Norm MacDonald’s return to SNL

Posted by Maximum Fun on 19th April 2006

I’ll post some more Norm MacDonald stuff, some folks shared a real treasure trove with me, but here’s a great clip of Norm upon his return to SNL. As you may or may not recall, he’d been unceremoniously dumped from the Weekend Update host chair at the request of Don Ohlmeyer, then the Big Boss at NBC. Since he never really did much in sketches, he quit shortly thereafter.

Two years later, he returned to host SNL, and this was his monologue. I remember thinking at the time that it was the greatest thing of all time. My stance has moderated only slightly.