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I for one do not miss the jokes deifying the second rate martial artist/fifth rate actor/first rate bigoted fundie at all.
They got old somewhere around the second or third one and then people kept doing it for like a fucking DECADE if not longer!
Originally the Norris jokes were ironic, because he played "badass" roles in a bunch of shitty movies.
Of course that went the way every single ironic joke goes.
I'm waiting for the "Change my mind" meme format to die because I'm tired of seeing Crowder's stupid, racist face.
I did enjoy when TBS bought Walker Texas Ranger, which allowed Conan to have a Chuck Norris lever that played a random out of context clip every time he pulled it.
That was the only good running Chuck Norris joke. Walker was so absurd even in context, the lever just made it hilarious.
They were a derivation of very similar Vin Diesel facts, though the Vin Diesel facts depicted him as badass without deifying him. I liked those better in many ways.
There was one that I saw, IRL and really wish I had gotten a picture of. It was a Jeep Grand Cherokee that had a dent in the side that looked like it got slammed into a telephone pole, and pushed in the rear passenger door and window. The owner had painted on the side of it, "CN was here."
That one made me chuckle.