Current Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost said that Norm Macdonald was "the reason that I ever wanted to do Weekend Update" Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working ...

Most notably, he’s passed on, but Norm ... claim that Macdonald was dismissed from SNL due to his frequent targeting and mocking of O.J. Simpson during his tenure hosting Weekend Update.

Comedian Norm Macdonald, a former "Saturday Night Live" writer and performer who was "Weekend Update" host when former U.S. President Bill Clinton and O.J. Simpson provided comic fodder during the ...