Considering Norm Macdonald’s reputation as one of the best standup comics of his time, it stands to reason that he also had a few eccentricities that people didn’t know about until after he passed on. One of them was discovered by accident by comic actor and budding “Saturday Night Live” alum Adam Sandler, who at one time lived in the same building as Macdonald. Hanging out with the “Dirty Work” star one day, Sandler decided to grab a drink from the refrigerator and staring back at him was something he least expected. “I open up his fridge, and I swear to God, $25,000 worth of chips, of Atlantic City chips were in his fridge,” said Sandler on “Remembering Norm Macdonald.” When asked about his arcane chip storage, Macdonald declared, “I brought it here, so I could talk to [producer] Bernie Brillstein to see how I don’t have to pay taxes on it.” After finding out he couldn’t dodge the IRS, Macdonald lost it all in a subsequent Atlantic City junket.
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It’s well-known that Macdonald had a gambling addiction, and he bet heavily primarily on sports, losing his life savings on a couple of occasions. “I think it was with gambling, I bet everything I had,” he once told Larry King, adding that the most he had ever lost was betting $400,000 on Super Bowl XXIII in 1989.
