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    Comedians Pay Tribute To Beloved Ex-SNL Star Norm Macdonald

    Late-night talk show hosts, Saturday Night Live cast members and others are honoring the Canadian comedian, who died Tuesday.
    by Rachel Treisman Sep 15, 2021 1 minute
    Norm Macdonald performs at The Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in 2011. The Canadian comedian and actor died this week, nearly a decade after being diagnosed with cancer.

    Tributes are pouring in for Norm Macdonald, the Canadian comedian best known for anchoring Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" segments in the 1990s.

    Macdonald died at 61 on Tuesday, nearly a decade after a cancer diagnosis that he where he derides the phrase "battling cancer").

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