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Sep 16, 2021 · Now that Macdonald is dead, reading the book—digesting its deep oddness—feels like communing with pure Norm. It’s got a gimmick: There’s a character in it, Keane, who’s the ghostwriter ...
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Sep 15, 2021 · September 15, 2021. Norm MacDonald, performing at the Ice House in Pasadena, California, in 2003. Michael Schwartz/WireImage. Yesterday, Norm Macdonald, comedy legend, SNL cast member, and ...
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Sonny Bunch reviews “Based on a True Story: A Memoir” by Norm Macdonald. ... are of varying quality—Mr. Martin’s and Ms. Fey’s are the best of that lot—but Norm Macdonald has a leg up ...
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Nov 5, 2016 · Based on a True Story is peppered with real showbiz stories, with Macdonald telling backstage stories about SNL compadres Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Farley, Sarah Silverman, Jay MohrDave Attell Colin Quinn and others. He jokes that he was the guy turning up “in bit parts in Ellen Cleghorne sketches” until “Weekend Update” changed ...
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.
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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 ...
Sep 20, 2016 · Based On A True Story is the autobiography of famed stand-up comedian Norm MacDonald - or so he would have you believe. Rather than tell you his real life story, Norm decided to write of his one-time plan to borrow millions of dollars from various casinos in Las Vegas, turn that money into millions for himself, then retire to a ranch in Montana.
