Comedy icon and former SNL cast member Norm MacDonald has died at 61 after a private nine-year battle with cancer.
Ben Cohen/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Imagesalum died on Tuesday after a nine-year private battle with cancer, his management firm, Brillstein Entertainment, confirmed to Lori Jo Hoekstra, Macdonald's longtime producing partner and friend, was with the comedian when he died, the outlet reports.
"He was most proud of his comedy," Hoekstra said."He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him. Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that 'a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.' He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly."
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