Norm Macdonald told fans he was dying in stand-up act one year before cancer death – but audience thought i... - The US Sun

NORM Macdonald told fans he was dying in his stand-up act more than a year before he died of cancer.

During a 2020 performance, the SNL star, 61, said to an oblivious audience that he "knows how he's going to die" and that he hopes to "find a cure".

Later in his performance, he said: "So my plan is just not to die.

In another stand-up performance, he also joked that he didn't agree with "losing a battle" to cancer, instead seeing it as a "draw.".

He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him.

Many comedy legends quickly reacted to the shocking news on Twitter, as Steve Martin wrote: "We loved Norm MacDonald.

I was a huge fan of Norm Macdonald and I essentially ripped off his delivery when I first started acting.

Following his stint on SNL, Norm went on to star on The Norm Show, from 1999 to 2001

In 2018, the comic landed on Netflix with his talk show Norm MacDonald Has a Show

Norm Macdonald said he was dying in stand-up act a year before death