Showing 46 - 53 of 53 articles tagged "Norm Macdonald"

• Posted Thursday 8/30/18 at 10:02PM EDT

  Norm Macdonald believes he was fired as SNL "Weekend Update" anchor because of his "experimental stuff" -- not for mocking O.J. Simpson

  Macdonald was famously fired by NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer, a friend of Simpson's, who overruled Lorne Michaels nearly 21 years...

• Posted Tuesday 8/21/18 at 1:32PM EDT

  Norm Macdonald Has a Show drops all episodes on Netflix next month, with guests including Judge Judy, Lorne Michaels and M. Night Shyamalan

  The former SNL "Weekend Update" anchor's new Netflix talk show will drop all 10 of its Season 1 episodes on...

• Posted Friday 3/09/18 at 2:00PM EST

  Norm Macdonald will host Netflix's Norm Macdonald Has a Show from executive producer David Letterman

  The former Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update" anchor-turned-podcast host announced the news that he previously hinted about on Twitter, posting...

• Posted Monday 1/29/18 at 2:45PM EST

  Norm Macdonald: I’m in talks to host a Netflix talk show

  While participating in a Reddit AMA earlier today, the SNL alum and host of the podcast/YouTube show Norm Macdonald Live, said: “I did...

• Posted Thursday 1/04/18 at 9:05PM EST

  The Roseanne revival aims to bring an “honest family” back to television — “something that doesn’t really exist on TV anymore”

  Executive producer Bruce Helford, a former Roseanne writer who went on to co-create The Drew Carey Show, runs the revival's...

• Posted Tuesday 9/12/17 at 3:42PM EDT

  Norm Macdonald tweets “RIP sir” in response to Don Ohlmeyer’s death

  Macdonald opted to take the high road, even though the former NBC executive got Macdonald booted off of SNL’s Weekend...

• Posted Monday 9/11/17 at 3:14PM EDT

  Don Ohlmeyer, the NBC exec who resurrected the Peacock’s primetime lineup in the early ‘90s, dies at 72

  When Ohlmeyer arrived as NBC West Coast president in 1993, he says “there was the smell of death” — despite Law...

• Posted Tuesday 8/29/17 at 2:56PM EDT

  Watch Jerry Seinfeld revisit his old jokes in new trailer for Netflix's Jerry Before Seinfeld

  Preview the  one-hour special following Seinfeld as he visits the house he grew up in, and retells some of his earliest...