Norm Macdonald Cries on Letterman
David Letterman leaving made Norm Macdonald cry. Norm Macdonald. This guy doesn’t cry. It’s a bold move.
Macdonald went to extremes on Letterman last night for his final Late Show with David Letterman appearance. He went out on stage to do stand up and he crushed from word one. He had the audience howling for the full six minutes…and then he cried.
Toward the end of his set he told the audience, “hey listen folks, this will be my last time on the David Letterman Show, I understand.” He got thunderous applause for saying, “And we all know that David Letterman was the greatest talk show who ever lived.”
He started to get emotional as he started telling the audience a story about the first time he saw Letterman. He said he was thirteen years old and living in Toronto, Canada when he went to see a talk show. A young man named David Letterman was performing stand up that night on the show, and told a joke that is still to this day Norm Macdonald’s favorite stand up joke he ever heard. So he performed Letterman’s joke for the audience, which you’ll have to play the clip to hear, we’ll ruin it in text for sure..
He closed out saying, “I know that Mr. Letterman is not for the mockish and he has no truck for the sentimental. But if something is true it is not sentimental and I say in truth, I love ya.”
And then he cried. Who knew Norm had a sensitive spot?
