I'm talking about how Norm deliberately speaks in such a way as to make his lines unfunny. The guy takes all the verve out of his voice when he gives these jokes, and he does a bit of the liberal comic thing of putting on a semi-smug "heh, you know this is funny" visage. So we've got semi-deadpan delivery + "so not funny, it's funny...right?" It's like if David Letterman and Ben Stein had their comedic approaches combined. Since Norm got into trouble for using comedy to tell illiberal truths, I wonder if he might have deliberately adopted this comedic style to try to appeal to the liberals who all seem to love this sort of ironic comedic style.