When I got roasted [on Comedy Central], I talked to him a week before the Roast and he called me and he said, ‘Uh, Saget, I can’t say mean things about you, you’re my friend.
I don’t even want to do it, but I’m going to do it because it’s you.’
So at the roast, he called me a week out and said, ‘I’m just gonna read jokes from a ’40s joke book,’ and I said, ‘Norm, that’s fine.
I mean, you know what you’re doing, but you gotta curse.’ ‘I don’t want to do that.’ I said, ‘Well just throw in an arbitrary ‘fuck’ now and then.’ ‘Nah, I’m not going to do that.’