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I went to see Norm MacDonald last night. He had a show here in Vegas. He came out before the show to get a drink. I got to meet him as I was sitting right in front of the bar that he went to. :)

That made me happy. As you might know, I get starstruck, but mostly, I get off on getting a grin out of comedians.

My choice of phrase last night was, "Ya know, I really, really tried sticking with you through that little cheese show...but....ya know..."

He giggled and said, "Yeah, I don't blame ya."

On the one hand, I should have left right then. That was the most fun I had all night.

On the other hand, I came to a startling conclusion...

I'm going to do stand up comedy. At least once.

I realized last night that I have a gift.

um... more correctly, I noticed that the person that opened for Norm does NOT have a gift.

Ya know, same thing.

Actually 2 people opened for him. The first one was so incredibly bad. I mean, really bad. Like, open mic night bad. Even worse than that. The dude's name was Trey Monaghan or something. See, I put his name there because you will never hear it again... God willing. And I feel bad because he's putting himself out there, and he wants to be known, but he isn't... ya know.. funny... which is a real problem when your profession is "comedian"... I'd bet.

And we gave him a chance too. It was a good 5-8 minutes (though it felt like 20) before someone finally yelled out "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" There was talking through his whole set. Most of the time it was either someone leaning over going "What the fuck is he talking about?" Or someone else leaning over going, "Did you bring rotten vegetables? I didn't bring any rotten vegetables.... I really didn't think I would need any tonight. If only I'd known..."

The kid was nervous, he stumbled over a lot of his set. And when he did manage to get to a punchline, it wasn't even good. Ya know.. it was kinda like the dad fish in "Finding Nemo" at the beginning where he tries to tell that joke.

I can't even remember anything he said, but when people did start yelling out "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" (because, ya know, after the first one, many more were to follow) (and God love the kid, he STILL tried to tell more jokes) his big comeback was "Yeah, alright, 'booo' I don't see you up here." So.....ya know, I asked the security guard if I could go up there, but he said that as much as he would like to see anyone else besides the guy up there, they'd have to escort me out if I got up onstage.

So, ya know, I tried.

The second dude was a guy who had a small part on Sex and the City. He was the dude that Miranda sexed up when she went to Weight Watchers. The one that wanted to kiss her after going down on her.

Anyway, he was marginally better.... but not much. He got a laugh because he came out with a kinda "shit, I have to perform to an already unpleased crowd" look on his face. So somebody yelled out, "Tough act to follow." And that was probably the biggest laugh all night.

The guy did some impressions that all sounded mostly the same. He said a few cute things.

Then Norm came out.

And I really, really wanted to say that he killed.

But he didn't. And, ya know, that's just not what he does. He's not a killer. He's a funny guy. But he's more funny in the "how many times do you think he's going to manage to get butt sex into his act" kind of way.

6.

Plus a Michael Jackson joke.

I love Norm. I will forever love Norm. But I will never again pay $52 to see Norm. I might give the Trey kid 10 bucks or something. Ya know, cause I have a soft spot in my heart for underdogs.

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