{"id":1497288,"date":"2022-05-30T16:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T20:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497288"},"modified":"2022-05-30T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T20:29:43","slug":"norm-macdonald-says-he-didnt-want-to-leave-anything-on-the-table-as-he-jokes-about-mortality-and-death-in-final-stand-up-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/norm-macdonald-says-he-didnt-want-to-leave-anything-on-the-table-as-he-jokes-about-mortality-and-death-in-final-stand-up-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Norm Macdonald Says He \u2018Didn\u2019t Want To Leave Anything On The Table\u2019 As He Jokes About Mortality And Death In Final Stand-Up Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">46<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorm-macdonald-says-he-didnt-want-to-leave-anything-on-the-table-as-he-jokes-about-mortality-and-death-in-final-stand-up-special%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The late comedian Norm Macdonald said he \u201cdidn\u2019t want to leave anything on the table\u201d as he joked about mortality and death in his final stand-up special that has hit Netflix titled, \u201cNorm Macdonald: Nothing Special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had been \u201cworking hard preparing material for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/norm-macdonald-shot-secret-comedy-special-to-be-released-after-he-died-its-about-to-come-out\">Netflix special<\/a> until COVID shut things down,\u201d a message on the screen reads ahead of the show. It went on to say Macdonald was \u201cscheduled to undergo a procedure\u201d in the summer of 2020 following his lengthy private battle with leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>He \u201cdidn\u2019t want to leave anything on the table in case things went south,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt home, the night before going in, he shot this [stand-up] in one take,\u201d the message added.<\/p>\n<p>Macdonald died on September 14, 2021. He was 61.<\/p>\n<p>The special starts with the \u201cBilly Madison\u201d star seen at his home holding a mic in front of a computer, before saying to the room with no audience, \u201cHey everybody, it\u2019s Norm Macdonald and this is my comedy special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, I\u2019m looking forward to getting back out there, seeing you folks in person,\u201d Macdonald shared. \u201cI love doing gigs and I miss it. My God, I miss it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the nearly one-hour-long show, Macdonald jokes about his own death and mortality in general, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/30\/norm-macdonald-final-netflix-special-drops-he-left-this-gift\/\">New York Post<\/a> reported. The comedian said he didn\u2019t want to get depressed before telling people how you \u201cgotta get a living will,\u201d as he joked about his family pulling the plug if he ever wound up in a coma.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the late \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d star, who was a Christian, joked about the afterlife, sharing that his \u201cbiggest fear\u201d was that he picked \u201cthe wrong religion,\u201d the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAhh, it\u2019s you! I thought it was the other fella,\u201d said Macdonald. \u201cI should have been slaying apostates the entire time. Ah well, what are you gonna do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Macdonald even appeared to comment on transgender people. He cracked a joke about how his dad\u2019s \u201cgood side\u201d was fighting to liberate the world from Nazis, then said, \u201cHis evil side was this crazy idea he had that having a cock has something to do with being a boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/norm-macdonald-as-fearless-as-he-was-funny\">Norm MacDonald: As Fearless As He Was\u00a0Funny<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late comedian Norm Macdonald said he \u201cdidn\u2019t want to leave anything on the table\u201d as he joked about mortality and death in his final stand-up special that has hit Netflix titled, \u201cNorm Macdonald: Nothing Special.\u201d He had been \u201cworking hard preparing material for his Netflix special until COVID shut things down,\u201d a message on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1482800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}