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1. slate.com › culture › 2021Norm Macdonald’s Memoir Was Mostly Lies, but One Part Rings True

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   Sep 16, 2021 · In one of the ghostwriter’s narrated passages, Keane describes meeting “Norm” for the first time, at which occasion Keane uses the word “splendidly.” “It sounds womanish,” “Norm ...

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   Aug 13, 2024 · A cover image for Norm Macdonald’s ‘Based on a True Story’ │ Image credit: Random House. The late comedian Norm Macdonald is known for a multitude of things — his iconic late-night talk ...

3. www.goodreads.com › book › showBased on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm Macdonald - Goodreads

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   Sep 20, 2016 · Norm Macdonald. 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. When he emerged he had under his arm a ...

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2016/12/21 › booksNorm Macdonald’s Often Funny, Always Fabulist ‘Based on a ...

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   Dec 21, 2016 · In “Based on a True Story,” Mr. Macdonald lists the “Top 25 Weekend Update Jokes of All Time (in no particular order),” starting with one from Chevy Chase’s tenure as host and then 24 ...

5. www.randomhousebooks.com › books › 220620Based on a True Story | Random House Publishing Group

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   Jun 13, 2017 · 3. Based on a True Story, by Norm Macdonald. I have not read the first two. I have read and I believe it to be largely bullshit, but it is very, very, very funny! Thanks, Norm, for letting me be part of this Booker Prize–for–literature–quality effort.” —David Letterman. “Norm is one of my all-time favorites, and this book was such a ...

6. www.seattletimes.com › entertainment › booksSeattle Times arts critic Moira Macdonald begins a new chapter

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   Oct 23, 2023 · Thanks for sharing the magic with me. Moira Macdonald: mmacdonald@seattletimes.com; Moira Macdonald is The Seattle Times arts critic. "Sometimes in life, something astonishingly wonderful happens ...

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   Is Norm Macdonald based on a true story?

   • Based On A True Story is the autobiography of famed stand-up comedian Norm MacDonald - or so he would have you believe. Rather than tell you his real life story, Norm decided to write of his one-time plan to borrow millions of dollars from various casinos in Las Vegas, turn that money into millions for himself, then retire to a ranch in Montana.

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   Was Norm Macdonald really writing a memoir?

   • Norm Macdonald’s memoir is mostly lies, but one part feels more true now. Only after his death is it clear what he was really writing about. Norm Macdonald in 2015. Jason Kempin/Getty Images All across the internet, people are trying to understand why they loved the late, great Norm Macdonald so much.

   Norm Macdonald’s Memoir Was Mostly Lies, but One Part Rings True

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   Is based on a true story a good book?

   • It was a jarring moment from the bone-dry Mr. Macdonald, and it represented a few more seconds of sincerity than you get in the 240 pages of “Based on a True Story,” his often very funny but always very fabulist “memoir.” The book is most direct, and most convincingly self-loathing, about the job of comedy.

   Norm Macdonald’s Often Funny, Always Fabulist ‘Based on a True Story

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   Who is Moira Macdonald?

   • Moira Macdonald: mmacdonald@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @moiraverse. Moira Macdonald is The Seattle Times arts critic. "Sometimes in life, something astonishingly wonderful happens," Moira Macdonald writes. As she turns a new page in life, here’s where you can expect to find her work.

   Seattle Times arts critic Moira Macdonald begins a new chapter

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   Is norm based on a true story?

   • The connection between those stories and the story of Norm trying to impress a man he thought was Andy Griffith seems tenuous, but its there. Based on a True Story isn't true, but it is true to Norm, and a good story that is true to its teller becomes a great one.

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   Is Mr MacDonald a memoir?

   • A memoir in the sense that it’s roughly organized by the timeline of Mr. Macdonald’s life and career, this book is absurd fiction in many of its details, even the most basic ones. “I was a hick, born to the barren, rocky soil of the Ottawa Valley, where the richest man in town was the barber,” Mr. Macdonald writes.

   Norm Macdonald’s Often Funny, Always Fabulist ‘Based on a True Story

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8. books.google.com › books › aboutBased on a True Story: A Memoir - Norm Macdonald - Google Books

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   Sep 20, 2016 · Based on a True Story. : Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible #1 bestselling memoir of the Canadian actor, gambler, and raconteur, and one of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time. As this book’s title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life—more or less—from his origins on a farm in the ...