Norm MacDonald versus Charles Kuralt

Norm MacDonald was a writer/featured player on SNL before manning the Weekend Update desk.  His firing, and subsequent marginalizing by Hollywood, is insane.  He is one of the funniest men on the planet, as evidenced by this take on Charles Kuralt's retirement (1994).  Subsequent revelations about Kuralt's personal life only make this funnier.  As a newsman and storyteller, Kuralt was first rate -- read his autobiography, "A Life On the Road."  My favorite section is the one about the French cameraman trying to "airlift" footage.

UPDATE, 03/10/15: Jay Mohr was also on SNL when this sketch aired, and here he tells an illuminating story about Norm in the writer's room.  Mohr says the Kuralt piece aired in the Bob Newhart episode (2/11/1995), but it actually dates from the previous season's Kelsey Grammer show (4/9/1994).  Mohr tells another (non-Norm) story about THAT episode -- with the Frasier star -- here.  Beware the YouTube heading; I would not consider the episode a disaster, just the pitch meeting Mohr discusses.