We watched TV with Norm Macdonald while his mom made tomato sandwiches

February 11, 2016 at 7:00 a.m. EST

In 2016, The Washington Post’s Geoff Edgers flew across the country to watch the Super Bowl with comedian Norm Macdonald. (Video: Erin Patrick O'Connor, Sharon A. Mooney/The Washington Post)

Norm Macdonald is just about the funniest person on earth.

If you look at his IMDB, you can see that he’s had a varied career: He’s been a star on “Saturday Night Live,” where he hosted the fake news; had his own sitcom; starred in a movie called “Dirty Work” that is now considered a cult favorite; and most recently, played Colonel Sanders in the Kentucky Fried Chicken ad campaign. He’s a masterful standup-comic, which he considers his true calling, and is working through the final draft of a memoir. Oh, and there’s that moth joke.

[Norm Macdonald pledges memoir will not be ‘subliterate’]

Macdonald can talk about virtually anything — he’s heavy into Tolstoy and can text out Gogol’s “The Overcoat” in the middle of the night — and he’s also an avid sports fan.

I started following his obsessive tweeting of sporting events last year. When I say obsessive, I mean Macdonald will punch out play-by-plays for multiple games at the same time. So when Super Bowl Sunday rolled around, Macdonald agreed to watch it with me.

I showed up to Macdonald’s apartment two hours before game time and found him sitting there with his mom, Ferne. She immediately hopped up and offered me a delicious, open-faced, tomato-on-rye sandwich. Macdonald opened his laptop, contemplated his pick for the day and we were off.