Some Norm Macdonald Fans Are Positive That He Absolutely Hated Quentin Tarantino
- - Some Norm Macdonald Fans Are Positive That He Absolutely Hated Quentin Tarantino
Keegan KellyDecember 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
0
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but not if that imitation is just a little too perfect.
Saturday Night Live alumnus and stand-up comedy legend Norm Macdonald wasn’t one of those chameleonic performers who entranced his audience with a superhuman ability to shape-shift into a different character, like the Maria Bamfords or Jim Carreys of the world. However, when Macdonald did pull out an impression, he nailed it almost every single time – he’s still comedy history’s most celebrated Burt Reynolds impersonator for very good reason.
However, there is one Macdonald impression that comedy fans now find suspiciously accurate: blockbuster director Quentin Tarantino, the king of razor-sharp dialogue and comically graphic violence. Tarantino recently ruffled a few feathers when he went on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast and listed all the screen actors he dislikes the most, prompting defenders of Paul Dano, Owen Wilson and Matthew Lillard to go on the offensive against the Pulp Fiction director.
As such, film Twitter just made Macdonald’s impression of Tarantino go viral, with Macdonald fans and Tarantino haters alike speculating that no one could ever perform a parody as pointed as this one without some genuine loathing for their target:
The notion that Macdonald decided to go this hard in his Tarantino impression because he truly hated the Jackie Brown director is, of course, purely conjecture, and, as far as we can tell, Macdonald never actually made any public comments disparaging Tarantino – in fact, quite the opposite is true.
Shortly before Tarantino hosted Saturday Night Live in 1995, Macdonald made an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in which he praised the director and expressed his excitement for having such a popular movie-maker on the sketch show. “Quentin Tarantino is, like, so cool, you know?” Macdonald told O'Brien, “And, plus, in the back of your head, you think (that) maybe he'll put you in one of his movies.”
Macdonald even went so far as to say that, “Pulp Fiction is like my favorite movie, I've seen it a hundred times,” before he launched into a bit about how he once accidentally ordered an X-rated Pulp Fiction parody on pay-per-view titled Pump Friction.
Nevertheless, it's quite possible to love a movie and hate its director as a person, and it would stand to reason that Macdonald would be more than capable of putting his personal enmity aside when talking about a SNL host while he was still employed at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Plus, it would be just like him to lie about his favorite movie just for the sake of making that pun.
Now that Macdonald has sadly departed from this world, no one can say for certain how he felt about Tarantino – nor about Christopher Walken, for that matter:
Get more Cracked directly to your inbox. Sign up for Cracked newsletters at Cracked News Letters Signup.
Source: “AOL Entertainment”
