when he suddenly blurted out,
23:43hey, hey, easy with that.
23:45That's my lucky stabbing hat.
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24:00Are you not entertained?
24:03Number 1.
24:04The Moth Joke
24:05The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
24:06As far as shaggy dog stories go,
24:09Macdonald delivered his magnum opus
24:11with a 2009 Tonight Show appearance.
24:13It's a setup we've all heard before.
24:15A moth walks into a podiatrist's office.
24:18Okay, maybe not one we've all heard before,
24:20but still remotely familiar.
24:22A moth goes into a podiatrist's office.
24:25A moth goes into a podiatrist's office.
24:26You are correct.
24:30Even so,
24:31we're not sure where exactly Macdonald is going
24:33as he tells Conan about a moth
24:35who unpacks all of his mental health issues
24:37on the podiatrist.
24:38Macdonald actually paints a pretty detailed portrait
24:41of the insect's psyche
24:42and complicated relationships with others.
24:44At night, I sometimes wake up
24:46and I turn to some old lady
24:49in my bed that's on my arm.
24:52A lady that I once loved, Doc.
24:54Being a doctor of the foot,
24:56the podiatrist inquires
24:57why the moth didn't seek out
24:59a mental health professional.
25:00The punchline is so cheesy,
25:02so anticlimactic,
25:03and yet totally worth every minute
25:06the audience invested.
25:07The doctor says,
25:08Moth, man, you're troubled.
25:11But you should be seeing a psychiatrist.
25:13Why on earth did you come here?
25:16And then the moth said,
25:17Because the light was on.
25:27What's your favorite Norm Macdonald moment?
25:29Let us know in the comments.
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