Shane Gillis is a little smothered when he looks at old clips of Norm Macdonald. He said to Bert Kreischer once Above when his girlfriend surprised him crying while he was looking at a band of MacDonald’s emotional appearance on The late show with David Letterman.
“She was in the other room and just heard me,” said Gillis, recreating her sniffs while wiping tears. “She came out and I said to myself:” Very good, I’m fine. Yeah, norm had me.
Many actors have affection for Macdonald, but he occupies a special place in the heart of Gillis to stand for him for a difficult period. “He stretched his hand When I was canceled. Many, “said Gillis to Kreischer.” And he said really cool things. “”
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Macdonald would know something about turn off Saturday Night Live To make jokes that people do not approve. “They said:” Ohlmeyer wants you to go out “” “ He remembered Snl Oral history, New York Living. “I still didn’t think it would happen in the middle of the season. And no one would come out right away and say it. ”
Lorne Michaels, notorious to avoid face to face confrontations, did not speak. So Macdonald asked around the office. “I had to” update “this Saturday, so I say to myself:” Do I do it or not? ” And they say to themselves: “Uh, we don’t think you are”. »»
Macdonald was absent, and his constant punchlines on the director of NBC Don Ohlmeyer, Oj Simpson, were the reason. “We couldn’t believe it,” said writer Tim Herlihy. “There was a real feeling of disbelief.”
“It was really OJ,” said Michaels, who would have fought to keep Macdonald and Gillis – and lost. He would bring the two men back to host SnlDirect the show that deemed them too controversial to use.
Macdonald’s support in Gillis was not only in private messages. “You see when Norm Macdonald went after Snl? “” asked Joe Rogan on an episode in 2021 of his podcast. He underlined Macdonald publishing a Gillis clip on his social media shortly after Gillis was preserved, with a legend that said something like: “It’s better than everything Snl did. “”
“He put this in place,” said Rogan. “‘You fucking idiots, you lost this guy.'”
Gillis and Kreischer cried Macdonald in their own way. Kreischer remembers having received criticism on social networks for not having published a tribute to Macdonald after the death of the actor in 2021. “So now, you tell me that the crowd can tell me how to cry?”
“I just published one of his jokes,” said Gillis. “But I didn’t want to post like,” I loved you “or something like that because who am I?
Kreischer never published a tribute, but “wrote like nine different things and that’s when I cried. I am in the house, I drink a bottle of wine and I started to cry. Because it was so cool for me.”
