Norm Macdonald, that plain-speaking Canadian comic who died this month, aged 61, showed us how to respond with humour and humanity in today’s era of identity politics, virtue signalling, political posturing and polarisation.
Norm showed us how to be normal, and it was hilarious.
A comic of singular vision and brilliance, his signature was a punch line that was as simple as it was true: a pure statement of the hilarity of life.
In a not unconnected way, Norm was also a committed Christian believer, a fact significant enough in this era to be opined about in the pages of the New York Times.
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