When you’re Norm Macdonald, you surround yourself with things that interest you.
These days, that often means a playing cards at a Vegas casino, as he competes on “Poker After Dark.” Sometimes that means working on new ideas with his longtime producing partner Lori Jo Hoekstra. And as the legendary comic told IndieWire, sometimes that even means indulging in some newfound online fascination. “I watch YouTube all the time. I go down YouTube holes where I’ll just watch every Orson Welles video and just gorge myself on information,” Macdonald said.
It’s that kind of interest — somehow laser-focused and scattershot at the same time — that guides the latest act of Macdonald’s career: Netflix talk show host. Premiering this Friday on the streaming platform, “Norm Macdonald Has a Show” is a collection of 10 half-hour interviews with a wide mix of entertainment subjects. Macdonald speaks to actors such as Drew Barrymore and Michael Keaton,...
These days, that often means a playing cards at a Vegas casino, as he competes on “Poker After Dark.” Sometimes that means working on new ideas with his longtime producing partner Lori Jo Hoekstra. And as the legendary comic told IndieWire, sometimes that even means indulging in some newfound online fascination. “I watch YouTube all the time. I go down YouTube holes where I’ll just watch every Orson Welles video and just gorge myself on information,” Macdonald said.
It’s that kind of interest — somehow laser-focused and scattershot at the same time — that guides the latest act of Macdonald’s career: Netflix talk show host. Premiering this Friday on the streaming platform, “Norm Macdonald Has a Show” is a collection of 10 half-hour interviews with a wide mix of entertainment subjects. Macdonald speaks to actors such as Drew Barrymore and Michael Keaton,...
- 9/11/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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