Norm Macdonald on the “Weekend Update” desk on “SNL.”“While this version of ‘Nothing Special’ was not originally meant to be the final product, COVID restrictions prevented him from filming in front of an audience,” Hoekstra noted.talked openly about his own death and mortality in general. He spoke about how “depressing” it was to write his “living will” and joked that his family would pull the plug if he ever hypothetically wound up in a coma.
He also joked about being a Christian and his fears he “picked the wrong religion,” Daily Beast reported, and imagined the afterlife. “Ahh, it’s you! I thought it was the other fella. I should have been slaying apostates the entire time. Ah well, what are you gonna do?”In his sign-off, Macdonald loses track of the “point” of the joke he was telling before finishing with: “I would drop the mic, but I paid for it.
“Nothing Special” also includes commentary from his friends, with Letterman calling it a “great gift.”“It looked like he just wanted to get everything out,” 55-year-old Sandler said, calling the special a more “gentle Norm.” O’Brien reflected that Macdonald “didn’t want anybody to know” about his cancer and wishes he could have said goodbye. “We were so upset that we didn’t get a chance to tell him what he meant to us,” the former “The Tonight Show” host, 59, added.
“This guy was, in a weird way, reconciling his mortality, hilariously. And ironically, he’s no longer with us,” 48-year-old Chappelle added. “We’re sitting in the aftermath of Norm Macdonald, watching him be incredibly alive.”
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