Norm Macdonald’s distinctive comedy spanned many decades and forms, fromabsurdist memoirstolong stories about depressed moths.
But most of all he was just plain funny.
No one was funny like Norm."
Norm Macdonald at the ‘Weekend Update’ desk on ‘Saturday Night Live’.Mary Ellen Matthews/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
But his ire was most often, most bitingly, and most famously directed atO.J.
Simpson, whose media-circus murder trial played out during Macdonald’s tenure at theUpdatedesk.
Of course, that didn’t stop him from continuing to skewer Simpson after the trial ended.
(Ohlmeyer disputed this, saying he fired Macdonald simply because he wasn’t funny.)
Perhaps Macdonald’s most belovedSNLmoment, however, came after he departed the show.
Of the manyCelebrity Jeopardyentries, it’s most frequently cited as the best.
While hosting, Macdonald also took advantage of the opportunity to razzSNLin his opening monologue.
Then it occurred to me: I haven’t gotten funnier!
The show has gotten really bad!"
