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Sep 16, 2021 · My colleague Lili Loofbourow, who reviewed the book for the Week when it came out, called Macdonald an “extraordinary wordsmith” and generally recommended the experience of reading Based on a...
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1.7K. 57K views 6 years ago. Norm Macdonald tells different groups of people why they should buy his book. Read more about BASED ON A TRUE STORY: http://bit.ly/2wYJu8a Sign up for...
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How the underlying messages and tones of the book are all based on “truths” in his life and while the obvious exaggerations of events were made for comedy, at its core the book is a perfect memoir of Norm’s life. His dead-pan sense of humor and effortless joke telling is felt throughout the whole book and I enjoyed every bit of it.
This series of events appears too neatly arranged in its mapping to be entirely factual, but again, this is only based on a true story. And given Norm’s penchant for dark humour, and...
Sep 20, 2016 · When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre "one step below instruction manuals." Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada.
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When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada.
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Sep 20, 2016 · This wildly adventurous, totally original, and absurdly funny saga turns the conventional “comic’s memoir” on its head and gives the reader an exclusive pass inside the mad, glorious mind of Norm...
