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1. slate.com › culture › 2021Norm Macdonald’s Memoir Was Mostly Lies, but One Part Rings True

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   Sep 16, 2021 · In one of the ghostwriter’s narrated passages, Keane describes meeting “Norm” for the first time, at which occasion Keane uses the word “splendidly.” “It sounds womanish,” “Norm ...

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2. www.rollingstone.com › tv-movies › tv-movie-featuresThe True Story of Norm Macdonald, Comedy’s Best Liar

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   Sep 15, 2021 · Michael Schwartz/WireImage. Yesterday, Norm Macdonald, comedy legend, SNL cast member, and reluctant prose stylist, died after a battle with cancer. It ended in a draw; the cancer is dead too. In ...

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   • Norm Macdonald’s Memoir Is Brilliant. But Is It True? ‘Based on a True Story’ is Dostoyevsky by way of 30 Rockefeller Center. A glut of books by comedians has hit bookshelves in recent years.

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   • In September 2016, Macdonald's semi-fictional memoir Based on a True Story was published by Random House imprint Spiegel & Grau. It debuted at number 15 on the New York Times Best Sellers list for hardcover nonfiction, and made number 6 on the Best Sellers list for humour.

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   Was Norm Macdonald really writing a memoir?

   • Norm Macdonald’s memoir is mostly lies, but one part feels more true now. Only after his death is it clear what he was really writing about. Norm Macdonald in 2015. Jason Kempin/Getty Images All across the internet, people are trying to understand why they loved the late, great Norm Macdonald so much.

   Norm Macdonald’s Memoir Was Mostly Lies, but One Part Rings True

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   • It was a jarring moment from the bone-dry Mr. Macdonald, and it represented a few more seconds of sincerity than you get in the 240 pages of “Based on a True Story,” his often very funny but always very fabulist “memoir.” The book is most direct, and most convincingly self-loathing, about the job of comedy.

   Norm Macdonald’s Often Funny, Always Fabulist ‘Based on a True Story

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   Sep 30, 2016 · “Based on a True Story” isn’t really a memoir, as the cover claims. It’s closer to a novel, a Russian tragicomedy, perhaps. Dostoyevsky by way of 30 Rockefeller Center.

5. www.latimes.com › entertainment-arts › tvNorm Macdonald death: A tribute to comedy's weird Everyman ...

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   Sep 16, 2021 · He referred to his self-referential 2016 “Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir” as “a novel” and told Larry King, “It’s not facts, but it’s truth.” Television. Norm Macdonald, comedian and ‘SNL’...

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Norm_MacdonaldNorm Macdonald - Wikipedia

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   In 2016, he authored Based on a True Story, a novel that presented a heavily fictionalized account of his life. Macdonald died of leukemia in September 2021, a condition he had not publicly disclosed.

   • Birth name: Norman Gene Macdonald
   • Years active: 1985–2021

   • Children: 1

7. www.nytimes.com › 2016/12/21 › booksNorm Macdonald’s Often Funny, Always Fabulist ‘Based on a ...

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   Dec 21, 2016 · In “Based on a True Story,” Mr. Macdonald lists the “Top 25 Weekend Update Jokes of All Time (in no particular order),” starting with one from Chevy Chase’s tenure as host and then 24 ...

8. www.theglobeandmail.com › arts › books-and-mediaReview: The honest dishonesty of Norm MacDonald’s Based on a ...

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   Sep 23, 2016 · Based on a True Story is honest about its various dishonesties, from its title to its copyright page note clarifying that "[t]he stories in this memory begin with the author's recollection of...