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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: October 17, 1963 Biography:Fired in bitter haste from "Saturday Night Live" and following up with two career-crippling film credits, "Norm Macdonald"'s career has been spiraling into disaster since 1997 -- "or so the Germans would have us believe." Though he began his career as a stand-up comedian in Ottawa, most people's familiarity with "MacDonald" derives from his three-year stint as Weekend Update anchor on the ever-enduring "Saturday Night Live". Realizing that a change in location was the key to success, "MacDonald" packed his bags and took his routine to L.A, where he continued to refine his specific brand of acerbic wit through his stand-up act. In addition, "MacDonald" became a writer for the popular sitcom Roseanne, as well as The Dennis Miller Show.
It was a long road to following in the footsteps of "Chevy Chase" and "Dennis Miller" in dragging the current headlines through the mud (and a not so happy ending to... Full Biography
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