um i i was reading something about how you got to work with jerry seinfeld well
well i wonder what the order of this is yeah i'm sure he shouted you out first
and then took you on the road to open for him right it wouldn't be like opening and then he's
shouting you out but i there was this clip that went like pretty viral at least among the comedy
community of seinfeld at a mec game and he's being asked like who who is an up-and-comer and i just
love this clip so i'm going to play for people who have haven't heard this and then i'll get one
all right i want to know who is the best young up-and-coming comic that we should keep our eyes
there's a young guy out there named mark norman
who has not broken yet but is i have met and i've talked to and the guys i look for
are the hardcore crazy guys that when i talk to them about buddy hackett they know who i'm talking
about or or rickles or they know the history they know klein they know you know the heritage of the
profession and mark norman is one of those guys so i i like him keep an eye out for him
that came out before the pandemic i believe yes right before and how did you first learn of this
i'm sure your phone was blowing up cause do you watch baseball uh not really i've been i like to
go to the games but i don't really follow it on tv but uh i was in buffalo at buffalo helium bombing
bombing my balls off for like eight people i think it was like labor day it was some kind of holiday
so everybody was out they were soaking it in there's like two nice days in buffalo
so i had the worst weekend bombing i get off stage after the first show i'm covered in sweat
my phone's going like a pinball machine and i look at a few texts like seinfeld's talking about you
and i was like what the hell and it's all very surreal and so i've opened the video and i'm like
i mean this is a guy i grew up watching i used to watch the show with my
family my family and uh just very bananas that life could be that long that you can go from
sitting down as a 14 year old watching it to being talked about by the guy the whole thing's insane
um and then i met him a little after that actually no i met him before that and then he shouted me
out so wow the whole thing was insane and then i went on i remember going back to the hotel that
night being like well i'm gonna sell out tomorrow i mean this is it i made it and then it was like
not everyone was watching the met game what the [ __ ] yeah yeah still died up there nobody cared
about the met game so i got that clip and i put it on every social media i put on grindr i put
it all over town uh wherever i could and it still didn't move the needle but comics liked it and my
mom liked it okay okay that's good did you know when you had bumped into him first was that at
the seller no i was at gotham and he bumped me and i was like ah [ __ ] it was one of those you know
me i'm a psycho i like to do four sets a night or whatever so i had four sets and i remember they
were all very close so i was a domino effect so he bumped me and i go [ __ ] there goes my night
and then i had to follow him and i brought the heat you know uh and i assumed he was back in his
porsche on a pile of money in long island and he was there side stage i got off stage and he goes
that was great i was like oh my god you watch me and he goes yeah he goes i'm a fan and i go oh my
god he goes let's talk so we go in the green room and talk for like an hour i get his phone number i
blew him it was insane wow it sounds just like a female comic this is great yeah yeah holy [ __ ]
that's incredible and it's almost like had you known for sure if he was watching you like maybe
that would have made you totally nervous what a [ __ ] my head up for sure but i i assumed he
had left why would he watch me and he he said he saw me on a tonight show randomly and he's
like oh this is not bad and then i happen to be at gotham and then he put the the pieces together and
we ended up chatting we kind of hit it off he's such a normal regular guy and easy to talk to and
he gave me his number and he was like here you go in case you need it i go i will never use
this he goes use it use it so we started texting immediately and i think i've sent him too many
drunk texts because uh we've kind of fizzled out oh no i would wonder if it's one of those numbers
where you call it and says welcome to 1 800 hot tits you know like all right kind of phone you
used to prank as a kid like from a public pay phone you just call it up and be like oh my god
they said tits um do you think you uh you sent him too many drug messages i'm sure he'll come around
well you know it's like having a supermodel's number you have to play it so delicately you
know you can't over text but you can't not text so when i would get drunk of course i'd have a
little little liquid courage and i'd be like hey here's an idea for a sketch we should do
on youtube and he'd be like ah so i think nah that's that's still amazing so that was the the
first time you were really made aware that you were on his radar uh yeah insane the whole thing
was very surreal i remember looking at him in the green room and he was talking to me and i remember
being like this is insane i'm trying to act normal but i'm like i can't believe i've heard this voice
for so many years and so many hours and now he's in front of me the whole thing was bananas
cause wasn't he like your number one like wasn't weren't you like the biggest fan of
like of his i don't know i feel like i remember you at some point like i feel like he was your
favorite comic or at least well he was he was up there because the show the tv show was like
my comedy thing where i was like this is meant for me i felt i was a kid in new orleans and the show
just tapped into my my [ __ ] and i loved it and my parents liked the show and we never liked any
of the same stuff so i like brought the family together and then we i found a stand-up and then
uh i found larry david and and i just fell in love with nor mcdonald and chris rock and all these
people so he was definitely one of my first comedy comedy guys did that show put the plant the seed
of you wanting to move to new york to do up oh yeah all that all that i love new york i love jews
i love i love stand up i love how professional he was like you know you had like a louis ck
type with a black t-shirt on and and then seinfeld was like in a suit it felt very old-fashioned and
and like rat-packy to me and i always liked that so that's why i work so hard it's because
i i learned that from him i like want to grind it and do all these sets and write new stuff because
you know that's to me that's what he did and i wanted to be like that yeah and there was
an article i read where where you noted that he's like when you opened for him at the beacon
also right before the pan the pandemic like you learned of his kind of like meticulous schedule
like he has to exercise at certain times his show he's very picky about what kind of shows or
totally totally he's a nut and that's probably why he's so successful he's just very regimented and
i heard you i know you heard the story about how i was late to uh or i [ __ ] up bringing him out
on stage right you you finished well what i read was you finished your set like one minute early
went back and he wasn't there and then you had to go back out on stage which is what any comic would
would do you're like oh okay i have to do a couple more minutes it's happened in plenty of shows uh
you just do a few more minutes until the guy shows and he said to you like what he was upset
that you did it that way yeah he kind of reamed me after the show and that talk about surreal
like meeting him is one thing but getting kind of chewed out by him was a whole nother ball game
and we were cool now we made up and i think it actually brought us closer in a weird way but uh
i mean i went home that night in my suit and laid on the bed staring at the ceiling like apocalypse
now like watching the ceiling fan turn going well that's it i got to the mountain and i blew it
you're you're a [ __ ] up forever you're a piece of [ __ ] you're gonna die alone you know i didn't
sleep a wink and then he texts me like 10 in the morning like see you tonight i was like i'm back
wow okay good it's good that he wasn't like i'm blocking your number mark oh god my biggest fear
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