Noah talks with Ronald McDonald, the nephew of Richard McDonald, one of the founders of the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain. McDonald died on Tuesday at the age of 89 in New Bedford, New Hampshire. McDonald opened the first McDonald's hamburger stand with his brother, Maurice, in the late...
From his early days honing his craft at comedy clubs in Canada to his later Saturday Night Live fame, Norm Macdonald was one of the most brilliant stand-up comedians of his generation.
jacobinmag.com
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In an era when right-wing comedians claim to be “truth tellers” smashing liberal taboos to get laughs, Norm Macdonald considered himself no such thing. “I guess there came a time, and I missed it, when revealing everything started to be considered art,” he said in 2018. “But I’d always learned that concealing everything was art.” Macdonald didn’t enjoy political comedy and on stage spared his audience his personal opinions on political matters: “Let’s not get into this shit, man,” he told Marc Maron in 2011 when the topic of politics was broached, “I can see people not laughing now.”