Norm MacDonald Quotes

I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.

The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

I can't quote stats from another decade. I've got friends that can do that. But I am a huge sports fan. In fact, I enjoy all sports, and when I enjoy a game for five minutes, I'm in it for the whole thing. Plus, I do have some teams I loyally follow.

One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

It's very hard to write humor.

I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

I'm a sports fan. I'm not just an athlete who plays football.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.

I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.

I like watching baseball on TV. I love watching all the sports.

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

I grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and I'm a huge Red Sox fan. I've probably been to Fenway 40 times. I've been pretty lucky as a sports fan because the Patriots have won Super Bowls and the Red Sox have won World Series during my lifetime.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep up with who's ahead in a division and everything that's going on.