I cringed when I found out Norm was taking over High Stakes Poker from Gabe Kaplan, but his commentary has been surprisingly not-bad. He doesn’t have the same insight into the players’ tactics, but he also isn’t completely clueless, and his jokes don’t get in the way of the game.
It’s nothing like the inane babbling you get from, say, Norman Chad.
I looked up clips on YouTube. He’s hilarious, but he looks so weird. It doesn’t just look like he’s fatter, but like something’s different on his face. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think he used to wear a beard and now doesn’t. If it wasn’t for his voice, he could pass for a different person.