‘Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels Pays Tribute To Weekend Update’s Norm Macdonald As NBC Show Picks Up 81st Emmy Win
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deadline.comSaturday Night Live picked up its fifth straight win in the Variety Sketch Series category.The long-running NBC comedy series beat HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show.Creator and exec producer Lorne Michaels paid tribute to former Weekend Update star Norm Macdonald during his acceptance speech.It takes SNL’s Emmy total to 81 wins.Macdonald anchored Weekend Update for three and a half seasons and was on the show for five seasons between 1993 and 1998.“Weekend Update has been part of SNL for 46 seasons and here I’d like to pay tribute to one of the best we ever had, Norm Macdonald,” said Michaels.Michaels also talked about how the show coped during the pandemic and the election.“We began our last season with six live election shows in a Covid
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