SATURDAY Night Live vet Norm Macdonald has passed away at 61 after a private battle with cancer. The comedian's management firm confirmed his death to Deadline, and revealed the star was fighting cancer for almost a decade.
Norm's longtime producing partner and friend Lori Jo Hoekstra revealed: "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.
He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly.” STARS REACT Many comedy legends quickly reacted to the shocking news on Twitter, as Steve Martin wrote: "We loved Norm MacDonald.
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