One night during the summer of 2020, before Norm Macdonald went into the hospital, he filmed a one-hour comedy set sitting in his living room "just in case—as he put it—things went south". Macdonald ran through an hour of new material in one take.
The medical procedure went without incident and "the footage was literally tossed in a closet", according to Lori Jo Hoekstra, Macdonald's longtime producing partner.
It was his intention to have a special to share if something happened. . . . He ended up getting sicker last August and September, and he remembered he had shot this and asked me to find it so he could watch it. He ended up watching it before he passed away. . . .
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.
After watching the footage only weeks before his death in September 2021, Macdonald suggested the title: "Nothing Special". It will air on Netflix beginning May 30.
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