Roseanne’s BFF Norm McDonald Gets Cancelled From The Tonight Show Due To Comments

Today in frustrating missteps that will make you wish that a famous person you like had just shut their mouth and not said anything: Norm Macdonald has offered some thoughts on Louis CK, Roseanne Barr, Chris Hardwick, and the #MeToo movement in general, and all of his takes are just real bad. This is all from an interview Macdonald gave to The Hollywood Reporter, and it even starts off on a sour note with THR reminding Macdonald that he warned people about how bad a Trump presidency would be back in 2015. The interviewer asked him if he thought it Trump has been as bad as he thought he’d be, to which Macdonald responded, “Not at all.”

Macdonald explains that the Constitution is strong enough to withstand anything Trump might do, “except, you know, the Supreme Court judge nomination,” but even the “emboldening of racism”—as THR puts it—hasn’t really bothered him. Macdonald explains that he lives in L.A., so he’s usually confronted with “the lunacy of the left” and that he never accepted the idea that “everybody is racist.” He recognizes that “everyone is a fucking idiot,” but he assumes that will pass at some point, even if he doesn’t necessarily want society to swing back in a more liberal direction.

Womp womp

That guy hit the wall years ago and now apparently has undergone extensive plastic surgeries? Who or what is that in the OP's pic? ewwww

I thought he looked real rested.

He used to be very devilishly handsome.

He said nothing wrong, and he clarified that he wasn't challenging the allegations themselves. He was speaking re: the aftermath.

Karma for defending Fallon in the first place. No way Fallon would stick his own neck out for anyone.

Ew he's gross.

Sociopaths stick together.

Fallon's a Trump appeaser. They're all scum.

Breathtakingly nuanced, insightful, empathic, culturally-enriching comment from R10.........

His Bob Dole impersonation was phenomenal...and thankfully kept him out of the White House.

It couldn't have happened to a bigger asshole.

His voice is like the sound of mucous.

R11 is triggered

His greatest role, because he was off-screen:

Say what you want about him but he wrote the single funniest moment in Roseanne's entire run.

...which is not saying much.

a known turd. he is loathed in LA...….right wing skunt.

He always struck me as an asshole with no filter or tact. I remember threads from yesteryear in which DLers lauded him for his "tell it like it is attitude" (i.e., they agreed with his bullshit).

This IS Norm McDonald. It's never not been. I give him credit tho. I appreciate a nutter right with a red flag sticking out of his ass.

Another untalented failure of a cunt. New York or Canada or wherever he's from can please take him back!

What a cunt. Yeah, the Far Left in Hollywood are the idiots. And yet he's the one getting booted from a Tonight Show gig which, apprently, makes him the smart one.

Sorry, APPARENTLY

Ha ha, Norm’s old nemesis, Lorne Michaels, strikes again.

(Lorne produces SNL and Tonight Show, both of which dumped Norm)

Rightwing shitstain. Not surprised he has a fanclub on DL.

He should be kept away from television just for that cheap hair dye.

He’s not funny.

He went batshit crazy after his father died. I've seen this a lot over the last 20 years as guys I know get older and their parents die. Something in them snaps and they suddenly become either extremely religious or very right wing and in a few cases, both.

It's like they're trying to keep their parent's memory alive by emulating their dead aprent's personalty.

I've seen this a lot over the last 20 years as guys I know get older and their parents die.

Don't know in the particular case of Norm McDonald, but a lot of rather smart people fall into a deep hole of depression when a loved one dies and in that vulnerable state they are easy prey for snake oil salesmen like cults, religion, alt-right / extremist groups, etc. And from that state of depression they are re-build, re-shaped, brainwashed and become a completely different person with a totally different mindset.

Guess which fiery redhead is fired up on social media because Netflix gave a show to Norm and not her.

You only get one guess.

Why's he defending Roseanne? He doesn't think women are funny. Which is rich coming from a guy who never made me laugh.

I never found him funny either. Plus he had a creep factor.

Major creep.

You know, I'd have suspected McDonald to be a creep who put date rape drugs in his dates' drinks to rape them when they are unconscious before Bill Cosby. But I guess I was wrong.

Shouldn't the title of this thread read "AV Club Jackass Writes Hit Piece Telling Gullible Readers What Norm MacDonald Said?"

I think he's tremendous!

I wonder what Cuntzilla will have to say about it on Twitter.

Go gambling, norm.

The trailer for his Netflix show is not promising.

All his guests are 70+ years old.

What he said is true, though.

r40. Guess what. Gwyeth Paltrows high end wisdom is true, too. That doesn't mean that her opinions are much appreciated.

Sorry, Gwyneth Paltrow's

Excellent writer and comic ... people who tell jokes are not the problem.

People who are genuine assholes are the problem. Doesn't matter if they are comedians or heart surgeons.

The majority of internet comments I've read are supportive. Lots of irrational hate on this thread.

And majority rules, right?

You know how sometimes you can tell someone is mean just by looking at them? That's how I feel about Norm McDonald. He just looks cruel and mean. Weirdly enough, I have found alot of Canadian right wingers to actually be nastier than their American counterparts. I think their reputation as a bastion of tolerance and openness is a little exaggerated.

R47 Thanks for making my point

I love what he says about forgiveness. He also shows himself to be loyal to his friends. Seems like a good person to me and it's refreshing to hear someone speak their mind and not tow the line.

He seems evil. B

I still think he’s a handsome devil and I’d love to cuddle with him. He’s dreamy. Those blue eyes.

Click on the link and see how fugly he is now. You two deserve each other.

Norm doesn't seem screechy and full of hate like Victoria Jackson. I'm dismayed and confused by his political positions; he seems so well-read, clever, self-deprecating and candid.

r49, it's "toe" the line, pea-brain.

I never liked the guy, but kudos to anyone who is prepared to face the twitter storm.

He's the Canadian version of Adam Carolla. And just as interesting or relevant.

Well said, r56. And both are perfect examples of mediocrity somehow rising to the top and finding an audience.

R57 In comparison to SNL today, Norm is a comedy genius. I'll take Norm's comedy over shit like the Ghostbusters Remake, the latest Johnny Knoxville travesty, or Tag.

I was on his side until his Down's Syndrome remarks today.

I loved his Burt Reynolds on SNL's Jeopardy.

He's a McDonald. They're all clowns.

"In comparison to SNL today, Norm is a comedy genius." - R58

Take it back to your frat house, bro.

In comparison to a pile of dung today, Norm is a less smelly pile of dung.

"Ohhhhhhh, anal RAPE, anal rape, anal rape!"

The behind the scenes SNL books have noted he's a homophobe. Any gay fans he has are fools, but I suppose all his fans are.

R64 He probably hangs out with Lola Falana.

R65 She's a cheap bastard!

There's nothing controversial in that interview. He got canceled from the Tonight Show because Fallon got butthurt for some inexplicable reason.

I agree there is nothing at all wrong with what he said in that interview. I don't agree with much of it, but they're his opinions. He's obviously pretty sheltered. Plus, he specifically says that his eyes have been open recently to the amount of racism in America.

Some of what he said is inarfully stated. Who cares? I find the fact that his Tonight Show spot was cancelled to be kinda scary.

And, to be clear, I'm a vehement Trump and Roseanne hater.

" I find the fact that his Tonight Show spot was cancelled to be kinda scary. "

First they came for the asshole comics, and I said nothing.

Then they came for the mimes...

Means nothing to me as I always change the channel when Norm McDonald is on. I don't know why I can't stand him since I can barely understand the words he slurs.

He talks through his nose. I hate that, plus him being an asshole.

He always sounds like he’s stoned.

He may look like a creep but I doubt there will be any me toos about Norm. He had major drinking and gambling problems, usually a classic sign of sexual dysfunction. Never even heard of him dating anyone. If he is homophobic like r64 said then I wonder if he is deeply in the closet and self hating.

Ew. Him gay? Just...ew.

[quote] He's obviously pretty sheltered

How the fuck exactly does a 60 y/o TV comedian who has worked in NYC and Hollywood manage to be ‘sheltered’??

Why is he picking on intellectually disabled people now? That is where he lost me.

R76, because he's an irredeemable dickhead! His show will flop and then back to obscurity, where he'll rot for all eternity.

Irredeemable for sure.

He's friends with Artie Lange. That's all we need to know about him.

He's lucky to have the tattered threads of any career, unless being a smarmy Douchebag is a thing again in Hollywood. Same for Dennis Miller with his micro head.

[quote] Lots of irrational hate on this thread.

So a normal DL thread.

Norm Macdonald said “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon told him that his senior producers were crying about the possibility of having Macdonald on the show after his #MeToo comments.

Fallon himself was “very broken up” about the debate about whether to have him on the show, Macdonald told SiriusXM radio host Howard Stern.

“Jimmy [Fallon] came back in … and said, ‘Can I talk to you, buddy?’ … He was very broken up about it,” Macdonald told Stern Wednesday.

“‘People are crying,'” Fallon said, according to Macdonald.

“I said, ‘people are crying?’ ‘Yeah,’ he said, ‘my senior producers are crying,'” Macdonald told Stern. “I was like, ‘good lord,’ I go, ‘Well, bring them in and let me talk to them. I don’t want to make people cry. I didn’t even know I had the capacity to make people cry.”

He has little to no legitimate talent and is trying to use being politically incorrect to get attention. Let him go on Bill Maher and he'll console him.

To all you McDonald haters (the venom is incredible!), i have one genuine question: who, in your view, is a funny comedian? I really want to know.

OMG the FUCK did he do to his face?!

R83 The venom isn't incredible. If he was a pro gay left winger then it would be that.

I'm an independent voter who leans left in federal elections by the way.

Anybody but MacDonald with an "a" between the "M" and the "c," genius at R83.

His claim to fame was doing Weekend Update and the audience never laughed. He’d repeat the punchline and nothing. You’d also hear groans. He was the worst.

I agree with r87. He really sucked at Weekend update. They kept him on forever too.

Hi I'm Norm. I was never funny, but you want to suck my dick, so there's that!

Norm, I mean this with all pathetic heart, I'd crawl a million miles over broken glass to suck your cock. Hate me with all your politically incorrect heart, you are my God. and I will obey!

Norm McDonald is a fucking genius. He saw straight through the deranged, moronic, lazy, terrified, sanctimonious, hypocritical, Fascist, Crucible-esque sheep gestures of the "progressive left". I salute the guy and his massive balls. #ImwithNorm

If the account is legit, then there are staffers at the Tonight Show running scared of the zeitgeist. We really are reliving a bizzaro-world McCarthyism.

Is Norm a Communist?

Some of his comments make me, cringe, but I think he's a frequently funny talk show guest. He always brings it -- especially on Conan (and, formerly, on Letterman)

When Behind the Candelabra came out, he went on a Twitter rant about how mean it was to call Liberace gay because there was no proof, and being gay was inherently a bad thing. He deleted a lot of his tweets so people forgot about it pretty quickly.

So please allow me to condole Norm and offer my womps and prayers in this trying time.

[quote]OMG the FUCK did he do to his face?!

I think it's just bloat. And I didn't listen to the Maron podcast he did a while back but remember hearing people on Twitter talk about how he had some kind of emotional problems, implying he was on medication, which I assume is part of what we're seeing in his face.

Who is this scary guy with the too thin lips? His time is obviously over and this was his last gasp. Move over, pee paw, there are lots of young ones coming up.

He just apologized, quite sincerely on The View for his Down's Syndrome comments.

Is there something about the Weekend Update desk that turns these guys into assholes? Chevy Chase, Dennis Miller, Norm... who's next?

R16, he didn't write the "DAD'S DEAD!" or "Becky... cut... the cheese" episodes, so what moment are you talking about?

Sorrowful man. You can see in its face.

Norm!

He's an idiot for grovelling.

[quote] Is there something about the Weekend Update desk that turns these guys into assholes? Chevy Chase, Dennis Miller, Norm... who's next?

Dude, really? REALLY?

He needed to grovel. And so he did.

"Meanwhile, Macdonald’s new Netflix series, Norm Macdonald Has A Show, debuts on September 14"... that says it all, saying something intentionally offensive and stirring up controversy to promote some shit show... lather rinse repeat.... Every fucking time some comedian celebrity says something outlandishly stupid, it's followed by an announcement that they have some new show/gig about to launch.

He looks botoxed.

Bad week for Norman Gene.

This is why he won.

"So, anyway, Jane Fonda, are you in favor of, or opposed to, that, that, that - that ANAL RAPE?!"

He got fired from SNL when he made a string of “OJ is a murderer” jokes & Don Ohlmeyer, who was good friends with OJ, fired him for it.

[quote] He's the Canadian version of Adam Carolla. And just as interesting or relevant.

I needed to quote this because the comparison is so apt I want to make sure others didn't miss it.

R104, yeah, really. The desk didn't seem to turn Amy, Tina, Jane or Cecily into an asshole, so why these men?

[quote] Crucible-esque sheep gestures of the "progressive left"

I'm taking this quote, lol

[quote]ow the fuck exactly does a 60 y/o TV comedian who has worked in NYC and Hollywood manage to be ‘sheltered’??

Hmmmmm, probably by being surrounded only by industry types who kiss his ass, and similar “celebrities” and entertainment media types, who only relate to each other, and have no concept of regular people who don’t have their heads up their “NYC and Hollywood” asses.

In a just world, he'd be no more than what he really is, the annoying nasal-sounding Irish drunk in a bar who won't shut up.

Apparently his talk show is legendarily bad.

The first show — each is a little more than half an hour — features David Spade and, as a side note, it might be the best and funniest Spade talk show appearance in recent memory. Spade is focused, on his game, and tells a few choice stories that are honest and funny and even enlightening. But mostly what he does is note that the show seems beyond low-rent (which is intentional) but poorly executed and ill conceived, which it is. Spade notices that the host is not listening and cutting him off on several occasions. Eventually he shifts from making light of it to saying, at one point, "Give them a fucking second to laugh," referring to the collection of people who are not really an audience per se but are there in the dark corners of the broom closet where the show is filmed.

Spade knows Macdonald, he gets Macdonald. But it's interesting to note that several times Spade's face gives way to a look of concern that, yes, this really is an omnishambles situation with no real exit. Macdonald seems barely coherent at times: forgetful, directionless, uninterested and distracted. It gets so bad that Spade says, in all sincerity, "Is this going to go down as a test show?" He repeats the funny and accurate "test show" remark again, seemingly sincerely worried.

He seemed so sad today.

It's figures that MAGA Trumpanzee R91 is a rabid fan.

it truly is McCarthyism. Except it's in the disguise of woke righteousness. We are to believe, with no evidence, every woman who accuses any man of any thing. it's absurd and dangerous.

R121 = Trumpanzee who has no problem with babies in cages, but screeches for the rights of has-been drunks to litter up TV shows.

r96 he admitted to Marc Maron when Maron was on Norm's show, I think, that he had a mental breakdown. He has had serious mental health issues for decades.

Everything, the drinking, gambling, etc stems from that.

R24 Lorne is not Norm's nemesis. He agreed to be one of the guests on Norm's new talk show.

Plus, Norm was not banned from The Tonight Show. Norm said Jimmy told him he would have him back at another time. Which was a good idea because Norm has just been drawing negative publicity from his other talk show appearances.

How big is his cock?

McDonald was AWFUL on The View. They were really soft on him, and he still gave weird, slurred, nonsensical answers.

His apology for saying “Down Syndrome” was ridiculous, and not an apology at all. He said it came out of his mouth because he was trying so hard to avoid “the other word we’re not supposed to say” (retarded). It was an EXCUSE, not an apology.

The whole interview was a bust, and just made him seem to be out of it. His explanation for defending Roseanne and Louis CK made sense ONLY if you read about the interview and aftermath that got him in trouble beforehand.

There are so many comedians out there who deserve more work and their own tv show, yet this guy is getting his own Netflix show? Pathetic.

He was crap on Howard Stern as well. So bad with his stupid stories that the studio fell silent til Howard said "I see why Jimmy got rid of you. ". He's not funny. No idea why Letterman thinks he's the smartest contemporary comic

He needs an intervention.

R99/R104/R113 it also didn't turn Jimmy or Seth.

I think the guys mentioned at R99 were different because they were from an older generation. Also, I think after SNL hired Tina Fey they stopped hiring so many a-hole type male comedians. SNL went from Norm who refused to work with a female on WU to guys like Seth Meyers and Kyle Mooney.

r128 that's it. As soon as I saw a pic of him in the casino, I knew he was fucked.

He's funny when he's not fucked up. Normally, he's excellent as a talk guest.

Yes.

[quote] from In a just world, he'd be no more than what he really is, the annoying nasal-sounding Irish drunk in a bar who won't shut up.

Norm Macdonald is of Scottish ancestry, not Irish.

[quote]He continued, “There’s a word we used to use to mean stupid I was about to say that word, and then I stopped and thought about what’s the right word to say. I realized at that moment I did something unforgivable.”

So he was going to say “retarded” and decided “Down Syndrome” is far less offensive! There is a word we use to mean stupid, all right NORM.

"Norm Macdonald is of Scottish ancestry, not Irish. "

Drunk with plaid. Fine. McAsshole.

Iyanla would have a field day with him.

"Ohhh, anal RAPE, anal rape, anal rape!"

I don't care what you all say, his Netflix show is really entertaining.

He's what people used call "an acquired taste."

I never turn him on. He is just a Republican asshole.

[quote] Some of what he said is inarfully stated. Who cares? I find the fact that his Tonight Show spot was cancelled to be kinda scary.

Why? Why is it scary? No one is owed a Tonight Show spot or a Netflix show or a fucking Supreme Court seat, for that matter. These aren’t meritocracies; they’re entirely capricious. So why should I be “scared” when another 60 year old man is denied something that 99.99% of the public can never imagine for themselves?