TV Series · 2018 · TV Series · 2010s
Norm Macdonald Has a Show
Scored from 55 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Comedian Norm Macdonald hosts a deliberately unpolished Netflix talk show, taped on a bare set with his longtime friend and producer Adam Eget as sidekick and frequent target. Each of the ten episodes gives one guest — among them David Spade, Judge Judy Sheindlin, Michael Keaton, Drew Barrymore and David Letterman — a long, unhurried conversation that Macdonald steers away from promotion and toward digressions and shaggy-dog jokes. The friction is his refusal to follow chat-show convention: he derails anecdotes, argues about the format on camera, and lets silences run.
Norm Macdonald Has a Show (2018) is a television series IMDb files under the comedy and talk-show genres. Episodes run about 30m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is TV-MA.
Only 55 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 57 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 11 of whom clear the calibration test.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Norm Macdonald Has a Show lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2010s (3,236 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 55.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
