Awkward Commas
05/04/2011
“ As off-kilter and off-the-cuff as his comedy can seem, Mr. Macdonald has always sought precise control of it. At “Weekend Update,” he said he was “doing a specific experiment, where I was trying to strip all cleverness from the joke and try and make it as blunt as possible.” He added, “I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical. „
Norm Macdonald Rises Again on Comedy Central ‘Sports Show’ - NYTimes.com
Norm is a international hero for all of us.
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