{"id":234557,"date":"2021-09-14T15:19:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=234557"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:24:08","slug":"comic-norm-macdonald-passes-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=234557","title":{"rendered":"Comic Norm Macdonald passes, 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/MacdonaldNorm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-234561\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/MacdonaldNorm-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/MacdonaldNorm-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/MacdonaldNorm-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/MacdonaldNorm.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Former \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d comic Norm Macdonald is dead after a nine-year battle with cancer. His death Tuesday was confirmed by his management team, Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Macdonald was on the show during the 1990s as a writer-performer, and a laconic host of \u201cWeekend Update.\u201d After leaving the show in 1998, he starred in an ABC sitcom for three years. Macdonald was a standup comedian born and raised in Quebec City, Canada, and worked briefly as a writer for the ABC sitcom \u201cRoseanne\u201d before he was asked to join \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Former \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d comic Norm Macdonald is dead after a nine-year battle with cancer. His death Tuesday was confirmed by his management team, Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Macdonald was on the show during the 1990s as a writer-performer, and a laconic host of \u201cWeekend Update.\u201d After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":234561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234562,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234557\/revisions\/234562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}