re: Norm MacDonald Has a Show guest list, release date announced

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Billy Joe Shaver

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Yes!

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Norm is the one celebrity that can get away with it given his continuous career suicide by giving the middle finger to executives. He’s got a ton of respect in the comedic community for this and it’s the only reason he keeps on getting gigs.

It’s a fricking travesty that Colbert got the Late Show over Norm. Norm was Letterman’s personal choice for his successor, but the executives said “no fricking way”. It’s obvious even from the mid-90s that Letterman was grooming Norm to be his successor, but Norm has burnt way too many executive bridges for him to get that chance. I’m glad Netflix is throwing him a bone, because Norm is a great interviewer and bring in nothing but Grade A guests.

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Adam Eget.

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History repeated itself tonight, as an NBC late-night program abruptly booted comedian Norm Macdonald from a high-profile gig. This time, it wasn’t Saturday Night Live and Weekend Update, though, but The Tonight Show, which announced just a few minutes ago that it was killing Macdonald’s planned appearance on tonight’s episode, in the wake of a controversial interview with the veteran stand-up that ran in The Hollywood Reporter today.

As previously reported, Macdonald’s interview managed to fall on the “predictable but disappointing” side of a shocking number of pop-culture issues, from his hearsay objections to Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, to his support for old friends like Louis CK and Roseanne Barr, to his belief that Chris Hardwick was a hapless victim of the #MeToo movement. And while Macdonald has now issued an apology for “minimizing the pain” of the people hurt by CK and Barr’s actions, it doesn’t appear to have been enough to stop The Tonight Show producers from wanting to distance themselves from his comments and the anger surrounding them.

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“Out of sensitivity to our audience and in light of Norm Macdonald’s comments in the press today, The Tonight Show has decided to cancel his appearance on Tuesday’s telecast,” the show said in a statement tonight. (They’ll be extending a Matthew McConaughey interview in the Macdonald segment’s place.) As it happens, Macdonald touched on Tonight host Jimmy Fallon during the interview, defending him from accusations of “humanizing” Donald Trump during the run-up to the 2016 election. Meanwhile, Macdonald’s new Netflix series, Norm Macdonald Has A Show, debuts on September 14.

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The Tonight Show‘s decision to pull Macdonald from the guest lineup follows an interview with the Saturday Night Live alum posted by THR earlier on Tuesday to promote Macdonald’s new show on Netflix. In the interview, Macdonald indicated that he was glad that the #MeToo reckoning in Hollywood seemed to have “slowed down a little bit” and spoke in defense of Louis C.K. and Roseanne Barr following their scandals.

In one of the most controversial parts of the interview, which triggered backlash, he said of C.K. and Barr, “There are very few people that have gone through what they have, losing everything in a day. Of course, people will go, ‘What about the victims?’ But you know what? The victims didn’t have to go through that.” He later clarified his comments and apologized on Twitter.

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Roseanne and Louis have both been very good friends of mine for many years. They both made terrible mistakes and I would never defend their actions. If my words sounded like I was minimizing the pain that their victims feel to this day, I am deeply sorry.

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