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Mark Normand

Mark Normand

American comedian and actor

Nov 7, 2026

1:44
But they fill it with like, and it's so
1:46
fucking frustrating.
1:47
You sound dumber.
1:48
It bleeds into everything.
1:50
I had a really great conversation two years ago with a linguistic analysis lady, and she was explaining what's going on here.
1:57
And they're referred to as filler words.
1:58
Yes.
3:17
But
3:04
They've just got that as the get out of jail free card.
3:06
Well, my thing is, look, you can hate the comic, you can hate the message the guy has to say or the girl is saying, but like, why does it have to go away? Like, why the deplatforming? Why can't you just go? That's not for me.
3:16
You know, when you're on campus and they're doing like a, you know, a trans drum circle for climate change.
3:24
You go, all right, I'm not going to that.
3:27
I'm going to get drunk.
3:28
But you're not going to go, we got to shut this down.
3:30
And that's the part that bugs me.
5:58
what are you learning? I
47:27
I don't know too much about that
47:29
one.
47:30
Let me tell you two key things that you got me at the cellar.
47:33
You said he was mean to you in the early days.
47:35
Me? Yeah.
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Yeah.
47:37
Now here's two that stuck with me.

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joke about this.
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I don't know too much about that
47:29
one.
47:30
Let me tell you two key things that you got me at the cellar.
47:33
You said he was mean to you in the early days.
47:35
Me? Yeah.
47:36
Yeah.
47:37
Now here's two that stuck with me.

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56:33
joke about this.
25:41
Do you still have those desires? Oh,
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yeah.
25:44
I have all these fantasies about having the perfect line in a room or having this great zinger or this joke.
25:50
And that's what's great about pods.
25:52
You get to have those moments.
25:53
You get a little bit of that in crowd work, but most of our shit's written.
25:58
So you get a few of those moments, and that's what's great about having these cameras at every show.

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Like the
0:53
That's what's happening next.
0:53
That's gold.
0:54
I love it.
0:55
And nobody gets hurt.
0:56
You can't cancel anybody.
0:58
It's fun.
0:58
He's already a black bear.
1:59
And she got on the plane with a life and a career and got off the plane and it was all gone.
0:00
It's great using your platform in that way, 100%.
0:03
I agree with you.
0:04
And that's what I admire so much about Joe, to be honest.
0:06
It's like, yeah, Joe's the shit, man.
0:09
He's literally...
0:11
He is cool.
2:16
my mom a
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house.
0:00
I sent you earlier on a video about Dove.
0:03
Yeah, that was great.
0:05
So for the people that haven't seen it, Dove is on a mission to challenge and change female representation in video games and help make gaming a positive space for women and girls.
0:15
So they've created this video.
0:18
of a like superhero girl superhero and they she slays this this evil baddie and then she gets back into the changing room and takes her armor off and gains 80 pounds yeah that was odd immediately and then like sits down puts her hands behind her back and realizes i don't need to wear the armor that is holding me in and then she goes out and like keeps on fighting but now she's 80 pounds bigger yeah um Female characters in games do not accurately represent the diverse gamers of the world and are often heavily sexualized and created within narrow, unrealistic beauty standards.
0:48
74% of girls feel unrepresented in video games.
0:52
I'm looking forward to the Call of Duty Lizzo skin.

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7:03
And that's where I get pissed.
18:20
I don't know if I'm
18:21
quite upset.
18:22
I mean, I get it.
18:23
I get the crowd work phenomenon.
18:24
You don't have to burn material.
18:26
It's a quick clip.
18:27
It's a quick bite.
19:41
shoot it on his own?
0:52
That's what's happening next.
0:52
That's gold.
0:53
I love it.
0:54
And nobody gets hurt.
0:55
You can't cancel anybody.
0:57
It's fun.
0:57
He's already a black bear.
1:58
And she got on the plane with a life and a career and got off the plane, and it was all gone.
1:02
So, yeah, just learning, recentering the scope of my linguistic usage and realizing what words are in and what words are out and what i can say and what i
1:10
can't say yeah yeah we do we do the the f word a lot it's all a buffer it's all like i'm trying to think of something so i'll what's the name of that fucking uh that drink you sell and it's it's not good and if comics use it too much the problem now is the word like This is like an American epidemic.
1:28
This is a real problem.
1:29
You watch like Gen Z and all these people.
1:32
Everything is like, you know, you'll watch Candace Owens or something go yell at a college kid.
1:37
Yes.
1:37
And they're going, well, like you, you said like you were eating and it's like, no, not like she was eating.
5:20
And they show, they put it up on the, on the screen and then they've got to guess is it all black people yes okay and uh i was like it is absolutely why and it's just the most liberal use yeah that it's every it's the saying like smattering a word with fuck right like or like it's that but and i just thought it is so insane that we have this it's fascinating isn't it boundary around
3:05
They've just got that as the get out of jail free card.
3:07
Well, my thing is, look, you can hate the comic, you can hate the message the guy has to say or the girl is saying, but like, why does it have to go away? Like, why the deplatforming? Why can't you just go? That's not for me.
3:17
You know, when you're on campus and they're doing like a, you know, a trans drum circle for climate change.
3:25
You go, all right, I'm not going to that.
3:28
I'm going to get drunk.
3:29
But you're not going to go, we got to shut this down.
3:31
And that's the part that bugs me.
5:55
Reading comprehension is way behind where they should be.
0:00
earlier on a video about Dove.
0:02
Yeah, that was great.
0:04
So for the people that haven't seen it, Dove is on a mission to challenge and change female representation in video games and help make gaming a positive space for women and girls.
0:14
So they've created this video of a like superhero girl superhero and they she slays this this evil baddie and then she gets back into the changing room and takes her armor off and gains 80 pounds yeah that was odd immediately and then like sits down puts her hands behind her back and realizes i don't need to wear the armor that is holding me in and then she goes out and like keeps on fighting but now she's 80 pounds bigger yeah um Female characters in games do not accurately represent the diverse gamers of the world and are often heavily sexualized and created within narrow, unrealistic beauty standards.
0:47
74% of girls feel unrepresented in video games.
0:51
I'm looking forward to the Call of Duty Lizzo skin.
0:55
dropping i want to

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7:02
And that's where I get pissed.
OpieHOST
16:10
It was a whole fucking thing.
16:12
One time I was dating a girl for like 10 years, and I sent her a text on accident that said, I wish I could, man.
16:18
I got to hang out with my dumb broad girlfriend or something like that.
16:21
And it went right to her.
16:22
And I was like, oh, and she wrote back, what? And I just wrote back, ha, ha, ha.
16:26
Can't wait to see you.
16:26
Something like that.

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OpieHOST
23:14
That's real easy.
1:18
of my linguistic usage and realizing what words are in and what words are out and what i can say and what
1:24
i can't say yeah yeah we do we do the the f word a lot it's all a buffer it's all like i'm trying to think of something so i'll what's the name of that fucking uh that drink you sell and it's it's not good and it's comics use it too much the problem now is the word like This is like an American epidemic.
1:41
This is a real problem.
1:42
You watch like Gen Z and all these people.
1:45
Everything is like, you know, you'll watch Candace Owens or something go yell at a college kid.
1:50
Yes.
1:50
And they're going, well, like you, you said like you were eating and it's like, no, not like she was eating.
5:58
It's fascinating, isn't it? Boundary around
1:59
I'm white." And she got on the plane with a life and a career and got off the plane, and it was all gone.
2:06
Yeah, poor gal.
2:07
That's not a bad...
2:08
That's not that bad.
2:09
There's a lot of AIDS in Africa, uh, not really amongst the whites.
2:13
I mean, if you go with the statistics, I'm with her.
2:16
[laughs]
2:17
Eh, you know, it's a funny joke, but, uh, that should be a miniseries, like HBO, you know, like Black Mirror and all that.
0:00
I sent you earlier on a video about Dove.
0:03
Yeah, that was great.
0:05
So for the people that haven't seen it, Dove is on a mission to challenge and change female representation in video games and help make gaming a positive space for women and girls.
0:15
So they've created this video.
0:18
of a like superhero girl superhero and they she slays this this evil baddie and then she gets back into the changing room and takes her armor off and gains 80 pounds yeah that was odd immediately and then like sits down puts her hands behind her back and realizes i don't need to wear the armor that is holding me in and then she goes out and like keeps on fighting but now she's 80 pounds bigger yeah um Female characters in games do not accurately represent the diverse gamers of the world and are often heavily sexualized and created within narrow, unrealistic beauty standards.
0:48
74% of girls feel unrepresented in video games.
0:52
I'm looking forward to the Call of Duty Lizzo skin.

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7:03
And that's where I get pissed.
58:34
Mark Normand, what are you plugging, my friend?
58:35
Hey, I'm playing at Cornell.
58:37
No. I'm at Charleston, Greenville, one of the Carolinas there.
58:46
Oh, thank you.
58:48
Keep going.
58:49
I don't know, when does this come out?
58:51
Tomorrow.
58:52
Oh, great.
1:00
[laughs]
1:00
It's too big of a target.
1:01
The terrorists, it's too easy.
1:03
But here's my thing with it.
1:04
A couple things.
1:04
I love the idea of the animator being like, the director's like, "We need her fatter." So he's like, "Oh, shit.
1:09
All right." So he has to make her bigger.

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I don't think that we believe that it's true.
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Yeah
1:20
... that drink you sell, and it's, it's not good, and it's, comics use it too much.
1:24
The problem now is the word like.
1:26
This is like an American epidemic.
1:28
This is a real problem.
1:29
You watch, like, Gen Z and all these people, everything is like.
1:33
You know, you watch, uh, Candace Owens or something go f- yell at a college kid-
5:48
... particular word itself.
3:05
They've just got that as the get out of jail free card.
3:07
Well, my thing is, look, you can hate the comic, you can hate the message the guy has to say or the girl is saying, but like, why does it have to go away? Like, why the deplatforming? Why can't you just go, "That's not for me"? You know, when you're on campus and they're doing like a, you know, a trans drum circle for, uh, climate change, you go, "All right, I, I'm, I'm not going to that.
3:28
I'm going to get drunk." But you're not gonna go, "We gotta shut this down." And that's the part that bugs me is like, why the shutting down? That's so, that's so Trumpian.
3:36
All these people who hate Trump are very dictatory.
6:42
Hmm.
6:42
And they're not actually going after Black people as much as we think they are.
6:46
This is his study.
6:47
He couldn't believe the numbers, 'cause of, you know, 'cause what we've been hearing for years and years.
1:58
Just kidding, I'm white." And she got on the plane with a life and a career and got off the plane, and it was all gone.
2:06
Yeah, poor gal.
2:07
That's not a bad...
2:08
That's not that bad.
2:09
There's a lot of AIDS in Africa.
2:11
Uh, not really amongst the whites.
2:13
I mean, if you go with the statistics, I'm with her.
2:16
[laughs]
1:02
So, yeah, just learning, recentering the scope of my linguistic usage and realizing what words are in and what words are out and what i can say and what i
1:10
can't say yeah yeah we do we do the the f word a lot it's all a buffer it's all like i'm trying to think of something so i'll what's the name of that fucking uh that drink you sell and it's it's not good and if comics use it too much the problem now is the word like This is like an American epidemic.
1:28
This is a real problem.
1:29
You watch like Gen Z and all these people.
1:32
Everything is like, you know, you'll watch Candace Owens or something go yell at a college kid.
1:37
Yes.
1:37
And they're going, well, like you, you said like you were eating and it's like, no, not like she was eating.
5:20
And they show, they put it up on the, on the screen and then they've got to guess is it all black people yes okay and uh i was like it is absolutely why and it's just the most liberal use yeah that it's every it's the saying like smattering a word with fuck right like or like it's that but and i just thought it is so insane that we have this it's fascinating isn't it boundary around
3:35
They've just got that as the get out of jail free card.
3:37
Well, my thing is, look, you can hate the comic, you can hate the message the guy has to say or the girl is saying, but like, why does it have to go away? Like, why the deplatforming? Why can't you just go? That's not for me.
3:47
You know, when you're on campus and they're doing like a, you know, a trans drum circle for climate change.
3:55
You go, all right, I'm not going to that.
3:58
I'm going to get drunk.
3:59
But you're not going to go, we got to shut this down.
4:01
And that's the part that bugs me.
7:04
No.
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I like it.
54:20
All I think...
54:21
Now with the kid, all I think about is my childhood.
54:23
It just brings you back, and then you're like, "Boy, I don't remember anything." I have no memory.
54:28
My mom brought a box of photos, like old Polaroids and shit in a shoebox, and I was like, "I don't remember this.
54:34
I don't remember this." And she's like, "That's when we went to the circus.
54:37
You rode the elephant." I'm like, "What the fuck? I've ridden an elephant?" So with my kid, I'm taking a million photos.

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64:03
Adulthood has not made you wiser [laughs].

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