
The singer-songwriter teamed up with fellow musician Ed Sheeran for a collaboration on the new album titled "Dark Times," in which the two highlight the pitfalls of achieving sex-symbol status among their peers and audiences, as well as the nasty side-effects of partying and taking too many drugs.Īlthough the album is set for release Friday, fans can stream a snippet from the track on the Weeknd's self-leaked 18-minute teaser via SoundCloud: He sure was, and if you need validation of his cutting-edge comedy style, go back and watch him behind the “Weekend Update” anchor desk on “SNL,” where he ruled that roost for several years.The Weeknd's new album, Beauty Behind the Madness, further explores the artist's overarching themes following his first series of mixtapes, House of Balloons: sex, drugs and the dark times.

“He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him,” Macdonald’s producing partner and friend, Lori Jo Hoekstra, told Rolling Stone.

You waited for Norm to fire off another gem in his trademark biting, dry, snarky style - with a glint in his eye that said, “Pay attention. Macdonald, who died Tuesday at the age of 61, was reportedly battling cancer for the past decade but never wanted to go public with his diagnosis, for fear people would laugh with him because of his personal situation - and not because of his jokes, which more often than not, hit the comic bullseye. save for Norm and a few others including Will Ferrell, Kevin Nealon, Tim Meadows and Cheri Oteri). That, for me, was the classic off-kilter Macdonald remark during his remarkable, too-short run on “Saturday Night Live” where, from 1993 to 1998, he was one the brightest stars on a show already nearing its 20th season - and going through one of its sporadic “dark times.” (Translation: It was rarely funny. Here’s what I learned from Norm Macdonald: “ Germans love David Hasselhoff.”

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