The late actor-comedian self shot a final comedy hour of new material to be released in the event of his death: 'It's fantastic ... I just hope people appreciate that he did this.'
The result was a stand-up special shot in Macdonald’s living room. The actor filmed the entire hour in a single take. “He looks great and it’s fantastic,” Hoekstra says.
As it turned out, Macdonald made it through the next day’s medial procedure just fine and the footage was literally tossed in a closet. But Macdonald became very ill a year later before his special could be properly filmed before an audience. “He ended up getting sicker in August and September and he remembered he had shot this and asked me to find it so he could watch it — so he ended up watching it before he passed away,” Hoekstra says. Macdonald even suggested a title for the hour: on May 30.
The stand-up hour is likely a first in the world of comedy – a postmortem last joke and testament from a comic who relished defying contention. “From the various conversations I’ve had within our circle of friends in comedy and producing, no one has heard of any comparison to this [situation] — not even close,” says Hoekstra, who in addition toNorm Macdonald Has a Show
The program will include clips of Adam Sandler, Conan O’Brien, Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, David Spade and Molly Shannon discussing Macdonald during the recent Netflix Is a Joke Fest. “It makes me so happy that I can share it, but also so sad that we can’t share it with him,” Hoekstra says. “He didn’t do this for the shock that it exists. He shot it because he loved his material and was so proud of his material. He worked so hard and it really would’ve bothered him to have done all that work and not been able to show everybody. He did it for the stand-up. I just hope people appreciate that he did this.
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