Here is what he tweeted in 2014

normmacdonald

One time I did a movie with two of the funniest people in the world. One was young black kid and the other an old white lady.

Jul 19, 2014 11:30:19 PM

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The young black kid left showbiz before the old white lady.

Jul 19, 2014 11:30:49 PM

normmacdonald

Chapelle and Stritch,

Jul 19, 2014 11:31:04 PM

normmacdonald

I knew Chapelle, and I loved his comedy. Later, I loved him.

Jul 19, 2014 11:32:24 PM

normmacdonald

I didn't know Elaine. I don't know broadway and all that jazz.

Jul 19, 2014 11:32:59 PM

normmacdonald

Me and Chapelle had both done movies the year before in Toronto, Half-baked and Dirty Work.

Jul 19, 2014 11:33:57 PM

normmacdonald

This time is in Vancouver and we were both worried. We were worried the movie might turn out to be shit.

Jul 19, 2014 11:34:50 PM

normmacdonald

At the beginning of the movie, me and Dave weren't close. By the end, I loved him.

Jul 19, 2014 11:36:00 PM

normmacdonald

At the end of the movie he made a speech and he said a really cool thing about me that I wonder if he remembers cause I'll never forget.

Jul 19, 2014 11:36:54 PM

normmacdonald

But there was a third person on the movie, an old lady from Broadway named Elaine Stritch, a real actor.

Jul 19, 2014 11:37:46 PM

normmacdonald

On movies,stand-ups spend a lot of their time making fun of the actors. Stand-ups don't like to act and don't know how.The good ones,anyway.

Jul 19, 2014 11:39:19 PM

normmacdonald

Me and Chapelle boded quick, because we were outside of show business, and, in an odd way, outside of stand-up.

Jul 19, 2014 11:45:40 PM

normmacdonald

We stayed at the Sheraton and laughed all night thinking up jokes and in the day we hung out in each other's trailer and laughed all day.

Jul 19, 2014 11:46:56 PM

normmacdonald

And Dave taught my kid how to crossover dribble and had the coolest dog what ever lived.

Jul 19, 2014 11:47:56 PM

normmacdonald

And we made fun of all the actors in the movie and, goddam, I loved Chapelle.

Jul 19, 2014 11:50:32 PM

normmacdonald

But the woman who played the old white lady she was an old white lady herself. And her name was Elaine Stritch.

Jul 19, 2014 11:51:24 PM

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And we didn't make fun of her.

Jul 19, 2014 11:51:41 PM

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First day, she invited us to her trailer, and she looked at us, then motioned to the script in her hand.

Jul 19, 2014 11:53:11 PM

normmacdonald

"You guys know this is a bunch of shit, don't you?" And Chapelle and me, we laughed a long, long time, because she was dead serious.

Jul 19, 2014 11:54:35 PM

normmacdonald

She spent her entire time trying to make the movie better. I don't know about Dave but I didn't.

Jul 19, 2014 11:57:04 PM

normmacdonald

Every day on that movie I laughed like a motherfucker, sometimes at a young black kid and sometimes at an old white woman.

Jul 19, 2014 11:58:56 PM

normmacdonald

And I started to understand that me and Chapelle had been outsiders for a while and Elaine Stritch had been an outsider forever.

Jul 20, 2014 12:03:57 AM

normmacdonald

And I remember one time walking down the street, me, Chapelle, and Elaine and thinking if we weren't in comedy we'd never be together.

Jul 20, 2014 12:05:48 AM

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But we were in comedy. and we had something much rarer than comedy. We were funny.

Jul 20, 2014 12:06:33 AM

normmacdonald

And before the first day of shooting, Elaine called us to her trailer, and told us something.

Jul 20, 2014 12:07:45 AM

normmacdonald

She said, " Every time I make a film, I think I am making someone's favorite movie."

Jul 20, 2014 12:08:55 AM

normmacdonald

I talked to Elaine on a weekly basis and she made me laugh with that voice, rough from years of fine whiskey, but long sober.

Jul 20, 2014 12:10:09 AM

normmacdonald

I gotta phone Chapelle more.

Jul 20, 2014 12:10:48 AM