It's my belief that Jim Norton is only invited to these things because he's so easy to write jokes about. Has there ever been a more unfortunate looking man? A shaved head looks tough on a big, bad looking dude, but not on a chinless, tranluscent homonculus, JIM.
There are like three of them. Even with the seven degrees of separation, they always manage to be more remote to the people they are roasting than I am. So they are passed off as "fans" and often their humor is really really stale.
Fuck, I can't find it anywhere! Viacom seems to have pulled the full version of the roast. Comedy Central only has clips. What did Jim and Norm say to each other in this clip?
Norm mocks the roast by doing old-timey jokes like "Bob's never bought Christmas Seals -- he told me he wouldn't know what to feed them." He reads them really slowly off of cards. Everyone's dying laughing except for Norton, who looks legitimately confused.
Later on, when roasting Norm, he says the set was like watching Henry Fonda pick blueberries.
Norm says "Who wouldn't love to watch Henry Fonda pick blueberries?" and Jim is forced to agree.
(Norm said later on WTF that he got the jokes from one of those ancient joke books that his dad used for retirement party speeches.)