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Everyone has their time. Jimmy had it...for awhile. Now, he's done. It was fun but it's over. Steve from Yellowstone was his peak.
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What went so horribly wrong with Jim Norton’s career?
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Lotta problems with that guy...
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Last time I saw a clip of his retarded act, he was just riffing on headlines he scrolled through on his phone, and making gay, unfunny observations about them. Then, when they bombed, he tried to connect with the audience in that annoying self-deprecating way of his, like him being an unfunny pud was the bit. It was pathetic, and indicative of the lack of creativity and effort he puts into his faggoty act.
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Artie Lange was the same way on Stern. Amazing off the cuff when fighting people or going at it with guests or callers. Legendary cringe humor moments on places like Joe Buck Live or on his Nick and Artie Show. But as a standup he did the same 40 minutes of jokes for close to two decades and almost all of the laughter in his specials is from hardcore Stern fans mercy laughing.
Him being ripped on by Maxwell for shoehorning in the 'puddle of AIDS' jokes in hindsight was probably the most accurate take on Norton as a comic and third microphone. He just sits there in his seat waiting to throw out an AIDS or pedophile related line as shock humor. Then later in O&A he would do the exact same thing but with the added bonus of faggot Anthony fake laughing at his jokes like a repulsive queer.
I remember Norton's advice show being infuriating at the time. Especially because it would eat into O&A. But looking back it's probably the funniest thing that he's done on his own. Him giving dooming and sabotaging advice to listeners for an hour was hysterical. Also how serious he took the show when it was a complete farce was great as well.
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Or the way he'd "break character" and smirk after making his "baby boy" faces after another joke about his sexual degeneracy, like his endless perversity was endearing and lovable. Hint: it isn't.
This is an apt comparison. Just substitute wanton drug abuse with sexual degeneracy. Retartie would smirk and snigger his way through his debauched drug anecdotes like his depravity was cute and endearing, just like how Jimmy does. The "naughty boy" shocking the audience with tall tales about copping heroin and big meaty clits.
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For better or worse he was the O&A comic. Now the show is done and that whole style of comedy is on its way out. As others have pointed out he isn't nearly as poinant as he believes himself to be. Now he's in a neither fish nor fowl spot of being a fox news regular while trying to sell a 'theyre just like us' YouTube show with his gay husband.
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you should just try an open mic & maybe go to a meeting, I'm not gonna say what kind of meeting or if there are any steps in it (dozenal or otherwise), but just go to a place - I'm not going to say if I go to the place I didn't mention, because we don't mention it.
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I think he lost a lot of credibility in the NYC comedy scene after he threw Louis under the bus. Also he appears to be a pretty unlikable guy behind the scenes and is probably difficult to work with. Dave Smith has become pretty popular now and they had a pretty big falling out because he was a creep to Dave’s wife. So it seems like he doesn’t have too many friends left.
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The Chip stuff. I actually still can't believe how far he went with it. In 2010 or whenever it was just "the unfunny co-worker we've all had" but then he started doing entire bits "in character", and then would do every off-the-cuff line as Chip. I don't even need to bring up the fucking costumes. It's one of the most profoundly unfunny "characters" I've ever seen, and completely not in the "so bad it's good!" way that Jim wanted. It was just Jim acting retarded and saying every unfunny thing that came to mind. Seeing everyone go along with it baffled me. People here actually liked it, there's even someone two posts above me with the username "Peckas". NONE of that shit was ever funny, on any level. I remember he did the "Chip at Comic Con" bit, and Penn Jillette didn't even pick up that he was doing a character, he just thought Jim was spouting unfunny bullshit.
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"Peckas" is peak comedy.
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His career stalled when he stopped doing the road regularly between 09-13 and became obsessed with doing those Leno spots that did nothing for his career because there was no shared demographic. His comedy grew stale and Burr, CK and his other peers clearly passed him by.
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What went wrong? He never should have had a career to begin with.
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Nice 'poignant', stupid.
Him refusing to tour outside America because he believed they hated Americans had to have played a big part in him becoming irrelevant.
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He thought talking about his depraved sexual preferences would make him cool and edgy but it just makes everyone uncomfortable...there's a reason why these activities take place behind closed doors .
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Guy sucked cocks for no reason and got a radio? career, at least blobby got a steak for his good deed
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I agree Chip was the final but also biggest breaker for me - and I was a big Norton fan. Please Be Offended is a brilliant special and his comedy was still top notch as late as that Netflix Deplorables/Degenerates show (I can't remember the name) where he did 20 minutes on serial killers - which is his last taped thing, I think. A lot of his stuff is brilliant - its lack of success in the mainstream comedy world means nothing (I was also a fan of Patrice who also did not have mainstream success). He - Norton - clearly doesn't agree though - never has, he thinks all of it is shit and doesn't understand why he's not more successful like more mainstream (less filthy comics) who do comedy about their wives/kids/family - which Norton had none of (also why he's trying to push his 'relationship' now - too late). I saw my favourite comic go from top notch stuff to nowhere when Ant got fired, to then working with Sam Roberts and telling his original audience to 'go away' (he did do this, live on air on Jim and Sam) and I guess from his own numbers and bawling on livestreams just a few months later that's what the final hangers on did - his audience had enough. But he 'pivoted' all throughout this to Chip - which is a different audience to the one he'd built up for years, he walked away from his established audience and chased the guys who go to things like Dabblecon and think WATP is the height of funny - naturally his actual standup career cmpletely died.
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The Louis thing told anyone that Jim has no loyalty and would turn on you in a minute. It's not like he was part of the Andy Kindler/Ian Micheal Black set of comics, which would never accept him anyway.
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I also forgot to mention the insanity of Jim disassociating while doing Chip, and his other retarded characters. He would talk about them in the third person as if they were real, and seemed to really believe it. This was also when he developed his eating disorder, when he wouldn't put salt on anything because he thought there was sugar in it. He's always been a mentally ill faggot, but I really think something broke in his brain around that time.