also, did you ever notice this? Henny Youngman is an old man, but Gary Oldman is a young man

+Gavin James what about gary mann is a guy who works over at comedy central

"Faster than a rolling O, Stronger than a silent E, Able to leap capital T in a single bound, it's Letterman!"

and don't get me started on Conrad Black or Barry White...

this deserves so many more likes

@Cord Bullard agree that it's 100% about the journey with Norm. But name 1 punchline throughout that entire story.

@Cord Bullard hm ok I see what you're saying, I don't know why I was thinking punchline in a more traditional (boring) sense but you're right those work too. Norm's the best

I can laugh at the same joke from Norm for 200 times...and I have been doing it regularly,,,beats me why

He always has a punchline it's just normally so either subtle or completely obvious that I suppose could be missed. That's his thing, hell do such a blatant dad joke in front of a comedy audience and get a laugh. It's genius

i n e v e r b e e n o n e f o r b r e a k f a s t c a n y o u g e t m e a n e g g m c m u f f i n ?

Crazy that this is so damn true!!!!

He's no carrot top but few are

wait, you really think that this was a true story?

Hysterical! I laughed and laughed and laughed!

It is a joke

It’s like he was there on the stage with Norm and Dave. I got chills.

Apparently sounds just like him too

"I have never been one for breakfast"!

For old Harold Delaney, it is the destination. It's that red triple word right in the corner.

@@trevorjalla underrated comment OP is also spot on

Norm left behind a wife, 3 children and one long shaggy dog.

Billy Connolly was the same. He would go on long winding tales of his youth and barely even have a punchline before he changed it into another story, but my goodness how you laugh along the entire way 😂 such under rated talent is required for this.

it's the journey he made you take and then he laughs at you; so much laughter at you

The sex is fine though.

Victoria has a ban on scrabble after 11pm.

Good thing he didn't play twister.

@@IffeOnline on your birthday in the dark

You live in Gods country

Tale... not ale

+Moe TheDestroyer Ale is good too, mate.

Never knew of him before recently. His comic timing is impeccable and his "look" at the recipient of the joke as he punches through another line. Just glorious stuff. 90% of my youtubing at the mo is Norm McDonald. Love it.

Moe TheDestroyer although I agree, American audiences are very eager to clap at any opportunity, annoyingly

EoinFC If you have seen it already nevermind.. but if not, watch his "dirty work" movie. I think he might be the funniest presence known to man.. He was awesome!

That was the funniest line in the whole skit. Solid gold.

This comment made me burst out laughing ahh

Hey uhm, uh old Joshtamis prime there...actually "The Lighthouse" is inspired by Greek Mythology,

@@davidvbobb7785 so you’re telling me the movie the lighthouse wasn’t based on an offhand joke story norm Macdonald told on a late night talk show?

@@davidvbobb7785 no way

@@crustman5982 D Bahb is either a brilliant prankster, a complete idiot, or a small child.

@@Selrisitai - D Bahb's comment makes a little more sense if you can "hear" it in Norm's voice.

Awful week . Getting Covid and Pneumonia was bad. Norm passing away was the worst. Rest In Peace my brother !!

There’s only one Norm.

Oh Lord. For me this was such strange timing. Earlier this month, i located and ordered a used copy of his "Based on a True Story" 'memoir' and it was delivered yesterday - the day that the sad news of his passing broke. And the introduction in his book relates a story in which bogus news of his death had been inserted into his Wikipedia article - which was where i first learned of his death yesterday! I am convinced a small part of my life was briefly possessed as it were by the soul of this humble, childlike fellow as he unites his sense of humor with that of his creator in the next life. Thank you Lord for giving us Norm Macdonald.

@Dave Riddlin I hope your Covid and pneumonia gets better, Dave. Hang in there and rest up, man!

@@antonchigurh3794 Feel better, buddy!

Precisely. I feel fortunate that i "got him".

Me as well. I already miss him.

dude calm down he was just a comedian, Also true king of comedy? pretty sure even norm would disagree with that

@@surferOS101 Why did you feel the need to comment? You're obviously a total douchebag. Just scram.

@@c2cooler2 Make me. You sound trigerred, can't handle a different opinion? Do you need a safe space?

I love this since apparently we Canadians pronounce "about" as "aboot".

David Pring, haha, not so much apparently, but fo sho. JK

I read that just as Norm said it.

@@dpring777 no we Canadians don't...Some Americans are hard of hearing.

@@dpring777 Even if someone were to pronounce "about" like "a boot", I fail to see what's so funny about the sentence "You never heard tell of about?".

Now that’s funny

Comedy Central puts him at #83. Right behind Howie Mandel...

He better be.

I finally saw him perform live earlier this year, easily the best comedian I've seen! He seemed to enjoy himself as well, as evident by going long -- which he then worked into a bit, telling us how the club had given him the signal several times now, but they since gave up so he knew he would get reprimanded after the show, but then he told us that his plan was to deny outright that he saw it, predicting the manager's response would then be "what do you mean you didn't see it? You talked about it for 10 minutes after I gave up!!" Yup, he's my all-time favorite as well!!

@@ObscuredByTime comedy central is so far gone these days, Norm #2, only behind Don Rickles, in my book. Fuckin Howie Mandell, comedy central should change their name to Comedy Cemetery. Because they're dead.

colin quinn and doug stanhope along with norm are my favorites.

There's a lot of "mini punchlines."

The punchline got left off of the end of this clip (that Norm had gone to the wrong address)

Too bad Norm didn't write fiction. Who wouldn't want to read an endless story with no point no punchline appropos of nothing and yet extremely boring. Except if you got the audio version with Norm himself you know doing the talking on it so you could you know pick up on how hysterically funny the guy actually came across in real life altho you would prefer a video to catch you know the expressions on his face there.

It could be the longest movie ever. Even longer than The Empire State Building by Andy Warhol. It was only 24 hours long.

Mini punchlines, yeah. Bed and breakfast by a man who isnt much for breakfast but asks Norm to get him an egg mcmuffin. Great bit.

Seems like a real jerk!

He's not that bad. I once heard that he nursed a baby Flamingo back to health.

I think the worst thing about him is his hypocrisy

@@sicilianjiu-jitsu2984 The hypocrisy? I thought it was him trying to have sex with Norm. Allegedly!

Does he have a doghouse?

lol

Can you please explain to me what all these doctors are doing here? Ya'll some Scrabble freaks down at the hospital?

Or how to play scrabble.

Brenda Williams He's just a good story teller. Mitch Hedberg was really good at making a missed joke funny.

Brenda Williams I can eat 50 eggs

Norm is the king of random.

@@taurusthefool Mitch hedberg sounds like a real jerk

That might be true, but we'll never know for sure because Norm's jokes never miss.

I heard he's a real jerk

back then he was a young chunk of coal

@@artcorvulay2428 nah, back then he was some yummy man taffy 😍

Tiztu country

Al he’s not

That got me. 🤣

Three days after 9/11

I didn't even know he was sick

I wonder if old Harold Delaney outlived him

I knew he was sick, but I didn't tell anybody.

The subbtle part to the joke is Norm making all these great words which would get you a high score but being behind to low scoring words because of the triple word.

@@joshforde698: the real subtle part of the joke was that his story had 3 B's in the game with "rabbit" & "boot," but there are only two B's in Scrabble, and since Norm mentioned there were no blank squares and that the words weren't connected, then there had to be three separate B's, which isn't possible. I think Norm did this intentionally as an Easter egg.

@@mobus1603 I think it's a bit of a stretch to think that thats intentional.

@@mobus1603 Considering Norm makes up most of his stories on the spot (or at least their details), that's quite a stretch.

@@mobus1603 i thought the first word was Rabid

Marco Estiercol I think the story is funnier by giving the guy a full name, even if in reality it wasn't "Harold Delaney". (It wouldn't surprise me if this whole story was made up.) SO many people try to tell stories about "this one guy" and repeatedly use "so the guy says," and such. But simply by using a name, ANY name, it's somehow noticeably funnier, and I wish I knew why.

***** Yeah, but you can ask anybody who's played more than a few games of Scrabble, and they've all been there, trying to make good words like "Avacado", and the other guy just sticks a "T" above your "O" and that's his word: "To". To play a truly good game of Scrabble, there's a balance between competition and cooperation. You both want to make the best words possible, so everybody had room to build all over the board.

Ben Culture lol of course it's made up.

+Ben Culture I think it just paints a picture of some crotchety old man when you hear an "old" sounding name like Harold Delaney!

James Bond Yes, that's my point, is like a real story about a guy entering an old man's house by mistake and playing scrabble and sleeping there.

Me to..but he became the funniest story teller ever .. RIP

Better later than never to discover some great comedy.

Yeah, I would skip past Norm Macdonald. His first impression doesn't knock you over. But, Thank God.. I have a sense of humor! Slowly, I began to get his " punch lines "! Now, I am along for the comic journey!

Do you mean Harold or Norm?

I regularly come back here.

Never!!!

Like Chevy Chase in Germany?

That actually is the punchline, this upload is cut too early

the light was on though

“What bed and breakfast? I thought you were my grandson.”

@@familyfriendlymoniker8623 Ah Dicky, you're channeling Norm. Good for you!

Major Rugburn no i think he was laughing because he thought it was funny

TairyGreen89 You haven't seen many interviews with Letterman

You never heard tell of Jay Thomas?

TairyGreen89 No one makes everybody laugh like that. Me anyway

Don rickles

It is great. Did you hear the moth joke?

My husband and I have laughed about this routine since it first aired! It is as funny as I remembered.

who talks like that? old canadians?

@@dessertstorm7476 I'm from Alberta. The people I knew who talked like that were from the East Coast. Great storytellers one and all.

A fella goes out, he has to wear a boot.

political dude

Frank Vee I'm sorry, but what do you mean?

Norm's politics....he's not a far left douche like Rolling Stone

Frank Vee True ... He's not. I'm pretty leftist but I give Norm a free pass on his politics, he can believe whatever he wants, 'cause it only makes it funnier. When you get too many people together who all share the same political views, you get a bunch of nauseating smugness. This is true for both liberals and conservatives. So it was good to have Norm coming from a different perspective. I loved his joke about Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley's divorce: "She's more of a stay-at-home type, and he's more of a homosexual pedophile."

***** Couldn't agree more. In an age when magazines and newspapers are less relevant than ever, they _still_ suck compared to others. (I only buy guitar magazines that actually teach me how to play songs. We don't need to pay for _reviews_ and _interviews._) They deserve to fail. This may seem like a topic jump, but Adam Ant, who's mentally ill but very intelligent, says Live Aid killed rock music in 1985. I think he's right. Live Aid was a good thing, but it turned rock into this OH-so-important and self-righteous thing, with the likes of Bono, Sting, Don Henley, et. al. And _RS_ magazine was very happy to put themselves in front of that, as "We are the established arbiters of what's hip and relevant; you _do not_ succeed in the industry without our support. We're indispensable. You need us; we don't need you." Well, thank god that's no longer true, and also, fuck them. Still, I don't see how anyone _possibly_ rates Norm worse than so, SO many utter failures. Norm _wrote_ for that show before and during his time as a performer. His Weekend Updates are legendary. Yet there is no "SNL: Best of Norm Macdonald" DVD ,like there is for everybody else who was any good. There's even a "Best of Christopher Walken", who only _hosted_ the show many times (and he's awesome, I'm not saying he doesn't deserve it, just that he wasn't a cast member). There seems to be this mentality of "It doesn't matter HOW many people love Norm Macdonald. Even if we COULD make money, we WON'T." But I still think of him as relevant. He not only changed my idea of what's funny, but how I actually use the English language in conversation! Example: Y'know how lefties like to make fun of Fox News Channel, and call it "_Faux_ News Channel"? Well, I hate that. From a sheer comedy perspective, that's an epic fail. It sucks. Then I saw something 10,000X better: "Fox Not News Channel". THAT's funny. Fuck clever wordplay, man, I like a _sledgehammer!_ And it was Norm who showed me the light on that. "And now, the fake news." Make Words Count! Don't _toy_ with them. If I was truly good, this comment would be _so_ much shorter, but thanks for reading!

Well, forever until Google finds a reason to censor Norm.

Good ol' Stan Rogers! "The Idiot" is one of my all time favorite ditties!

I couldn't agree more. I was looking for this one too -- so glad to have found it, because there seem to be 1,000 clips of this guy telling his wonderful stories. We miss you Norm.

A dog named Bow

and weiner dog.

I did not appreciate Norm while he was alive. I only knew him from SNL. But I have watched so many clips the past week. He was a genius. I rarely laugh out loud. It literally takes something epic to make me laugh. I belly laughed the whole time he was telling the Scrabble story. It was hilarious but there was a bit of sweetness or charm to it too. I will listen to this many more times.

That would be pretty funny I guess but its not true. The full interview is on youtube somewhere and he doesn't say that at the end.

There needs to be something like that. The story is very good but it peters out at the end. I was watching Jerry Seinfeld explain his joke writing yesterday, and he was saying how you need your biggest laugh at the end - which is difficult to achieve. You need a punchline to tie it all together.

"Jerry Seinfeld... was saying how you need your biggest laugh at the end" Norm likes Jerry but he doesn't give a fuck about Jerry's simplistic theories of comedy.

lmao thats something that he would say

Joseph Scott He doesnt but Norm always ends his stories on these late night shows with a big punchline at the end. Always. And theyre great

LOL.

best use of the word 'a' ever

It sounds like a real story to me.

I think it's a bit of both.

Harold Delaney is a real guy who is a Chef for a classic Bed and Breakfast in B.C....I highly doubt he is in his "eighties" though. The fact that Norm used words that counted more letters than what traditionally comes with an official Scrabble game it is at least somewhat fictional.

@JediNxf7 His story had 3 B's in the game, Rabbit and Boot. There are only 2 B's in Scrabble. And Norm mentioned there were no blanks and that the words weren't connected so it would have been 3 B's which isn't possible. I actually think Norm did this intentionally as an "Easter egg"

Carl Lange “rabid”

He’s a beautiful soul. As he got closer to the end of his life he became almost monastic, and his exchanges were more and more profound (his later podcasts and radio interviews are gold) He lived in a small, almost empty apartment, was abstinent for years, asked nothing of anyone, and always spoke the truth. He never told people how sick he was, but in hindsight he was sharing some deep truths in his own way. It’s enough to bring a tear to your eye, but he always makes you laugh yourself silly too. Extremely intelligent, well read, knowledgeable in a million directions, but humble as a human being could be. If the goal is to leave it better than you found it, Norm won the game.

Well said. Beautifully put.

Norm is one of the few comedians who's act starts from the first letter, the punchlines hardly ever comes, perhaps towards the end, but it's not needed due to his amazing descriptions and content.

@@jmp01a24 dedicated

"So I figure 'Uh-oh! ...'"

+okrajoe "Early Letterman"

+Jonathan Rundle hey go easy on him. at least he likes Dave unlike the rest of these punks.

Eric Gullickson Cause daves a fuckin' tool!!

"early Norm" makes an internet reference?

It's not early Norm, and its not early Dave. 0 for 2 there buddy

It sounded like "Egg 'cMuffin"

Hallelujah

huh?

Gets such a big laugh from Letterman too

God, Norm and Letterman would be pretty impressive to see.

@@ashchaya7676 Last time we heard a story this good, God was a boy