Norm Macdonald Comes Out On Conan (No He Didn’t)

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Norm Macdonald scored another memorable, yet bizarre appearance on Conan Wednesday night. The conversation between the late night host and the former Weekend Update anchorman took plenty of twists and turns. An interview is a little hard to follow when the guest keeps changing the subject during the middle of one of his own stories.

Here’s what we learned. Norm Macdonald is a deeply closeted gay man. It would be quite the revelation, except that every time Conan asked him if that meant he was coming out, Norm would adamantly deny it and claim to be straight. Thus, the “deeply closeted” part. According to Norm, he is married to a woman who is referred to in couple of soon-to-be classic Norm Macdonald stories as a “Battle Axe” and a “Dirty Dog”. He also told Conan how he once brought that dirty dog out of a coma. All of which, had Conan beginning to wonder if somehow he was on a 1935 radio show.

As the unique interview continued, Norm talked about growing up in rural Canada and seeing an elevator for the first time with his dad, his experience trying to buy a self-help book and he did his impression of the great late Johnny Carson. And in the middle of all that, he also talk about meeting Donald Trump and showed clips of from his “Sully” companion piece (yeah, it’s not a sequel and barely a prequel) “Sully Sullenberger: Airport Pilot” All of this may not make sense unless you watch the clips below, and even then, it still may not. This actually seems like way too many topics to be covered in one interview. The good news is that Norm finally found the affection he’s been looking for when he bonded with Conan’s next guest for the evening, Keke Palmer from “Scream Queens”.

The only consistent thing in Norm Macdonald’s latest Conan appearance is that he did remember to keep holding up and referring back to his new book that Norm claims is a novel being sold as a memoir. Either way, it’s worth picking up. “Based on a True Story: A Memoir” by Norm Macdonald is in bookstores and available on Amazon now.

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Ernie Tripper
Ernie Tripper