In case you missed it, we lost a great comedian this week in Norm MacDonald. Brian shares his thoughts on a very funny man.

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Shtick like Norm.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today it was announced that Norm MacDonald, comedian extraordinaire, famous for his time on Saturday Night Live, his television show Norm, many other accomplishments his movie Dirty Deeds.

I mean, he's done a million things that he's passed away from cancer at an early age, I believe he was 61. And it's a funny thing with comedians, I don't always feel as attached to comedians, as everybody else does necessarily, and entertainers in general, I don't connect with all of them.

Norm was one of those that was interesting because he was somebody that I did connect with it early on in my partial career as a comedian and writer and comedic actor. I guess you could say that he was one of the early ones that I would watch on Saturday Night Live and paid very close attention to how the jokes were delivered.

He was a person also who studied the art and a lot of people refer to him as the comedian's comedian. He wasn't as wildly popular as a lot of the other people that he surrounded himself with. But most people who have a comedic tendency, have huge respect for Norm McDonald. Because of what he was able to accomplish.

I just wanted to point out one little thing that you can use in your business, especially in content marketing, one of the things was just one of the lessons that norm did on a regular basis. And you can see it in his work on Saturday Night Live.

So on Saturday Night Live, he played a lot of characters, he did a Burt Reynolds impression, the absurd impression really wasn't Burt Reynolds. But for some reason, everyone went along with that.

But when you can create those type of characters that always has an effect, but the most famous thing he did was Weekend Update, which is the regular news program, a satire news program on Saturday Night Live that's been on forever, and where they oftentimes will pull a piece of news out, and then make a little joke about it, or create an absurd piece of news and put that out there.

So he would do odd things that no other host of Weekend Update had ever done. One of the things that he would do is he would pick an absurd statement and he'd repeated every week, in a very odd way.

So one of the first ones he did was this con, he'd say, or so the Germans wishes to believe. And he saw he would say a piece of news that wasn't funny at all. They turn in the camera would grab him from a different angle and say, or so the Germans wishes to believe. And he'd hold it.

Then there was odd laughter because people didn't understand what it was. But when he repeated it over and over and over again, it became a joke unto itself, because it made absolutely no sense.

Like he said, himself, it's a non sequitur. He had this non sequitur humor, meaning it was something that didn't go anywhere. And it was funny because it didn't go anywhere, because it had no reason for being there.

He would do this with little sayings. He said, he would say, you know, which proves my theory Germans love David Hasselhoff, and he'd say it in odd times. He bring it up every episode every week.

He used these terms, he get obsessed about one thing, like this was during the OJ Simpson trial, and so forth. And so he'd make a joke about OJ Simpson, being a killer on a regular basis,