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The comedian will be making us laugh from his dirt nap. Norm Macdonald has given Netflix possibly its first posthumous comedy special.

Sati satirist, musician, radio host, harry shearer. his latest cd is called "greed and fear." it's now downloadable. harry, you are also a television historian. >> i'm a sage, lawrence. i'm a freaking sage here. >> so my question is, sarah palin doing stand-up on "the tonight show," is that the first time in "tonight show" history that someone was doing stand-up for the first time? you usually have to be a successful -- you have to do years to get to do stand -ustan. >> you have to do 1:00 a.m. at the improv and kiss bill friedman's butt. all i could think of was bill clinton on the arsenio ha...

It's now download bl. harry, you are also a television historian. >> i'm a sage, lawrence. i'm a freaking sage here. >> so my question is, sarah palin doing stand-up on "the tonight show," is that the first time in "tonight show" history that someone was doing stand-up for the first time? you usually have to be a successful -- you have to do years to get to do stand-up. >> you have to do 1:00 a.m. at the improv and kiss bill friedman's you know what for a while. all i could think of was bill clinton on the arsenio hall show, his first gig he's ever had as a saxophone player. kind of congruent....

Historian. >> i'm a sage, lawrence. i'm a freaking sage here. >> so my question is, sarah palin doing stand-up on "the tonight show," is that the first time in "tonight show" history that someone was doing stand-up for the first time? you usually have to be a successful -- you have to do years to get to do stand-up. >> you have to do 1:00 a.m. at the improv and kiss bill friedman's you know what. all i could think of was bill clinton on the arsenio hall show, his first gig he's ever had as a saxophone player. kind of congruent. like that paved the way for this. >> now, i am, as you know, the h...