Norm!
I’m going to do this sports show. It’s like a “Daily Show” for sports that they’ll put on Comedy Central. It’s supposed to be weekly. They eventually want to do it daily, but I don’t. It’s very hard to make something funny every day.
Every few years someone comes out with something and says it’ll be “the ‘Daily Show’ for sports.” And every time it happens, my former roommate Ted Burke and I get all angry about it because in college we hosted a program that very much fit that description and always dreamed about doing it on some grander scale. And we always convince ourselves that we could do a better job of it than Jay Mohr or the Sports Soup guy or whoever.
Norm MacDonald inspires no such anger from the award-winning co-hosts of “The Award Winning SaxaCenter Program.” Because that show likely would not have existed or survived without MacDonald’s massive impact on our style. I can’t speak for my former co-host, but I welcome the return of Norm MacDonald to weekly television. This man is a hero. The O.J. stuff is kinda sad to see, though, since it’s what ultimately got him canned and all.
