JIM NORTON

CH Awards: (5) Breakthrough Performer of 2004, Best Standup Comedian of 2004, 2005 Cringe Humor Comedian Of The Year, 2005 Best Standup Special, 2006 Most Original Performer

TV Highlights: Lucky Louie, HBO One Night Stand, Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents, Premium Blend, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, "Ed" on NBC, Host of MTV's Stupid Bets

Why He's On The Site: Norton is the reason why this site exists today...The King of the cringe style, Norton mindfucked us all when he became a regular on the Opie & Anthony Show...Norton's standup is an utterly brutal assault delivered in an innocent & intellectual way - you feel bad for laughing so hard at what he has to say
Official Bio: I was sitting in my apartment, looking at my naked body in a mirror and contemplating suicide. My manager called and informed me that I need to update my bio. I have always detested bios written in the 'third person.' Every performer either writes or approves his or her bio. Third person makes it seem like a bunch of people got together to discuss the performer's wonderfulness and just had to write it down for the world to see.

I also loathe the wording in a lot of bios. I did not "burst on to the scene", nor do I leave crowds "rolling in the aisles" "on the edge of their seats" or "gasping for air". Some nights I kill, other nights the crowd wants to gut me with a fishing knife. I am a relatively amusing in a child molesting/stomach cancer kind of way.
Being pegged as an 'angry comic' truly makes me want to vomit. To me the only labels in comedy that matter are 'funny', 'original' and 'hack'. By original I don't mean so weird that Andy Kaufman wouldn't get it and by hack I mean the next comic who writes a girl fart joke should have his writing hand smashed with a mallet. There is no subject I won't make fun of (with the exception, of course, of girl farts). This has nothing to do with integrity, it's because smelling them gives me an erection.
I am 5'7, 150 lbs with brown hair, brown eyes and have a torso with the muscle tone of Christopher Reeve's thighs. I enjoy dining out, dancing and receiving yellow discipline from black prostitutes. Judi Brown of the Aspen Comedy Festival said, "He's so brutally honest. He's very refreshing in a business where a lot of people are phony." That is probably the nicest compliment I have received as a performer.

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