Emmys 2021 sees Lorne Michaels remember Norm Macdonald after 'SNL' win: 'He meant the world' to the people

kicked off the show’s 47th season over the weekend with little fanfare, drawing sharply lower ratings than last year’s season debut.Ratings for the live sketch-comedy show on Saturday plummeted 35 percent from last season’s opener, bringing in just 3.5 million viewers, according to ratings agency Nielsen, which released early data drawn from 44 media markets.

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The season 47 premiere of Saturday Night Live is this Saturday (October 2), and fans are wondering who will be back for the new season.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOwen Wilson, Kim Kardashian, Jason Sudeikis and Rami Malek will host during the next season of “Saturday Night Live,” as the show livestreams on Peacock for the first time.For decades, the traditional home of “Saturday Night Live” has been the NBC broadcast network — after the late local weekend news.

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Larry King, Norm Macdonald, Michael K. Williams and no fewer than three cast members of The Mary Tyler Moore Show were among the stars remembered during this year’s Emmy In Memoriam segment, as the photos of those we lost scrolled by to the tune of Leon Bridges lovely “River.”

So, really, who is coming back to the 47th season of Saturday Night Live? That was the most immediate, pressing question in the virtual Emmys press room tonight to Variety Sketch Show Emmy winner Lorne Michaels as many yearned to know whether Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, and Cecily Strong are coming back.

 just broke its own record.

Lorne Michaels is paying tribute to the late Norm Macdonald at the 2021 Emmy Awards on Sunday (September 19).

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Norm Macdonald received a loving tribute at the 73rd Emmy Awards.

Jordan Moreau John Oliver and Lorne Michaels both paid tribute to late comedian and “Saturday Night Live” alum Norm Macdonald at the 2021 Emmy Awards on Sunday night.“I do want to say, this is an award for late night comedy, no one was funnier in the last 20 years than Norm Macdonald on late night comedy.

Saturday Night Live picked up its fifth straight win in the Variety Sketch Series category.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver continued its Emmy streak by picking up its sixth straight win in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category.

Stepping out solo! William H. Macy walked his first major red carpet since the college admissions scandal without his wife, Felicity Huffman, posing at the 73rd annual Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 19.

Bob Saget, whose friendship with fellow comedian Norm Macdonald stretched back to their earliest days in Ottawa’s stand-up comedy clubs, remembers the late, great comic in an emotional, heartfelt 37-minute video tribute posted in the wee hours of the morning today, “when most of you who loved Norm will be awake and the people close to him will be up because we’re f*cked up and just can’t sleep.”

battle to cancer, the term really bothers me,” he presciently said in 2011. “It implies that he failed and that somebody else, who defeated cancer, is heroic and courageous.”Hoekstra, who was also Macdonald’s longtime producing partner, told Deadline in a statement: “He was most proud of his comedy.

Norm Macdonald, a staple on "Saturday Night Live," died Tuesday following a nine-year battle with cancer. He was 61.