Norm Macdonald on Thursday issued his latest in a string of apologies for continuing to put his foot in his mouth.
The "Saturday Night Live" veteran, whose promotional appearances for his upcoming Netflix talk show have turned into an apology tour, expressed regret on "The View" on Thursday morning for the Down syndrome comment he made on "The Howard Stern Show" the day before.
That ill-timed comment, of course, came as Macdonald was elaborating on his earlier apology regarding statements he made about the #MeToo movement and victims of sexual misconduct.
"It's always bad when you have to apologize for the apology," Macdonald said Thursday.
Addressing his comments from Wednesday's Stern interview _ when he said "You'd have to have Down syndrome to not feel sorry" for harassment victims _ the comedian told "The View" panelists he realized that he had done "something unforgivable."
"There is a thing on Howard where there's a recklessness in the studio," Macdonald said. "Stupidly, I was about to say that word and then I stopped and said, 'What's the right word to say?' And then I said a different word that was equally offensive. I realized in that moment that was something unforgivable.
"The remark I made about people with Down syndrome was just a terrible, terrible thing for me to say."
During the exchange with Stern, the "Roseanne" writer said he regretted agreeing to the Hollywood Reporter's interview, which touched off the backlash on Tuesday.
Madconald's comments in that interview _ about his former boss Roseanne Barr, disgraced comedian Louis C.K. and TV personality Chris Hardwick _ led to him being bumped from Tuesday's episode of "The Tonight Show."
NBC said it canceled his appearance "out of sensitivity to our audience."
Macdonald clarified those comments again on "The View" on Thursday, explaining that Barr and C.K had gone through similar professional experiences of "having everything taken from [them]," which he didn't mean to equate to the hardships that the victims went through.
"Of course the victims have gone through worse than that," he told co-host Joy Behar.
During Stern's show, Macdonald said he wished he never had to do interviews, especially for print publications.
"They ask you questions that maybe you don't want to answer," Macdonald told Stern. "I'm a ... dumb guy, I get confused a lot."
The fate of his Netflix series, "Norm Macdonald Has a Show," which debuts Friday, appears to be unaffected. Macdonald told Stern he spoke with Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer, about the interview and "he knows I'm a good guy."
