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Norm MacDonald explains Leno's moves to Conan - VIDEO

by Bob Sassone, posted Feb 11th 2009 5:04PM

ConanI think last night, Norm MacDonald expressed the thoughts of a lot of television viewers.

He was a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and he started off by talking about how he started on Saturday Night Live the same year that Conan started on Late Night. Then he told Conan that it was "stunning how Jay Leno outfoxed you again." Conan tries to laugh at all of it, but you can sense it's sort of an uneasy, "oh no, where is Norm going with this?" sort of laugh. MacDonald says that everyone thinks Leno is the funny, high-pitched voice guy, but he's incredibly shrewd, because he beat Johnny Carson, David Letterman, and now Conan in the late night wars. "You're in good company."

The funniest part is when MacDonald reenacts a conversation that NBC had with Conan: "remember that discussion we had where you said I'll never have to f***ing follow Leno ever again?" Conan laughs again but quickly (and oddly) changes the subject to the bad economy. Video after the jump.

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Dan German

HULU SUCKS! STOP USING A USA ONLY VIDEO SERVICE! THE INTERNET IS WORLDWIDE!

February 12 2009 at 11:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Adam

www.anchorfree.com

February 13 2009 at 3:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Guillaume Lavoie

Damb Hulu WORK IN CANADA!

February 12 2009 at 8:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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sid

dude, bittorrent and mininova (or eztv)

February 12 2009 at 10:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jim

Norm is a comic genius, and clearly there is no love lost between him and NBC (I'm talking to you, Don Ohlmeyer).

Bottom line: Leno is a douchebag, and Norm is right to call him out.

February 12 2009 at 6:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jen

Was Norm drunk or stoned or something? What the heck was this?

N: "And they use that stick for more than carrying, uuuuh, a pouch on, I'll tell you that."
C: "I don't even know what that means."
N: "What that means is they'll drive your head, uuuuh, like an overripe cantaloupe it looks like -"
C: "What?" (high-pitched laugh) "What the hell is that?"
N: "They'll club you to death for a sandwich!"

(Conversation moves on to more talk about hobos that are still living...)

February 12 2009 at 1:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
corey

I've searched the depths and darkest places of the intertubes and for the life of me I can't find a "canadian" site to view this clip on! Someone please help!

February 11 2009 at 8:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Adam

Corey, download hotspot shield here: http://anchorfree.com/

Just turn it on anytime you need to view a US video.

But shhh keep it quiet. It's kind of like Fight Club.

February 11 2009 at 8:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael

Wow... Conan doing nothing for 3 minutes except laughing uncomfortably. Meanwhile he's thinking, "How the hell can I transition off of this absolutely horrible subject? Uh... Should I ask Norm what the hell happened to his career or talk about the economy? Let's go with the economy... Oh, please make it stop! The economy! The economy!"

February 11 2009 at 8:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin

Last night's whole Conan was one of the better ones in the past few years and it couldn't have come at a better time. The cooking segment was great and how can you top a musical guest the likes of Levon Helm?

The only thing that bombed were the MacDonald as the Hudson pilot sketches.

February 11 2009 at 8:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adam

You should also post the cooking segment Conan and Norm did with Gordon Ramsay. Probably the most disastrous cooking segment of all time thanks to Norm hahaha. Ramsay was so frustrated.

February 11 2009 at 7:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BLV

"also noticed he was pretty unfunny at the roast of Bob Saget."

What are you talking about.. The Saget roast was a classic. Maybe the best roast of all time..

Norm is best guest ,you can have on a talkshow..

February 11 2009 at 7:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
RJ

This is great stuff, I saw Norm live a month or two ago, and he has that awkward comedian thing down pat. That whole economy thing was right from his stand up act.

February 11 2009 at 6:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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