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- Silverman made her bones by portraying a fictionalized caricature of herself across her standup specials.
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Sep 15, 2021 · Based on a True Story: A Memoir might have been Norm’s biggest bet. It contains almost no true stories. ... Only Norm’s stint in prison, for hiring a hit man to kill Sarah Silverman’s ...
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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...
Dec 21, 2016 · In “Based on a True Story,” Mr. Macdonald lists the “Top 25 Weekend Update Jokes of All Time (in no particular order),” starting with one from Chevy Chase’s tenure as host and then 24 ...
Sep 16, 2021 · Or when he plans a hit on the life of fellow comedian Dave Attell because of their shared interest in Sarah Silverman. ... ‘Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir’ by Norm Macdonald. Courtesy of ...
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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Sep 20, 2016 · This will surprise no one who spends even a few minutes with "Based on a True Story," much of which is bunk. ... then-cast-member Sarah Silverman. As Macdonald’s stories go, this one’s ...
May 22, 2017 · This is a column about memoirs, but Norm Macdonald’s Based on a True Story: A Memoir is not exactly a memoir. In fact, it’s hardly a memoir at all. I think David Letterman said it best in his review: “I have read Based on a True Story, and I believe it to be largely bullshit, but it is very, very, very funny!” This book is both curious ...
