A Miserable Norm Macdonald goes on The View: 'I never did anything’
“What I was talking about was Chris Hardwick, a particular comedian, a friend of mine. And if 500 women go against a man obviously the guy is guilty. In Chris Hardwick’s case, it’s one woman against one man. So I was saying I thought it was good … Chris Hardwick is as rehabilitated as you can get. Yet he still tells me he can’t walk down the street without people yelling stuff at him.”
“It’s always bad when you have to apologize for the apology,” Macdonald said. “There used to be a word we would all say to mean stupid that we wouldn’t say any more. You know the word I’m talking about? Stupidly I was about to say that word and I stopped and [wondered] what the right word was to say, and I said a different word that was equally [offensive]. I realized at that moment I said something unforgivable…The remark I made about people with Down syndrome is terrible.”
It’s just frustrating to see a guy who did nothing but try to respond honestly to an interview question he didn’t particularly want to answer anyway be treated so harshly for it. I mean, from his perspective, he’s seen longtime friends lose their jobs, one wrongly accused (more or less), so he’s had to deal with that personally. It makes sense to me why he made the comments he did.
Are people arguing Norm has a right to be on The Tonight Show?
I’m just bummed a favorite comedian of mine was cancelled over a controversy that amounts to a guy standing up for his friends, and had to address that controversy on The View of all things rather than on The Tonight Show. Of course they had the right to cancel him. I just wish they didn’t.