Posted on 09/14/2021 12:20:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
MacDonald is dead at 61 after nine-year private battle with cancer…
Norm Macdonald, whose laconic delivery of sharp and incisive observations made him one of Saturday Night Live‘s most influential and beloved cast member, has died.
Macdonald’s death was announced to Deadline by his management firm Brillstein Entertainment. The comedian’s longtime producing partner and friend Lori Jo Hoekstra, who was with him at the time of his death this morning, said Macdonald had been battling cancer for nearly a decade but was determined to keep his health struggles private, away from family, friends and fans.
“He was most proud of his comedy,” Hoekstra said. “He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him. Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly.”
Macdonald was an SNL cast member from 1993-98, making his greatest impact as the anchor of the show’s “Weekend Update” segments for three seasons. Remembered both for his droll style — and for his refusal to go easy on O.J. Simpson despite reported pressure from SNL execs — Macdonald would prove one of the most impactful “Update” anchors, pivoting away from the slapstick approach of Chevy Chase and toward the more barbed political approach of his successor Colin Quinn.
Born on October 17, 1959, in Quebec City, Macdonald started his show business career in the comedy clubs of Canada, developing the deadpan style that would become both his trademark and a highly influential touchstone for a generation of comics. A contestant on Star Search in 1990, he was hired to write for Roseanne Barr’s sitcom Roseanne for the 1992-93 season before landing a coveted gig at NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
Macdonald’s departure from the show was controversial in itself, and he often attributed his firing to his continued lambasting of O.J. Simpson as a murderer despite what he said was the displeasure of Don Ohlmeyer, president of NBC’s West Coast division, who Macdonald said was a friend of Simpson.
Seriously, I was a HUGE fan, and I’m very angry.
I’m sure all the “woke” Bolsheviks that are deliberately murdering comedy, are celebrating.
I last saw him on Seth MacFarlane’s show “The Orville.”
He was the voice of a green blob character.
He also played the voice of “Pigeon” on the animated TV series “Mike Tyson Mysteries.” He was awesome.
Go soak your head.
Are you a priest?
Never watched SNL ever. Why would I care to stay up late at night to watch leftest propaganda bullshit. I work for a living.
Never watched SNL ever. Why would I care to stay up late at night to watch leftest propaganda bullshit. I work for a living.
Low-key humor and fuuunnnnyyy. RIP
LOL! That’s funny. Not many people got up early Sunday mornings unless they’re preaching or makin’ the donuts.
It WAS broadcast late at night. Late SATURDAY night. That’s why it’s called, “SATURDAY Night Live”.
“Why would I care to stay up late at night to watch leftest propaganda bullshit.”
That wasn’t always the case. The early years were hilarious, and equal-opportunity offenders when it came to politics.
FYI, he got fired for slamming the Clinton’s and OJ
But you are a lazy idiot
But please post more of your non informed opinion
Adam Sandler; Rob Schneider; Jon Lovitz; David Spade; Victoria Jackson; Dennis Miller, Colin Quinn...just off the top of my head.
Very true
RIP Turd Ferguson.
Ha. Still waiting for musketeer to tell me that although he never watched that leftist propaganda he knows norm was a commie
And I do get the joke.
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