I stayed through the remainder of that season and then came out to L.A. and have worked with him and was his producing partner ever since.Do you remember meeting him?LJH: I do. It has more aesthetically in common with an Instagram Live than the slick specials generally rolled out by Netflix. So, everything that was in the special, everything that he shot, stayed in the special; nothing was edited out. Hes a master at stand-up. ga('create', 'UA-67136960-15', 'auto', 'ads'); Nothing Special is unlike anything youve seen from Macdonald or, really, any stand-up. Well come from a different approach this time; youre going to learn, but Ill try a different approach. 'We're back where we were' prior to Roe v. 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One look at her IMDb, and its clear just how intertwined Lori Jo Hoekstra and Norm Macdonald were. "He pretended, 'I'm a fat slob and I'm here eating fried chicken,' during his (YouTube talk show), but it was complete bull----," says his brother, Neil, a journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. "He was doing it to come up with a reason for having put on weight.". } Log In. Macdonald's longtime producing partner and friend Lori Jo Hoekstra, who was with him when died, noted that the star had been battling cancer for nearly a decade. His producing partner and close friend, Lori Jo Hoekstra, was by his side when he passed. window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotOnload', function(event) { Its also a strange sensation to watch a stand-up comedian do his entire routine without an audience. Everyones talking about his career, what he meant in comedy, but in his personal life, he was just a kind person that literally wouldnt hurt a bug and Im not exaggerating, he would capture and release. And thats kind of a transition into just saying how he loved all of his fans. Norm Macdonald. He had this folksy [cadence], completely out of time I dont know if he was born 300 years too late or 300 years too early, but nobody speaks like that. . [phone rings] Oh, sorry. Macdonald didnt want anything about his illness to get out, but there are things Hoekstra does want people to know about what he went through. Just over 6 foot 1, with blue eyes and dimples, the 1990s Macdonald had leading man looks and briefly dated supermodel Elle Macpherson. Its why Macdonald, who loved to play tennis and golf, went through long bouts of inactivity. }); The comedy world has lost a star. He cared about what people thought, as much as some people might not have thought that, and he wanted to be acknowledged and recognized as the standup that he was.He made a joke in the special about how people say comedians are the modern philosophers, which made him feel bad for the actual modern-day philosophers. On the afternoon of June 28, 2020, Norm Macdonald had an idea. Macdonald got his start in television writing for shows like Roseanne and The Dennis Miller Show. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Please enter your username or email address to reset your password. Norm Macdonald may now be in the running for a posthumous Emmy. He booked his normal run at Carolines on Broadway for November 2021. Norm Macdonald, right, and Lori Jo Hoekstra at Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., in January 2021. tap here to see other videos from our team. Netflix has confirmed Macdonald will have a final, posthumous stand-up special on Netflix launching May 30. Norm was a pure comic. During one of my visits, hes on the phone with his book editor, Laura Van der Veer. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Norm didnt give a f if he bombed. 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Over the next four hours, he barely budges from his seat in the two-bedroom condo he has bought in a planned community not far from LAX. They assume you must be bitter. Rather, my goal is to get some clarity about why his brilliant, original comedic voice isnt heard regularly at a time when, as Macdonald admirer Conan OBrien puts it, every United States citizen who is registered to vote has a talk show.. The way its shot, it really features his secret weapon, those eyes and those dimples. Macdonald died in 2021 of leukaemia, which he had been diagnosed with in 2012 but had not officially reported. I never saw him do the same show twice, ever. Nothing was important to him except for his stand-up, she says. Is Todd Lowe related to Rob Lowe? Thats all I know. 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