When Norm Macdonald closed out his Dec. 13, 1997, "Weekend Update," the Saturday Night Live star had no idea he’d never sit at the "Update" desk again. Nobody at Saturday Night Live knew that ...

"Saturday Night Live" paid tribute to the late Norm Macdonald during its season premiere by showing footage from his time hosting "Weekend Update." "Well, guys, it is a bittersweet night for us ...

Tributes are pouring in for Norm Macdonald, the Canadian comedian best known for anchoring Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" segments in the 1990s. Macdonald died at 61 on Tuesday ...

Norm Macdonald has said that ... will occasionally crack in excitement or self-amusement. Macdonald is far from the best-known former Weekend Update anchor, to the point where it’s probably ...

"Norm Macdonald was warned to lay off O.J. on SNL Weekend Update cuz he was golf buddies with the president of NBC. Norm kept slamming Simpson anyway. Every. Damn. Week. And got fired for it.

fronted by the man who anchored “Weekend Update” from 1986-91. Watch Norm Macdonald’s Top Moments: Burt Reynolds, Conan, Letterman, Bob Saget Roast & More Macdonald was hired to write for ...

The context is more important than the content in “Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special,” a spare one-man comedy show that the former “Weekend Update” anchor, knowing that he was ill ...

Norm Macdonald, the actor and comic best known as a writer, performer and three-season “Weekend Update” anchor on “Saturday Night Live,” has died of cancer. He was 61. Macdonald’s death ...

Early in his new sort-of-memoir, Based on a True Story, comedian Norm ... Weekend Update segment on SNL in the mid-nineties and then on into a flopped feature films and short-lived TV gigs ...

Macdonald had been battling cancer for several ... way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him,” Hoekstra said. “Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone ...

Norm Macdonald ... began his memorable stint as “Weekend Update” anchor until early 1998, when he was replaced by Colin Quinn. Macdonald was known for his dry humor, non-sequiturs and ...