James Corden devoted a portion of The Late Late Present on Tuesday to remembering veteran comic Norm Macdonald, who died of most cancers earlier within the day. He was 61.
“Some actually unhappy information right now, we now have misplaced an absolute comedy legend, I’m positive you should have seen this within the information right now: Norm Macdonald handed away right now, far too quickly, far too younger, after a 9 12 months battle with most cancers,” mentioned Corden. “A battle that Norm by no means instructed anyone about. As a result of all Norm ever wished to do was make us snigger, and he was completely good at it.”
Corden went on to say, “There was no person fairly like him. I felt privileged anytime I obtained to be in his orbit. He leaves us as one of many all time best comics, maybe the one best visitor within the historical past of late night time tv.”
The late-night host went on to recall a time Macdonald was on the present and did a bit about Micky Mouse. “It wasn’t a deliberate bit, he mentioned: ‘Micky Mouse is big at Disney World. In the event you see Micky Mouse at Disney World, you’re like yeah, go, youngsters! In the event you see that very same Micky Mouse at 7-Eleven, you’re holding the children again.’”
In the course of the Late Late Present phase, comic Ian Karmel mentioned that watching Macdonald felt like watching a magic act “the place you didn’t know what was going to return subsequent; you have been simply fully within the palm of his hand.” Reggie Watts known as him a “legend” and supplied “large quantities of respect.”
Amongst notable moments in his profession, Macdonald joined Saturday Night time Stay within the early Nineties and anchored the “Weekend Replace” segments. He was remembered by a spokesperson of the SNL staff as “probably the most impactful comedic voices of his or another technology.”
Many different names in Hollywood paid tribute to Macdonald by way of social media, together with Seth Rogen, Jon Stewart, Edgar Wright, Whitney Cummings and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos. The comedian was labeled as a “comedy big” and “one of many all time greats” by his colleagues and followers.
