#1355 - Mark Normand

Gillette said that pendulette told you that it's Fort, not forte.

Yeah. And he's, you know, he's a well read man. Oh, yeah.

He's. He was just on.

Hell, yeah.

He's an interesting cat. Is that true? Is he correct? Jamie?

There's a little thing over the right two pronunciations.

Well, that's like the word literally. You know, the term literally has. We've actually changed the meaning because so many people used it wrong. Okay.

Forte with the a right there. I don't know. And then. Well, the a is fort and then pronounced that.

So there's two different ones, but it.

Might be like selfie, how it just creates itself over a while.

Yeah. A thing that someone excels at. Small talk was not his fort a or fort. Well, maybe fort was original, and then someone kept fucking it up. Like tumeric.

Yeah. Turmeric.

Yeah. We were just talking about how turmeric has an r in there. It's tur. Which I didn't know at all until Laird Hamilton put his coffee machine in here. Did you just turn the volume down?

Oh, sorry. Is that my mic? My cans are a little hot.

I'll turn it down.

I appreciate it.

Is that better? Yeah, I got to really touch stuff.

Crazy ears.

Pat Carney likes to hear himself loud when he talks. Shit.

He's got to have some hearing.

Rock star drummer. All those guys go deaf, right? Or they have issues. Well, that's the dude from AC DC, the lead singer. He can't sing anymore, right? Because his ears are just shot. That's awful, man.

Yeah. Every song sounds the same.

They're the best.

I don't know about the best.

Come on, bro.

I mean, I like them fucking fun. I don't know about the best.

Well, they are an iconic band.

I'll give you that. I like their songs.

There's certain songs. I'm on the highway to hell.

Yeah, they're great road trip video game songs, but I feel like they kind of bleed together a little bit.

There's a sound. They have an AC DC sound for sure.

Sure. Oh, yeah. It's all one sound.

Yeah.

But back to turmeric. Can I say that? You know how, like, the Middle east, there's not a lot of funny people out there? There's not big part of their culture. It's comedy in the Middle east. And Seinfeld thinks it's because we have a love of language. He thinks that's why Americans and british people are really funny, because we think about the. Hmm. I don't think they're same with German. Not a lot of German. Haha. You know what I mean?

We had a german comic that was big in Germany that came to the store and was here for a couple of years. Did, he didn't suck, but it was all physical.

Exactly.

In Germany, he's huge. But it was all like slipping on stage. Pratt falls.

Yeah. Come on, we can do better than that. We got words. The words are the interesting part. What you say, the writing, you know.

It'S a thing that people don't consider. Those Pratt fall guys are always in pain. They're always hurt.

That's true. Well, so are we. Mentally.

Yeah. But in a physical way, I think I was always wondering about Chevy Chase because, you know, Chevy Chase is supposed to be kind of grumpy.

Yeah, I've heard that.

Yeah, he's a dick. I've heard he gets real grumpy. And I wonder if the dude is just in constant pain because, you know, remember how many times he used to fall down? Like, he fell down all the time on Saturday Night Live.

Did he?

Yeah, yeah. And Fletch, the detective.

Yeah, yeah.

He Pratt falled all the time. Like wicked hard falls where it was clearly him.

Wow. I didn't know he was a fall guy. You know, Buster Keaton, he's like so underrated. He broke his back and didn't realize it. And the doctor was like, so when'd you break your, like, he's got that crazy story. Like, that guy fell all day long.

I think it was his neck, in fact.

Was it neck? Was it neck?

Someone just brought this up in the show, didn't they, Jamie? Didn't somebody just talk about that? It was just a few episodes ago, I believe.

Oh, maybe. But he's like, not really brought up a lot. He's fucking crazy how ballsy he was and how innovative he was. He would do stuff like he would draw. I remember one of his gags, he would paint on a wall, a hook and then hang his hat on it.

Yeah. Who brought Jamie? Was it Penn? It might have been Penn.

Might have been him. Or maybe gafferget even. Look at that. I mean, it's all bits. That's clever shit.

This is like amazing.

19. What? 24? Yeah.

I mean, that just right there was amazing jumping through that person.

And I mean, you could do this all day. It's all clever and it's all redone a million times. But he did it first.

Wow. And there was no one before him, right. No guidebook.

Yeah. And everything ends in a punch. It always pays off. There's no weak ones. And sometimes he would just try it. And I heard an interview with him, and he was like, yeah, I would just go for it. And sometimes you would be in midair and you'd think of another thing, and then you do that before you hit the ground. I mean, it's brilliant, guy. Check him out. If you don't know him.

And he's. Right now we're watching a video with him running over the top of a train and clearly really doing it.

Yeah, he's really doing it. He's going to do something with that hook. There it is. Wait for it. Wait for it. And come on. Wow. The water is what broke his neck.

No, that's right.

Is that right? That's what the video.

Yeah, that he underestimated the force of the water coming out of it, because think about how much weight there is behind that. Like waterfalls. If you jumped off of the Niagara Falls and hit the bottom, what would kill you? I mean, it might best be the force of the water hitting you against the.

Right, right.

Because I think that's what happened with him. Like, he got hit so hard. I believe it was Penn.

Might have been. I can double check.

Yeah. But whoever it was, well, they were just explaining it was the weight of the water he underestimated.

That kind of kills the whole fucking. And the waterfall scenes in every movie, dude, that would ruin it.

Yeah, you'd get pummeled. Imagine, like, you're headed up there and it's your idea, and she slips and bashes her brains out against the rocks. Just because it was your stupid idea. She's like, let's just do it right here.

Right?

No, let's go into the waterfall. And you're so stupid, you don't understand how much force is coming.

Yeah. Yeah. That was a hot scene in cocktail.

Was it?

Oh, yeah. Believe it. Elizabeth Shu. They fucking the jamaican waterfall. I had no cable as a kid, so we would just watch everything that came on.

Do you remember that movie with Elizabeth Shu and Nicolas Cage, where he leaving Las Vegas and gets a boner at the very end?

Of course.

What?

That's a good drunk guy thing. I mean, those random drunk boners. We've all been there.

Here it is. Cocktail scene.

There it is.

Waterfall.

This is my whole childhood. Just these weird 80s movies on vhs.

They were weird.

Somebody raised a good point about how we have so many. Like, I'm dating a lady who's a little younger than me. She's about 14, and she's always like, I'll bring up a movie like Ghostbuster. She's like, never seen it. Godfather. Never seen it. I'm like, don't you care? Don't you want to see that? And she's like, I've never seen it. It came up for my time. And I'm like, yeah, but I know about the. Why do I know about that? I know about Buster Keaton. Why do younger people now? They only go forward. They don't go back at all. Have you noticed that?

Yeah, I think they're inundated with too much stuff.

I guess so.

Think about it. They got Hulu, they got Amazon. They got Netflix. They're streaming things constantly. They're doing TikTok and Instagram, and everybody's checking social media to force a kid to sit down and watch National Lampoon's family vacation. Good luck.

I know, but it's good.

It's great. It's great. I don't think they do that as much. I think a lot of kids are playing video games.

Sure.

And they're streaming things and YouTube giant for them. Vast giant.

You can never suck it all up. But here's the clinker is they're missing out on a lot. I watched the office with her, and she's missing references to a fucking Indiana Jones joke. And I'm like, you like this show, but you missed that joke. And then I got to explain it to her, and she's like, who's that? I'm like, it's Harrison Ford. He was this. He was an archaeologist. She's archaeology. That sounds terrible. I'm like, no, it was fun.

My nine year old watches these little videos on YouTube where they blend things. These kids get together and they're silly and they're laughing. It's so dumb. And they blend things, but it's dumb because I'm 52, right? If I was nine, it would be awesome for her. It's awesome. She's really enjoying it. She's laughing. It's not fake laughing. She watches them. Whether or not you tell her to or not, she's interested in it.

Like in a blender? Yeah.

They just throw food in a blender and try to drink it. It was so dumb.

That's it.

It's so dumb. And they're being silly, and things slip out of their hands, and then they show a slow mo. The thing slipping out of their hand. It is inane. It's just made for nine year olds by people who are like, OD and 18 and 19.

And I bet it's got millions of views.

Millions of views you can't predict.

I'm trying to write the best joke ever. Put this video out. This is the funniest video. Nobody cares. And then you fart on a taco salad and that goes viral.

Well, do you know the makeup artist drama that took place on YouTube? Do you know about all that?

No.

I got roped into that, too, because of my kids.

It was good, though. You're seeing.

Yes. There's this young homosexual fellow who has makeup tutorials and he got into some sort of a public scrap with his mentor, James. Yes.

Something I did hear about.

This. This guy.

Wow, he's good.

Look, the videos are fucking entertaining. It's quite hilarious. And he got in a scrap with that person, right? Yes. And it was. A lot of terrible things were said. But I'm like, what is happening here? So I'm like, what does he do? He