'All Norm ever wanted to do was to make us laugh,' said James Corden, one of a few late-night TV hosts who rememembered the late comedian Tuesday.
‘The priority should be getting them out now and worrying about the paperwork later,’ late-night TV host Seth Meyers said of refugees fleeing Afghanistan.“He told me once that his favorite thing about ‘SNL’ is ... it’s the like the last place on TV where you can bomb,” Meyers said. “If the show was bad, you could literally just go out there and bomb, and that both made that level of difficulty something that I think he really respected, and also ... he just didn’t care if he was bombing.
“If he thought the jokes were good, he had exactly as much fun telling them to a dead audience than to one who appreciated them. And, I think, for so many of us, we came up watching Norm, and we thought that [we] were on the inside with him.”, Fallon recalled meeting Macdonald for the first time at a hotel in Los Angeles, where the entertainer was having breakfast with fellow comedy legend Bob Newhart.
“I go, ‘Hi, my name is Jimmy Fallon. I love you so much. You’re the best,’” Fallon said. “He looked at me. He goes, ‘The best? This is Bob Newhart.’ ... He was a comic’s comic, and everyone absolutely loved him, top to bottom, and he will be missed.”
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