I sat through one episode and it's a half hour of my life I'll never have back. There's nothing tremendously funny about sports in general but job-desperate Norm and an audience who can read the light-up "laugh" sign make a whole 22 minutes over it.
In an SNL weekend update style, the kind we were treated to in the 90s, Norm reads from the teleprompter one pun after another in his usual deadpan delivery. The problem with that is for it to work the actual jokes have to be funny, and they're not.
The highlight of the show I watched seemed to be a 3 second clip of Bill Cosby shaking his head in an condescending manner. It wasn't that funny the first time but that doesn't seem to stop the show from beating that dead horse to the ground.
Now I like Norm MacDonald. He's the kinda comedian that you wouldn't mind seeing co-start in movies with Adam Sandler, Dave Chapelle, or Eddy Murphy, voicing a dog. But this show won't last past the 8 episodes Comedy Central ordered - if it lasts that long at all.
In an SNL weekend update style, the kind we were treated to in the 90s, Norm reads from the teleprompter one pun after another in his usual deadpan delivery. The problem with that is for it to work the actual jokes have to be funny, and they're not.
The highlight of the show I watched seemed to be a 3 second clip of Bill Cosby shaking his head in an condescending manner. It wasn't that funny the first time but that doesn't seem to stop the show from beating that dead horse to the ground.
Now I like Norm MacDonald. He's the kinda comedian that you wouldn't mind seeing co-start in movies with Adam Sandler, Dave Chapelle, or Eddy Murphy, voicing a dog. But this show won't last past the 8 episodes Comedy Central ordered - if it lasts that long at all.