What went so horribly wrong with Jim Norton’s career?

[ISO__JOE]

Netflix specials. HBO specials. Cameo in Spiderman. Letterman and Leno appearances. Louis putting him in sitcoms. Robert Deniro doing his book cover.

And now? Jim and Sam is a miserable flop. His Chip podcast is dead. His stuff with his gay husband is flopping. He seems like he’s a few years away from doing residencies in Branson. What went wrong?

 

[Sue Lightning]

He sucks

 

[JebJoh]

His problem was that he wanted to be a serious comedian but he’s just an idiot. Do you think dice found him funny? Or pawned him off on ona because he had talent? Jim got opportunities because he was part of a profitable show and executive said to themselves “hey, we like profits too, let’s get one of them”

 

[wbgreen]

He’s funny enough in a snickering school boy kind of way, which was good enough for a morning radio gig and to hang out with funnier comics.

But he is not smart or quick. We saw that nit just in how befuddled he was about Norm at the Saget roast, but also the time Steve Martin easily outwitted him on The Tonight Show.

That would not even hurt him. His biggest setback is that he is lazy, so does not have new material, not in years. He could be a 60 something comic making due traveling the country telling his classic jokes from the 90s — if he had any.

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

He's a weird, disgusting, unlikable little sack of shit.

 

[Treat Yourself]

His biggest setback is that he is lazy, so does not have new material, not in years.

Are you saying people get tired of Penn State and Connor Peterson Jokes?

 

[Anthony's Lime Rickey]

Jimmy is unable to be authentic, plus his pivot to right wing culture war bullshit probably didn’t help if I had to guess.

 

[ISO__JOE]

He's a weird, disgusting, unlikable little sack of shit.

You raise a good point

 

[CapeVerdean Porch Pirate]

He sucks cock. Worst thing you be is gay and boring.

 

[fusciasomething]

How could he ever be anyone’s peer in the entertainment industry when he is pathetically begging every person he interacts with for a picture? His favorite band is KISS, his favorite movie is Crash and he does a radio show with a guy who’s only interest is WWE. Everything about him is shit and he isn’t worth talking to let alone hiring.

 

[rororosacunt]

Him and Anthony fake howling for each for years, (often at jokes they'd made less than 24 hours ago) convinced people he was funny. Turns out blinking and making silly faces after shitty punchlines gets a little stale. Tss.

 

['THE NIGGER MAN']

Norton's career trajectory is as it should be.

A comedy remora who ran out of bigger fish, heading to obscurity tenuously attached to a viking shemale's cock.

 

[DooDooBrown]

His comedy is completely one-note (Colin pointed this out like 20 years ago), and that one note is how unlikable and disgusting he is. His humor is fine for 14 year old boys, and he got lucky enough to be on a fairly large show where that was their target audience. He’s very good at using people around him to further his own career, unfortunately everyone around him either got fired/cancelled or wised up to this and dropped him. Any attempt he’s made to sell himself to the mainstream has failed horribly, to the degree that he interviewed Trump a year ago or whatever and basically nobody noticed or cared.

 

[satanssockpuppet]

In a word, penises. He can't stop thinking about them, or talking about them, and it's all played out. Penises, pre-cum, penis-sized clits, foreskins, trannies, it just never ends. At first, it had some shock value, but now it's just tedious.

 

[goo gobbler]

His comedy is completely one-note (Colin pointed this out like 20 years ago), and that one note is how unlikable and disgusting he is. His humor is fine for 14 year old boys, and he got lucky enough to be on a fairly large show where that was their target audience. He’s very good at using people around him to further his own career, unfortunately everyone around him either got fired/cancelled or wised up to this and dropped him. Any attempt he’s made to sell himself to the mainstream has failed horribly, to the degree that he interviewed Trump a year ago or whatever and basically nobody noticed or cared.

the other problem with his standup, at least in the past 10 years, is that when it isn't self deprecating "I'M A DEGENERATE HAHA" shit it's topical garbage that ages horribly. fuck it's aged horribly by the time he finishes workshopping it and releases it in a special

 

[Rick Roblinson]

In a word, penises. He can't stop thinking about them, or talking about them, and it's all played out. Penises, pre-cum, penis-sized clits, foreskins, trannies, it just never ends. At first, it had some shock value, but now it's just tedious.

I remember realizing that I fucking hated Jimmy during a particular show when I noticed that he wasn't saying anything unless he could spin it into a joke about dicks, anal sex, or child molestation.

 

[Harry Powell]

Unlike Chip, he has never evolved

 

[Cptbaldopie]

He sucked a Nordic cam boys dick.

 

[Harry Powell]

Everything about his persona is completely at odds with the zeitgeist. It’s not even in an antithetical way that he could milk, he has fallen into the worst place possible, being lame, uninteresting, and unappealing.

 

[1950'sSpaceProgram]

Yimmy was never funny. I found O&A first and then went back to watch his specials, was baffled to find they were unfunny dogshit. He's great as an "angry weirdo" character third mic, but it's just him in the spotlight he's just awful.

Peckahs.