Norman Gene “Norm” MacDonald was a Canadian stand-up comedian famous for his deadpan humour and poetic style which made him one of the most well-known personalities to have appeared on Saturday Night Live. He was named among the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time by Comedy Central. He began his career performing stand-ups at clubs and got a chance to perform at Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. Realizing that he needed a bigger platform to get the career he dreamt of, he shifted to Los Angeles. He wrote for the sitcom Roseanne and soon appeared on shows like The Drew Carey Show and NewsRadio. He earned his big break when he joined NBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL) as a writer and cast member. He became very popular with his funny impersonations of Larry King, David Letterman, Burt Reynolds, and Bob Dole among others. He bagged in the opportunity to anchor the segment Weekend Update, that gave his career a big boost. During this time he became famous for his sardonic and often scathingly ironic comments and insults for which he was loved and hated equally by his fans and detractors.