George Wendt adeptly played the role of a deluded Chicago sports fan who always believed in his teams, despite evidence to ...

Zoom out: Wendt fondly remembered his Chicago years, telling the Tribune in 1990 about the freedom of growing up in Beverly. "We could just jump on the Western Avenue bus and eventually be at ...

Chris Farley as Todd O'Connor, Robert Smigel as Carl Wollarski, Mike Myers as Pat Arnold, and George Wendt as Bob Swerski during "Bill Swerski's Super Fans" skit in Saturday Night Live Season 17 ...

The "Norm!" greeting on "Cheers" and George Wendt's jokes that followed helped make the show the success it was. TODAY.com ...

Fans mourned the passing of Wendt, who led a gregarious band of Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks superfans on the show featuring ...

George Wendt, an actor and Chicago-native with an Everyman charm who played Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later crafted a stage career that took him to Broadway in “Art ...

The “Cheers” star graduated from Rockhurst University after getting kicked out of Notre Dame and has family in Kansas City.

The Big Slick party in 2024 began with a video of “Super Fans” of “Da Bears” with, from left, Jason Sudeikis, Robert Smigel and George Wendt, who were joined by Chiefs Patrick Mahomes ...

George Wendt didn’t just play a rabid Chicago sports fan on TV. He was one, albeit not nearly as deluded as his “Saturday Night Live” character, Bob Swerski, of the “Super Fans” sketches.

“Cheers” star George Wendt, who died May 20 at the age of 76, left behind a legacy in the annals of ... Night Live” in the popular “Super Fans” sketches, which wrought the phrase ...

On Tuesday, the sports and entertainment worlds received news of the passing of former Chicago Bears "super fan" George Wendt, who played the iconic comedic role on the "Saturday Night Live" show ...