Macdonald anchored Weekend Update for three seasons and was known for playing Burt Reynolds during SNL ‘s Celebrity Jeopardy! spoofs. He also appeared on Late Show With David Letterman and Conan ...

Norm Macdonald, a comedian best known for being a cast member on Saturday Night Live, has died after privately battling cancer for nine years. He was 61.

David Letterman and Norm Macdonald had a lot in common. Both were masters of deadpan and irony who knew when to give a joke the room it needed to really land with the audience—especially if it ...

Macdonald was known for his dry humor, non-sequiturs and impressions of Burt Reynolds, David Letterman, Larry King, Quentin Tarantino and many more during his five-year run on the show.

Al Levine/NBCU/Getty After exiting SNL, Macdonald co-wrote and starred in the 1998 movie Dirty Work. The following year, he debuted his own show, titled Norm, which had a three-season run on ABC.

As if to answer, Netflix two years later aired 10 episodes of an interview series, “Norm Macdonald Has a Show." Guests included Letterman, Lorne Michaels, Jane Fonda and Judge Judy Sheindlin.

So to call myself a star didn’t go.” Macdonald remembers the days on how there were only two late-night shows: one at 11:30 p.m. (Johnny Carson) and another at 12:30 a.m. (David Letterman).

Norm Macdonald, the deadpan standup comic and former "Saturday Night Live" star from 1993 to 1998, has died after a private nine-year battle with cancer. The former Weekend Update anchor was 61.

LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, from left: Norm MacDonald, David Letterman, 1/7/1998, (1993-2015). / (c) CBS / Courtesy Everett Collection By Meredith Jacobs UPDATED: September 25, 2021 at 8:29 AM EDT ...