Norm Macdonald Memoir
When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre "one step below instruction manuals." Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. In fact, it's hardly a memoir at all. Fey's are the best of that lot—but Norm Macdonald has a leg up on. Norm could have written a regular, straight-ahead, "here are the times I met Lorne and Chris Farley" comedy memoir in his sleep, and it would have been a contender for the best one ever. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre "one step below instruction manuals." Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. The story goes: Old Jack was a. Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, raconteur, and SNL veteran and one of the best stand-up comedians of all time. Norm Macdonald's Memoir Was Mostly Lies, but One Part Rings True Only after his death is it clear what he was really writing about. I think David Letterman said it best in his review: "I have read Based on a True Story, and I believe it to be largely bullshit, but it is very, very. In fact, it's hardly a memoir at all.