Norm Macdonald Stand Up - Full Show - Toronto (January 30, 2015)
Channel: DVDuring
Date: 2021-11-07

January 30, 2015 at 8PM @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto
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It may provide some context to know Toronto was blanketed with ice and  anyone who managed to brave it through the extreme cold weather alert and not somehow fall while making their way across the black ice and regular ice all over the parking lot; upon entering the main lobby of Queen Elizabeth Theatre there's a bar to your immediate right. Enough said
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I had never considered sharing this on account of respect for Norm being a purist at heart in the craft of his standup comedy. Wheras live music bootlegs seem to make me only want to see a band in concert even more than before, if you hear a bunch of bootleg standup shows from a comedian where it spoils the punchline for every joke then it's just a great detriment for them to stand to lose the patronage of a potential audience when the commodity of words have already met our ears. In truth, I'd never listened to this recording since I attended the show and spontaneously hit REC on the Voice Memo app on my iPhone. It's at once performed in front of a rowdy and shitfaced audience all drunk during an extreme cold weather ice storm in Toronto, and I gotta say I've never heard him express so much love for an audience and be so hilarious at the same time. If memo serves, the moment the house lights came up the CCR song "Long As I Can See The Light" and it was a small nuance that end of the show a real touch of atmosphere
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Guess I've got that old trav'lin' bone
'cause this feelin' won't leave me alone.
But I won't, won't be losin' my way, no, no
'Long as I can see the light.
https://youtu.be/fu_fjQXAra4
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P.S.
There's a joke told on speaker phone from his son at one point. Ten years ago he had a Twitter account that Norm reposted jokes from all the time and I don't know why it was ever taken down because there were some of the funniest one liners I'd ever read. He made a YouTube channel that's got a bunch of comedy skits he used to makw. If you look past how they have a high-school project production quality, there's some undeniable innate comic genius that seems to run in the family. 
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Check out some choice nugs: 
• SPELLING BEE: https://youtu.be/PUq89mj9dYg
• YES! I'M A VAN MAN: https://youtu.be/fsYQuEtq2IQ
• IDIOT SAVANT: https://youtu.be/_2Yz0kX38pU
• HOW TO BE SMART: https://youtu.be/jEe7yW2Ftoo
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