TRAGIC CONFESSION

Norm Macdonald told fans he was dying in stand-up act one year before cancer death – but audience thought it was a joke

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".

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Norm Macdonald told fans he was dying in his stand-up act more than a year before he died of cancerCredit: YouTube/Norm Macdonald
after for more than a decade.

Back in March 2020, the comedian made a series of pointed references to mortality while discussing Covid during an in Los Angeles.

He kicked off by saying, "On the way over here I got really ill," before joking that it was down to a cherry pie he ate and a shaky car journey.

Reflecting on Covid at a time when a vaccine hadn't yet been found, he added: "It’s funny that we all now know how we’re going to die.

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“It’s just a matter of what order at this point."

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

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"To survive long enough where they find a cure. You know some people will have to die but finally they'll find a cure for me."

Norm also talked about reading on a Wikipedia page that he had died in his 2016 memoir, Based On A True Story: A Memoir.

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 to cancer, instead seeing it as a ";draw."

TRAGIC LOSS

Norm's management firm confirmed his death to  earlier this week.

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