Norm Macdonald Thinks Amy Schumer Is 'Funniest Person on the Planet' Except for...

Fresh off the season premiere of Last Comic Standing, Norm Macdonald visited The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night in his first talk-show appearance since his final, great David Letterman spots. If I had any suspicion that Last Comic is an enterprise compromised by an air of forced jollity — and I do — it was confirmed by Macdonald’s remark to Fallon about his time on Last Comic as a judge. “I have a lot of pretend laugh-lines,” he said, stroking his face.

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Macdonald is probably the only person who’s acted as a judge on a TV competition show who thinks of his role in the context of the Bible, and therefore finds himself in potential trouble. Macdonald — “a man of faith,” he described himself — pointed out that, given that Jesus said, “Judge not lest ye be judged,” he is probably doomed “to be raped by the Devil for all of time.” This is not the sort of theological parsing you usually hear when talking with Jimmy Fallon.

Macdonald also said of a former Last Comic Standing contestant, “Amy Schumer I consider the funniest person on the planet [long pause] if you take me out of the equation.”

Macdonald is old friends with Tonight Show announcer Steve Higgins from their Saturday Night Live days, and they did a charades bit that, if not as funny as Macdonald’s conversation, was amusing. And, you know, bits and stunts are what Fallon’s Tonight Show is all about:

But really, when you have Macdonald on a talk show, you just let Norm be Norm for maximum amusement. Thus Fallon was both surprised and more convincingly convulsed with laughter than usual when Macdonald told the host he always likes it when Fallon “does” Aunt Blabby, a Johnny Carson reference that doubtless sailed over the heads of Fallon’s beer-pong-crazy fanbase. And Fallon had the good sense to keep Macdonald on the couch during JoAnna Garcia Swisher’s appearance, from which perch he lobbed a few more good jokes.

Plus, who knew Macdonald is friends with Elon Musk?

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on NBC.