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    Home»News»Comedian and Legend Norm Macdonald has Passed Away
    Norm Macdonald on Weekend Update. Photo: NBC
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    Comedian and Legend Norm Macdonald has Passed Away

    Mary Anne ButlerBy Mary Anne ButlerSeptember 14, 20211 Min Read
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    We are so very sorry to share the news that “Saturday Night Live” alum Norm Macdonald has passed away. The notable comedian and humorist had been battling cancer for the past 9 years.
    The news was confirmed by Macdonald’s management firm, Brillstein Entertainment, to Deadline.

    The outlet included a statement from Lori Jo Hoekstra, longtime friend and producing parter of Macdonald’s. Hoekstra, who was reportedly with Macdonald when he passed, said the comedian had been privately battling cancer for almost a decade.

    “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.”

    While he hosted “Saturday Night Live‘s” iconic Weekend Update segment for three seasons, one of our favorite “SNL” performances of his was of course Burt Reynolds in Celebrity Jeopardy.

    Norm Macdonald was 61.

    Thoughts and memories are flooding in under the hashtag #RIPNorm.

    A week after his defeat in the 1996 presidential election, Bob Dole meets the man who portrayed him on Saturday Night Live, Norm MacDonald pic.twitter.com/CGF5rG3W5Q

    — Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) September 14, 2021

    Norm was in a comedy genre of his own. No one like him on this planet. Please do yourself a favor and watch his stuff. He was one of a kind of all time

    — Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) September 14, 2021

    The Norm Macdonald "moth Joke," one of the greatest jokes every told on television. pic.twitter.com/daC9oPVPsU

    — MovieRankings.net (@LightsCameraPod) September 14, 2021

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    Mary Anne Butler (Mab) has been part of the fast-paced world of journalism since she was 15, getting her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (where she is still Editor-in-Chief), Bleeding Cool (where she was News Editor), and now Nerdbot as Editor-In-Chief. Over the past 10 years, she’s built a reputation at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always). Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band with an international presence. Though she be but little, she is fierce.

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