The Conners executive producer/showrunner Bruce Helford, who had been friends with Norm Macdonald for two decades, shared memories about the comedian and former SNL Weekend Update anchor who died today at the age of 61 after a long, private battle with cancer.Helford first worked with Macdonald on Roseanne in 1992.
Helford was an executive producer on the hit ABC comedy series, on which Macdonald was a writer for about a year before he left to join Saturday Night Live.
During Macdonald’s 1993-98 tenure on the NBC sketch show, he guest starred on Helford’s ABC comedy series The Drew Carey Show and, following his exit from SNL, he teamed with Helford to co-create and executive produce The Norm Show (aka Norm), a multi-camera comedy series
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