Norm Macdonald’s ultimate standup particular, filmed earlier than the comic’s dying in September, has made its technique to Netflix with fellow humorous folks paying tribute to the late icon.
“We’re honored to deliver you Norm Macdonald’s final particular, adopted by reactions and commentary from just a few of his particular mates,” Netflix wrote within the opening credit for “Norm Macdonald: Nothing Particular,” which was launched Monday and consists of appearances from David Letterman, Dave Chappelle, Molly Shannon, Conan O’Brien, Adam Sandler and David Spade.
The particular exhibits Macdonald, who died in September 2021 after a non-public nine-year battle with leukemia, sporting a baseball cap and headphones and speaking right into a mic, pandemic Zoom fashion, in a nondescript room the place canine could be heard barking.
“Norm was working onerous getting ready materials for his Netflix particular — till COVID shut issues down,” one other title card learn. “In the summertime of 2020, he was scheduled to endure a process and as he put it, ‘didn’t wish to go away something on the desk in case issues went south.’”
The particular concludes with Letterman, Chappelle, Shannon, O’Brien, Sandler and Spade gathered collectively to look at “Nothing Particular” and honor their longtime pal.
Netflix mentioned Macdonald “shot this in a single take” whereas “at house, the night time earlier than entering into.”
“Hey everyone, it’s Norm Macdonald and that is my comedy particular,” he started. “In fact, I’m trying ahead to getting again on the market, seeing you people in particular person. I like doing gigs and I miss it. My god I miss it.”
The previous “SNL” star, nonetheless, succumbed to leukemia, which he hid from the general public.
“We wish to make certain his followers see this very humorous hour. He left this present for all of us,” his longtime producing associate Lori Jo Hoekstra mentioned in a statement to the Daily Beast.
Hoekstra mentioned that “Norm labored so onerous on a brand new hour of fabric and needed it to be seen.”
“Whereas this model of ‘Nothing Particular’ was not initially meant to be the ultimate product, COVID restrictions prevented him from filming in entrance of an viewers,” Hoekstra famous.
Subjects within the particular are far-ranging, however at a number of factors, the “Screwed” star talked overtly about his personal dying and mortality basically. He spoke about how “miserable” it was to put in writing his “residing will” and joked that his household would pull the plug if he ever hypothetically wound up in a coma.
He additionally joked about being a Christian and his fears he “picked the fallacious faith,” Each day Beast reported, and imagined the afterlife. “Ahh, it’s you! I assumed it was the opposite fella. I ought to have been slaying apostates the complete time. Ah effectively, what are you gonna do?”
In his sign-off, Macdonald loses monitor of the “level” of the joke he was telling earlier than ending with: “I might drop the mic, however I paid for it.”
“Nothing Particular” additionally consists of commentary from his mates, with Letterman calling it a “nice present.”
“It’s not strictly stand-up, it’s one thing else,” the 75-year-old former “Late Present” host added.
“It appeared like he simply needed to get the whole lot out,” 55-year-old Sandler mentioned, calling the particular a extra “light Norm.” O’Brien mirrored that Macdonald “didn’t need anyone to know” about his most cancers and desires he might have mentioned goodbye. “We have been so upset that we didn’t get an opportunity to inform him what he meant to us,” the previous “The Tonight Present” host, 59, added.
“This man was, in a bizarre manner, reconciling his mortality, hilariously. And sarcastically, he’s not with us,” 48-year-old Chappelle added. “We’re sitting within the aftermath of Norm Macdonald, watching him be extremely alive.”
