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Norm Macdonald Gets Dirty

By Rich Brown

If you thought Norm Macdonald's "Saturday Night Live" bits were extreme, wait till you hear his upcoming comedy album.

"I just wanted something where I could do anything I wanted," says Macdonald about the album, which will include a routine about the homeless. "We used to pitch ideas for "Saturday Night Live" for sketches, and they would always get big laughs. But they'd say, 'We can't do it, it's too rough.' "

Macdonald, in an interview with Time Out New York, says that when he was hosting "SNL's" "Weekend Update" segment he once almost got away with a joke that featured the famous war photo of a naked Vietnamese girl running for her life after a napalm attack. His plan was to show the photo and say, "Woody Allen is dating again."

"We did it in dress rehearsal, and... they didn't boo, but there was this noise, like shock, for literally 30 seconds," says Macdonald. "They couldn't believe it. And then I tried to explain that the lady was fine, because now she's living in New Jersey somewhere. They really hated it."

Macdonald will soon be seen in theaters as the star of "Dirty Work," a comedy directed by former "America's Funniest Home Videos" host Bob Saget.

"Saget has some of the funniest videos that people have sent to him that were obviously staged," says Macdonald. "And the funniest one is this guy lying on the couch, sleeping. You see on the floor this banana cream pie. And slowly this guy rolls over and falls onto the pie for just no reason. It's so hilarious."

Source: TV Guide Online

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