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Re:Norm Macdonald has died by slg on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:08PM (#28529476)
"If you die, the cancer also dies at exactly the same time. That to me isn't losing a battle, it is a draw."

He was one of the funniest people ever and there is probably no one who was a more entertaining talk show guest. I can spend hours just watching whatever comes up after plugging "Norm Macdonald talk show" into Youtube.

Re:Norm Macdonald has died by techbio on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:05PM (#28530327)
That is a University of Science worthy medical fact.
Re:Norm Macdonald has died by qart on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:56PM (#28531048)
Downvoters didn't probably realize the phrase was from his joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3TI3iMb1E
Re:Norm Macdonald has died by robotresearcher on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:46PM (#28531823)
Re:Norm Macdonald has died by okareaman on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:50PM (#28530935)
From this I can infer you know the dog house joke
Re:Norm Macdonald has died by nsonha on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:31PM (#28541188)
idk it depends on the definition of dying and where exactly the tumor is
Re:Norm Macdonald has died by greydius on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:01PM (#28530259)
I wonder if he ever heard of Henrietta Lacks.
Re:Norm Macdonald has died by awb on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:02PM (#28531142)
Re:Norm Macdonald has died by rolleiflex on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:53PM (#28530987)
I’m not sure what survives to this day in that case is more Henrietta or more cancer. To this day the genome is becoming less and less human.

So perhaps a draw still in the long term since eventually the corruption could terminate itself.

Re:Norm Macdonald has died by seumars on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:02PM (#28530282)
"Who writes these?!"

RIP Norm.

Re:Norm Macdonald has died by listless on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:25PM (#28534893)
That is the single most comforting statement I’ve ever heard about cancer.

This year has been the absolute worst.

Re:Norm Macdonald has died by bee_rider on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:52PM (#28530134)
Is that actually a quote of his?
Re:Norm Macdonald has died by superduperuser on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:56PM (#28530187)
Yes it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMRd-n_s4c8

From his special: Me Doing Standup

Re:Norm Macdonald has died by bee_rider on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:10PM (#28530382)
Thanks.

Interesting in context -- wonder if he knew at the time, it would be right at the limit of the time-window described in the article I guess.

Re:Norm Macdonald has died by rOOb85 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:01PM (#28531126)
In the TMZ article it mentions a 9 year battle with cancer.
Re:Norm Macdonald has died by bee_rider on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:10PM (#28533340)
Yeah, at least from my quick glance it looked like the special came out in 2011, which would put it around there. There's fuzziness on either side -- on one hand there was presumably some editing time, on the other he seems to have kept it private, presumably whoever told TMZ found out a little bit after he did, and their memory might not have been perfect. It is just in the ballpark.
Re:Norm Macdonald has died by npkarnik on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:56PM (#28530190)
Yea definitely, it's a bit in his standup
Re:Norm Macdonald has died by aidenn0 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:00PM (#28530249)
Yeah, TFA even uses the phrase "battle with cancer" and that's where my mind went...