I'll never forget sitting a few rows from Norm Macdonald, almost exactly five years ago on September 22, 2016 at Sixth & I in Washington, D.C., when he read from his memoir "Based on a True Story." Now that we know he had cancer back then too, his reading of "The Final Chapter" might be the best way for us to understand what he went through, to celebrate his wit, melancholy, and kind heart.

He's sitting next to journalist Geoff Edgers, who wrote the best-ever piece on Norm, then one more "final chapter" at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entert...

Here, I edited and upscaled from a low-resolution copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy into 4K using Topaz Video Enhance AI, then I color graded using FilmConvert, and cleaned up the audio using iZotope RX 8 Advanced. It felt important to get this right, shared here in a spirit of fair use and tribute.