Talk:Norm Macdonald (comedian)

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Contents 1 Filmography 2 Bilingual 3 Celebrity Millionaire 4 Newsradio 5 Political humor 5.1 political humor bookmark 6 Early life 7 Let's start spelling his name right 8 French-Canadian upbringing? 9 Genetics? 10 Assessment 11 WikiProject class rating 12 Genetics Teacher?

[edit] Filmography

Added a filmography. Only includes movies at the moment, but maybe someone wants to expand on it to include his numerous television appearences. --Relax Relapse 23:55, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bilingual

- I'm pretty sure that Norm isnt bilingual - he grew up in Quebec, and says several times that he didnt learn French, and instead learned Latin. In addition, lots of English people growing up in Quebec didnt learn French, due to cultural conflict, back in the 50s/60s/70s.

- He said in this interview (http://www.comedycouch.com/interviews/nmacdonald.htm) that he didn't learn to speak French, and took Latin in high school. I doubt he's fluent in Latin, and therefore not bilingual.

He said on the Tonight show that he isn't Scottish. His family - originally Polish - changed their name.

Not only does it not seem like he's bilingual, but referring to him as a "bilingual Cananadian actor and comedian" puts too much emphasis on the "bilingual" thing for no reason. Deleted, it can be re-added if anyone has proof he's bilingual. --68.149.181.145 04:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Celebrity Millionaire

The article should include mention of his appearance on Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I don't know the date of his appearance. He was the last one to make it to the stage because of his (purposely?) poor performance on the fastest finger questions. However, once on stage he did very well. He should have been the only celebrity to actually win the million dollars for his charity. He verbally stated the correct answer to the million dollar question, but host Regis Philbin talked him out of submitting it as his "final answer." Norm looked visibly upset after it was revealed that his answer was in fact correct.

I remember that. "Okay, fine. Final Answer." "But you would've been right!" DeathWeed 07:36, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newsradio

I'm not positive he was in Complaint Box. Imdb lists it as him, but it was only a voice, and he wasn't credited in the episode. Additionally, the role of Jimmy's Lawyer was taken over by Drake Sather (a newsradio producer/writer), who sounded kinda like Norm. Unless someone knows of another source (not drawing from imdb) that says it was Norm, I'd suggest removing it.

[edit] Political humor

Originally, this was ==Politics== and someone deleted the section. I put it back, renamed it, and noted the paradox of his claiming to be apolitical, and still making political jokes. That Clinton joke got Norm a lot of free publicity. I added (see Vince Foster) to put the Clinton joke in context. --Lexein 07:03, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] political humor bookmark

www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a1417874830.htm and Google Newsgroup archive - both refer to Norm on the 11/16/2000 "The View" joking "Clinton... he killed a guy..." . Still seeking video or official transcript of that appearance. At least the date is right. Notable because Norm joked about Clinton in this manner for many years, including SNL's Weekend Update(1996). This doesn't go in the main article yet. --Lexein 06:33, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Early life

Norm does not have a sister named Leslie. He has a brother whose name is Leslie. For some strange reason, I correct this and it shows up again.71.247.229.53 02:18, 17 February 2007 (UTC)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.247.229.53 (talk) 02:16, 17 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Let's start spelling his name right

It's Macdonald, not MacDonald. Check his web site: http://www.normnews.com As well, CBC.ca says his brother Neil's name is spelled Macdonald. Alaric the Goth 00:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

normnews.com (and norm-macdonald.net) is a fansite, not his website. Also, IMDB says MacDonald with Macdonald as an "alternate name." Who knows. Davewho2 02:53, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

The logo for The Fake News has his name spelled with a lowercase D. Every instance on the page, actually. I'm sure it's something he would want to be presented correctly, his own name and all, being spelled wrong for all these years. I think that's enough proof to start spelling his name correctly on here. 24.224.235.151 (talk) 03:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Not to mention, the Dirty Work movie poster and the product description of his comedy album, Ridiculous (but not the actual album itself, which would have been helpful). 24.224.235.151 (talk) 03:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] French-Canadian upbringing?

this line . . . "(which may be accentual, due to his French-Canadian upbringing)" makes no sense to me. I was born and raised in Québec, but as an English-Quebecer. Norm MacDonald did not have a "French-Canadian upbringing." I'm going to remove that line, unless somebody has proof.--RobNS 04:31, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Genetics?

i don't think middle schools teach whole courses on genetics per se. it was probably a biology course.Toyokuni3 (talk) 15:13, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

I have assessed this as Start Class, as it contains more detail and information than would be expected of a Stub, but requires more cleanup, inline citations and referencing. I have assessed this as Mid importance, as I do feel that the subject of this article is well-known outside of Canada. Cheers, CP 17:10, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:52, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Genetics Teacher?

I don't think high schools hire genetics teachers, maybe science teachers.Landroo (talk) 12:36, 6 June 2008 (UTC)