Conan O’Brien praised late-comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/norm-macdonald-says-he-didnt-want-to-leave-anything-on-the-table-as-he-jokes-about-mortality-and-death-in-final-stand-up-special" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Norm Macdonald</a>’s past jokes about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/o-j-simpson-dead-at-76-following-battle-with-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">O.J. Simpson</a>’s murder trial that resulted in Macdonald losing his job at “Saturday Night Live.”
During the late-night talk show host’s appearance on Thursday with CNN’s Jake Tapper, the two talked about the news of the day &#8212; Simpson’s death at 76 following a battle with prostate cancer, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/conan-obrien-recalls-nbc-network-chief-tight-oj-fired-snls-norm-macdonald">Fox News</a> reported.
“It was a huge deal back then,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said as he noted the murder trial coverage from comedians. &#8220;Most notably – he’s passed on – Norm Macdonald, one of my best guests of all time and one of the great comedians of all time…”
“[He] just told some of the most – did the most brilliant, I think, comedy of anybody during that whole period,” he added, noting the jokes the late-star did following Simpson’s acquittal in the 1995 double murder trial of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
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Tapper replied, “Lost his job at ‘SNL’ because he was making fun of O.J. Simpson for being the real killer.&#8221;
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; O’Brien replied, and said that “the head of the network at the time was tight with O.J.,” without naming the executive.
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&#8220;Don Ohlmeyer?&#8221; Tapper asked, to which the comedian laughed, &#8220;Who can remember these names.&#8221;
&#8220;Anyway, water under the bridge,” O’Brien added. “But that was a huge moment in history, I think, of this country.&#8221;
&#8220;It was a, you know, massive – there have been many times in this country where we’ve needed to stop and reassess where we are in our racial history, and where are we, what progress have we made, and that was one of those moments and it was such a watershed moment,&#8221; O’Brien continued.
Tapper then asked O’Brien if he was going to make a joke about Simpson, and he replied, &#8220;I never make a joke about someone the day they pass.”
The late-night talk show host wasn’t the only one remembering Norm’s jokes on Thursday, with clips of Macdonald going viral on social media about his cracks at &#8220;The Juice&#8221; and saying that murder was &#8220;legal in the state of California&#8221; after Simpson&#8217;s acquittal, Fox News noted.
Despite the pro athlete being acquitted during the criminal trial, he was found liable for Brown Simpson and Goldman&#8217;s deaths three years later in a civil trial brought by the victims’ families and was ordered to pay more than $33 million in damages.
Simpson was later arrested in Las Vegas and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping in 2007. He was sentenced to 33 years in prison with a minimum of nine years without parole and was released in 2017 after serving that minimum. The former NFL star was released from parole in 2021.
Amanda Harding contributed to this piece.

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Conan O’Brien Praises Late-Comedian Norm Macdonald’s O.J. Simpson Jokes That Got Him Fired From ‘SNL’

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The late comedian Norm Macdonald said he &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to leave anything on the table&#8221; as he joked about mortality and death in his final stand-up special that has hit Netflix titled, &#8220;Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special.&#8221;
He had been &#8220;working hard preparing material for his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/norm-macdonald-shot-secret-comedy-special-to-be-released-after-he-died-its-about-to-come-out">Netflix special</a> until COVID shut things down,&#8221; a message on the screen reads ahead of the show. It went on to say Macdonald was &#8220;scheduled to undergo a procedure&#8221; in the summer of 2020 following his lengthy private battle with leukemia.
He &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to leave anything on the table in case things went south,&#8221; it continued.
&#8220;At home, the night before going in, he shot this [stand-up] in one take,&#8221; the message added.
Macdonald died on September 14, 2021. He was 61.
The special starts with the &#8220;Billy Madison&#8221; star seen at his home holding a mic in front of a computer, before saying to the room with no audience, &#8220;Hey everybody, it&#8217;s Norm Macdonald and this is my comedy special.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course, I&#8217;m looking forward to getting back out there, seeing you folks in person,&#8221; Macdonald shared. &#8220;I love doing gigs and I miss it. My God, I miss it.&#8221;
In the nearly one-hour-long show, Macdonald jokes about his own death and mortality in general, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/30/norm-macdonald-final-netflix-special-drops-he-left-this-gift/">New York Post</a> reported. The comedian said he didn&#8217;t want to get depressed before telling people how you &#8220;gotta get a living will,&#8221; as he joked about his family pulling the plug if he ever wound up in a coma.
Later, the late &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; star, who was a Christian, joked about the afterlife, sharing that his &#8220;biggest fear&#8221; was that he picked &#8220;the wrong religion,&#8221; the outlet noted.
&#8220;Ahh, it&#8217;s you! I thought it was the other fella,&#8221; said Macdonald. &#8220;I should have been slaying apostates the entire time. Ah well, what are you gonna do?&#8221;
At one point, Macdonald even appeared to comment on transgender people. He cracked a joke about how his dad&#8217;s &#8220;good side&#8221; was fighting to liberate the world from Nazis, then said, &#8220;His evil side was this crazy idea he had that having a cock has something to do with being a boy.&#8221;
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Norm Macdonald Says He ‘Didn’t Want To Leave Anything On The Table’ As He Jokes About Mortality And Death In Final Stand-Up Special

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Comedy legend Norm Macdonald shot a secret comedy special for Netflix that was to be released in the event of his death, and now it&#8217;s about to come out.
&#8220;One of modern comedy’s greatest talents made one final stand-up special before he passed away — and it’s been kept a secret, until now,&#8221; The Hollywood Reporter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/norm-macdonald-netflix-special-1235145692/">reported</a>. &#8220;Netflix will release the surprise program — Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special‚ on May 30.&#8221;
Macdonald died last September at 61-years-old after reportedly battling cancer for nine years.
The report says that he was working on new material for a special with Netflix when he became so ill that he had to be hospitalized in 2020.
“The result was a stand-up special shot in Macdonald’s living room. The actor filmed the entire hour in a single take,” the report said. “As it turned out, Macdonald made it through the medical procedure just fine and the footage was literally tossed in a closet. But Macdonald became very ill a year later, before his special could be properly filmed before an audience.”
Lori Jo Hoekstra, Macdonald’s longtime producing partner, told the publication that Macdonald wanted to get the special on tape just in case his health went south.
“It was his intention to have a special to share if something happened,” Hoekstra said. “He looks great and the material’s fantastic.”
“He ended up getting sicker last August and September, and he remembered he had shot this and asked me to find it so he could watch it,” Hoekstra continued. “He ended up watching it before he passed away.”
The report said that the one-hour special is likely unprecedented in the world of comedy.
“From the various conversations I’ve had within our circle of friends in comedy and producing, no one has heard of any comparison to this [situation] — not even close,” Hoekstra said. “It makes me so happy that I can share it, but also so sad that we can’t share it with him. He didn’t do this for the shock that it exists. He shot it because he loved his material and was so proud of his material. He worked so hard and it really would’ve bothered him to have done all that work and not been able to show everybody. He did it for the stand-up. I just hope people appreciate that he did this.”
This report has been updated to include additional information. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/norm-macdonald-dies-at-age-61">Norm Macdonald Dies At Age 61</a>

Norm Macdonald Shot Secret Comedy Special To Be Released After He Died. It’s About To Come Out.

Netflix To Release Norm Macdonald Comedy Special Shot Before His Death

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What’s funnier? The long, winding joke where the punchline is but the last of many laughs throughout the journey? Or the short staccato one-liner? If, like me, you love both, then there was one comedian whose decades of work — from his standup and his own quirky TV shows, to his stint on Saturday Night Live (more on that in a moment) and frequent late night talk show guest spots — stood above the rest. Norm MacDonald was, quite simply, one of the best comics of the age. And now, to the shock of so many, he passed away last week at age 61.   
Although a fixture in the standup circuit (which was always his preferred venue) MacDonald was elevated to prominence as the deadpan and fearless host of SNL’s Weekend Update. He is, perhaps, as famous for being fired from that post as he was for the stellar work he did in the three years he sat behind the fake news desk. And the reason for his termination, if never officially stated, gives us an insight into his belief in the integrity of comedy and how staying true to himself and his craft mattered most to him. As the story goes, NBC executive  Don Ohlmeyer was friends with O.J. Simpson and had grown irritated by MacDonald’s relentless Weekend Update jokes aimed at the accused murderer during and after the trial. But the more management pressed the comic to back off, the more his audiences were treated with savage jokes at the Juice’s expense. “In his book, O.J. said that he would have taken a bullet or stood in front of a train for Nicole. Man I’m gonna tell you, that is some bad luck when the one guy that would’ve died for you kills you.”  
Later on, MacDonald would reconsider and offer that perhaps the main reason was that he just wasn’t the type to toe the management line. There was even concern that his shots at Michael Jackson’s alleged pedophilia may have ended up inviting a lawsuit.  Whatever the reason, the fact is MacDonald, to be cliché for a moment, did it his way. He reached out to Roseanne Barr and Louis C.K. when they ran afoul of the mob and #metoo movement, and did an uncomfortable and clearly forced appearance on The View to clarify what was simply his offering emotional support to fellow comics… not to compare them to victims of abuse. As Conan O’Brien pointed out: “There’s a lot of people, in comedy, getting applause for being brave in one way or another. But oftentimes what they’re doing they know is going to play well.  But what [Norm] was doing, he really was brave. He paid the price for it. And he took a lot of heat.”  
Norm was also a mind. His quick wit and ability to think on his feet (such as during his now-famous Conan O’Brien <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxD3pT8C9-A">appearance</a> wherein he took an old joke about an emotionally troubled moth and strung it out for three minutes of Kafkaesque brilliance to kill time) revealed him to be a well-read and acute observer of the world. His references to Russian literature, in which he was clearly well-versed, often belied his folksy rural Canadian stage persona. Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgars describes him as a “Tolstoy in sweatpants” with a gift for math and a streak of the obsessive compulsive that could have explained his issues with gambling. One imagines a complex man.  
Although MacDonald almost never spoke of politics, one could tell he leaned right, which would make him a rarity in his cadre. He also was a man of faith. As with politics, he rarely spoke publicly about his religion, but he would sometimes in casual conversations or over the Twittersphere let slip a reference to the Scriptures, or to Christ, or God that gave us that briefest glimpse behind the curtain to spy the theologian within.  
For MacDonald, his true genius was in his delivery. His was a breezy demeanor with a mischievous grin that hid a toughness underneath, and the confidence it gave him to take chances. Even if he risked bombing. “Comedy is surprises,” he once said. “So if you’re intending to make somebody laugh, and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.”  
When he was asked to participate in a celebrity roast of his good friend Bob Sagat, he was at first hesitant. The idea of hurling vulgar slurs at someone he loved repelled him…cable TV roasts today are much more R-rated than they were when Dean Martin hosted them in prime time. The producers told him to “be shocking.” So that is just what he did.  For almost ten minutes MacDonald got up in front of a live audience and proceeded to read off the most benign, corny, G-rated jokes that one would find in an old 1950s joke book read at a Lyon’s club retirement dinner. “Bob has a face like a flower.  Yeah, a cauliflower.” “Gilbert Gottfried.  Your neck reminds me of a typewriter…Underwood.” And so it went. One intentionally bad joke after another until the true genius of the bit, flying so in the face of all the other raunchy material, became apparent.  
MacDonald was a master of the irreverent—“The Al-Qaeda online magazine has a recipe for a homemade bomb.  It also has a recipe for a pretty darned good peach cobbler” — or the absurd — “A new study found that men with beards are more attractive than men without beards.  More great work from the University of Bob Segar.” And he could switch gears to string along a joke for ten minutes or more…such as during his wonderful HBO special Me Doing Standup where a story that starts off with a quip about the evening news twists and turns through a labyrinth that includes cheese sandwiches, vans, and a YWCA basketball team until it finally wraps up with how he would commit a serial killing. (Trust me, it’s both benign and hilarious). 
Norm seemed to relish the politically incorrect. His humor sometimes strayed into the realm of the uncomfortable … and, as it would turn out, sadly ironic. His stories of his imaginary Uncle Bert who was forever dying of bowel cancer was a recurring bit. Through this vehicle, MacDonald would question why do we say someone “lost his battle” with cancer? He recalled his Uncle Bert’s “battle” with cancer. It consisted of “him lying in a hospital bed with a thing in his arm watching Matlock on TV.” And, Norm would further offer, “when you die, the cancer dies at the exact same time. So that, to me, is not a loss, that’s a draw.”  
The irony, as we now know, is that many times while he was making these jokes, MacDonald was quietly, unbeknownst to even those closest to him, suffering from very real cancer himself. For nine years. One wonders why he would have kept so devastating an illness so private for so long. But it makes sense when taken in the whole of his professional devotion to comedy. Sure, he might have easily defused the discomfort of the subject matter by declaring it okay, even therapeutic, for him to joke in public about a disease he had. But that would make the joke about him and not the humor. So he kept it private. In this age of solipsism, it was a refreshingly Norm MacDonald thing to do.
But now he is gone. He leaves behind a mother and son (his father passed years before, and his only marriage ended in divorce) as well as legions of fans who will miss his unique take on life, which he found, as he once said in a tweet, “miraculous”. But MacDonald’s work will certainly live on in YouTube, cable, and other outlets. In that spirit of remembrance, I will leave you with this gem: “Do you know what’s the funniest part of doing an office conga line? When you look back and realize you’re doing it alone and you’re not in an office, you’re in a psychiatric ward.” 
Leave ‘em laughing. Now, do yourself a favor and go online, and experience all this brilliant comic had to offer. I assure you your day will be brighter.  
Brad Schaeffer is a commodities trader, author, and musician. His newest novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1642939420?tag=simonsayscom">The Extraordinary</a>, about a teenager with autism telling the story of his war veteran father’s struggle with PTSD, was released on August 31.
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Norm MacDonald:  As Fearless As He Was Funny

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Famed comedian and beloved &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; cast member Norm Macdonald has passed away at the age of 61. Macdonald was reportedly privately battling cancer for nine years before his passing.
A friend of Macdonald&#8217;s, Lori Jo Hoekstra, said the &#8220;Weekend Update&#8221; anchor &#8220;had been fighting cancer for nearly a decade but was determined to keep his struggle away from family, friends and fans,&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/14/norm-macdonald-snl-star-dead-at-61/">reported</a>.
“He was most proud of his comedy,” said Hoekstra, who was with Macdonald when he passed. “He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him. Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly.”
As <a href="https://pagesix.com/2016/05/13/norm-macdonald-just-wants-to-go-back-to-school/?_ga=2.46794721.714932836.1631578636-1941273117.1559752445">highlighted</a> by Page Six, the Quebec City native wrote for the show “Roseanne,” appeared on “The Drew Carey Show,” and then become a household name with his deadpan humor for SNL&#8217;s “Weekend Update.&#8221; In 1998, he was fired from the show and appeared in multiple movies.
Macdonald, who never graduated high school, published a book in 2016 based on his life, titled, &#8220;Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir.&#8221; 
“The scariest [part about writing a book] is I have no education and so I really feel like to be a good writer, you need education,” the comedian <a href="https://pagesix.com/2016/05/13/norm-macdonald-just-wants-to-go-back-to-school/">told</a> Page Six at the time. “My son has [an] education. He’s a much better writer than I am, and he’s only 20.”
Most recently, the comic hosted a Netflix show aptly titled, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-michael-knowles-defends-norm-macdonald-only-daily-wire">Norm Macdonald Has A Show</a>.&#8221;
In 2019, Macdonald notably <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-snl-star-norm-macdonald-reacts-firing-shane-amanda-prestigiacomo">targeted</a> cancel culture when SNL fired comedian Shane Gillis from the cast.
“Of course you know, this means WAR,” Macdonald wrote on Twitter at the time, captioning a report on Gillis’ firing. The post become Macdonald’s “pinned” tweet for some time.
When news hit the internet of Macdonald&#8217;s passing, social media blew up with memories from the comedian&#8217;s work.
Writer David Gardner notably recalled a comment from Macdonald concerning battles with cancer. “I’m pretty sure, I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure if you die, the cancer dies at the same time. That’s not a loss. That’s a draw,&#8221; the comedian said in a stand-up special.
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Norm MacDonald on battles with cancer: “I’m pretty sure, I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure if you die, the cancer dies at the same time. That’s not a loss. That’s a draw.”
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Fellow comedians weighed in on the death, Monday.
“I am absolutely devastated about Norm Macdonald. Norm had the most unique comedy voice I have ever encountered and he was so relentlessly and uncompromisingly funny,&#8221; said Conan O’Brien. &#8220;I will never laugh that hard again. I’m so sad for all of us today.”
&#8220;Oh f***,&#8221; wrote Seth Rogen. &#8220;I was a huge fan of Norm Macdonald and I essentially ripped off his delivery when I first started acting. I would stay up specifically to watch him on talk shows. He was the funniest guest of all time. We lost a comedy giant today. One of the the all time greats. RIP.&#8221;
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&#8220;In every important way, in the world of stand-up, Norm was the best. An opinion shared by me and all peers. Always up to something, never certain, until his matter-of-fact delivery leveled you,&#8221; wrote David Letterman. &#8220;I was always delighted by his bizarre mind and earnest gaze. (I’m trying to avoid using the phrase, “twinkle in his eyes”). He was a lifetime Cy Young winner in comedy. Gone, but impossible to forget.&#8221;
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Comedian Jim Gaffigan said, &#8220;Oh my God. We lost a legend. Norm was punishingly funny. A unique special point of view and completely organic. RIPNormMacDonald.&#8221;
&#8220;No one could make you break like Norm Macdonald. Hilarious and unique. F*** cancer,&#8221; Jon Stewart wrote.
&#8220;We loved Norm Macdonald,&#8221; posted Steve Martin. &#8220;One of a kind.&#8221;
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Norm Macdonald Dies At Age 61

During the chaotic Democratic debate in Charleston, South Carolina Tuesday night, the since much-maligned moderators allowed the inmates to run the asylum, and the result was a bunch of frustrated candidates and viewers alike, with online response to the latest #DemDebate overwhelmingly negative. But some folks had some fun with the debacle on social media, among them comedian Norm Macdonald, who live-tweeted the event.
Among the moments that Macdonald offered his comedic commentary on was the most viral exchange of the night: Sen. Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s (D-MA) &#8220;kill it&#8221; comment directed at billionaire Mike Bloomberg.
&#8220;When I was 21 years old, I got my first job as a special education teacher,&#8221; said Warren. &#8220;I loved that job. And by the end of the first year, I was year, I was visibly pregnant. The the principal wished me luck and gave my job to someone else. Pregnancy discrimination, you bet. But I was 21 years old. I didn’t have a union to protect me. And I didn’t have any federal law on my side. So I packed up my stuff, and I went home. At least I didn’t have a boss who said to me, &#8216;kill it,&#8217; the way that mayor Bloomberg is alleged to have said to one of his pregnant employees.&#8221;
&#8220;I never said that,&#8221; said Bloomberg. &#8220;I never said that, and for the record if she was a teacher in New York City she would never have had that problem.&#8221;
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Warren&#8217;s reference was to an ultimately settled lawsuit against Bloomberg brought by a former female employee who said he told her upon learning that she was pregnant that she should &#8220;Kill it.&#8221; The claim was recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/did-bloomberg-really-tell-employee-to-kill-her-unborn-child-alleged-witness-yes">backed up</a> by another former Bloomberg employee who told The Washington Post that he witnessed the exchange.
But Macdonald&#8217;s response to the moment had nothing to do with its veracity, rather, Warren&#8217;s grave misstep in terms of the Progressive Left&#8217;s radical views on unborn children.
&#8220;Warren says Bloomberg told a pregnant women to &#8216;kill it&#8217;. Impossible to kill a fetus. Shame on you, Senator warren,&#8221; Macdonald tweeted mockingly (post below).
The post was one of a series of live tweets responding to the debate. After announcing that the quickly chaotic event had officially begun, Macdonald began offering his reactions.
First up: his hope that CBS News host moderator Gayle King wouldn&#8217;t end up reviving the controversy that has plagued her for the last few weeks. &#8220;Hoping Gayle King does not bring up Kobe,&#8221; he wrote in reference to King&#8217;s interview in which she asked a former WNBA player if a past sexual assault claim against Bryant &#8220;complicated&#8221; his legacy.
The comedian then mused on the fundamental flaw of the Democrats&#8217; minimum wage priority. &#8220;The sad thing is even if you double the minimum wage, it will remain the minimum wage,&#8221; he tweeted.
&#8220;Bloomberg just apologized for frisk but will not apologize for stop,&#8221; he wrote in his next debate post.
After a note on how embattled former frontrunner Joe Biden was being helped by Tom Steyer, Macdonald responded to a statement by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) about the coronavirus.
&#8220;Klobuchar said the vaccine for the corona Virus is in some kid&#8217;s head in West Virgina. Find this goddam kid. NOW!!!!!!!!&#8221; he wrote.
All of Macdonald&#8217;s debate tweets below:
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The debate has begun.
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Hoping Gayle King does not bring up Kobe.
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The sad thing is even if you double the minimum wage, it will remain the minimum wage.
&mdash; Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/1232472860049862656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Bloomberg just apologized for frisk but will not apologize for stop.
&mdash; Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/1232474241443848193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Warren says Bloomberg told a pregnant women to &quot;kill it&quot;. Impossible to kill a fetus. Shame on you, Senator warren.
&mdash; Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/1232476262104358916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I was told there would be no math.
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lets talk about hog-tying for a moment.
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Biden is getting a lot of play by going against Steyer.
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Klobuchar said the vaccine for the corona Virus is in some kid&#39;s head in West Virgina. Find this goddam kid. NOW!!!!!!!!
&mdash; Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/1232491983479787522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Wait. The World Health Organiziation. WHO!!!!!!!
&mdash; Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/1232492392453820417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, comedians Bill Burr and Jim Jefferies reacted to NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; firing newly-named cast member Shane Gillis for past offensive jokes. The duo ripped into so-called &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; and questioned if &#8220;SNL&#8221; was going to retract past skits that would be deemed offensive in 2019.
&#8220;This is just &#8216;cancel culture,&#8217; the guy shouldn’t have been fired,&#8221; Jefferies told &#8220;Lights Out with David Spade&#8221; host David Spade. Spade refrained from commenting because he&#8217;s an alum of the sketch show.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just a couple things back in history. Are we gonna go back in everyone&#8217;s history?&#8221; continued Jefferies. &#8220;Are we gonna get rid of every sketch that &#8216;SNL&#8217; has done that involves race? I remember (former &#8216;SNL&#8217; cast member) John Belushi dressing as an Asian man with a Samurai sword; that was the whole sketch.&#8221;
Burr weighed in, asking why folks boil your life down to a few moments, only &#8220;looking for the bad stuff.&#8221;
&#8220;Do they go back and also try to look at good things that the person might have done, or are they just looking for the bad stuff?&#8221; he asked. Burr then imitated a random journalist &#8220;scrolling through&#8221; a person&#8217;s past deeds. &#8220;&#8216;Help cat out of a tree&#8217; — that&#8217;s not it,&#8221; Burr mocked. &#8216;Help grandmother walk across the street&#8217; — that&#8217;s not it. &#8216;Said something on a podcast&#8217; — there it is!&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re not running for office! When is this gonna f***ing end? F***ing millennials, you&#8217;re a buncha rats! All of ya! None of them care, all they wanna do is get people in trouble,&#8221; the comedian ripped.
Spade waded into the shallow waters of the controversy, noting that when people used to get hired by &#8220;SNL,&#8221; their first move &#8220;wasn&#8217;t to rifle through your past to make sure you get fired right away.&#8221;
&#8220;If you go back 15 years into somebody&#8217;s life, someone should then go back 15 years into your life,&#8221; Burr chimed in again. &#8220;&#8216;Hey we went back and found out he was a human being, he f***ed up.&#8217; I don’t understand.&#8221;
As previously covered by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51852/canceled-shane-gillis-fired-snl-over-past-amanda-prestigiacomo">The Daily Wire</a>, journalists dug up commentary made by Gillis on a podcast called &#8220;Matthew and Shane&#8217;s Secret Podcast&#8221; — his project with fellow comedian Matt McCusker, wherein Gillis used a stereotypical mocking Asian voice and made fun of Democratic candidate and tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang, referring to him as a &#8220;Jew chink.&#8221; In another episode, according to The New York Times, Gillis &#8220;used homophobic slurs to describe Judd Apatow, the comedy filmmaker and producer, and the comedian Chris Gethard.&#8221;
Gillis was canned from &#8220;SNL&#8221; on Monday.
Burr and Jefferies aren&#8217;t the only comedians to speak out against the firing. Former &#8220;SNL&#8221; cast member Norm Macdonald captioned a report on Gillis&#8217; firing: &#8220;Of course you know, this means WAR.&#8221; He appealed directly to Gillis in another social media post. &#8220;Hey, Shane, I&#8217;m so sorry. I can&#8217;t even imagine how you must feel. The work it takes to get that show and to have it snatched away by some guy who does &#8216;Spoken Bird&#8217; poetry,&#8221; he wrote, referring to Seth Simons, the journalist who posted past offensive jokes from Gillis that sparked the outrage campaign. &#8220;Unacceptable. Please DM me, pal, when you have a moment. I&#8217;m so sorry.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">.<a href="https://twitter.com/billburr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@billburr</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/jimjefferies?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jimjefferies</a> weigh in on SNL firing Shane Gillis. <a href="https://t.co/vdZbZf1SFC">pic.twitter.com/vdZbZf1SFC</a>
— Lights Out with David Spade (@LightsOut) <a href="https://twitter.com/LightsOut/status/1173802027412930560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51858/former-snl-star-norm-macdonald-reacts-firing-shane-amanda-prestigiacomo">Former ‘SNL’ Star Norm MacDonald Reacts To Firing Of Shane Gillis: ‘This Means WAR’</a>

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WATCH: Bill Burr, Jim Jefferies React To ‘SNL’ Firing Shane Gillis, Blast ‘Cancel Culture’

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After news hit on Monday that newly-named &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; cast member Shane Gillis had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51852/canceled-shane-gillis-fired-snl-over-past-amanda-prestigiacomo">fired</a> from the show, famed &#8220;SNL&#8221; alum Norm Macdonald expressed his outrage at the decision, declaring &#8220;war&#8221; and reaching out to Gillis directly.
&#8220;Of course you know, this means WAR,&#8221; Macdonald wrote on Twitter, captioning a report on Gillis&#8217; firing. The post is now Macdonald&#8217;s &#8220;pinned&#8221; tweet.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">of course you know, this means WAR. <a href="https://t.co/GMv8xNuvwx">https://t.co/GMv8xNuvwx</a>
— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/1173758074223390720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Macdonald also reached out to the dropped comic directly. &#8220;Hey, Shane, I&#8217;m so sorry. I can&#8217;t even imagine how you must feel,&#8221; he wrote.
&#8220;The work it takes to get that show and to have it snatched away by some guy who does &#8216;Spoken Bird&#8217; poetry,&#8221; he continued, referring to Seth Simons, the journalist who posted past offensive jokes from Gillis that sparked the outrage campaign.
&#8220;Unacceptable,&#8221; Macdonald added. &#8220;Please DM me, pal, when you have a moment. I&#8217;m so sorry.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://twitter.com/Shanemgillis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Shanemgillis</a> Hey, Shane, I&#8217;m so sorry. I can&#8217;t even imagine how you must feel. The work it takes to get that show and to have it snatched away by some guy who does &#8220;Spoken Bird&#8221; poetry. Unacceptable. Please DM me, pal, when you have a moment. I&#8217;m so sorry.
— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/1173705160712810496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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An &#8220;SNL&#8221; spokesperson released a statement on Monday announcing that Gillis had been canned.
&#8220;After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining &#8216;SNL,'&#8221; the statement said, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/16/entertainment/snl-shane-gillis/index.html">CNN</a>. &#8220;We want &#8216;SNL&#8217; to have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as comedian and his impressive audition for &#8216;SNL.'&#8221;
The production team was &#8220;not aware of [Gillis&#8217;] prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
&#8220;The language he used is offensive, hurtful, and unacceptable. We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier, and that our vetting process was not up to our standard,&#8221; the statement concluded.
As previously covered by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51852/canceled-shane-gillis-fired-snl-over-past-amanda-prestigiacomo">The Daily Wire</a>, journalists dug up commentary made by Gillis on a podcast called &#8220;Matthew and Shane&#8217;s Secret Podcast&#8221; — his project with fellow comedian Matt McCusker, wherein Gillis used a stereotypical mocking Asian voice and made fun of Democratic candidate and tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang, referring to him as a &#8220;Jew chink.&#8221; In another episode, according to The New York Times, Gillis &#8220;used homophobic slurs to describe Judd Apatow, the comedy filmmaker and producer, and the comedian Chris Gethard.”
While those facilitating the &#8220;canceling&#8221; of Gillis cheered about capturing their latest scalp, few others lashed out at &#8220;cancel culture.&#8221;
&#8220;Congratulations to everyone saying cancel culture isn&#8217;t real on getting Shane Gillis fired,&#8221; mocked comedian, writer, and political commentator Bridget Phetasy.
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— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) <a href="https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1173695815325347840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Thank God after 9 years of stoically covering entertainment tv, Ryan finds his true calling: getting some guy fired. Congrats Mike! You truly made an impact!&#8221; Fox News&#8217; Greg Gutfeld blasted UPROXX reporter Mike Ryan, referring to Gillis&#8217; soon-to-be canning.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Thank God after 9 years of stoically covering entertainment tv, Ryan finds his true calling: getting some guy fired. Congrats Mike! You truly made an impact! <a href="https://t.co/8JXl412Xlg">https://t.co/8JXl412Xlg</a>
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) <a href="https://twitter.com/greggutfeld/status/1172928534253383680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire&#8217;s Andrew Klavan wrote, &#8220;Shame, shame, shame on [SNL]. A tiny bit of courage and they could have defied the mob and let this young man have the career he earned. Shame on the [New York Times] and on every leftist moral midget who thinks this is okay.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Shame, shame, shame on <a href="https://twitter.com/nbcsnl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nbcsnl</a>. A tiny bit of courage and they could have defied the mob and let this young man have the career he earned. Shame on the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> and on every leftist moral midget who thinks this is okay. <a href="https://t.co/LlF6rgYKKq">https://t.co/LlF6rgYKKq</a>
— Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewklavan/status/1173825760618000384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Reason and Campus Reform contributor Ben McDonald ridiculed &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; as &#8220;not just consequences. It&#8217;s complete shunning from society for jokes 5 people legitimately get offended by and blog about.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Oh fuck off you know it&#8217;s not just consequences. It&#8217;s complete shunning from society for jokes 5 people legitimately get offended by and blog about <a href="https://t.co/jreCqqHhgd">https://t.co/jreCqqHhgd</a>
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bmac0507/status/1173742360712241152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Gillis posted a response to the news of his ouster on social media, noting that it &#8220;feels ridiculous for comedians to be making serious public statements.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m a comedian who was funny enough to get &#8216;SNL.&#8217; That can&#8217;t be taken away,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Of course I wanted an opportunity to prove myself at &#8216;SNL,&#8217; but I understand it would be too much of a distraction. I respect the decision they made. I&#8217;m honestly grateful for the opportunity.&#8221;
&#8220;I was always a [&#8216;Mad TV&#8217;] guy anyway,&#8221; the comic snarked.
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— Shane Gillis (@Shanemgillis) <a href="https://twitter.com/Shanemgillis/status/1173690932832505856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51782/new-snl-hire-cancel-culture-crosshairs-over-past-amanda-prestigiacomo">New SNL Hire In ‘Cancel Culture’ Crosshairs Over Past Offensive Jokes. Here’s His Response.</a>

Former ‘SNL’ Star Norm MacDonald Reacts To Firing Of Shane Gillis: ‘This Means WAR’

Comedian Norm Macdonald called out singer and actress Bette Midler for her tweet earlier this week attempting to shame the woman who accused former Sen. Al Franken of sexual misconduct.
On Monday, Midler shamed Leeann Tweeden, Franken’s accuser. In a tweet, the legendary performer suggested Tweeden was “right wing” and forced Franken to resign over allegations of mere “untoward” conduct.
“#LeeAnnTweeden, #AlFrankens accuser, in all her right wing glory. Al was forced to resign, without anything resembling due process, amid HER allegations that something &#8216;untoward&#8217; happened between them,” Midler tweeted.
Midler included a picture of her tweet of Tweeden wearing lingerie, a common slut-shaming technique.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LeeAnnTweeden?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LeeAnnTweeden</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AlFrankens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AlFrankens</a> accuser, in all her right wing glory. Al was forced to resign, without anything resembling due process, amid HER allegations that something “untoward” happened between them. Read about it in <a href="https://twitter.com/thenewyorker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thenewyorker</a>.<a href="https://t.co/FFH2VwfseG">https://t.co/FFH2VwfseG</a>
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) <a href="https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1153419551721381888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday, Macdonald shredded Midler for doing what “rape apologists” do and reminding the singer that the #MeToo movement “has nothing to do with due process.”
“Bette, if you haven&#8217;t heard, #metoo has nothing to do with due process. But you putting a picture of this women in lingerie, implying she had it coming, is truly disgusting and what rape apologists have been saying forever. Shame,” Macdonald tweeted.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Bette, if you haven&#8217;t heard, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/metoo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#metoo</a> has nothing to do with due process. But you putting a picture of this women in lingerie, implying she had it coming, is truly disgusting and what rape apologists have been saying forever. Shame. <a href="https://t.co/DP0CDq5fFW">https://t.co/DP0CDq5fFW</a>
— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/1154177868299063297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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It is not the first time Macdonald has waded into controversial territory in expressing his opinion on the #MeToo movement. In September, the comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35756/norm-macdonald-booted-tonight-show-after-ashe-schow">was booted</a> from the “Tonight Show” after he criticized the movement, which called out some well-known men who sexually abused women but also resulted in accusations of mere jerkiness being elevated to similar stature. Throughout the entire episode, men were found guilty in the court of public opinion and saw their careers hampered or ruined without being given the opportunity to defend themselves.
In an interview in September, Macdonald said he was “happy the #MeToo movement has slowed down a bit.”
“It used to be, ‘One hundred women can&#8217;t be lying.’ And then it became, ‘One woman can&#8217;t lie.’ And that became, ‘I believe all women.’ And then you&#8217;re like, ‘What?’ Like, that Chris Hardwick guy I really thought got the blunt end of the stick there,” Macdonald added.
Hardwick was anonymously accused of emotional and sexual abuse by his ex-girlfriend, Chloe Dykstra. As a result of the article Dykstra published on Medium, Hardwick was suspended from his show, “Talking with Chris Hardwick” and “Talking Dead.” The Nerdist, which Hardwick founded, removed mention of him from its website.
Hardwick denied Dykstra’s allegations and multiple former girlfriends, as well as his wife, denied that he ever acted so abusively. Others brought up examples of him behaving like a jerk in an effort to corroborate Dykstra’s claims. About a month later, after AMC conducted an investigation into Dykstra’s allegations, the network reinstated Hardwick. Dykstra claimed she didn’t participate in the investigation and said she only wrote the essay to “move on” and wasn’t looking for “an eye for an eye,” even though her essay was published in a well-known outlet.
Macdonald went on in that interview to defend Roseanne Barr and Louis C.K., mentioning that “very few people that have gone through what they have, losing everything in a day.” He added: “Of course, people will go, ‘What about the victims?’ But you know what? The victims didn&#8217;t have to go through that.”
For his criticism, Macdonald was booted from the “Tonight Show.” So far he does not appear to have received backlash for calling out Bette Midler.
Macdonald also commented on Midler’s tweet claiming black supporters of President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49863/bette-midler-tweets-blacks-attending-trump-rally-hank-berrien">must have been paid</a> to appear at one of his rallies.
“Oh, Christ. Bette’s a racist, too. Fuckxk,” Macdonald tweeted.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Oh, Christ. Bette&#8217;s a racist, too. Fucxk. <a href="https://t.co/sRzzM2FMBo">https://t.co/sRzzM2FMBo</a>
— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/1154176281283444736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Norm Macdonald Takes Bette Midler To Task Over Al Franken Accuser Tweet

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All politicians are egomaniacs and narcissists. They&#8217;re all searching for love and adulation &#8212; even (or especially) from strangers. And they&#8217;re all pathological &#8212; and prolific &#8212; liars.
The Washington Post has been keeping track of President Trump&#8217;s lies. As of December 21, Trump had &#8220;made 7,645 false or misleading claims over 710 days,&#8221; the Post wrote. President Obama was a prodigal liar, too &#8212; although the Post never bothered to tally up all his lies.
They&#8217;re all liars. Every last one of them. Take this lie, told just Monday by Sen. Kamala D. Harris, California Democrat. The 2020 hopeful was trying to be hip and cool, so she said she smoked weed back in college, chilling with friends and listening to Snoop Dogg and Tupac. But she graduated in 1986. Tupac didn&#8217;t release his first album until 1991, and Snoop&#8217;s first record hit the shelves in 1993.
Then there&#8217;s Sen. Elizabeth Warren. For decades, the Massachusetts Democrat and the 2020 candidate claimed she was American Indian, putting the designation on all sorts of employment and government forms. But a DNA test she took to prove it showed she&#8217;s 98.4 percent to 99.9 percent white. So, liar.
Politicians sometimes tell completely pointless lies. It&#8217;s like the joke by comedian Norm MacDonald: &#8220;You ever lie for no reason at all? Just all of sudden, a big lie spills out of your evil head? Like a guy will come up to you, &#8216;Hey, did you ever see that movie with Meryl Streep and a horse?&#8217; And you go, &#8216;Yes.&#8217; In the back of your head, you&#8217;re like, &#8216;What in the hell am I lying about over here? I stand to gain nothing by this lie.'&#8221;
Like Sen. Cory Booker, another presidential candidate. The New Jersey Democrat often cited a guy named &#8220;T-Bone,&#8221; a drug dealer, saying he once told him, &#8220;If you ever so much as look at me again, I&#8217;m going to put a cap in your ass.&#8221; Turns out he &#8220;was a &#8216;composite&#8217; of various people Booker knew in Newark,&#8221; <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/01/remember-t-bone-cory-bookers-imaginary-d">Reason</a> wrote this month.
Politicians lie especially to each other&#8217;s faces &#8212; even when they hate each other&#8217;s guts. &#8220;To my good friend from Arkansas, let me say&#8230;&#8221; one senator will bluster, even though it&#8217;s clear he can&#8217;t stand the guy. &#8220;With all due respect to the gentle lady from Missouri, whom I greatly admire, I must say that &#8230;&#8221; another will say, even though privately he loathes her.
Trump is changing all that. He doesn&#8217;t pretend to like someone he clearly hates, even if he has to work with them on important issues. He calls Warren &#8220;Pocahontas.&#8221; To the Democratic House speaker, he tweeted: &#8220;Nancy Pelosi has behaved so irrationally &amp; has gone so far to the left that she has now officially become a Radical Democrat.&#8221; And he makes no pretense of being able to stomach Senate Minority Leader &#8220;Cryin&#8221; Chuck Schumer.
Members of his own party &#8212; and even his Cabinet &#8212; are not immune: &#8220;Who should star in a reboot of &#8216;Liar Liar&#8217; &#8212; Hillary Clinton or Ted Cruz?&#8221; he said, referring to the Texas Republican senator whom he defeated in the 2016 primaries. Of his former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Trump tweeted: &#8220;The Dems all hated him, wanted him out, thought he was disgusting &#8212; UNTIL I FIRED HIM! Immediately he became a wonderful man, a saint like figure in fact. Really sick!&#8221;
Trump has even taken aim at one of the most famous actresses in the world. &#8220;Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn&#8217;t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a Hillary flunky who lost big.&#8221;
The former reality TV show host is making other politicians get real. During Trump&#8217;s State of the Union address, Pelosi acted just how she feels: She mockingly applauded Trump &#8212; and liberals nationwide loved it.
Newcomer Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is also part of The New Honesty. On Monday, she said Trump is &#8220;a man who can&#8217;t even read briefings written in full sentences.&#8221; She deeply detests Trump, and she says so. That is because Trump, who also abhors Ocasio-Cortez, has made no bones about his feelings.
So Trump &#8212; the crude and petty and vindictive little man &#8212; has done at least this: He has gotten rid of the false camaraderie that has colored so much of politics for eons.
And in the end, that&#8217;s really not a bad thing.

* A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.

CURL: President Trump Might Just Be The Most Honest Politician Ever

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Norm Macdonald is probably best known as a comedian, but apparently he&#8217;s also a deep-thinking philosopher, intent on explaining the decline and fall of Western civilization to the masses. Only Norm Macdonald does it using Twitter.
Thursday morning, he had a message about the Enlightenment that was at once shocking (because it came from Norm Macdonald) and thought-provoking.
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The Enlightenment turned us away from truth and toward a darkling weakening horizon, sad and grey to see. The afterglow of Christianity is near gone now, and a stygian silence lurks in wait.
&#8212; Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/1063035767889383425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
Macdonald is obviously alluding to the switch in art from the imitation and depiction of the sacred to the human-focused philosophies of the post-modern world. In the parlance of a Macdonald-era Saturday Night Live sketch, those are some deep thoughts.
But, as most deep thoughts go, Norm&#8217;s effort at eulogizing Christianity confused and befuddled social media. And leftists, ever-vigilant of the possibility that someone in the entertainment may be turning from &#8220;group think,&#8221; were confused. But also incensed.
Particularly the anti-religious ones.
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So&#8230;you&#8217;re against THE ENLIGHTENMENT? Really? The invention of the printing press- ? The scientific method? Knowledge?
&#8212; Kathy McCarty (@KMTBERRY) <a href="https://twitter.com/KMTBERRY/status/1063052349252554752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The dark ages were a blast.
&#8212; Marino (@MPB_5) <a href="https://twitter.com/MPB_5/status/1063112574814740480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I too would prefer a world filled with superstition, void of the scientific method and ruled by a monarchy.
&#8212; Couthy Blatherskite (@CBlatherskite) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBlatherskite/status/1063113240593555456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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You&#8217;re right. We should go back to Fuedalism. Things were much better when priests and kings held all the political power and common men were left to die in the same station they were born in. We should do away with the philosophies that led to modern science and medicine.
&#8212; Jeff (Mr. Ethridge if you&#8217;re nasty) (@cultfilmfan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cultfilmfan/status/1063041482356150272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
Of course, most of Norm&#8217;s critics aren&#8217;t entirely clear on what the Enlightenment was or who was actually responsible for the advancements they credit to the post-Dark Ages world. Knowledge &#8212; and, for that matter, the scientific method &#8212; were guarded and developed for centuries by members of religious orders. Modern science and medicine weren&#8217;t born in France in the mid-1700s.
It got weirder, though.
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Where do you go if you have appendicitis, to the hospital or to the church?
&#8212; Jowan M (@JowanM) <a href="https://twitter.com/JowanM/status/1063128294672003073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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god is just for pretend.
&#8212; stuart duke (@stuartduke6) <a href="https://twitter.com/stuartduke6/status/1063104023622934528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
And then it got woker.
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Tell that to the victims of the inquisition and the various native americans who were subject to genocide for taking christians at their word.
&#8212; republican=racist (@merlinloveslife) <a href="https://twitter.com/merlinloveslife/status/1063125437700849667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
By exposing their own ignorance of the pre-Enlightenment, though, these same critics were proving Macdonald&#8217;s point that the move away from spiritual thought and deeper meaning has had a deleterious effect on humanity.

Comedian Norm Macdonald Tweets About Christianity And Leftists Can’t Handle It

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In today&#8217;s episode of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/35778/ep-216-virtue-nationalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Michael Knowles Show</a>,&#8221; Michael sticks up for Norm Macdonald, who may be the last funny comedian.
&#8220;People, show business is a horrible industry and we know that this town is rife with emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and they&#8217;re crying because a guy made a normal observation,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;This. The Left is being hysterical. That&#8217;s what this is. That&#8217;s the only way to describe it. It is hysteria. Get ahold of yourself people. Get ahold of yourself.&#8221;
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So, they&#8217;re going after Norm Macdonald. You know, I&#8217;ve referred to Norm on this show before. He&#8217;s my favorite living comedian. I know he&#8217;s the favorite comedian of a lot of people out there too and you know you can go down a YouTube wormhole of all the Norm clips and the reason we&#8217;re talking about Norm now is he&#8217;s getting a show on Netflix in, I think, two or three days.
I think it&#8217;s airing either this week or next week and so the Left is already trying to get him. Now Norm, it&#8217;s not like he&#8217;s some Brooks Brothers-wearing conservative. It&#8217;s not like, you know, he&#8217;s this right-wing apologist or something. He&#8217;s just not politically correct and he&#8217;s a comedian who cares about actually making people laugh, unlike Nannette, unlike Kathy Griffin, unlike people who go for claps and not laughs. Norm actually goes for laughs and so they&#8217;re so angry at him, because he isn&#8217;t politically correct. Because he isn&#8217;t making jokes about Trump, because jokes about Trump are super duper lame.
He did this interview yesterday or two days ago with The Hollywood Reporter, where he was asked: What do you think about Roseanne Barr and Louis C.K., both of whom are friends of his going back decades, I believe, and he said: Well you know they were really broken up about the whole thing and they&#8217;re really sorry and I&#8217;m glad to see them back on their feet. Something to that effect and they pillory him for this.
He made a comment that the #MeToo movement got a little bit crazy and so he&#8217;s glad that there&#8217;s some balance, you know, that because look there were false accusations. Some of the people who were accusers are now being accused of sexual harassment themselves. Some of the people who were accusers have details have come out where they were in consensual relationships not non-consensual relationships.
So he&#8217;s just pointing out that it maybe got a little out of hand and he&#8217;s glad that it&#8217;s not as crazy as it was before.
He is being raked over the coals.
They&#8217;re already trying to cancel his show. There were actually people tweeting who said: &#8220;I hate his show. It&#8217;s boring and terrible.&#8221;
The show hasn&#8217;t premiered yet and all, I, look, I like Norm. I&#8217;m sorry I want to defend his show and I look forward to watching the show, but what this is really about is all of the hysteria that is gripping all of America.
We&#8217;re all so trigger-happy. For those of you who are not familiar with Norm, just to give you a little context, here as a joke he did on David Letterman&#8217;s last show. I think you&#8217;ll understand why he&#8217;s such a favorite on this program.
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So you get the sense. We&#8217;ve talked about similar things before, with due respect to our German viewers and listeners. So anyway, the left is very upset because he&#8217;s not being mean to Trump. He&#8217;s not telling this joke or that joke. He&#8217;s actually telling jokes just that are funny, you know, and that you&#8217;re not allowed to do that anymore. We&#8217;re in the Nannette comedy world now. So, Norm actually was booted from the Jimmy Kimmel show, because of this non-traversy. This is the stupidest non-troversy since the Mark Duplass thing. You remember the whole Mark Duplass, he said: I kind of like Ben Shapiro.&#8221;
Now his whole career is ruined. This is the stupidest non-troversy. Since then, Jimmy goes up to Norm Macdonald to say you can&#8217;t come on the show because you said that you still sort of like Roseanne Barr and you still sort of like Louie CK. My producers are crying because of your comments. My producers are crying.
Millennials in the workforce, folks. Safe spaces at &#8220;The Tonight Show.&#8221; By the way, though, I will actually give it to those millennial producers certainly, undoubtedly, millennial producers, because they were able to negotiate in warm milk and pacifiers into their nightly contracts. Oh, great, good work. I mean that&#8217;s the art of the deal right there.
So Jimmy Fallon! I&#8217;m sorry, it was Jimmy Fallon, not Jimmy Kimmel. This is really sad because those two guys used to be different people. That one was the crazy lefty. One was just, you know, sort of having fun and now unfortunately looks like Jimmy Fallon is falling into that left-wing claptrap too. Easily confused, sorry to say that. It&#8217;s all of this trigger-happy hysteria. Producers shouldn&#8217;t be crying, because of a common sense observation.
People, show business is a horrible industry and we know that this town is rife with emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and they&#8217;re crying because a guy made a normal observation. This. The left is being hysterical. That&#8217;s what this is. That&#8217;s the only way to describe it. It is hysteria. Get ahold of yourself people. Get ahold of yourself. That you people should calm down.
This is, you know, I think this is all Trump&#8217;s fault. This obviously is all Trump&#8217;s fault, because when Trump was elected, everyone was told the world was gonna go to hell in a hand basket and then he was President for two years now and everything is going fine. Now common sense, your gut instinct would tell you this would make people change their mind. Everyone would calm down because of this, but that&#8217;s not how people work in real life. What actually happens when they&#8217;re totally hysterical, they&#8217;re expecting the worst. Something good happens, they ignore the reality and double down on their prejudice. They double down.
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