I was puzzled about Norm MacDonald's bit. His jokes were all horrible, worse than anyone else's, and that's an achievement with this group. Were they purposely bad? That's what I thought. If so, that's a little bit funny in itself, like saying, this event is such a joke that it doesn't merit me standing up here and trying to actually make jokes. Because that would be respecting it somehow.
I thought Macdonald turned in the best performance -- which, given the show, isn't saying a whole lot. He did make me laugh more than anyone else. And then he kept explaining his lame jokes, which got a couple of additional laughs.
It felt like he swiped all his jokes verbatim from some long-out-of-print collection of generic insults for roasts and toasts, circa 1950 or something. That actually seems entirely plausible to me, and pretty funny.
The title would've been something like: The Unabashed Treasury of Roastmaster's Wit. And the author have been anonymous, or it could have been a pseudonym such as, "The Roastmaster."
Sorry... I'm going on a bit with this.