“He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him.
He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ He certainly never pandered.
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He 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.
Regardless of Ohlmeyer’s motives, Macdonald was canned, his Simpson coverage unrivaled at the time for its comic ferocity.
He also did a one-season talker for Netflix, Norm Macdonald Has a Show, in 2018.
Macdonald also appeared on the 2015 Canadian sketch comedy series Sunnyside and was a judge on Last Comic Standing that same year. »