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One day, I was chatting with a friend about our creative processes, and she asked me, “Where do you get your ideas from?” Without skipping a beat, I responded, “From the same place that socks disappear to in the laundry!” We both exploded into laughter at the thought of a secret sock dimension, full of mismatched pairs plotting their heist for more ideas.
The absurdity of attributing creativity to a realm where all your lost socks gather is just too relatable! We’ve all witnessed that mysterious pull of the laundry machine that seems to suck in one sock only to leave its pair abandoned. It turns out, our ideas might be just as unpredictable – popping up when we least expect them, just like that rogue sock showing up in the fridge!
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Adam is an excellent straight man. Just excellent.
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Just don’t ask him about the smoke stacks at Birkenau
R
Let’s not forget, Stalin was also bad.
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You know, the more I learn about this Stalin fella… I mean, this guys a real jerk.
B
>excellent straight man That business under the Queensboro Bridge… it was a dark time, after all.
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Is
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The soup kitchen?
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Although Norm never called him a straight man
M
Well you wouldn’t either if you found him suckin cocks under the Queensboro Bridge for $15 a man
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An excellent gay man too!
C
Adam Egret?
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Which was perfect, because Norm was a deeply closeted gay man.
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hijacking the top comment to show the full compilation of ‘where do you get your ideas from’? not sure why OP didnt post the whole thing. letterman might be one of the least funny of that compilation [https://youtu.be/PF59yAwaELE?si=5siiyFTNm4hzSkUu](https://youtu.be/PF59yAwaELE?si=5siiyFTNm4hzSkUu) also check out the “Im not Norm” channel its one of the best fan made compilation channels on youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@ImnotNorm](https://www.youtube.com/@ImnotNorm)
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It was a running gag on the show
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That’s a bingo
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Is this the same Adam who used to jerk off punks for $15 a man under the Queensborough Bridge?
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Yeah, Adam Egret
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Not egret its eget… like the bird.
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Pretty sure it’s Adam Egrit
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Like the redhead from Game of Thrones?
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You know nothing Bank Gothic
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Should be Adam regret
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His parents sure must have
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I thought it was Aaron Egypt
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Ginger minge?
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Bird is the word
C
Is that his name? Ugh, change it.
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No wonder I was losing so much business. Look at those low rates
M
What the fuck? What kind of world are we living in when you find out you’ve been getting overcharged on Reddit of all places?
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$15!?!???! Damn it
T
“Id like to thank Crystal Meth Santa Claus for being here” – Between Two Ferns
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“We’ll be right back with Who Gives a Shit”
C
He looks like JK Simmons from that white spikes movie
T
Nothing beats Norms face when he gets a laugh from Letterman. So quick to hide it, but you can still see his happiness.
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What do you mean so quick to hide it, he smiles and holds it for the entire ending of the clip.
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Yeah, he tries to look down and hide the best he can, but yeah, there’s no hiding how much joy he has in Dave’s reaction AND listening to the question asked lol
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Imagine sitting next to a legend and not realizing you are the bigger legend.
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With way less allegations
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And a heart that never attacked you
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“Now it’s time for jokes” norm was the best to ever do it
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“This is sort of the comic relief part of the show”
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Anti Comedy at its finest
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Anybody who’s watched *The Grand Budapest Hotel* knows where writers’ ideas come from. But speaking of such things: when the late and lamented American writer Harlan Ellison once went out on an extended university speaking tour, during the Q&A sessions, some idiot in the audience would almost always ask, “Where do you get your ideas from?” He’d answer “Schenectady”. When pressed for more, he’d say he “subscribed to an idea service” that was located in upstate New York – so all his ideas came from *Schenectady.* (I figure he just thought the place name was funny.) He’d say he sent them a cheque for $300 at the beginning ofevery month, and every two weeks they’d send him 10 index cards with ideas for short stories and tv scripts. He’d say that sometimes he’d use them, sometimes he wouldn’t, but he thought paying just $15 for a publishable idea was a pretty good deal. Eventually, he stopped answering that way, because at the end of every lecture, some bozo would always come up to him and ask for the address of “that idea service”.
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No okay but one time I pitched this to my partner. A website for ideas you aren’t smart enough or don’t have the resources to execute. Boy I got a look.
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I’d be willing to bet that he pictured so many people saying “I didn’t even know he was sick” and it made him laugh all the time and even made it just a little bit easier to keep his illness quiet.
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His final joke
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One either gets and loves Norm MACdonald or they don’t. Explaining what makes Norm amazing is like explaining a joke … to people who don’t understand jokes.
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I don’t know when it happened, but as a kid I always wondered what was so funny about him. He always seemed bored and awkward to me. Then somewhere between 28 and 35 it clicked. I don’t know if I just mellowed out or got tired of life but it was a Danny Devito meme moment. Same thing happened to King of the Hill now that I think of it. I hated that show growing up, dad fuckin loved it though.
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I always thought he was funny, but man in the last 15 years I just totally clicked with his whole schtick. All my friends are the same way and I would say that like half our inside jokes are just Normisms at this point. “Explain to the folks…” “Where do you get your ideas from?” “No but he’s a good guy”
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