With comedy fans still bursting with the news that the true original and previous stand-up Saturday night live star that had Norm Macdonald He died at 61 years old, Seth Meyers took some time to process the loss on Tuesday Well into the night. It pays homage to a boy whose, in spite of everything, he imitated an imitating mortal style to imitate in his time the delivery of SNLMeyers, at the weekend update desk, began by pointing out that the famously unprovoked Macdonald (who hid his battle with cancer from almost everyone for a decade) would “not want anything sentimental.”
Maybe so, but the Meyers segment saw the host share his sincere admiration for his Weekend Update predecessor, sharing some moments from Norm Macdonald, such as the Saturday night live 40th anniversary show on Macdonald’s rambling input bit it came out enough out of script for venerable SNL (and now Well into the night) pointed to the letter boy Wally Feresten the unprecedented step of making sure he didn’t hold the wrong cards. It wasn’t, it was just Norm that was Norm. “I remember laughing really hard,” Meyers recalled, “not of what Norm said as much as of the idea that none of us thought Norm would play by anyone’s rules.”
As for Macdonald’s influence on him personally, Meyers was unequivocal in pointing out that he has yet to “beat Norm’s delivery” when it comes to making topical jokes in the audience. Explaining that Macdonald’s best gift was the “ability to stare at an audience without blinking, telling the jokes you believed in,” Meyers shared Macdonald’s respect for SNL being “the last place on television where you can bomb.” Meyers did not mention Macdonald’s famous dismissal by the then head of NBC, the late Don Ohlmeyer, apparently because of Norm’s tendency to blatantly cut jokes about Ohlmeyer’s fellow golfer. OJ Simpson. In retrospect, this may not have helped, but Norm’s preservation was more likely SNLThe public simply was not willing to accept Norm’s signature, without fear of wanting to take anyone’s hand. jokes I knew were funny. With the admiration of a teammate and a fan, Meyers explained that appreciating a joke by Norm Macdonald meant that “you were inside with him.”
At the close of the session, Meyers urged viewers still surprised by the announcement of Macdonald’s death (Meyers recorded a few hours after the news) to look for Macdonald’s history of the moth turned on Late Night With Conan O’Brien only to prove what made him “truly timeless.” (We’ve collected the moth joke alongside some of MacDonald’s other great achievements for you, and Dirty work Mewers finally said, “It was the gold standard and will remain the gold standard.”