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  • 4:25 The guy closest to the camera laughed so hard at the Greenspan joke, he coughed up a lung!

  • Norm is always hysterical.

    I noticed Peter Jennings, Tony Blankley and David Bloom in the audience; all gone now.

  • Norm is everything a comic should be. Kudos and long life truth teller!

  • The "is he laughing line" is from Don rickles, norms personal friend. Even had him in DIRTY WORK. If you watch him roast Regan, Don uses the same line among other times. Norms brilliant and the only people who would not find his funny, is those who don't get the jokes. That's your fault not Norms. He killed.

  • Is he laughing ...lol fantastic line.

  •  Norm actually doesn't give a shit... which is awesome in itself.

  • 5:43--that was probably his only good joke! funny because it's true. hillary was the only one laughing. come on.

  • well done, Norm. Tough room and you did a great job

  • Bald dude's Ismus joke should have got a better laugh. It was pretty clever.

  • They laughed a the devaluation of the peso with one of those "it's funny 'cause it's true" chuckles

  • Norm was probably like, "how can i get away with telling them all to kiss my ass?"

  • "The Yen stops here" F#@% CLASSIC!!

  • Most hilarious train wreck of all time.

  • @healthhavencom train wreck? what the fuck are you talking about? do you not understand that he is in character? come the fuck on man, you cant be this dense.

  • @VoidmasterNX What's that Sparky?

  • @healthhavencom Pretty sure I explained it as well as I could there Chief. But hey Sport, don't get so down.....your ability to not actually respond to questions is still impressive, Slugger.

  • @VoidmasterNX What's that Sparky?

  • OMG the greenspan jokes are funny, did you hear the silence when he hinted greenspan is the most powerful? he was right XD

  • politicians are so fake. they hardly laugh the whole night then they give a standing ovation as if they really enjoyed him. norm is hilarious

  • @jlejr10 That's because Norm is hitting some sore spots :D

  • "So far it's been visited 20 times by Matt Lauer"......perfect.

  • What a fuckin gig!

  • The audience is on Xanax, Prozac and not enough booze.

  • Karl Rove @ 1:30?

  • @cheagan It looks a little like him, but I don't think it is. 1st, what's he doing there? He's not media-related and, although probably living in DC at the time, he was mostly involved in consulting with Republican campaigns. 2nd, why is the camera focusing on him? It's pretty good at only looking at politicians and higher-up recognizable media figures. The guy looks a little skinnier than Rove (although that's something that changes). It might be him if the guy next to him is someone important.

  • Lol

  • TOUGH CROWD. Norm is awesome.

  • How is this a bomb if everyone is roaring with laughter and if it's fake which it could be their politicians after all then it's even more bad ass he controlled them in that way

  • tough crowd...

  • I never found norm mcdonald to be funny. I could see these jokes coming a mile away

  • @imageniusfx

    that's kinda the whole point

  • How on earth can you say Zionists are responsible for the civil wars in Rwanda. It's clearly obvious....WAKE UP!!!!!! The Bush administration's goal of global tyranny is in affect as we speak.

  • having trouble sexually Harass herself lmfao

  • John Kerry @8:05

  • 3:02 "larry king just married her...." hahaha

  • you know

    

  • wow look at how phony clinton's laugh was.

  • @zackhanscom fake laugh is better than no laugh :P

  • the yen stops here!

  • Damn, Norm McDonald is one funny ass man

  • This is absolutely delicious.

  • The parking spot joke is such a classic.

  • wow amazing guy

  • can I be a gay left handed black man?

  • Norm given it to Greenspan !

  • Matt Lauer made 16 YouTube accounts.

  • Wow - I don't think C-Span has ever aired anything funny - period! This clip will clearly go into the C-Span Hall of Fame!

  • 4:25 is gold.  Eat it b**^h.

  • Clinton was such a good sport through the whole thing. that medical marijuana joke from pt 1 had him cracking up

  • @pepperjack91 Medical marijuana helped...

  • damn! they left him up there for almost 20 minutes?  awesome

  • he handled that situation perfectly. new assholes for everyone.

  • @fosterch yes you are so right.. he give it to them stuck up assholes.. b. clinton was a good sport though

  • legend!

  • Is it even possible to call the media out more directly than Norm does with the Matt Lauer joke? "I guess he's a legend, too... all right."

    And at least somebody at C-SPAN knows what they're doing; the very uncomfortable extended shot of Clinton from 1:57 on... Notice that it could be a straight commentary "Do you know he has organized in the past year over 100 fundraising dinners?" And Clinton is literally hiding his face. Then, "Is he laughing?" and a overplayed fake laugh to save face

  • God I love Norm! The reason he's so great: He doesn't change who he is, his style, or his sense of humor just because who he's in a room with. Fantastic material.....the one about the female general being unable to sexually harass herself...the room would have been laughing hysterically if it were full of regular people!

  • I think Bill Clinton laughing more than anyone else...

  • as bad as it gets

  • Oh man, the greenspan joke about the good ear? and then the one about the parking spot? so good!

  • Brass balls.

  • 5:32 the joke and Hillary's reaction are priceless. Just look at Hillary try to suppress a laugh. Brilliant, Norm. Brilliant.

  • Fuck did he bomb!!!

  • @chadley6916 No he didn't. Since when do people get standing ovations when they bomb? These people don't give standing o's..they are known to be the toughest crowd. He killed!

  • @bluemoonkentucky1

    they were being kind...very kind

  • @chadley6916 No, he didn't. Some jokes didn't go over. But, for that type of crowd, he did pretty well, actually.

  • @mongolenpup Because he is brilliant. Not many people get to the million dollar level in Millionaire. And he was ready to guess the right answer to win the mil but walked instead.

  • 05:02 "You are now handicapped AND the you're the President of the United States. You must have an unbelivable parking spot." That's brilliant comedy.

  • Norm is THE MAN.....but he don't get alot of gigs cause he is TO Conservative for the Hollywood and Media Dirtbags!!!

    Rock On Norm!!!!

  • soooooooooooooooooo funny omg

  • The sexual harassment joke was the best. Not a single fucking person laughed. That was awesome

  • @evangrogers Comedians always say this is the toughest crowd ever :) You are right some of his best jokes "bombed"..they are generally much more uptight I suppose because they are more worried about being politically correct. But Norm blasted right through that and had them roaring. He is truly a brilliant comedian. And with all his intelligent comedic brilliance...one of his funniest jokes was so simple..."Mr President you must have an unbelievable parking spot". ;D

  • @evangrogers hillary chuckled, most people seemed to chuckle :) hard to fully laugh at that in 97, but it was a way to get over it put it out there even more. and norms kind of joke!

  • I love how Bill loved it, and everybody else sounded depressed. Clinton ftw

  • I'd love to see Ricky Gervais in 2012 !!

  • @dvdmckvr saw it, it sucked.

  • he says "you know" a little too much but pretty damn funny otherwise.

  • you can tell hillary clinton wanted to laugh at the sexual harrasment joke

  • Audience has a bit of the 'ol tight ass going on.

  • WHCD is always a tough audience

  • yeahi don't really understand how people can not laugh. what do they find funny? what DO they laugh at? do they not laugh at stuff? i suppose only if they're tickled

  • Norm Mcdonald is a comedic genius, and Bill Clinton is looks one cool mothafuckin pimp.

  • Imagine having Seth Mcfarlane doing something like this?

  • @Cambrand No,

  • LOL

  • some one should add a red light bouncing around norms head during the unexepected roast.

  • Norm is the funniest man alive behind my good friend John clease

  • Norm is so tragic. He's smart, great as a comedian, and extremely well-liked by lovers of comedy and his peers alike. Why does everyone treat him so awkwardly? I think this mistreatment by people in his life has helped him into desperate state he lives in now. What a nihilistic man, but I like him.

  • @jimriceallstar Mistreated by the audience? It is a tough uptight crowd at the correspondence dinner. And they gave him a STANDING OVATION. You call that mistreatment? Wow. He got more roaring laughter than any comedian I've ever seen at a corresp. dinner. You know what a standing ovation means right? And it was an enthusiastic one..not a polite one. Saying Norm has been mistreated over the years by audiences is so very ludicrous. He has always been extremely well received. Where have you been??

  • bill clinton is such a fake prick

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  • Norm MacDonald! You are awesome!! I can watch his stand-up and best of clips all day..

  • Good thing Clinton has a sense of humor, because nobody else does.

  • two thumbs UP :)

  • this is the greatest thing i ever seen...ever

  • what's that thing of clinton's nose

  • "You can kiss my ass, every last one of ya!!" ...and they ALL CLAP!!! Genius.

  • handicap parking space best joke lmao

  • I just noticed that the Like-Dislike ratio is 525-13, the 1984 Presidential Election spread in the Electoral College.

  • Norm was so funny he KILLED em! LITERALLY!!! 4:24 <-- old guy with glasses

  • @Thycid Which old guy with glasses lol.

  • @Misterioso

    Have you ever seen ANY of his standup?

  • @Misterioso The obliviousness of your post confirms your douchiness.

  • Its hard to make people laugh that have to pretend to be serious 100% of the time.

  • Hillary Clinton's reaction to the sexual harassment joke at 5:47 is priceless. She clearly knows she shouldn't be caught laughing...

  • NORM.......GOTTA LOVE HIM .......YA KNOW!

  • Best joke 7 reaction 4:08 Larry King's was 2nd

  • Very funny routine. Norm was brave to keep telling jokes to such a hostile audience. Norm is coming to town in a few months. I will definitely go see him! Norm is extremely funny.

  • Hilarious!!!!!

  • he gave them what they wanted at the end.

  • He's a little nervous, you know?

  • ROFL at the secret service in the background who's not allowed to laugh 5:18

  • Just for re-emphasis: 5:47 - This is the look that make boners go limp.

  • 5:47 - Hilary knew this joke was funny, but a second too late realized it in very poor taste to be laughing at it.

  • "she's having difficulty figuring how to sexually harass herself."

    crowd reaction is priceless

  • hahaha this is just great.

  • I love it when the "sexually harass" herself joke bombs totally. And some dude just screams "NORM!" and he's like "yeah what's up?"

  • HITLER AT 8:59!!!!!!!

  • Norm is so funny he almost committed murder at 4:26 !!!

  • That matt lauer joke was freakin' hilarious ......by the way I purposefully used lower cased letters for mattt lauer's name cause he isn`t a journalist or even important!!!

  • Norm kicked ass. :3

    Norm is the only comedian who can sort of play safe for the right crowd and at the same time be ballsy.

  • ah, the Clinton era. back when the libs and dems where not complete assholes. i miss those times.

  • not one joke about Monica Lewinsky. Was this before her?

  • @Meduza2010 Don't you think it will be too much of a bad taste, joking about that when Hillary Clinton was there also?

  • 2:47 I hope people got that joke. Because Rome and the Vatican is running the world.

  • @T3chyo that joke is about Strom Thurmans' age, not conspiracy theories.

  • @waynecannington

    Norm is clever.

  • What are people talking about? I heard a lot of laughs. Belly laughs, some of them. Every comedy show has shots of stone faced kermudgeons, but most of the crowd was diggin' it. Norm is the man

  • Standing ovation... pretty impressive

  • NORM is awewsome

    "200 fundraising midnight snacks"

    wow! stuffy bastards aww! at the female general sexually harrasing herslef

  • Couldnt stop laughing, thanks Norm I really needed that. He did really good, this is the crowd that launched the PC revolution, getting a bunch of politically correct stuffed shirts to laugh is amazing. I saw the look on Hillarys face she was offended more than once.

  • 5:44 Hillary must have known something back then about  that....

  • Damn, Norm was great... it must be difficult to do stand up at a cemetery....

  • Not his greatest act, but it's hard to compare a room full of drunk people looking for a laugh to a room full of drunk people looking around, wondering if so-and-so across the room saw them laughing about that other so-and-so. Politics and humour don't really mesh as well as television would have you believe.

    But I'll take a meh MacDonald set over "solid gold" from 90% of the other jokers anyday.

  • 200 years from now we'll all be dead. But this man will long be remembered for having stamped the planet with pure funny. He is funnier than everyone. Agree with me or die.

  • @Nick4174 Can I do both?

  • @Nick4174 I agree he is funnier than anyone. I rate him number one. Then Robin Williams number two and third Steven Martin, then Bill Cosby and Richard Prior. But they all try so hard to be funny. Norm simply is....a comedian.

  • Norm is brilliant but I don't think this material worked for him... I want to hear Norm like he really does it: make a Vince Foster or Gennifer Flowers joke. He could have had one about Joycelyn Elders promoting masturbation because nobody would have sex with her, and throw in a few O.J. and Michael Jackson jokes. I'm serious.

  • the audience IS the joke

  • @Dadge42 Yeah! I love the one old guy they go back to showing, even when everyone is laughing, and he looks so pissed off! It's awesome!

  • @Dadge42 obviously :)

  • I don't think the crowd was that tough. Norm takes warming up to. I love his comedy - I'm seeing him next week in Ottawa - but he has to grow on you a bit. Watch this video in comparison to Part 1 - the people are laughing harder and harder with time. You adapt to his demeanor.

  • norm got more laughs and colbert got more balls... i call it a draw...

  • when he bombed on the famale general joke. i laughed my ass off

  • lol jesus this man is the best...

  • wow...thats how u know your in a WHOLE diffrent other level...LEGEND.

  • I know Norm, I know!

  • clinton thirsty

  • Funny how Norm was born in Quebec City, Canada

  • @5:45 It got Soooooo tense! Everyone was afraid to laugh. I love his awkward humor.

  • It's funny to see people intentionally try to laugh at Norm's more conventional stuff - almost like they feel uncomfortable not getting his other stuff. The reactions to Norm are like some psychological goldmine of a study. Norm probably gets off to watching reactions to his stuff.

  • What a buch of stuffed shirt fucktards.

  • Bill Clinton's the only one who gets it. I miss him.

  • humorless bastards, sweet jesus, norm is a badass

  • classic Norm

  • "you know ... you know ... you know ... you know"

    *glass shatters*

  • Probably toughest crowd in the world. As per usual no one gets it.

  • some humorless psychotic fucks from hell. go norm.

  • OOF that's a tough crowd! amazing

  • "The yen stops here", "The most powerful man in the country: Alan Greenspan"... I think Norm might be an Austrian Economist!

  • one of a kind comic genius

  • i fucking seond, third and Motherfuckin fourth what HowlingJongo said, GENIUS, i am in awe..........(falls down steps)

  • everyone drinks after he talks about them lol. They r raged.

  • He wasn't nervous one whit; Norm doesn't give two fucks for those people.

  • Instead of NORM saying FTW, hes saying FTG . (Fuck The Government)

  • I want to meet him in person. He puts on this persona and it is comedy gold, at least I think it is a persona... If he is actually like this I would be unable to keep up. He is a FUCKING GENIUS!

  • "You are now handicapped and the president of the United States, you must have an unbelievable parking spot. Thats gotta be very close to the building, ya know."