I can tell you my Twitter app alerted me that three people I follow were now following MacDonald. I went to check it out about 90 to 100 minutes in, and was so hooked, I turned on notifications so I knew when he posted something.
MacDonald is a master story teller. I still consider his Uecker story on Letterman one of the great talk show stories ever. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 12:15 PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > SPOILER ALERT! > > I would not normally do this for an internet article, but the gothamist > piece is pretty amazing, and if anyone is reading this and has not yet > clicked over to read the article in full, I strongly recommend that you do > that now, to get the full effect for yourself. > > I don't understand what this is - it can't be that Macdonald sent this > whole narrative out one tweet at a time, can it? Did someone smooth it out > or supplement it? > > I had only paid attention to the headline that Norm tweeted that Murphy > has refused to do the Cosby bit, and I assumed his intent was to criticize > Murphy for not having the comedy balls to make fun of one of his own > mentors. But the last paragraph, assuming it is meant to be read as > straight, and not as some weird Norm Macdonald irony, has a much different > tone: > > > > > > > "It's my job to talk him in to doing Jeopardy. We talk in his dressing > room a good hour. When it's over, I'm convinced he'll do it. He doesn't. He > knew the laughs would bring the house down. Eddie Murphy knows what will > work on SNL better than any one. Eddie decides the laughs are not worth it. > He will not kick a man when he is down. Eddie Murphy, I realize, is not > like the rest of us. Eddie does not need the laughs. Eddie Murphy is the > coolest, a rockstar even in a room with actual rockstars." > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 7:02:58 AM UTC-5, Steve Timko wrote: >>> >>> Norm wrote that Eddie Murphy refused to play Cosby. I wonder if Cosby >>> helped him after his prostitution scandal. >>> >>> http://gu.com/p/46vmb >>> >>> Sent from Blue Mail <http://r.bluemailapp.com> >>> On Feb 18, 2015, at 5:59 PM, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> FYI, Norm is over on the Twitter speaking about the writer's room for >>>> the 40th. However, if you have not visited Norm's Twitter account before, >>>> he does tend to use it as performance art. I'm not saying you shouldn't >>>> believe what he's posting, but I'd certainly wait for verification from >>>> multiple sources. >>>> >>>> https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/with_replies >>>> >>>> For reasons known only to Norm, he tends to delete many Tweets not long >>>> after posting them, especially the ones that get noticed. >>>> >>>> >> >> Here's a piece that turns all of Norm's tweets into one easy-to-read >> article. Amazing reading. >> >> http://gothamist.com/2015/02/18/norm_macdonald_snl_tweets.php >> >> -Tim >> >> >> -- >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
