Norm MacDonald is like my favorite comedian ever yet he's kinda bad ethically

http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/norm-macdonald-book-snl.html

A1 article holy shit

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There’s a thing you do in the book, where you take the kernel of a real-life event, and then craft an outlandish and obviously not-real story out of it, that feels very different from a lot of contemporary, more personally revealing post-Louie comedy. Did you ever have any impulse to write something more confessional?
I do not like confessional comedy. I don’t like it at all. Nothing can be easier than being confessional. Confessional is bragging. That’s all it is.

It’s bragging to draw from your life experiences?
People think things are tragedy. They’re not tragedy.  If you get cancer, that’s not a tragedy. If your mother dies when she’s 30, that’s not tragedy. That’s life. You don’t yell it from the rooftops. It has no place in comedy.

So I guess you’re not a fan of the wave of TV shows that’s followed Louie? All those shows clearly based on the star’s real life?
Louis C.K. is a genius. But every genius breeds a bunch of fucking idiots. These people say, “I can do that.” But they can’t, they just think they can. I don’t understand all these comedy shows that forget about being comedies. It’s absurd. There shouldn’t even be a prevailing style of comedy, anyways. People should be individuals.

There’s also a parallel trend to the confessional comedy I’m talking about, which is comedy that’s much more explicitly concerned with identity issues. I’m thinking of people like Amy Schumer or Aziz Ansari. Are you also disinterested in social-commentary comedy?
If you can tell me one funny, socially relevant joke I’d give you a million dollars. Comedians, when they get really good, and nowadays they don’t even have to get good, reach a point where they feel they should be philosophers. I’ve heard it said even that the modern-day philosophers are comedians. I read modern-day philosophers! I’m sure they’re insulted when they’re compared to people who work in smoky nightclubs and hit on waitresses for a living. Social commentary — I don’t know. Have you tried watching Murphy Brown lately? Those Dan Quayle jokes …

I’m a little surprised to hear you say that, especially about the confessional stuff.
That doesn’t really even have a place in social intercourse. Confessional is meant to be something you do in a dark booth beside a holy man and whispered.

You really believe that?
Yeah.

seriously, have you seen this dude on Millionaire? Literally made fun of Regis the entire time and knew the million dollar question. But anyway, I love his opinion on what art is.

oh okay nvm, this dude is 100% awesome and shouldnt be part of this thread's subject