I feel like this one was pretty obvious -- maybe not hardware store specifically, but it's pretty clear he wasn't in a restaurant as soon as the rant part started.
The "when" part is actually what makes it so funny. You may know what he's gonna say, but you can't really predict when he's gonna strike and it catches you off-guard.
Having a Polish surname, I have heard them all. My father cleared it up for me. He said: "there is no such thing as a Polish joke. All of those stories are true."
Well it's true, am true polish man and few seconds before I even saw this thumbnail I thought about eating a fried sausage, rly!!! XDDD But it's damn delicious, you have to taste it.
@@-ram-m2664 Nah, that is not about Poland, that is about somewhere else, you know, because there used to be 3 wise men in Poland, they all went down to Israel so that they could enjoy the weather, hot women, and lots of cheap wine.
@@innerDialectic It was good timing too because Norm was running out of food items with nationalities attatched to them. I think he probably was planning on Conan interrupting there too
AAAAAAHHHHH!!!! PAAAAAIIIINNNN!!!!!! I broke my hand yesterday because of the hate comments I get all the time. I was so angry that I punched a hole in my computer. Please don't hate me, dear dav
This is supposed to be the "definitive Polish joke": A traveling salesman is in a strange town and goes to a local neighborhood bar at the end of a hard day to relax. The bar is full of people and there is just one empty stool at the middle of the bar and he sits down. He's a friendly guy, being a salesman, and after ordering a beer, says in a loud voice "Hey everybody, I heard this really good Polish joke." Suddenly the room goes dead silent. The guy looks at the bartender and asks what happened. The bartender says, "Look fella. This bar is in a Polish neighborhood. All the patrons here are Polish. The bouncer by the door, the one seven foot tall not counting his head, he's Polish. And I own this establishment and I'm Polish. So you'd better consider all that before you tell your damn Polish joke." The salesman looks around at everybody and says, "I'm sorry. I didn't know. I'll tell it real slow."
I've heard this joke with every group in the world. Why do people vomit these ancient, tired jokes and insist they are brand new or original just because they changed one word?
@@luxuryballer8291 Perhaps you don't understand that not everyone has HEARD every joke in the world. To someone who has not heard it, it is new. Also, I never claimed it was brand new or original.
"i need more examples." Suppose someone comes into a hardware store and asks for Indonesian cheese, and the hardware store employee just assumes he's from Indonesia. Well that would make sense, actually. Who eats Indonesian cheese? Indonesians, chances are. Still, a hardware store?
ach Norm, gdybyś tylko wiedział, że miałeś fanów także w Polsce i znalazło się kilku szczęśliwców, którzy widzieli Twój sławny występ "live" u Conana bodaj w 1998 r., gdy w pięknym stylu zniszczyłeś film z Carrott Topem i Courtney Thorne-Smith siedzącą obok Ciebie, występ, który dziś uważa się za legendarny i kultowy... i nawet nie masz pojęcia jak wtedy wpłynąłeś na kilku chłopaków z drugiego końca świata (dla Ciebie) i jak potem śledzili Twoje losy, gdy punktowałeś Jacksona za pedofilię (gdy nikt tego nie chciał mówić głośno), albo śmiałeś się z Cosby'ego, że kiedyś mu wreszcie coś udowodnią (aż udowodnili) - miałeś te swoje running jokes, które trwały 10-15-20 lat i na końcu zawsze to Ty miałeś rację... albo gdy się okazało, że Letterman Cię uwielbia tak bardzo, że zaprosił Cię na swój finałowy show, byś wystąpił, a Ty się rozkleiłeś, bo to był zawsze Twój idol i okazało się, że jesteś zwykłym wrażliwym chłopakiem z nieprzeciętnym talentem, a nie prostakiem i chamem, na którego się tak skutecznie kreaowałeś... będzie Cię brakować Norm, RIP, gdziekolwiek trafisz - będzie tam zdecydowanie weselej :)
hahaha I tell my mother she should stop insulting our cat by calling the cat Polish [like herself]. She says that's a compliment! I told her Norm MacDonald, my favorite comiedian, a Polishman died, she said, "oh yeah, that's that's too bad!" I say "you want to watch a joke now?" she said "no" [^half a norm macD joke]
I'm part Polish through my grandpa, and he loved making Polish jokes. I still remember at my sister's wedding reception, some drunk guy was causing trouble, so my grandpa and dad cornered him and told him they were in the Polish Mafia, and the drunk bastard actually believed it.
I love how after Norm tells Conan he's Polish, he looks right at him and you know there's now way you can trust that Norm isn't being a complete smart aleck.
norm is my favorite troll comedian. he draws you in with false assumptions and distorts your reality. he almost makes you think he has a beef with polish jokes, yhen he just rambles and rambles and wtf he just told a polish joke lol
The way he sneakily sets up the joke by saying he is Polish before even starting the joke leaves no question that he actually was pegged correctly as such by the hardware store guy. Took me a few times watching it to fully appreciate that. It makes a huge difference.
@@vishalmishra8176 He probably only asked Conan to set him up by asking him what his ethnicity was but didn't give him any more than that so that Conan's reactions would be genuine and natural. But of course he's not actually Polish, and that makes the punchline funnier because his rant ends up just being another culturally acceptable cheap shot at Polish people.
The orginal version of this joke is Lewis Grizzard's: "A man walks into a store and asks for an RC Cola and a MoonPie. The guy behind the counter says, ‘You must be from Alabama.’ The customer replies angrily, ‘Just because I ordered an RC Cola and a MoonPie, how come you think I must be from Alabama?’ He continues, ‘If I ordered spaghetti, would you think I was from Italy? If I ordered sausage, would you say I was from Poland?’ The man behind the counter says, ‘Well, I can’t say. It’s never happened.’ The customer asks, ‘Then how come when I come in here and order an RC Cola and a MoonPie, you just automatically assume I’m from Alabama?’ The man behind the counter calmly replies, ‘’Cause this is a hardware store.’”
I competed once with 20 of the nerdiest kids in our school for the chance to compete on academic challenge which was a quiz show for high school students on channel 5 in Cleveland. The three of us who won spots all had significant Polish ancestry. Olchovy, Schzipinski and (in my case) my grandmother was a Mocarski. We won of course but…… Thankfully none of the questions involved changing a light bulb.
@@west_polee poważnie? "Olchowy" zamienione w "Olchovy" i już nazwisko jest "zanglizowane"? Bez przesady, widziałem polskie nazwiska pisane na kilka różnych sposobów tutaj jedynie dopasowano je do fonetyki angielszczyzny. A co do kolegi Schizpinskiego... gdyby nie ta końcówka to nie domyśliłbym się, że to może mieć polską etymologię.
You're going to food supermarket in UK and there... women & kids dresses.... + car fluids + agd + rtv + medics ....barelly can find any foods there, not to mention 70% of them are forefingers....
Greetings from Poland. I always loved his sense of humor, punchline was never obvious, deadpan delivery, self concious. Now when he is not with us anymore, I realize how much he influenced me and my sense of humor. His interviews with other hero of mine, Conan, were classic, even his short lived sitcom was great, because of him. Nobody knew that he was sick, for so long..., that's heartbreaking, but it sounds like 100% Norm. True genius and a hero of mine. Rest in peace.
Also gotta say. Mad props to the uploader for the excellent title. The surprise of the punchline is crucial, a title that revealed the punchline would have ruined the joke.
Viktor Birkeland as a pole (was born in norway and lived there for 11 years but moved back to poland 6 years ago)(polish parents) i think we have climbed the ladder pretty well haha. Now as more and more gypsies and people from pakistan and somalia come to Norway, norwegian people start to appreciate Polish people more. But you’ll never be liked as much as a fellow norwegian person because norwegian people will always believe that they are better than other countries. (They are arrogant, but don’t show it as much as for ex. French people. Of course this doesn’t apply to everybody) Ps. They have a good reason to be arrogant because their country is great and full of wonderful traditions. Will always have a special place in my heart for norway, although it has it share of problems ;)
I've never heard anyone use the word "Ridiculous" as best as Norm MacDonald. We are all bless to lived in the same time period as you. Looking forward to all those Heaven jokes you'll be working on when we arrive.
Reminds me of the Polish airline captain taxiing onto the runway for takeoff? The Captain turns to his First Officer and asks the younger man, are you ready for takeoff? The younger co-pilot has a bewildered look on his face and states, "Captain: this runway is not very long"? The Captain replies, "but it sure is wide"!
Squadron 303 - Polish squadron in Royal Air Force in WWII.. Best squadron in RAF, was decisive in the victory of Great Britain in the most important air battle of World War II, i.e. the Battle of England.
@@koraptd6085 They're laughing at how stupid you are and you go on to even defend them. How pathetic and hopeless are most of my fellow Poles. Gobsmacking.
A Polish guy immigrates to the US and goes to apply for his drivers license. They tell him he has to do an eye exam and ask him to read the chart. On the chart are the letters Z A W A D Z K I. They ask him if he can see the letters and read them. He replies " Read them! I know the guy"
Conan: Shit, nothing happening in the news and no movies coming out, time to bring Norm on the show! Loved how he would take 10 minutes and tell a single, horrible joke. And you could see him enjoying every second of it. RIP Norm, one of a kind
Oskaregg, Yes all immigrants at one time had problems with foreign languages, so what? The PEAK of "Polish jokes" in America was in the 1960s/70's....when most Polish Americans spoke fluent English and on average made more money than most Americans. So HOW does that make them "dumb"....as NBC-TV says???? SO WHY was the 1960's/70's the PEAK TIME of "Polish jokes" in America? It was because NBC-TV was bashing the hell out of Poles on NATIONAL TV to MILLIONS of Americans! WHY did Anti-Christian Leftist NBC-TV do this? Because NBC-TV HATES Poland for being the MOST CHRISTIAN nation and most Red Pilled nation in the world and being against the Leftist propaganda NBC-TV spews. NBC-TV HATES Poland because Poland is PROUD of being a WHITE CHRISTIAN nation like in these TH-cam videos "Polish people say, WE WANT GOD/Jesus! - Polish march for Independence Nov 11, 2017" and "The MOST Red Pilled nation is Poland - Despite Leftist objections, Polish TV network tells the truth". Today, perverted Leftist NBC-TV is doing the same thing with President Trump. NBC-TV keeps BASHING Trump as being "dumb" because Trump can see through the Leftist media's Lies and Trump is the most Red Pilled president we have. As for me, I was born in America. I am a Polish American.
Te dowcipy są kompletnie odklejone. Nawet nie nawiązują to stereotypów. To tylko świadczy o ich poziomie. Równie dobrze możemy te wszystkie dowcipy przerobić na wersje: "Przychodzi Amerykanin do sklepu..."
In 1900 there was a book published in NY with all kinds of anty-Irish, anty-Finnish, anty-Blacks, and many other bad jokes. The book's name was Polish Jokes. Everything bad was Polish. Who did that? Those who hated the Polish People, Since the 1200s, Poles accepted in their country all immigrants who came or who were kicked out from other countries... The biggest migration was after 1499 and for 100 years Poland did accept thousands of Jews. Their population, grew 100-fold by 1599. For example, from 3000 they became a big minority of over 300,000. They became very entitled, and influential and demanded autonomy in Poland, and they had their own different laws, traditions, and customs.
Dlatego właśnie teraz nie powinniśmy przyjmować migrantów. Już mamy problemy z Ukraińcami. W Polsce mogą mieszkać tylko czasowi migranci zarobkowi bez prawa osiedlania się i sprowadzania rodzin. Kończy się kontrakt to wypad z Polski.
My favorite joke from one of the true all time greats. Gonna miss ya Norm. Hope your house in heaven has a dog house so the neighbors don't get any wrong ideas about ya.
“I told a joke and a polish guy in the audience said it was offensive. So the next night I changed the joke to be about stupid people.. same guy got angry!” - Norm
I love that he just casually lies for no reason (like that joke he told about finding himself in the middle of a lie that doesn't benefit him at all) Norm Macdonald was not even a little bit polish lol
If you haven’t read Norm’s “Based on a True Story” book, you must do so. Not only is it the funniest book I’ve ever read, but I found myself wondering just how much of it was actually true. Could be 10%; could be 90%. (I’d guess it’s closer to 10…) But that’s part of Norm’s genius.
I laughed and i don't even know why because i didn't get the joke. But i was holding back my laughter throughout the video for some reason. "Wow, you talked to this guy for a while." was pretty funny, perfect timing.
Norm always acted like he found the secret of the universe and was just joking around since he already beat the game.
Awesome comment.
The way Conan put it "He was the smartest guy in the room pretending to be the dumbest."
That is a really good way of describing him. Astute observation.
I mean, as a Christian that would be his belief.
He found a way to make even God Himself laugh.
The thing I love most about Norm's jokes is that I never know what the punchline is going to be.
or when..
True dat
I feel like this one was pretty obvious -- maybe not hardware store specifically, but it's pretty clear he wasn't in a restaurant as soon as the rant part started.
@@arcxjo thats the joke
The "when" part is actually what makes it so funny. You may know what he's gonna say, but you can't really predict when he's gonna strike and it catches you off-guard.
Having a Polish surname, I have heard them all. My father cleared it up for me. He said: "there is no such thing as a Polish joke. All of those stories are true."
"My father cleared it up for me" did he Polish it?
Well it's true, am true polish man and few seconds before I even saw this thumbnail I thought about eating a fried sausage, rly!!! XDDD But it's damn delicious, you have to taste it.
@@kejiri3593 Keeping in season...How do we know that Jesus was not born in Poland?
--> they couldn't find 3 wise men. :D
I mean, if you can't get Kielbasa in store and tools to fix roof with, is it really a store?
@@-ram-m2664 Nah, that is not about Poland, that is about somewhere else, you know, because there used to be 3 wise men in Poland, they all went down to Israel so that they could enjoy the weather, hot women, and lots of cheap wine.
He's so Polish he didn't realise he was telling a Polish joke.
ChubbyChecker182 let it be known Dave Dave is the 69th like on this comment...farewell now
@Dave Dave Can I be you?
that is literally the joke.
@@WiggleJimmy You didn't even spell it correctly you dumb bigot jackass.
@@WiggleJimmy Is he a Pollachius pollachius or a Pollachius virens? You really should be more specific.
Conan is the perfect host for Norm McDonald, he understands his rhythm, adds to the joke and looks legitly surprised for the punchline.
No he isn't....... Sorry just came from Monty Python video.
@@scrapplepig yes, he is
@@pasteldecarne485 He isn't
@@scrapplepig Yes, he is.
@@pasteldecarne485 Is this the five minute argument, or the full half hour?
"Never judge a book by it's cover..unless it's Mein Kampf........"
A very underrated book
@@rosihantu1 true
Bet
The more I hear about that fella the harder it is for me to like him
\o
I love his smirk after he's said the punchline
Well how else would we know the jokes finished 🙄
Yes, thank you. That's the funny thing behind Norm.
@@he_is_a_GOOBER_dont_disrespect Wait. What?
that deviant glare he gets, his eyes flash just for a moment
he doesn't find it funny at all: in fact he thinks it's disgusting!
Parents changed the last name to Macdonald when they came to America. The other option was Burger King. Norm Burger King.
...or Pizzavitch Hutchinson
Spoczywaj w pokoju, Norm.
Respect for you Norm in this sad moment from the Polish guy.
Norm Macdonald 1959 - 2021
Wut
He isn't polish btw
@@xXLoonoeXxyeah no shit
After all, the commenter at the top didn't write about it, that's not what he meant....@@xXLoonoeXx
@@maxalbon9557 I wrote in case someone thought he was polish since Norm has said he's polish even though he isn't.
“You talked to this guy for a WHILE” 😂
That’s one of the rarest of rare times someone else got a genuine laugh from the audience during Norm’s routine.
@@RealJackHQ Nope Conan always delivers with Norm
@@innerDialectic They just connect really well.
@@innerDialectic It was good timing too because Norm was running out of food items with nationalities attatched to them. I think he probably was planning on Conan interrupting there too
@@CSRgamer Norm was like "Damn Conan! How long are you going to let me go on?!"
"Well, first of all, it's a hardware store." I always hate when that happens.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
I knew something like that was coming😂🤣😂🤣😂
oh you must be Polish
You heard about the Polish guy who won the Olympic gold medal and had it bronzed? -- Rodney Dangerfield.
Wdym? All the hardware stores in my area sell Polish Sausages
Timing and delivery are Norm's greatest talents.
Those are my talents as well. This was supposed to be a joke about being a dominoes driver
Yeah, being at the wrong store at the wrong time not being delivered what you asked for.
AAAAAAHHHHH!!!! PAAAAAIIIINNNN!!!!!!
I broke my hand yesterday because of the hate comments I get all the time. I was so angry that I punched a hole in my computer. Please don't hate me, dear dav
Ehhhh
His Timing Is UnReal 😮
My father never laughed at anybody but he laughed at Norm Macdonald all the time. This one killed both of us.
Me too. Norm didn't like to tell "jokes" but he was so good at them. My all time favorite was the pumpkin head joke.
@@abbynormal8702 "I'm not much for jokes, kid" Rodney Dangerfield to Norm on the SNL set
Nice to meet you Jesus, you coming back soon?
Rip 😔
My condolences.
This is supposed to be the "definitive Polish joke": A traveling salesman is in a strange town and goes to a local neighborhood bar at the end of a hard day to relax. The bar is full of people and there is just one empty stool at the middle of the bar and he sits down. He's a friendly guy, being a salesman, and after ordering a beer, says in a loud voice "Hey everybody, I heard this really good Polish joke." Suddenly the room goes dead silent. The guy looks at the bartender and asks what happened. The bartender says, "Look fella. This bar is in a Polish neighborhood. All the patrons here are Polish. The bouncer by the door, the one seven foot tall not counting his head, he's Polish. And I own this establishment and I'm Polish. So you'd better consider all that before you tell your damn Polish joke." The salesman looks around at everybody and says, "I'm sorry. I didn't know. I'll tell it real slow."
Excellent!
I've heard the same but it was a blind guy going to a bar and was about to tell a misogynistic joke about women.
"Nah, I'm not gonna explain it so many times" is better punchline!
I've heard this joke with every group in the world. Why do people vomit these ancient, tired jokes and insist they are brand new or original just because they changed one word?
@@luxuryballer8291 Perhaps you don't understand that not everyone has HEARD every joke in the world. To someone who has not heard it, it is new. Also, I never claimed it was brand new or original.
I’m Polish and I hate when I cannot buy some sausage in a hardware store
That's not funny for Poles!
@@InfamousMax Młotek not motek!
i am sad cant find proper sausage i am serious all is procesed
@@kai89tracid I highly recommend Polish sausage!
This is why IKEA is the best
You don't sell sausage in hardware stores in US?
+Gapa P Americans can hardly locate their own country on a map.....
+Gapa P Norm is canadian
Heruagarwaen didnt know. Thanks
Only the ones owned by Polish Americans.
it's not. it's the third or fourth biggest country in the map.
i need more examples.
Rob Simpson Greek salad, fried chicken.
Roasted Turkey. Get it??? TURKEY :D
"i need more examples." Suppose someone comes into a hardware store and asks for Indonesian cheese, and the hardware store employee just assumes he's from Indonesia. Well that would make sense, actually. Who eats Indonesian cheese? Indonesians, chances are. Still, a hardware store?
What if a guy wanted White Russian?
I suppose You think he's white?
They actually order what the dish is called...
ach Norm, gdybyś tylko wiedział, że miałeś fanów także w Polsce i znalazło się kilku szczęśliwców, którzy widzieli Twój sławny występ "live" u Conana bodaj w 1998 r., gdy w pięknym stylu zniszczyłeś film z Carrott Topem i Courtney Thorne-Smith siedzącą obok Ciebie, występ, który dziś uważa się za legendarny i kultowy... i nawet nie masz pojęcia jak wtedy wpłynąłeś na kilku chłopaków z drugiego końca świata (dla Ciebie) i jak potem śledzili Twoje losy, gdy punktowałeś Jacksona za pedofilię (gdy nikt tego nie chciał mówić głośno), albo śmiałeś się z Cosby'ego, że kiedyś mu wreszcie coś udowodnią (aż udowodnili) - miałeś te swoje running jokes, które trwały 10-15-20 lat i na końcu zawsze to Ty miałeś rację... albo gdy się okazało, że Letterman Cię uwielbia tak bardzo, że zaprosił Cię na swój finałowy show, byś wystąpił, a Ty się rozkleiłeś, bo to był zawsze Twój idol i okazało się, że jesteś zwykłym wrażliwym chłopakiem z nieprzeciętnym talentem, a nie prostakiem i chamem, na którego się tak skutecznie kreaowałeś... będzie Cię brakować Norm, RIP, gdziekolwiek trafisz - będzie tam zdecydowanie weselej :)
Tak jest :)
Powinieneś był wygłosić mowę na jego pogrzebie. Nie martw się, z tym talentem znalazło by się dla ciebie mnóstwo tłumaczy. Pozdro
Miałam podobnie ale lata później. Trochę młodsza jestem :)
Pięknie napisane!
Niezłe nastroje
A man does not die when he dies, but when he is forgotten. He will never be forgotten. Rest in peace Norm
hahaha I tell my mother she should stop insulting our cat by calling the cat Polish [like herself]. She says that's a compliment! I told her Norm MacDonald, my favorite comiedian, a Polishman died, she said, "oh yeah, that's that's too bad!"
I say "you want to watch a joke now?"
she said "no"
[^half a norm macD joke]
Nawet nie wiedziałem że był chory. XD
@@Mark.13. not so many people know tho.
One Piece ?
Was that one piece?
I'm part Polish through my grandpa, and he loved making Polish jokes. I still remember at my sister's wedding reception, some drunk guy was causing trouble, so my grandpa and dad cornered him and told him they were in the Polish Mafia, and the drunk bastard actually believed it.
The joke is so funny because how committed Norm was to it. He was incredible.
Thank go you explained it.. i can laugh now
Yeah he even made up that his family was Polish which is not true. He was English, Irish and Scottish with a little German and Dutch mixed in.
@@lpr5269 Funnily enough, that made-up fact has made it all the way to Norm's Wikipedia page.
Niby taka Ameryka, a w Castoramie nie sprzedają kiełbasy. Baranie worki.
It was a joke my dude
xd
Kurwa
Well that's very easy for you to say.
no kurwa, jak to śpiewali chyba skaldowie, taka ameryka plastikowa kicha
I love how after Norm tells Conan he's Polish, he looks right at him and you know there's now way you can trust that Norm isn't being a complete smart aleck.
I was half expecting the punchline to be, "Yeah I am Polish."
Same!
This old chunk of Pole had me right to the end.
I see what you did there ;)
norm is my favorite troll comedian. he draws you in with false assumptions and distorts your reality. he almost makes you think he has a beef with polish jokes, yhen he just rambles and rambles and wtf he just told a polish joke lol
Richard Harris He's a comedian, and his entire job is to offend you.
Richard Harris
Now why would the nazis joke about armor-all?
@@fakenews6133 why would it be someones job to offend me?
@@fakenews6133 I thought comedians were supposed to make people laugh
Fa Kenews He’s being sarcastic
I've heard Norm tell this forty times and I still find it funny.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
The way he sneakily sets up the joke by saying he is Polish before even starting the joke leaves no question that he actually was pegged correctly as such by the hardware store guy. Took me a few times watching it to fully appreciate that. It makes a huge difference.
@@vishalmishra8176 it might be scripted but hes just pointing to the crowd
@@vishalmishra8176 He probably only asked Conan to set him up by asking him what his ethnicity was but didn't give him any more than that so that Conan's reactions would be genuine and natural. But of course he's not actually Polish, and that makes the punchline funnier because his rant ends up just being another culturally acceptable cheap shot at Polish people.
@@jzhu623why are polish jokes culturally acceptable? I don't get it? Are Jewish jokes culturally acceptable? If not, why?
What’s green and flies over Poland?
Peter Panski.
A rare soul, Norm McDonald😇
There’s a little less laughter in the world today.
Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais: Am I joke to you?
Jk, r.i.p to Macdonald, never heard of him until a few days ago, has some pretty good damn jokes.
Actually, ironically there is a lot more laughter b/c a lot of people are looking up old Norm clips.
@@interdimensional3563 Maybe comedians should die more often.
@@emailkolar4517 ricky in the same sentence as chappelle and norm. lol
Nah man ppl laughing at everything now
I am a joke and I think that polish is great :D
The orginal version of this joke is Lewis Grizzard's:
"A man walks into a store and asks for an RC Cola and a MoonPie. The guy behind the counter says, ‘You must be from Alabama.’ The customer replies angrily, ‘Just because I ordered an RC Cola and a MoonPie, how come you think I must be from Alabama?’ He continues, ‘If I ordered spaghetti, would you think I was from Italy? If I ordered sausage, would you say I was from Poland?’ The man behind the counter says, ‘Well, I can’t say. It’s never happened.’ The customer asks, ‘Then how come when I come in here and order an RC Cola and a MoonPie, you just automatically assume I’m from Alabama?’ The man behind the counter calmly replies, ‘’Cause this is a hardware store.’”
Norm's Polish version is FAR funnier.
@@grazzer1673Both are funny in their own way.
Nothing better than a long,long,long Norm joke when you've been drinking.
A classic form called a shaggy dog story. Norm was a master of it.
Love it
I competed once with 20 of the nerdiest kids in our school for the chance to compete on academic challenge which was a quiz show for high school students on channel 5 in Cleveland. The three of us who won spots all had significant Polish ancestry. Olchovy, Schzipinski and (in my case) my grandmother was a Mocarski. We won of course but……
Thankfully none of the questions involved changing a light bulb.
2/3 of those last names are either straight up not Polish or anglicized
@@west_polee poważnie?
"Olchowy" zamienione w "Olchovy" i już nazwisko jest "zanglizowane"?
Bez przesady, widziałem polskie nazwiska pisane na kilka różnych sposobów tutaj jedynie dopasowano je do fonetyki angielszczyzny.
A co do kolegi Schizpinskiego... gdyby nie ta końcówka to nie domyśliłbym się, że to może mieć polską etymologię.
Huh?
@@koraptd6085 Szczypiński. Niewymawialne, więc trzeba było zmienić.
Obstawiałam Życiński 🤦🏼♀️
Sausage is readily available in Polish hardware stores so I get his confusion.
Both Sausage and hardtacks are.
Loool I live in Poland and I have never seen a hardware store with sausages 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@TurboLazer007, you can buy some hardware in IKEA, don't you? :)
@@Maciek80511 that's Swedish...
You're going to food supermarket in UK and there... women & kids dresses.... + car fluids + agd + rtv + medics ....barelly can find any foods there, not to mention 70% of them are forefingers....
You've been hit by, you've been struck by,
A smooth criminal
you know you know you know
you know
cugierkoteczka
Right right right
I says to the guy, I says, I says.
Yes.
sounds like barrack obama...ummm ummm ummm that guys was useless. good riddance prick.
WhatifuhguyWhatifuhguy
Norm MacDonaldski was his his name before he changed it.
Greetings from Poland. I always loved his sense of humor, punchline was never obvious, deadpan delivery, self concious. Now when he is not with us anymore, I realize how much he influenced me and my sense of humor. His interviews with other hero of mine, Conan, were classic, even his short lived sitcom was great, because of him. Nobody knew that he was sick, for so long..., that's heartbreaking, but it sounds like 100% Norm. True genius and a hero of mine. Rest in peace.
Proud to be Polish! 💪🇵🇱
Rest in peace sweet king. You may be gone but the comedy stays forever.
Awww
Also gotta say. Mad props to the uploader for the excellent title. The surprise of the punchline is crucial, a title that revealed the punchline would have ruined the joke.
Rest in peace my brother. Thank you for all the good memories.
From a fellow Polska...this is hilarious. Polish people usually have a killer sense of humor!
please bro.. go to Poland, and you will see how they take this joke
norm is actually irish, Scottish, english
Viktor Birkeland as a pole (was born in norway and lived there for 11 years but moved back to poland 6 years ago)(polish parents) i think we have climbed the ladder pretty well haha. Now as more and more gypsies and people from pakistan and somalia come to Norway, norwegian people start to appreciate Polish people more. But you’ll never be liked as much as a fellow norwegian person because norwegian people will always believe that they are better than other countries. (They are arrogant, but don’t show it as much as for ex. French people. Of course this doesn’t apply to everybody)
Ps. They have a good reason to be arrogant because their country is great and full of wonderful traditions. Will always have a special place in my heart for norway, although it has it share of problems ;)
you're a Polak, not a Polski though, polski is only an adjective not a noun like Polska (Poland) or Polak (male Pole) / Polka (female Pole)
@@JoachimLevel Thanks, grammar police🤣
I've never heard anyone use the word "Ridiculous" as best as Norm MacDonald. We are all bless to lived in the same time period as you. Looking forward to all those Heaven jokes you'll be working on when we arrive.
You’re already there watching this vid
"The problem with Scotland is, it has too many Scott's in it"ahahahahaha
Great movie... Alba Gu Brath!
Scott is a fairly popular name in Scotland but not too many Scots have it.
Literally how leftwingers look at Scotland ( and rest of the West )
The correct quote is....." it's full of Scotts".
@@franciscoherrera1219 He used quote marks but got the quote wrong.
This joke reminds me that I need to polish my wheels.
buahahah .asshole
Hmmm... In South Florida almost all Home Depot and Lowes stores have hot dog/polish sausage carts at the entrance.
In South Africa, every hardware store also has a boerewors cart too. That's Afrikaaner/ Dutch sausage.
Classic joke within a joke. One of my alltime favorite jokes that only Norm can deliver. RIP Norm.
There's one tribe that loves making Polish jokes, and Norm knows it
He has his own genius version of comedy and it’s incredibly palatable
Reminds me of the Polish airline captain taxiing onto the runway for takeoff? The Captain turns to his First Officer and asks the younger man, are you ready for takeoff? The younger co-pilot has a bewildered look on his face and states, "Captain: this runway is not very long"? The Captain replies, "but it sure is wide"!
Squadron 303 - Polish squadron in Royal Air Force in WWII.. Best squadron in RAF, was decisive in the victory of Great Britain in the most important air battle of World War II, i.e. the Battle of England.
@@ProgramPierwszy nie wydaje mi się żeby koledzy potrzebowali lekcji historii
@@koraptd6085 They're laughing at how stupid you are and you go on to even defend them. How pathetic and hopeless are most of my fellow Poles. Gobsmacking.
"wow you talked to this guy for a while" 😂😂😂😂
Canada gave us John Candy.
Poland gave us Norm Macdonald.
May both their gentle souls Rest in Peace.
He wasn't actually Polish. It was a set up for his joke
@@sandos101 john candy was actually polish
@@simonpersonaltrainer5624 um...OK?
A Polish guy immigrates to the US and goes to apply for his drivers license. They tell him he has to do an eye exam and ask him to read the chart. On the chart are the letters Z A W A D Z K I. They ask him if he can see the letters and read them. He replies " Read them! I know the guy"
This was way before "Sir, this is a Wendys restaurant" 😂
Oddly enough,there is a polish sausage stand right outside our hardware store.
He was an amazing man, he was super funny... I miss him, R.I.P
Rest in funny Peace Norm! Much Love from Poland.
Conan: Shit, nothing happening in the news and no movies coming out, time to bring Norm on the show!
Loved how he would take 10 minutes and tell a single, horrible joke. And you could see him enjoying every second of it. RIP Norm, one of a kind
I miss when dislikes on youtube meant something. It wasnt a terrible joke.
I am Polish and think Thats joke is Great 😀
on serio ma jakieś polskie korzenie czy tylko żartuje?
lukasz rzezniczek
Lech X, on nie ma, on sobie w chuja lecial.
lukasz rzezniczek No Tak, fajnie!
Oskaregg, Yes all immigrants at one time had problems with foreign languages, so what? The PEAK of "Polish jokes" in America was in the 1960s/70's....when most Polish Americans spoke fluent English and on average made more money than most Americans. So HOW does that make them "dumb"....as NBC-TV says???? SO WHY was the 1960's/70's the PEAK TIME of "Polish jokes" in America? It was because NBC-TV was bashing the hell out of Poles on NATIONAL TV to MILLIONS of Americans! WHY did Anti-Christian Leftist NBC-TV do this? Because NBC-TV HATES Poland for being the MOST CHRISTIAN nation and most Red Pilled nation in the world and being against the Leftist propaganda NBC-TV spews.
NBC-TV HATES Poland because Poland is PROUD of being a WHITE CHRISTIAN nation like in these TH-cam videos "Polish people say, WE WANT GOD/Jesus! - Polish march for Independence Nov 11, 2017" and "The MOST Red Pilled nation is Poland - Despite Leftist objections, Polish TV network tells the truth".
Today, perverted Leftist NBC-TV is doing the same thing with President Trump. NBC-TV keeps BASHING Trump as being "dumb" because Trump can see through the Leftist media's Lies and Trump is the most Red Pilled president we have.
As for me, I was born in America. I am a Polish American.
I met a Polish midget. He was 6’-4”.
Never been prouder to be Polish.
Te dowcipy są kompletnie odklejone. Nawet nie nawiązują to stereotypów. To tylko świadczy o ich poziomie. Równie dobrze możemy te wszystkie dowcipy przerobić na wersje: "Przychodzi Amerykanin do sklepu..."
The so-called Polish Jokes is a German invention. This is the historical background.
If I ever land a job at a food joint, I'm going to respond to someone's order with, "you know this is a hardware store?" Thanks Norm
Jeez, why would someone be offended, I'm Polish and that was funny af XD
Norm is genius.
Nobody is offended
Polish people have a good sense of humor. No matter how bad a joke is its funny, that's it.
No one was offended over this joke
No to masz niezły poziom humoru, taki dla 8 latka 🤣
Further proof poles are the most oppressed people next to gamers
And Bikers
Polish are POCs
In 1900 there was a book published in NY with all kinds of anty-Irish, anty-Finnish, anty-Blacks,
and many other bad jokes. The book's name was Polish Jokes.
Everything bad was Polish. Who did that? Those who hated the Polish People,
Since the 1200s, Poles accepted in their country all immigrants who came
or who were kicked out from other countries...
The biggest migration was after 1499 and for 100 years Poland did accept thousands of Jews.
Their population, grew 100-fold by 1599.
For example, from 3000 they became a big minority of over 300,000.
They became very entitled, and influential and demanded autonomy in Poland,
and they had their own different laws, traditions, and customs.
Dlatego właśnie teraz nie powinniśmy przyjmować migrantów. Już mamy problemy z Ukraińcami. W Polsce mogą mieszkać tylko czasowi migranci zarobkowi bez prawa osiedlania się i sprowadzania rodzin. Kończy się kontrakt to wypad z Polski.
My favorite joke from one of the true all time greats. Gonna miss ya Norm. Hope your house in heaven has a dog house so the neighbors don't get any wrong ideas about ya.
He’s not gay!
“I told a joke and a polish guy in the audience said it was offensive. So the next night I changed the joke to be about stupid people.. same guy got angry!” - Norm
RIP Norm.
Made my youth full of laughs
Bon voyage, Norm (Don't assume I'm French).....The world is a less interesting place without you.
I assume you're polish, because, first of all, we're speaking english.
What if a guy came in and ordered a hamburger? Doesn’t mean that he’s from Hamburg?
If he paid in dollars then he's from the valley
Been a fan of Norm since forever and this is by far the funniest thing I've ever seen him do. The delivery is brilliant.
This is a retread of a standard Polish joke from a hundred years ago.
I think Norm and my dad would get along juuuuuust fine 😂😂.
“I said c’mon man. C’MON. Y’know?” 🤣🤣
Thanks for all of the laughs, Norm...RIP...
They sell hotdogs at Home Depot so there you have it.
Rip big dog. Norm will always be my favorite.
"They had to change their name becuase of the ribbing they would get for being polish" is the most overlooked joke ever
Is it tho?
@@Ptaku93 are you chinese
Dang
I'm simple polish guy. I like Norm even more now xD
@Kokin Yoarse Zbig Brzezinski
RIP to a legend.
"said what if a guy..."
I love that he just casually lies for no reason (like that joke he told about finding himself in the middle of a lie that doesn't benefit him at all)
Norm Macdonald was not even a little bit polish lol
If you haven’t read Norm’s “Based on a True Story” book, you must do so. Not only is it the funniest book I’ve ever read, but I found myself wondering just how much of it was actually true. Could be 10%; could be 90%. (I’d guess it’s closer to 10…) But that’s part of Norm’s genius.
"Hey, you ever see that one movie about Meryl Streep and the horse?"
"... ... Yes."
RIP Norm. You were as original as they come.
For all the Polish people watching:
There are discounts this week on salty sausages at OBI and Leroy Merlin.
Where though?
@@PoulFrommPoland Dunno about OBI, but Leroy Merlin is French.
@@robinbeckford haven't seen any sausages at any of those places. But ok, imma get salty on sausages at IKEA though
No sausages, just some packs of kabanos.
@@Diveyl Kabanos IS sausage. Make no mistake!
Conan sets Norm up perfectly.
@Algotnis lol it's not but alright
@@jorge_cloonez4984 its cuz he dead
this was/is one of my favorite norm jokes. not the most popular but he did it perfectly
"Wow you talked to this guy for awhile" 😂
I’m Polish and I love Polish jokes. My dad knows all of them lol. This one was a classic.
I don't know, I mean, there's always a sausage vendor at the local Lowe's store in my town. . . although it's usually Italian sausage that they sell.
Me Me Big Boy
7oohny 😂
7oohny yeah jacksfilms and his humour kinda intertwine.
So damn funny. You are very missed. RIP, Norm.
I like how Norm is a pathological liar but everyone goes along with it.
I laughed and i don't even know why because i didn't get the joke. But i was holding back my laughter throughout the video for some reason. "Wow, you talked to this guy for a while." was pretty funny, perfect timing.
We lost a legend this week. Rest In Peace Norm.
Most ironic Polish joke... Poland is the best governed country in Europe. Oh wait that's true.
Can he do no wrong?
latinoheat300 wtf?!
greetings from John Douglasski
Did you hear about the stadium they built in Warsaw Poland. They had to tear it down. No matter where you sat you always sat behind a pole.
NO ONE sets up a punchline better than Norm!! Master of timing at work!