Most people think Norm McDonald was a comedian.

Oh how wrong they are.  So so very wrong!

Well no, actually he was a comedian. But he was no ORDINARY comedian.

You see, he wasn't very funny.  Most people think he was just a comedian that wasn't very funny.

They don't get Norm.

You see, what Norm McDonald was, he was a joke scientist.

He wasn't satisfied telling the same kinds of jokes that other comedians told.  He insisted on finding entire new classes of humor, entirely new structures of funny.

And so he would go up on stage and tell his joke and nobody would laugh.

And he would think "Oh.... well that settles it then. That's a data point."  He was doing the science.

Norm.  I miss Norm. The greatest joke scientist that ever lived.