Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir
by Norm Macdonald
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2022 Nov 04
Description
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. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”
Notes & Highlights
Chapter 12: Me, Gabe Veltri, and a Squid
“Well, Norm, to answer your question, I’d say the odds are good, but the goods are odd”
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