I was about to bring this up but looks like madhair beat me to it. None of this is new by the way, people have talked about it for years and it is super not surprising given his general attitude/demeanor. Norm was a comedian through and through. This is not a compliment. There absolutely is a "class" of people out there (who coincedentally mostly seem to be white guys) who think that just because they're comedians they can say and do whatever they want and not face any consequences because eyyy it's a joke eyyyyyy cancel culture boooo eyyyyyyy, and this inevitably always leads to them being huge assholes on the regular at best, routine sexual assaulters at worst. Norm was also fairly conservative in his routines too; someone here said earlier about how he was your "good" conservative friend, and this is your daily reminder that in 2021 there is no such thing as a good conservative, they are all either blind fools or callous assholes with no middle ground inbetween. The secret truth is that there never WAS a good conservative either (at the very least, in any of our lifetimes), so when he was punching down in 1995, he wasn't a good dude then either.
Cancer is a fucking nightmare and sucks, so this whole thing sucks. I'm sorry for his family and his friends' loss. I saw someone retweet a joke of his and I laughed out loud...but also he was also just actively bad? Sure he told funny jokes sometimes, but also, he was sorta a cesspoll too. So I dunno. He was a complicated person, to say the least. I'm not gonna dance on his grave, but the sooner the old school boy's club "comic" thing goes away, the better.