Last month I put up a post with a video from Saturday Night Live in the Nineties.
And then, before I could put up anything else, Norm Macdonald died.
Macdonald was on the show from 1993 to 1998, so he came in at the end of what I consider to have been the SNL’s golden age. He was one of the last truly funny people on the show.
I thought that he should have had a much bigger career than he did, based on how funny I found him, but maybe he was just too smart and idiosyncratic to have had widespread appeal.
Years ago I mentioned one of Macdonald’s best-known Weekend Update jokes, concerning the band Better Than Ezra. He also delivered the absolute greatest Weekend Update line of all time, presented on the first episode following the acquittal of O. J. Simpson:
