He’s the comedian’s comedian. Most comedians when they get on a network talk show and they try to fill the limited time they have with as many jokes as they can to promote how funny they are so people will watch their sitcom or go to their standup or whatever… This mad bastard just tells one long drawn out version of joke you’d literally find in a desk calendar.

And it’s brilliant because not only comedians, but everyone gets that this guy is doing something bizarre. Nervous laughter turns to real laughter. Then we realize there’s a comedian up there saying things and we’re all laughing, so maybe it’s not bizarre… just a comedian doing what he’s supposed to do?

Norm always made me feel like we were the joke to him. He was somehow just tricking us into laughing at whatever bullshit he was saying. I loved every minute of it.

He was always the smartest guy in the room acting like he was the dumbest guy in the room. Yeah I miss him too.