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      • This book is a fictional autobiography using a real timeline of events of his career but highly fictionalised (obviously) which goes back and forth to the (fake) present day story about "The Plan".
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  2. Sep 16, 2021 · Norm Macdonald’s Memoir Was Mostly Lies, but One Part Rings True. Only after his death is it clear what he was really writing about. By Rebecca Onion. Sept 16, 20215:38 PM. Norm Macdonald...

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  3. Sep 20, 2016 · Based On A True Story is the autobiography of famed stand-up comedian Norm MacDonald - or so he would have you believe. Rather than tell you his real life story, Norm decided to write of his one-time plan to borrow millions of dollars from various casinos in Las Vegas, turn that money into millions for himself, then retire to a ranch in Montana.

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  4. Sep 30, 2016 · Based on a True Story” isn’t really a memoir, as the cover claims. It’s closer to a novel, a Russian tragicomedy, perhaps. Dostoyevsky by way of 30 Rockefeller Center.

  5. Dec 21, 2016 · Based on a True Story By Norm Macdonald, with a foreword by Louis C. K. 240 pages. Spiegel & Grau. $28.

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    I got it when he, at age 11, was summoned to our living room along with me and my other brother by our father, the school vice-principal, to be introduced to Mr. Becker, the new Grade 6 teacher who moved his lower lip so weirdly when he talked. There we stood, in our short pants and clip-on ties after Sunday church service, as Mr. Becker, his lower...

    Silverman gets a restraining order (don't think that happened), then quits the show after a year because she'd attracted a stalker. "This caught me completely by surprise, as I had taken to hanging around Sarah's apartment, hiding in the bushes, watching her come and go, and I had never seen any signs of a stalker." On Rodney Dangerfield, a friend ...

    Cultists will also enjoy his bizarre reverse account of his famous firing from SNL; it wasn't for the O.J. jokes, as everyone assumed, he explains, but rather because he accepted the jury verdict and realized O.J. was innocent and that his O.J. jokes were unconscionable, and he refused to keep doing them, despite the urging of NBC vice-president Do...

    Actually, I've known Norm for nearly 57 years, and still can't say I know what he really thinks. But there's one line in this book that distills it all, and it's in the language of the compulsive gambler, which Norm is. His friends say he won and lost $1 million in a single Vegas night. "If you're at the table and you're rolling them bones," he adv...

  6. About Based on a True Story. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Driving, wild and hilarious” (TheWashington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran.

  7. Sep 16, 2021 · Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir by Norm Macdonald $18.00 $12.16. Read More About: Norm Macdonald. Norm MacDonald's 2016 best-selling memoir is only partly factual, but it's still a delightful...

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