On last night's season 47 premiere of "Saturday Night Live," the hosts of "Weekend Update," Michael Che and Colin Jost paid tribute to former cast member Norm Macdonald, who died last month at age 61.

Macdonald’s anchor debut would showcase many characteristics that would come to define his Weekend Update tenure. Decades later, his opening line proved downright prescient: “I’m Norm Macdonald.

“Norm is the reason that I ever wanted to do Weekend Update and so tonight we thought we’d turn the last few jokes of Update over to Norm.” Macdonald died September 14th at age 61 after a ...

Macdonald was on SNL from 1993 to 1998, anchoring “Weekend Update” for three seasons, before returning to host in October 1999. His death sparked an outpouring of support from SNL stars, among ...

Elsewhere on Weekend Update, Pete Davidson did one of his confessional monologues, during which he wore a tee-shirt bearing an image of, you guessed it, Norm Macdonald.

Norm MacDonald was a fixture at the “Weekend Update” desk on Saturday Night Live from 1994 to 1998. Many are revisiting the actor’s clips from the NBC show following his recent death on Sept ...

The hosts of “Weekend Update,” Michael Che and Colin Jost paid tribute to former cast member Norm Macdonald, who died last month at age 61, during the “Saturday Night Live” season 47 premiere.

Goodnight and good luck.” Macdonald was on SNL from 1993 to 1998, anchoring “Weekend Update” for three seasons, before returning to host in October 1999.