Norm MacDonald's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Sports Show with Norm McDonald Host - Norm… The Norm Show Norm Hender… A Minute With Stan Hooper Stan Hooper Where's Elvis This Week? (UK) Norm MacDon…

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Grown Ups 2009 - Funny People 2007 - Christmas Is Here Again 2005 - Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo 2001 - Dr. Dolittle 2 2001 - The Animal 2000 - Screwed 1999 - Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo 1999 - Man on the Moon 1998 - Dirty Work 1998 - Dr. Dolittle 1996 - The People vs. Larry Flynt 1995 - Billy Madison

BIOGRAPHY:

Norm MacDonald was born on October 17, 1963, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He began his career in stand-up comedy. MacDonald's first job was writing for "The Dennis Miller Show" (1992) and then "Roseanne" (1988). While writing for "Roseanne" (1988), he was noticed by Lorne Michaels, who liked Norm's stand up, and gave him his job on "Saturday Night Live" (1975). MacDonald became widely popular when he became the Weekend Update anchor with his trademark line "Now the fake news." He lasted from September 24, 1994, to December 13, 1997, when he was fired by Don Ohlmeyer, president of NBC on the west coast. Norm's last weekend update was December 13, 1997, and he left the show in March 1998. His movie, Dirty Work (1998), which he began working on in the summer of '97, came out 2 months later. In March 1999, his show, called "The Norm Show" (1999), came out on ABC and had a 3-season run. During the time, he starred in the movie Screwed (2000), opposite Dave Chappelle.


TRIVIA:

• He won $500,000 for his charity on the celebrity edition of _"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (1999/I)_ (qv). He guessed the right answer to the million dollar question but was talked out of answering in case he got it wrong.
• NBC received two complaints after he used a curse word live on _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv).
• In early 2002, he and 'Jon Lovitz' (qv) were slated to play mismatched roommates for a proposed NBC sitcom entitled "Leave Me Alone," which was to have been produced by 'Adam Sandler (I)' (qv)'s production company. However, because of a dispute between the network and the producers, the pilot went unfilmed, and the series never came into fruition.
• Middle child of three boys; younger brother Leslie and older brother Neil. Neil is a broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation.
• During an interview on the _"Late Show with David Letterman" (1993)_ (qv) a few days after he was fired from _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv), he told Dave that the NBC execs fired him because they thought he wasn't funny.
• 'Chevy Chase' (qv) has stated that since he left _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv), the only person who he believes has done Weekend Update "right" is Norm Macdonald.
• Although he is not a U.S. citizen, he has publicly stated his support for Republican politicians 'George W. Bush' (qv) and 'John McCain (I)' (qv) and has said that he considers 'Ronald Reagan (I)' (qv) to be the best President in U.S. history.
• Is good friends with 'Adam Sandler (I)' (qv).