What happened? Norm pointed out that his friends Louis C.K. and Roseanne Barr have suffered. That his victims have no idea what it’s like for them.
Well, they don’t. Some chick sees a known asshole like Louis C.K. whip out his dick. An ABC executive is called a racial slur. OK, those are not nice. But these victims are still making a living. They haven’t been ostracized like lepers. They didn’t see their careers and all they did shut down in an instant. That’s a trauma, isn’t it?
What the FUCK. We have people who march and scream because they don’t believe in the death penalty. Because they love serial killers. “Hey, murderers are people too!” Isn’t that denying the suffering of the victims? But nobody’s telling the anti-death-penalty people to shut up. Nobody is taking their jobs away.
NORM MACDONALD was not even given the chance to explain himself on “The Tonight Show.” He was told, “NO, you’re OUT. You have no excuse. We’re the show that supports morons like the Jenners. Our host books vapid morons and plays charades with them, and cracks eggs on their heads. We have NO place for serious discussion.”
NO, puppy Jimmy Fallon would rather do an update of Sammy Davis Jr., and fall on the floor, literally, because Paul McCartney is a guest. He’d rather FAKE laughter and stick his face onto his desk in helpless mirth over nothing. He’d rather join his announcer in flogging bad jokes to death by repeating them over and over. He’d rather do a witless “THANK YOU” routine where he sends thank you cards to objects and concepts.
He’d rather show how PC he is by having a show where the host, the announcer and the band have no women members. That’s #METOO?
Is the ADL complaining that Fallon, his announcer and his band are not Jewish? There’s no visible Jew in sight on “The Tonight Show?” But Norm MacDonald points out that two comedians have had their lives ruined, which is a FACT, and he’s kicked off “The Tonight Show.” Logic here?
If anything, Fallon should be defending Norm Maconald. As in: “I began on Saturday Night Live, which is known for edgy comedy, and saying a lot of nasty things. Weekend Update is known for opinionated shit, and if it doesn’t get a laugh so what. I’m going to let Norm come on my show and explain himself, because I’m a tolerant guy, and I think Norm talking about a real issue is more important than listening to a Jenner babble her crap.”
Jay Leno would've let Norm MacDonald come on the show. You can bet on that. So would Conan O'Brien. But this isn't "The Tonight Show" run by an intelligent man like Steve Allen or Jack Paar, or by Johnny Carson who often booked authors and even let Jim Garrison speak. It's a silly bit of fluff run by a puppy who'd rather crack eggs on some numbskull giddy starlet's head than have a talk show. Because his guests mostly don't have enough brains to form sentences.
The PC police have won again? Well, no, they haven’t, because Norm MacDonald, at least as of this writing, STILL has his Netflix show. Hopefully Netflix won’t cave.
NORM MACDONALD is a fairly pale son of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Sam Kinison and George Carlin. He's amusingly blunt and goofy, and on SNL was prone to say things just for the joy of dumbness and being un-PC. A Bill Maher or Dennis Miller he never was. He never showed their malice or anger. And here, he wasn't trying to be funny. Hew was just being honest. If you can't imagine being insulted and how unpleasant that would be for an ABC executive, well, you also can't imagine what it would be like to lose your comeback show, lose MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, be hated and ridiculed as insane, and called a racist when you're actually not. Roseanne Barr may very well be insane. She is not a racist. The woman had a black co-star on her show. She had some sort of drug-induced meltdown and said something racially insensitive, but that doesn't make her a BIGOT. Can it NOT be argued that she suffered a trauma in getting fired, and seeing her co-stars and co-workers thrown out of work? That's all Norm was saying.
How about this: which would you rather have happen to you: you see Louis CK’s ridiculous dick, or YOU LOSE YOUR CAREER AND YOUR INCOME? That’s sort of what Norm was saying. Wasn’t it?
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