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Mark Normand

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“Podcasts are great because you can stretch out a little more, you can breathe a little. With a stand up set, I like to be like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. But podcasts are great because it's conversational. So you can be, it's almost like you're being funny with your friends. Whereas the stage is like, this is a piece. This is a presentation. But I think the podcast is great, but you don't get the reaction unless the host is laughing. You can't hear the guy in his car in New Jersey driving to work going, ah! Every now and then I'll read a comment like, I spit out my coffee when you said this. And I'm like,”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You don't really need for sale because it's a business people can put that together. So he just goes, all right, it makes a new sign. It says, hats. And then Ben Franklin's like, you know, you don't really need the word hat. You can just put a picture of a hat. And he made a new sign, which is a picture of a hat to help the business or something. That's like some old lives tale or whatever. But I think about that all the time when I'm writing.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I like complexity, but the best guys who are the ones who make complex shit look simple. You ever heard that Ben Franklin story where he's talking to his friend? His friend's like, I'm going to start a hat store. So he puts a sign out and says, hats for sale, $12. And Ben Franklin looks at it and goes, well, you don't need the $12 because all they need to know is that you got hats for sale. He's like, all right.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Simplicity is always the best angle. I mean, you can get real high concept with a joke and still make it work, but the simpler the better. I saw Dave Chappelle on stage once and Chris Rock and Dmitry Martin were in the back watching in awe. And Dave Chappelle, I can't remember the joke, but he said something about sex or women. And Dimitri Martin goes, eh, it's a little easy. And Chris Rock goes, that's why it's good. And I remember hearing that as some young comic like, I'm getting this like, you know, comedy lesson right here from these two Titans. And so that was fun. Simple is key.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, you know what Joke has done when it kills? And there's a roundness to a joke when you feel like this is buttoned up. This is done here.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's funny or somebody, and that's the beauty of comedy. There's a weird little magic into it. You can get technical all day and formulaic, but there's still that little bit of fairy dust that you don't know why this is funnier.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a fun turn because you say your thing, and then I hit you with a misdirect, and that's what a joke is. A joke is basically me saying something that makes sense, but you didn't see it coming. And that's a perfect example of that. So that joke took forever to figure out, by the way, you know, and you have to go through.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the joke is done. It's a tough question because there's so many different kinds of jokes. There's what we call a chunk, which is a big idea with a bunch of jokes in the middle of it and then a big crescendo at the end. Or there's a one-liner or there's a tag of a joke that's also a joke. The joke's come in. Like, I have a joke where I say I met my girl in that Jewish app. What's that Jewish app called? PayPal. That's what the reaction you want from the crowd.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's great We teach kids, hey, put that down, stop that, quit cutting up, quit horsing around. But maybe that's some kind of sign of brilliance there.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I met him once at the comedy cellar and we chatted for five minutes and then he went on and did the letterman set that he did. He was running the Letterman set. And sweet guy, nice guy. Didn't know him that well. But I mean, he's just brilliant. And I also love a brilliant guy who does stupid stuff. That's a fun little combo there. Like, silly guys who are actually brilliant also. Louis CK is a brilliant comic, and he'll do a joke about farting on a kid. And you're like, that's great that he still finds farts funny. And he's also this comedic genius guy. I like that.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know nine years his best friends didn't even know. And in this world of like victimhood, and I need clicks and I need people to love me, he got canceled and yelled at in trouble and he could have pulled that cancer card and he never did. I mean, the integrity on this motherfucker.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nah, that was a bummer because he was 61, and I just didn't see it coming. And I just watched so many hours of his stuff. And I met him and he's like, he was like this comedic bar. Like, hey, we got Norm. There's so much shit comedy. Then you see Norm and you're like, this is next level. This is Savant type shit. And then to lose him is like, ah, Norm had 20 more years at least of just content and content and thoughts and his point of view. And that will never get that. And that sucks.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Politics, all that kind of stuff getting in there. Exactly sex, human emotions, jealousy, whatever it is. That's the good stuff.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Obviously, Norm, but Chris Rock was huge for me. Chris, old like 90s Chris Rock was like, I didn't know you could do jokes like that. I always love George Carlin and Groucho Marks and Bill Murray. There's so many different types of comedy. But when I saw the bigger and blacker bring the pain, I was like, oh my God, this hit me. So that was big. And then Norm's just like the funniest guy on the planet. So him being the smartest guy on the room, but acting dumb was great. Yeah, Chris Rock has that way of cutting to the bullshit, which I mentioned earlier. I like that cutting through the bullshit kind of style of comedy because you kind of go, oh, I'm not crazy. That's what I thought too. I was too scared to say it, but I thought that. And he's saying it in a room of people are laughing. Maybe I'm not an idiot. So that helped me.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The offensive, say horrible shit, ball bust. I mean, I make school shooting jokes and people go, how do you do that? I'm like, well, maybe that's how I deal with it. Maybe we're different.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I like exploring that kind of, oh, you're trying to get one over on me, or you're lying to yourself, or what are we doing here? And I like that kind of comedy. I don't see color. Well, I'm black. No, you're not. You know, that's fun because you're lying.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's a part of it for sure. You know, in the beginning, you're like a water bottle. What's funny about water bottle? I'm a funny guy. I can make this funny, but that's not it. It's your shit. Your shit. Like your dark stuff. For me, I tend to gravitate towards dark, but in a weird way where, you know, people will say like, hey, don't objectify women. But then they go, Caitlin Jenner's beautiful. And you're like, well, wait, I know something's off here. Why can you objectify her but not the supermodel? So what's going on there? And I like to play with that. I have this joke where I say Caitlin Jenner, oh, women go, Caitlin Jenner is beautiful, beautiful woman. I go, well, you look like her. And they go, fuck you. And you're like, there's a lot of truth there.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's the other part nobody thinks about. Just goes right out of your head. You go fight or flight. It's ugly. My first years were horrific bombing, horrific stammering, horrific not remembering the punchline. Like you gotta, maybe you got a setup going and they're kind of on board. And you're like, ah, is it, okay? Hate yourself. It's a nightmare. But you've already kind of, maybe if you haven't done stand up or whatever, but you kind of know your voice. And that's. Pretty advanced”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Instagram channel that See, that's good that you already know that you've kind of gotten to the core of your comedy already, and that's interesting. A step ahead”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But bombing is not failure, it's just data. It's going, oh, okay, I got to retool that. That didn't work. Something's wrong there. I missed a word there. So you got to treat the act almost like ingredients in a cooking, in a dish. Oh, I put too many eggs in. Take an egg out. You got to treat it like that. And look, when you pull a bad cake out of an oven, you go, I fucked up. But it doesn't hurt your feelings. But when you bomb and fuck up, it hurts your feelings. So you got to factor that in too. Your feelings got to be hurt. And just almost be a robot and just keep going towards that open mic. You know, scary an open mic is bombing sucked, but bombing in front of other comedians is way worse because they know what just happened. And they could have saved you and they didn't. So it's way worse.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You gotta know how you look. And it's just repetition, repetition. And bombing is not failure. That's what you got to remember. I mean, look, if you do a killer hour and then you take it to Netflix and bomb, you fucked up.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This was bombing an open mic. That's the weird part. So it's almost like you have to go through hell just to get to the promised land. And I would say rehearse the shit out of it because you're going to get frazzled up there. Everybody thinks, oh, this is good material. But you also forget about the other part of delivering it, having confidence, being likable, having timing, having a cadence, figuring out who you are, figure out what the audience thinks you are or how they perceive you because you can go up there and say all this, but they go, why is the guy he's clearly gay? Why is he acting like he's not gay? Now they're not listening to the joke. So like.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's the irony of comedy, I don't know if it's irony, but it's like the beginning is the hardest part. Usually the beginning is the easy part. Hey, I'm playing this level of Mario. I start, I jump over one Koopa, troopa, whatever. And then the end is like, Jesus Christ, I got 30 guys coming at me. Comedy's the opposite. The beginning is like It's a gauntlet. It's just obstacles. And it's like you said open mics. I watch these famous comedians on Netflix and you go, this would all bomb on an open mic. They're killing in Radio City.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You look at your phone, you look at your feet, you just zone out. You kind of. Kind of go white, you know. You just hear white noise and go out. It's tough. But you need a little delusion to be a comedian, to get into it. It takes a little bit of delusion. You think you can do this? You got 10 years ahead of you of hell and you're up for this. And, you know, most comics, we see a horrible crowd and we see our friend bomb and we go, yeah, he's bombing, but I'll get him. I'll get him. And then you don't get him. Human nature too is like they don't like him, but they'll like me, and you need a little of that to keep going as a comedian. But you don't want too much delusion because then you're a psycho, but you need a little.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Helps, but they're still going to go. That was funny when he made fun of it, but he sucks. Still sucks. That's the worst part. You're going, no, this is good. You guys just don't like me just because you don't like me doesn't mean I'm bad.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. And one joke failing is very common. Like a lot of audience don't even notice That bomb because you got so many jokes in a row, you can sandwich a good one, then a bad one, then a good one. But when you bomb, it's almost like they chose, we don't like you. Nothing you say will redeem yourself. And it's hard to get out of. It's like being pulled down by your hair. You can't get back. I can't win this fight no matter what.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because the winners are so bad and we love it because it keeps everybody out. And I feel like the same about comedy. The bombs are so brutal. I've had bombs where I'm in bed. I'm just staring at the ceiling. Like, what the fuck was that? Like you have PTSD. I bombed at an arena once, 20,000 people. I did 30 minutes to silence.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's great. It makes people happy, and it's funny. But that bombing, when you bomb, your first thought is like, yeah, you're right. At first, you're like, fuck you guys. What? You don't like this shit? And then you just start going in. You're like, maybe it isn't that good. Maybe they're right. I do suck. I knew I sucked. I should become a mailman, you know. And it stinks and you feel alone. And you feel like you wasted their time and then you're like, what was I thinking I could be a comedian? What the fuck? Who am I, you know, Eddie Murphy? What am I doing here? So it's a lot of just spiraling out of horrible thoughts. But I also love that it hurts so bad. Bombing fucking hurts because now everybody doesn't do it. I think a lot more people could do comedy probably and figure it out. But the bombing is so brutal that it keeps one time I went to Minneapolis. I was like, this is a great city. The sun is shining. Why isn't this city packed? And they're like,”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm going. I got a good sweet spot right there Yeah, it's a nightmare, but it's part of it. It's the validation too is the worst part. Because, you know, whenever you do comedy and kill, you can be a great comic. But even David Tell, these brilliant guys, they feel like you're getting away with something. I don't have a day job. I'm telling jokes for a living. I'm talking about my dick up here and they're fucking loving me. And they call me a genius and all this. I'm talking about my sack, you know?”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's art. The mainstream shit is always the worst Like McDonald's versus some hole in the wall. I know I'm shitting on McDonald's again, but it's good. And certain comics we could name are good, but the delicacy is going to be less. Talked about unless household namey than the mainstream hacky shit.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Totally. That's Dave. That's him in a nutshell. He's like that guy in the movies in the 80s action movies where they're like they go up to a creek in Montana and some guys living in a cabin and he's sharpening a stick and they go, the Russians are coming. They're invading. We need you. You're the best commando. And he's like, I gave that up, man. I'm done with that lifestyle. But you're the best. We need you. And he has to suit up eventually. You know, he looks at a picture of his dead wife and he goes, fuck it, I'm going. And then they, you know, fight the Ruskis. But he's that guy. He just is gifted. He's like got a gift from Allah and he's the best.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think one place you kind of go to make it and be discovered and be loved and one place you go, you can get all that New York too, but I think in New York it's more of a school, a boot camp of comedy. Let's make great comedy. Let's make original comedy. Let's watch the other guys and gals who are at the show, at the clubs and learn from them and try to hang out with them and absorb some of them. And in LA, it's like, when am I on? I'm next. Get out of my way. I'm the star here. I'm a bigger star than you. Oh, this guy's actually a big star. I got to outwork. You know, it's just a lot of that instead of like, damn, that was funny. I got to be that funny. Damn, I wish I had a joke. And look, I don't want to speak for LA comics because there's, you know, Bill Burr, Anthony Jeselneck, these brilliant LA comics, but they all cut their teeth in New York.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, we're mixing two totally different things that are coming together, and it makes it like peanut butter and chocolate.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the beauty of the city it's this tribal human nature, like the sex shops and fist fights and racism and all tension, but yet it's the epicenter of technology and finance and sophistication on Fifth Avenue. So you get that. It's kind of like in Boston. You go to Boston, they got MIT, they got Hovid, they got all this shit. And then they got the fishermen, the blue collar douchebags, the Irish guys, the immigrants, you know. And you get that mix of like insanely smart with wicked pissa and these two worlds. That's a good thing. It's like when a black guy fucks an Asian lady, that's a good looking kid. You get a mix.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Out because you got a trust. You're going to get your ass kicked for like six months. But I know the ropes a little, and I think you need a little of that. If the treadmill's not on. Not going to run. New York to treadmill's on, so it just makes you run and it makes you better. Look at wears on you. You probably lose 10 years of your life living in New York versus Indianapolis. But it's a better life”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“city and it's great and just the fact that they pulled it off like Fifth Avenue goes way up and you're like there's a billionaire's house next to a hobo and then this is a black guy who's fighting with a Cuban guy and an Asian guy's trying to get in the middle of him and the cabbies from the Middle East and there's so many beautiful women here and there's so many brilliant minds here and the pace is great it keeps people moving I mean it just you can't beat it I mean the city will fuck you in the ass too don't get me wrong you landed JFK and you're like oh god I got mugged my my Uber driver called me a Homo I stepped in human shit where the fuck am I so yeah it's it's bad news but that bad news it's almost like the bullying it kills you in a weird way but it makes you stronger and you build more layers and layers and layers that's why some new guy some hay seed from a walkie shows up you've been here 10 years and you go let me let me help you”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, how long is this pod? I could go on. It's too much to put into one hour. We've got other questions. But I love the one. Neighborhood is wildly different than the next. I mean, Little Italy, and then you take four steps. Now I'm in Chinatown. I mean, and then the history there and then the stories and the food and the culture and all that. And then you go 10 feet over here. Now you're in Brooklyn. And this is insane. This is a whole other world. And it's almost like a little America in one.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You always hear a Hemingway and Dali and all these guys went to Paris in the 20s or whatever that was. I get it now. I used to be like, why do these guys go to Paris? Why do these artists? And now I get it because it's like it's freer there. That's why Austin became like that Paris where everybody's like, I got to get out of LA. I'm going there. But we came back from that. The 70s were wild and 90s were cool. So maybe it'll come back. I just take a decade.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm hopeful just because I know it's magical and I think it has to be. I mean, it's the epicenter of America. Like this is where the immigrants came. And this is where the stock market is and the entertainment industry, a lot of it is here. I think it's going to happen, but something like the bottom has to fall out, and then people have to move back here and all that. The corporations are kind of fucking us. They're just buying everything.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't have the power it used to have of like, you got to be here if you want to make it, that's definitely gone. So that hurt the city a lot. The city is way more soulless. When I moved here in 07, I mean, not only did I get mugged three times in the first year, but it was a hub of like, it felt like things were happening here. It was an energy. It was electricity. And we still have the electricity, but it's also maybe just because it's Times Square. There's Soho. There's Wall Street. So we got the staples, but there is a little bit of that. It's almost like a marriage. Like, yeah, we're in love, but it's not as passionate as it once was. That's how I would equate New York.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think it's definitely changed a lot. There's a tiny corner for us, Weirdo artists. New York used to be where you went to make it as a painter or whatever, a comedian or a singer, and there were all these dives and shit boxes and all these places you could go. And now it's more pink berries and subway sandwiches and chase banks. So it's definitely lost a lot of its creative edge. It's just money. Money keeps coming in. And now you see all these comedians move to Nashville, Austin, Denver, whatever.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think he's underrated. I think he's got great. He's got equips and quotes. Check them out on YouTube. He's got some montages and super cuts of him being hilarious.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But hey, it's just meat. I'm a meat guy myself. They say in 20 years we're going to look back and go, can you believe people ate meat? It's all because somebody likes slavery.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Legs again, the hairline, the hog, the muscles, the world. You got a good brain on you. I mean, you're lucky. You're in the top. Most people are fat as shit at Burger King right now hitting their kids. You're in a Romana hotel sitting with a low-level comedian.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, but that's the key is making itself critical. Always trying to get better. I could change this. I could tweak this. I can improve this. When you just go, I hate that I do this. I suck. You just shut down. So that's the key is. Is always being productive with the criticism.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think I don't want to explore it. I think I get around it. I tap dance around it, but I get it out a little with my act maybe because I can't do it. I'm not doing it in real life. So I'll get out this no-love, not loving myself. I don't know. Who wants to love themselves? Everybody always like, you got to love yourself. And then when you meet somebody who does love yourself, you're like, I fucking hate this guy. You hate the guy who's upset. I'm great. I'm awesome. Life is good. You're like, ah, this guy sucks. I'd rather an insecure guy. So maybe I want to stay insecure. Maybe I don't want to find this love for myself.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's bittersweet thing because you're like, okay, he's not malicious. He's not trying to hurt me. But also. He doesn't know he hurt me. I don't know. It's tough because if he was trying to hurt you. I guess that would be worse”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I was killing. And my dad comes out and he goes, What are you holding court? And I was like, and I felt like I was this big. I just shrunk down. He just nailed it because in my head, I'm like, I'm holding court. Look at me. I got the whole room. And he goes, what are you holding court here? Like, who the hell do you think you are? And I was like He's right. I should be holding guard. Who the fuck am I? I'm nobody. So stuff like that.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I gotcha. Get there a little bit, but my parents were there, and I hope they never know this. But they would do a thing where my dad especially would do a thing where he would knew how to cut you down right to the bone. And so after a while, you're like, I'm not even going to interact with this guy because he can get you so well. One time we were at a Thanksgiving, some kind of family event. And all the cousins are there. And I remember I was holding court. I was a young boy. My comedic legs in this weird tumultuous sea we call a family.”
2022-01-08 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #255 – Mark Normand: Comedy! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Good parents, the giving, thoughtful A little out to lunch. You know, they were workaholics, so it was hard to get a lot out of them. And my dad was kind of an angry dad. I think he just had like a weird childhood and he's just trying to make it. And he's trying to provide, but it's hard. And we live in this horrible neighborhood and we're getting robbed all the time. So life was kind of coming down on him all the time. So then he'll take it out on you or whoever he would snap. But great parents, they cared. They put us first. But there wasn't a lot of... You ever go to a friend's house as a kid, and there's like a picture of a ski trip, and you're like, ski trip? What the hell is that about? It was a lot of that Smart, very smart people, but I don't know how well they were at socializing.”
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