
Netflix’s new Norm Macdonald doc makes the case the stand-up was best sitting down - The Globe and Mail
Open this photo in gallery:The late Norm Macdonald in Judd Apatow's Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald. The documentary is a collage of Macdonald clips assembled by Apatow into a kind of extended YouTube playlist, Nestruck writes. NETFLIX/NetflixHoward Stern’s method of cheering himself up is highly relatable: The veteran shock jock fires up the ol’ internet and watches clips of Norm Macdonald’s best moments as a late-night guest on David Letterman or Conan O’Brien. “When I’m feeling down, what I do is, I go on YouTube and I watch you on various talk shows,” Stern once told the Canadian stand-up who was famously fired from Saturday Night Live in 1998. Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald, Judd Apatow’s new Netflix documentary, is inspired by this common way of consuming Macdonald’s uncommon comedic oeuvre – and animated by the conviction he was the best guest ever. It’s a collage of Macdonald clips assembled by Apatow into a kind of extended YouTube playlist. That clip of Stern interviewing Macdonald, who died in 2021 at age 61, about his talk-show interviews is the meta-introduction.













