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 The agonizingly unfunny Julia Sweeney (Who's that? It's Pat!) has resurfaced. Since quitting "SNL" in '94, she's seen some dark times, including the loss of her brother and her own battle with cervical cancer. Those dark days inspired her one-woman show "God Said, 'Ha!,' " which has made her the darling of those folks who think Garrison Keillor is a real "hoot." In an interview with L.A. Weekly, she shared some bitter memories of her Saturday nights in New York: "Mostly the 'Saturday Night Live' women were there to service the guys' comedy vision. Christine Zander and I would write a women-friendly sketch that was, say, about shopping. We'd read it around the room and the men would just go, 'Huh?' Then Adam Sandler would write a sketch about someone pooing in their pants and it would get enormous amounts of laughter." But wait, her hard feelings don't stop with Sandler, "There was a constant telling of compulsive, almost Tourette's syndrome-level jokes whose point would always be how horrifying it was that a man would be attracted to another man. Norm Macdonald was the king of homophobic jokes -- it was literally one every 15 minutes."
"The Fake News" correspondent Richard Hoffman gives us a first-hand account from the Feb. 5 taping of "The Norm Show" (Episode 2). Read it, but beware it contains spoilers. It's also a good example of what goes on at a "TNS" taping.
Jennifer Verella of Midlothian, Virginia loves Our Hero. She also loves horror movies, S&M aardvarking, her 36Ds and TNT's "MonsterVision" host Joe Bob Briggs. In a fan letter, read on the air last night, she shared her sexual fantasy involving Joe Bob and lovingly dubbed him the "bumpkin" version of Norm Macdonald (Who she calls "hot.") It's a really funny, yet frightening letter, so be sure to check out the RealVideo. Y'all should know I'm a big Joe Bob fan. In fact, I was on hand for the taping of this particular installment. Norm's also a fan. In June, he told TNT's "Rough Cut" that Joe Bob Briggs is "Hilarious. ... I never watched him, [because] I always thought he looked like a hick. And he's hilarious. Absolutely hilarious." Tune in and witness the greatness of Joe Bob every Saturday night -- Lord knows there's nothing else worth rolling tape on at that hour.
Television critic Ed Bark reports from the winter press tour, where he spoke with Norm about his new sitcom. Read the story.
This site was born out of comedic tragedy. A year ago, Don "The Weasel" Ohlmeyer finally had enough of Norm's fearless "Weekend Update" jokes about the murderous O.J. Simpson. Our Hero told David Letterman, and a national television audience, the news before spin doctors at NBC quite had their story together. What he called getting "fired" they called being "reassigned." It left a lot of folks at a loss for words, but not comedy greats like Howard Stern, Jerry Seinfeld, Dennis Miller and Chevy Chase (that's the short list) -- all of whom blasted the decision. Upon hearing the news, "WE WANT NORM!" hit the Web ... a simple page containing information for fans about what we called "The Crisis." The page generated more than 3,400 emails in support of Norm, and an unknown total of calls and letters to the peacock network. Since those days, well, we grew ... thanks almost entirely to our readers, whose steady stream of news tips, video tapes and transcriptions have swelled what was once a single page into a site of 100+ pages of editorial content. We'd like to extend a special "THANK YOU!" to all the reader/contributors out there who make this all look easy. With "The Norm Show," "Pittsburgh," "Man on the Moon," and that mysterious comedy album on the horizon, 1999 looks to be a great year for Norm fans. Stay tuned.
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