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Norm MacDonald: ‘Tonight Show’ Cans Comedian's Appearance After #MeToo Comments

Said he was happy the movement had “slowed down.”

Comedian Norm MacDonald got the hook from Tuesday night’s lineup on The Tonight Show after he was roundly criticized for his comments on the #MeToo movement and his friend Roseanne Barr. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Tuesday, the actor said he was “happy the #MeToo movement has slowed down a little bit” and suggested not all victims of sexual assault should be believed. He went on: “[Barr] was just so broken and just crying constantly. There are very few people that have gone through what they have, losing everything in a day. Of course, people will go, ‘What about the victims?’ But you know what? The victims didn’t have to go through that.” MacDonald subsequently apologized for his comments on Barr and #MeToo, posting to Twitter that he hadn’t meant to “[minimize] the pain that their victims feel to this day.”