Tom Green

It was pretty big but not in Ottawa.

It was sort of almost like you felt like you were going somewhere that you weren't supposed to go.

You'd go down in the basement.

Yeah.

He's 16 years old.

I'm in a bar, you know, and there's some guy on stage.

And they're not talking about Norm MacDonald on television yet.

He hadn't gone to SNL yet.

I remember...

I'd see him and my friends would see him.

And then we'd go to school and we'd tell our friends, you've got to go see this guy, Norm MacDonald.

He'd come every three times a year.

And every time he'd come, we'd be there.

And it was just like this sort of myth.

It was a mythology to it.

And then all of a sudden, we heard he moved to Los Angeles because he was writing for Roseanne.

And we all heard about this.

And it was this sort of...

you know all the you know the amateur comics the you know up and the kids up there are doing it and well i guess i was the kid doing that everyone else was kind of in their 20s but 30s but everybody was just kind of like there's hope we can we can get out of ottawa man you know so yeah you know something out there and then snl and everything it was just amazing to watch watch him do that but and

You know, I was having a good chat with Adam at the club, you know, about Norm because he was, of course, famously his sidekick on his show.