Based on a True Story: A Memoir (a review)
Norm Macdonald is a twinkly-eyed comedian’s comedian, a man with a perpetual smirk. He’s an irreverent comedic genius, spinning his tall tales on talk shows (ever hear tell of an Andy Richter story) along with long, winding old jokes in the structure of a Russian novel (Moth joke). He got fired from SNL, starred in Dirty Work and Screwed. He hails from a rural town in Canada and calls himself an old chunk of coal. He’s more of a fan of Tolstoy than Dostoevsky, but enjoys Chek
