Norm Macdonald was comedy's weird Everyman. Even when it made us uncomfortable

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Norm Macdonald, the 'Saturday Night Live' veteran and stand-up comic, who died this week at 61, was 'a regular guy in the form of a question mark,' writes TV critic latimestvlloyd.

‘All Norm ever wanted to do was to make us laugh,’ said James Corden, one of a few late-night TV hosts who rememembered the late comedian Tuesday.

A year and a half later he was back guest-hosting the show. “How did I go in a year and a half from being not funny enough to be even allowed in the building to being so funny that I’m now hosting the show? …. and it occurred to me, I haven’t gotten funnier — the show has gotten really bad.”

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