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Artie discusses Norm MacDonald

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Artie Lange

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Artie takes some time to reflect and remember his good friend Norm MacDonald.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's already lying.

0:01.3

Already lying is halfway out.

0:02.8

And I just wanted to take an opportunity to talk about my good buddy, Norma Donald.

0:10.9

Just the comic genius, the guy that was so important to me in my career.

0:17.6

And everything after Mad TV in my career and life, I could hire him in Norma Donald,

0:23.0

really.

0:24.0

The way I met Norm was at a screen test for a movie called Dirty War.

0:28.3

The story is I had just left me at TV because I got arrested for possession of Coke.

0:34.2

I was looking for work.

0:36.0

And my manager at the time, Peter, told me about this project, Dirty War with Norma Donald.

0:41.0

And I was always a big fan of norms.

0:43.2

I had never met him, but I was a big fan of his.

0:46.2

So they sent me out to California to read with him, kind of like a screen test after

0:51.9

I read on Cameron New York.

0:54.5

I did well enough to where I got to the screen test part.

0:57.4

And that's where I met Norma Bob Sagitt and Sagitt who directed it.

1:03.4

And I read with Norm.

1:05.5

And the next day, Norm and Sagitt called me personally and said, you know, you got the

1:09.0

part.

1:10.2

Even after they knew that I had just been arrested for possession of cocaine and I knew

1:14.8

that I had a problem with substances.

1:17.0

And we went out after the audition and I tried to buy Coke from two guys because I was drunk.

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