How did Chip “evolve”?

[guest]

Chip was borne out of Norton's natural instinct for coming up with hacky, shitty jokes. It's his natural speed, his go-to setting. To mask this he "came up with" Chip, and gets to pretend his reflexive sense of humour is "a bit" because he delivers the jokes in a silly voice. It's a crutch, an excuse, a cop-out; whatever you want to call it.

Patrice was right. That clip of Norton's early stand-up; the faux high-energy, gimmicky asshole begging the audience to like him in a "fake" voice - that's the real Norton. The Norton of O&A is a creation - a kind of parasitic putty that incorporated the mannerisms, tone and style of other comedians (chiefly Florentine, Colin, Keith Robinson and a bit of Dice) and tried to pass it off as his own personality.

 

[Voscabulary]

Edgar went from being an old weak man to being a mob associate who was murdered and during the mob hit had a dry mouth

jim taking the piss out of that paranormal show with his fake story was the one and only time any of his characters were hysterical, and it's only because the whole thing was just one big in-joke for o&a

 

[Single Action Army]

I was close.
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I can't tell if he's so genuinely far gone or if he's fully aware in this tragic, pathetic cash grab.
And I can't tell which is worse.

 

[Meownaw]

jim taking the piss out of that paranormal show with his fake story was the one and only time any of his characters were hysterical, and it's only because the whole thing was just one big in-joke for o&a

I hated how he said he wanted to do Chip but was worried people would Google and find out it was fake. Like everyone is talking about and knows who Chip is.

 

[lowend73]

I hated how he said he wanted to do Chip but was worried people would Google and find out it was fake. Like everyone is talking about and knows who Chip is.

I mean, SNL did steal it from him

 

[Jims_Maroon_Pants]

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Putting up the numbers. I like Colin and everything but what is he doing?

Who's Doug Bellcast?