MacDonald joined the cast of SNL in 1993, where he performed impressions of Larry King, Burt Reynolds, David Letterman, Charles Kuralt, and Bob Dole, among others.
Soon after leaving Saturday Night Live, MacDonald co-wrote and starred in the "revenge comedy" Dirty Work. Later that year, MacDonald voiced the character of Lucky the dog in the remake of Doctor Dolittle. He reprised the role in both Doctor Dolittle 2 and Doctor Dolittle 3.
MacDonald voiced the character of Death on an episode of Family Guy. Due to a conflict with his stand-up schedule, he was unavailable to voice the character for his next appearance; Death has since been played by Adam Corolla.
On November 12, 2000, MacDonald appeared on the Celebrity Edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? winning $500,000.00 for Paul Newman's Charity Camp. MacDonald could have won a million dollars, but admitted he was too nervous to go for it. Had he done so, his initial guess at the million dollar question was correct.
MacDonald continued to make appearances on television shows and in films, including Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, and The Animal, all of which starred fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus Rob Schneider and were produced by Adam Sandler.
In 2006, MacDonald again performed as voice actor, this time in a series of commercials for Canadian cellphone services profider Bell Mobility, as the voice of "Frank the Beaver". The campaign had a commercial tie-in with the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and with the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The ads ran heavily on CBC during the Olympics and throughout the National Hockey League's postseason. Due to its success, the campaign was extended throughout 2006, 2007 and into 2008 to promote offerings from other Bell Canada divisions such as Bell Sympatico Internet provider and Bell TV satellite service.
In the 2007 World Series of Poker, he came in 20th out of 827 entrants in the $3000 No Limit Texas Hold'em event, winning $14,608. He also made it to round two of the $5000 World Championships of Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em.
Norm was a great guy to meet. It was raining slightly when we met him so he stayed in the car as fans passed him items in order to keep them dry. He signed all of our things and then asked if anyone else had anything to sign.
When there were no other items, he got out of the car to take pictures with everyone.
He was a real class act.
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