'SNL' alum Norm Macdonald dead at 61 (Video)

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'SNL' alum Norm Macdonald dead at 61 (Video)

Norm Macdonald, known for his time on "Saturday Night Live," has died, Fox News can confirm. He was 61 years old. According to Deadline, the comedian had been privately battling cancer for nine years.

Macdonald's longtime producing partner and friend Lori Jo Hoekstra was reportedly at his side when he passed. 

"He was most proud of his comedy," Hoekstra told Deadline. "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."



www.foxnews.com/entertainment/norm-macdonald-dead?test=32143a9cb2a092c1bc87cfc8f2b011eb

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Interesting article about Macdonald...

RIP: Norm Macdonald

I was shocked and saddened to learn that after a private bout with cancer, Norm Macdonald has succumbed at the age of 61. He has long been one of my favorite comedians, a man whose sense of irony was sharp and whose courage was legendary, having been fired from Saturday Night Live for making fun of O.J. Simpson as a killer, when he knew that his boss’s boss was a friend of the accused murderer.

I don’t know his personal politics, but political correctness had no appeal for him. He delighted in outraging the sensibilities of pious leftists, such as this excursion into women and comedy:

www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/rip_norm_macdonald_.html