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Cold Open: Norm Macdonald Tribute
from #269 - The Activist | The Tim Dillon Show · #269
3 min
Tim opens by mourning Norm Macdonald's death, calling him beloved across the comedy world, and recounts how Norm's retweets and kind words about Tim's work meant a huge amount to him early in his career.
- Norm MacDonald died, one of the greatest comedians ever lived and universally respected.
- Norm retweeted Tim's OJ video, which felt like everything at the time.
- Tim did Last Comic Standing in 2000-something but it never aired.
- Norm asked how many years Tim had been doing comedy, told him it takes ten years to be a comedian.
- Tim couldn't eat at the Hilton after that interaction, devastated by Norm's criticism.
- Norm later became a fan of Tim's work and material, proved to be right about needing more time to mature.
- You can binge Norm MacDonald content and lose hours of your day; all of it is funny.
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