Norm MacDonald Planning Return to TV, Proving God May, In Fact, Be One of Us
My favorite thing about 1995 was vigorously singing and dancing to Meatloaf's Paradise by the Dashboard Light with my sister and cousins in the basement of our new house, none of us having the foggiest idea what the song was about. My second favorite thing about 1995 was Norm MacDonald repeatedly calling OJ Simpson a murderer on live television every Saturday night. My third favorite thing about 1995 was yo-yos.
And while I still have no idea what Paradise by the Dashboard Light is getting at (That baseball game seems really exciting, but I still have no clue what sleep number mattress Meat Loaf wants to sleep on — and now Phil Rizzuto is dead!) it's 2009. Yo-yos are being loaded down with white phosphorus and dropped on Afghanistan, and Norm MacDonald is nowhere to be found — or was until today, when he showed up in the Charlotte Observer!
"Barack's all cool. Everybody loves him and everybody's worried if they make any joke they'll look racist. That's going to be the big problem with this administration. Everybody's going to have to temper everything they say with the idea that they're not racist.
"This (administration) will be better, obviously," he continues with trademark cynicism. "I know Barack ran on a campaign of hope – and that never works out in my experience, when you hope for something."
Apparently he's working on a pilot for FX called, "The New Norm MacDonald Show." I don't know how he found out about the title of my memoir, but it works.
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