like the title of the post says, how can you not get that?

It’s not that I don’t get it (ironic old jokes, ha!), I just don’t get why you guys think it’s funny. I guess Norm’s delivery has always left me wanting someone else to tell the joke.

it has nothing to do with ironic old jokes. at all.

Bob Saget is known by most of America as a very tame comic. Bob Saget is known by people who have seen his stand-up, for being a very dirty comic. Some people think that being dirty, (talking about crackwhores, buttholes filled with cum, incest, necrophilia, etc) is a crutch “bad” comics use to get laughs from the audience who aren’t laughing at the joke so much as are surprised at the dirty word or thought. Some of the comics during the roast, made such remarks. Norm Macdonald is another comic that is well known (very well known in my opinion…) for being a dirty comic, in my opinion even dirtier than Saget. When he took the stage, everyone assumed he’d lash out with some serious dirty humor that would make all the comics that came before him blush and cry for even trying to dare say something dirty. Norm was going to have a ten minute beep over his entire bit up there on stage. Instead, Norm pretended to read his notes which contained the stupidest, tamest, most G-rated jokes he could have said. That’s the joke! He said the opposite of what you’d think he’d say. That’s what a joke is, that’s why it’s funny. When someone says something dirty as a punch line, people laugh because in polite company you don’t say something like that. When people laugh at a joke, it’s because the punch line was a surprise. Norm dropping lame G-rated jokes was the unexpected punch line that we are all wondering, “how could you not get that?”

that’s 92% of it.

It’s almost funnier having people try to ‘explain’ the joke to people who don’t find this jackass funny. “But you don’t get it, he’s telling a G-rated joke!”. Yeah, we know, we ‘get’ it. He’s still not funny.

Norm MacDonald is such a douche in my book.