Jim Norton
Being pegged as an "angry comic" truly makes me want to vomit. To me the only labels in comedy that matter are "funny," "original" and "hack." By original I don't mean so weird that Andy Kaufman wouldn't get it and by hack I mean the next comic who writes a girl fart joke should have his writing hand smashed with a mallet. ... more »
Being pegged as an "angry comic" truly makes me want to vomit. To me the only labels in comedy that matter are "funny," "original" and "hack." By original I don't mean so weird that Andy Kaufman wouldn't get it and by hack I mean the next comic who writes a girl fart joke should have his writing hand smashed with a mallet.
I also loathe the wording in a lot of bios. I did not "burst on to the scene," nor do I leave crowds "rolling in the aisles" "on the edge of their seats" or "gasping for air." Some nights I kill, other nights the crowd wants to gut me with a fishing knife.
Judi Brown of the Aspen Comedy Festival said, "He's so brutally honest. He's very refreshing in a business where a lot of people are phony." That is probably the nicest compliment I have received as a performer. « hide
