Popular Canadian comedian, Norm MacDonald is dead. Norm passed away at 61 after a nine-year battle with cancer.
The deceased management firm Brillstein Entertainment broke the news in a statement on Wednesday 15th September.
Lori Jo Hoekstra, the comedian’s longtime producing partner, said he had been battling cancer for about ten years but kept his health struggles away from family, friends, and fans.
“He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly.
He was most proud of his comedy. He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him. Norm was a pure comic,” Lori Jo said in his tribute to the late comedian.
The Canadian comic was born in Quebec City in 1959 and got his start in Canadian clubs before moving to the US to pursue TV comedy writing.
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He featured in several movies and TV shows including; “Saturday Night Live” ‘Dirty Work’, “The Norm Show” and had also starred as a voice actor on the animated show “Mike Tyson Mysteries”.
MacDonald started a video podcast titled, “Norm Macdonald Live”, in 2013. In the Podcast, he interviewed comedians and other celebrities.
He is popular for his roles in comedy films such as “Billy Madison” and “Dr Doolittle”. According to Deadline, he was slated to appear at the New York Comedy Festival in November.
After leaving Saturday Night Live, he starred in his own comedy series, “Norm”, from 1999 to 2001. In 2018, he also released a Netflix programme titled “Norm MacDonald Has a Show”
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