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love to hear that, but let's establish right now that "doco" is decidedly NOT the shorthand for "documentary". is that guy british or something? 

On 5/6/2022 at 9:55 PM, Bender Bending Rodriguez said:

This is really well done. 

 

great video, thanks for posting 

I don’t know what he’ll say after the first long pause, but it will be devastatingly funny

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ah shit, it's up - I meant to watch it tonight, but forgot about it until just now. It's called "Nothing Special" and it is on Netflix.

32 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Not sure if I can watch this. 

i feel the same way, i don't know if i can lose the same person twice.

It's very weird to watch - no audience and he's just working through material. But the interview with Conan, Sandler, Chappelle, etc at the end is amazzzzing. 

I think it was this article I was reading recently where it explained that he basically called up his neighbor/producer and said "we're shooting this tonight", and they just set it up in the living room or something. Still haven't seen it but yeah it sounds like production value was at a minimum. Definitely looking forward to Letterman and Conan.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/05/29/norm-macdonald-nothing-special-netflix/

3 hours ago, The Ace of Aces said:

It's very weird to watch - no audience and he's just working through material. But the interview with Conan, Sandler, Chappelle, etc at the end is amazzzzing. 

when he’s interviewing them are they aware of his condition?

I still have not seen this but my impression was that it was interviews with these folks immediately after they’ve watched the material (recently, after his death).

1 hour ago, futureman said:

when he’s interviewing them are they aware of his condition?

Post-death. The "special" is ... not good. But it had no time to be, still amazing he did this. 

The last bit about his mom was the perfect ending of his life

It was clearly material he was still working on and would have been honed by the time it was ready for a real special or large audience. Plenty of gems in there that would have killed. You could tell his delivery would have changed on some of it given more time and some jokes that felt incomplete and which you know would have been perfect eventually. Very enjoyable. I’ll buck the trend and say the thing at the end felt unnecessary. It was stuff everyone had already shared after he passed, very little about the new jokes. I enjoyed it, but Norm’s set was the highlight for me. 

During the conversation afterwards, they mentioned his standup show on the evening of March 13, 2020, which was the night before everything shut down. Basically, it was his last gig. Found a couple of clips on YouTube. SIAP

 

 

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Holy shit, that's the most I've ever laughed at Tim Allen.

 

He also makes so much more sense now.

5 hours ago, Red Five said:

The thread title is still jarring to me whenever this gets bumped. 

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