‘What’s up?’
‘What are you up to?’
For Isaacs, his favorite Norm joke came from his writing partner, Ken Levine.
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And Ken just said, ‘My ideal weight if I was 11 feet tall.’
I said, ‘You just broke the bank.
We’ll never top that.'"
“When I was a kid, there was an episode ofThe Honeymoonerscalled ‘The $99,000 Answer.’
“And you have to guess the title of songs.
So he’s practicing for a whole week.
And he didn’t know it.
So I always wanted to do the equivalent of that episode.
I always wanted to base an episode leading up to one monster joke.”
And so every time he comes back in, we had to do those Norm entrances.
And we had four or five of them.”
“She’s just horrified,” Levine says.
“And then Norm comes in and the baby goes, ‘Norm.'”
The joke worked beautifully.
“It got a thunderous laugh.
I remember turning to David saying, ‘This is something I always wanted to do.
I will never do this again,'” Levine says with a laugh.
So it’s like, we did it, we got away with it.
I will never do that again.
But that’s one of my favorite punchlines."
