Mark Normand

Normand recalled that Marx Brothers videotapes from his mother drew him into comedy and on to Seinfeld, George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy; his first open mic was in Lafayette, Louisiana.⁠[1]

He had attended film school in New York; when he returned to the city he had little money, worked as a file clerk at the film school and did five or six open mics a night.⁠[2]

He was named one of Comedy Central’s Comics To Watch for the 2011 New York Comedy Festival and to Esquire’s Best New Comedians 2012; in 2012 he taped the pilot of Best Week Ever for Vh1.⁠[3]

In 2013 he won the Carolines March Madness competition and appeared on TBS’s Conan and Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer.⁠[3]

Amy Schumer invited him to open for her on the road; he first declined, accepted her second invitation, and has opened for her repeatedly since.⁠[2]

On July 15, 2014, Comedy Central Records released Still Got It, recorded at the Comedy Club on State in Madison, Wisconsin; his episode of Comedy Central’s The Half Hour aired on July 18.⁠[4]

In 2017 his special Don’t Be Yourself premiered on Comedy Central.⁠[5]

He has two specials on Comedy Central, one of them executive-produced by Amy Schumer after he appeared on her series.⁠[6]

On the evening of May 12, 2020, his hour-long special Out to Lunch premiered free on YouTube, a departure from how his earlier specials were released.⁠[5]

He said streaming platforms passed on the special, so he posted it free on YouTube; after venues closed in the 2020 pandemic and his touring stopped, he shot online sketches such as Normand’s Land in an emptied Manhattan.⁠[7]

The third season of Netflix’s The Standups, released on December 29, 2021, included a new set from him alongside Janelle James, Melissa Villaseñor and others.⁠[8]

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Soup to Nuts premiered on Netflix on July 25, 2023, as his first hour-long special for the service; he had earlier released a half-hour Netflix special and had opened for Jerry Seinfeld.⁠[1]

At the time he toured for much of the year, playing theaters of about 1,500 seats around the world.⁠[6]

In October 2023 the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra announced that his Ya Don’t Say Tour would make its Atlanta Symphony Hall debut on February 23, 2024; the show later sold out.⁠[10]

In March 2025 he announced dates from July 20 to August 3 that year in Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, following his debut run in the region two years earlier.⁠[11]

We Might Be Drunk, the podcast he hosts with Sam Morril, had by then drawn almost 40 million YouTube views.⁠[11]

In July 2025 Turki Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, confirmed the first 26 performers for the inaugural Riyadh Comedy Festival, including Normand; the festival was scheduled for September 26 to October 9 at Boulevard City in Riyadh.⁠[12]

In 2026 he released None Too Pleased on Netflix, filmed at the Boulder Theatre in Colorado; a review said it kept his rapid one-liner style that aims jokes at every group alike.⁠[13]

As of October 2026 his official site said he had made 14 late-night stand-up appearances, mostly on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and that Out to Lunch had passed 15 million YouTube views; he is a regular panelist on Kill Tony, hosts the podcast Tuesdays with Stories with Joe List, and is on his national Mumbo Jumbo Tour.⁠[14]

Personal website: Public link: https://marknormandcomedy.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[14]

X: Public account: https://x.com/marknorm (opens in a new window)⁠[14]

YouTube: Public channel: https://youtube.com/c/marknormand (opens in a new window)⁠[9]