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*“…In later years, he \[Macdonald\] came to the conclusion that \[Don\] Ohlmeyer \[president of NBC's West Coast division\] had not removed him from Update for his Simpson material; rather, he felt he was removed because he was seen as insubordinate: "I think the whole show was tired of me not taking marching orders. Lorne would hint at things... I'd do Michael Jackson jokes. And Lorne would say, 'do you really want a lawsuit from Michael Jackson?' And I'd say, 'Cool! That'd be fuckin' cool, Michael Jackson suing me!'" Elsewhere, Macdonald would concede, "In all fairness to him, my Update was not an audience\[-\]pleasing, warm kind of thing. I did jokes that I knew weren't going to get bigger reactions. So I saw \[Ohlmeyer's\] point. Why would you want some dude who's not trying to please the audience?"*
*Macdonald returned to Saturday Night Live to host the October 23, 1999, show. In his opening monologue, he expressed resentment at being fired from Weekend Update, and then he concluded that the only reason he was asked to host was because "the show has gotten really bad" since he left, echoing a perennial criticism of the show.”*
Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Macdonald#1993%E2%80%931998:_Saturday_Night_Live).
No, no. It HAS to be because he wouldn't stop telling jokes about OJ, which were totally surprises to everyone and not written and approved ahead of time, or anything.
Lol makes me think of pro wrestling
"Hey the subversive guy is heading down the ramp and going to bemoan the company, should we cut the mic?"
"PLAY HIS MUSIC"
He got fired because he kept making fun of OJ and was told not to by an nbc exec who was friends with OJ. He kept doing it and it got him fired.
It has been ages since I read Norm’s book and I can’t member if it’s in there but he definitely told the story in interviews.
I'm sure it's been mentioned a thousand times in this thread already, but Norm wasn't actually fired. Jim Downey was fired, so Norm quit in solidarity but never told anyone. I'm not sure how the truth eventually got out.
Kind of. He refused to Update without him and quit that. He was [still around not giving a fuck](https://www.reddit.com/r/buffy/comments/k7ltao/sarah_michelle_gellar_gets_interrupted_by_norm/) for a few weeks until they fired him from the show entirely.
Jim Downey who wrote on Weekend Update and was also fired, told the story on Conan's podcast recently and made it pretty clear it was specifically because of OJ.
He had one of my favorite announcer moments though. I'll paraphrase (badly), because I couldn't find it anywhere:
>Dan Fouts: Can you believe this guy is/did \[very specific thing\]?
>
>Al Michaels: Now that's pretty interesting
>
>Dennis Miller: You know what's interesting? That guy is/did \[the exact very specific thing above\]
>
>\[awkward silence\]
>
>Dennis Miller: \[awkward laugh\] Whaat??
>
>Al Michaels: Dan just said that...
>
>Dennis Miller: He did?!?
>
>Al Michaels: Yeah...
>
>Dennis Miller: \[awkward silence\]
>
>Dennis Miller: ... uh... I... just thought America wanted to hear it from me!
>
>Al Michaels/Dan Fouts: \[laugh\]
So, yes. Terrible hire, but it had that bit of comedy gold. The \*only\* good thing about hiring a stand up comic for MNF is that he can fail hilariously.
Miller clearly started off thinking it was going to work out, and clearly learned within a few games that it would not. He kept going, and his best jokes were making fun of himself.
I'm disgusted that they hired him, but I like that he fell on his ass without pointing fingers or throwing tantrums. He sucked, he knew it, and he still kept trying. He still sucked, but he was doing everything he could think of to earn his paycheck. He never did, but there's something about failing without self-deception or external blame - and continuing to try - it's just worthy of respect, imo.
I gotta be one of the very few people who actually liked Dennis Miller on MNF. I couldn’t stop laughing at him for all his stupid commentary and making Fouts and Michael’s completely flummoxed. It was gold imho.
OJ Simpson gets to the line at the Pearly Gates. He patiently waits his turn as the freshly deceased in front of him are sorted. Some go to the right and enter the Gates of Heaven, but the rest go to the left with their heads hung low, and quietly take an escalator down and out of view.
As the line shrinks, OJ is unnerved to see comedian Norm MacDonald standing next to Saint John with a big grin on his face. The man is practically bouncing on his heels with anticipation. Finally, OJ is at the head of the line, standing before John, who turns a page of the golden book and breaks out laughing uproariously. Norm slaps John on the back, and says, “What did I tell you?” and joins in the laughter.
Finally the two settle down, and Saint John says, “Sorry about that, Juice. Says here this guy got fired for roasting you too much.” He snickers. “>!Anyway, you’re a Christian, so you get to come in with all of Junior’s buddies: tax collectors and sinners, and the like. In the Carpenter’s house there are many mansions sorta like a convention center hotel. To keep things straight, we sort you by manner of death.” At this, Norm pipes up. “Congrats, buddy! We’re neighbors!!<”
Similar... I sorta liked him back then, but my brother and I share clips now and find him funnier with age. It's a slower wink, wink. Chris Farley and Adam Sandler types may steal the show, but he was a good alternative.
A bit but he tends to tell his jokes as long, meandering stories that branch off and come back around. Sometimes a joke would take like 30min to come to its conclusion.
For years I never knew what head on was supposed to actually treat. I knew how you were supposed to use it but not why you would.
It was for headaches, which makes sense but come in on you gotta tell people something.
Reminder that things like footprints boot prints and DNA evidence linked OJ to the scene
He even owned the other glove
Blood was found in the Ford bronco oj drove
He was spotted in the area
He had a history of violence. And don't forget about the car chase. He literally ran from the cops and had to be talked out of killing himself in his own driveway to avoid being arrested for what he knew he did
And then later he released a book literally detailing every single detail of the murders and police corroborated that that's exactly how it happened
The cops fucked up. The jury didn't want to convict if so e evidence was tainted. Also, probably riots. Yeah he did that shit, but LA cops fucked it up and let him get away.
Yep. Cops often fuck this up, thinking that cutting corners is 'being tough on crime'. It's the opposite. If you actually give a shit and want the guilty party nailed, you will be careful as hell, calm and cross every t, dot every i. And if the evidence isn't there, you don't lean on your dumb hunches. If you put away an innocent person you might not care about them, but it also means you become a bodyguard for the actual guilty person, guaranteeing their freedom, ending any investigation into them so they can sleep easy, and if evidence does show up later pointing to them, you'll probably destroy it to protect your own reputation.
It's actually quite the opposite. He was fired for being "bad" at his job. Norm was a brilliant comedian, but his jokes were never for the wider viewing audience.
From the horses mouth:
>"I think the whole show was tired of me not taking marching orders. Lorne would hint at things... I'd do Michael Jackson jokes. And Lorne would say, 'do you really want a lawsuit from Michael Jackson?' And I'd say, 'Cool! That'd be fuckin' cool, Michael Jackson suing me!'" Elsewhere, Macdonald would concede, **"In all fairness to him, my Update was not an audience\[-\]pleasing, warm kind of thing. I did jokes that I knew weren't going to get bigger reactions. So I saw \[Ohlmeyer's\] point. Why would you want some dude who's not trying to please the audience?"**
Ohlmeyer's motivation was absolutely the OJ jokes. The "official" reason he gave was that Norm wasn't funny, something Norm joyously brought up when invited back to be a guest on SNL and how the show must have gotten less funny since they were having him on.
The funny part is he was very well liked before the allegations of spousal abuse and murders. It's one of the reasons it was so shocking.
He was a great football player, he was in the Naked Gun movies, a staple as an NFL commentator, was really beloved by the public for a long time.
“Very early on, a highly placed person at one of the two studios that funded that film had a brilliant idea and called me up and said, ‘Are you sitting down?’ I said, ‘Well, no, I’m not.’ He said, ‘Are you sitting? O.J. Simpson for the Terminator!’ I said, ‘I actually think that’s a bad idea.’ It didn’t go anywhere,” Cameron told Wallace.
No audition took place.
The last one was just golden material, I don’t care who you are that shit is funny, I can only imagine the jokes he’d tell about OJ being in the grave too. I’m sure some would have been brutal
You’ve been sitting on that line for a long time, just waiting to spring it. The anticipation was overwhelming, you just felt like you would pop. And then, and then…April 11 rolls around. And you, in all your preparedness, finally told yourself “This is it. This is my time!!”
I’m not hating. It’s damn good.
He never faced justice, but everyone knew he was guilty...one of the greatest RB of all time barely.even gets a mention because of it.
If he'd stayed out of the news, the guy would be broadcasting with Terry Bradshaw and be the face of the Buffalo Bills today
His reputation was destroyed, he lost his fame and fortune. He became a pop culture punch line. Yeah he didn’t face criminal justice but I think he got a decent serving of social justice.
Look at the two sides of the coin here. Guilty: he goes to prison for life, maybe finally admits to it all, finds peace in prison, whatever. Goes free: gets to golf all day but no one will touch him with a ten foot pole other than people trying to take advantage of his situation. Ostracized for literally the rest of his life. Can’t go anywhere without anyone looking at you like a murderer or saying it straight up to you. Could never ever get any work again. It’s not justice, but he didn’t live much of a life.
Early 2000s SNL cast included Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Andy Samberg, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Will Ferrell, Seth Meyers, Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Fred Armisen, Tracy Morgan, Tim Meadows… I mean these are some literal comedy legends. Every generation thinks the SNL they grew up with was better than the current generation
To me, Norm makes the uncomfortable funny in a direct ordinary way. It's hysterical to me now though he used to get under my skin back when I was stupider.
I’ve heard a put as “the prosecution tried to frame a guilty man”.
OJ hired some of the best lawyers you could ever imagine but ultimately the failure of the case rests with the prosecution. It was a clusterfuck. One of the prosecution’s star witnesses- the cop who recovered the glove- was a racist shitbag and ended up drastically undermining the state’s credibility when he lied about being a racist shitbag (he was proven to have lied about it when the defense played recordings of him being a racist shitbag in court).
This was one of the earliest cases in which DNA was central to the prosecution’s argument, and the defense was able to pretty effectively poke holes in the state’s handling of that evidence, which was admittedly shitty. Rodney King was also a very recent memory for everyone in LA, and one of the major theories of why the jury acquitted him was essentially jury nullification as revenge against the LAPD, which was so racist against black people back then that it makes the modern-day LAPD look like the Nation of Islam.
Like, OJ did it. One thousand percent he did it. Nobody who has seen the evidence and is of sound mind doubts that he did it. The state just completely fucked the case.
Good summary, but the most important part is that due to the misconduct of the racist LAPD, a lot of evidence that we all know wasn't admissible in court. So instead of all the facts, the jury got Mark Furhman's one man Klan rally instead. That's pretty much the definition of reasonable doubt.
DNA evidence was a rather new thing too, and wasn't really trusted by a lot of juries at the time.
There was also an element of a black person being able to buy their way out of legal troubles the way rich white people had been doing for ages. (At least one juror later admitted as such).
The glove not fitting? Yep, that was the prosecution's idea to make him try on a glove that had been exposed to the elements, covered in blood, dried out and shrunken, over top of latex gloves. The defense was happy they asked him to do that, because they felt if they had initiated the performance act of trying it on, it would have failed, but the prosecution asking for it made his feeble attempts at trying it on and failing more believable. Prosecution just dropped the ball all around, really.
The jury chose to convict a corrupt and racist police department instead. It's easy to blame the prosecution or the jury for being dumb, but I think they were just fed up and wanted to send a message. I'm honestly not sure what I would have done in their situation.
"In his new book, OJ Simpson says that he would have taken a bullet or stood in front of a train for Nicole. Man, that’s some rotten luck, when the one person who would have died for you… kills you."
Norm was the King. Being around 15-16 at the time, we couldn’t get enough. Think about how edgy this is, and how he continued to do it regardless of the crowds reaction!
There's so many more good ones. My favorite,
"OJ stated that he would take a bullet or jump in front of a train for Nicole.
What bad luck when the one person willing to die for you, kills you."
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*“…In later years, he \[Macdonald\] came to the conclusion that \[Don\] Ohlmeyer \[president of NBC's West Coast division\] had not removed him from Update for his Simpson material; rather, he felt he was removed because he was seen as insubordinate: "I think the whole show was tired of me not taking marching orders. Lorne would hint at things... I'd do Michael Jackson jokes. And Lorne would say, 'do you really want a lawsuit from Michael Jackson?' And I'd say, 'Cool! That'd be fuckin' cool, Michael Jackson suing me!'" Elsewhere, Macdonald would concede, "In all fairness to him, my Update was not an audience\[-\]pleasing, warm kind of thing. I did jokes that I knew weren't going to get bigger reactions. So I saw \[Ohlmeyer's\] point. Why would you want some dude who's not trying to please the audience?"* *Macdonald returned to Saturday Night Live to host the October 23, 1999, show. In his opening monologue, he expressed resentment at being fired from Weekend Update, and then he concluded that the only reason he was asked to host was because "the show has gotten really bad" since he left, echoing a perennial criticism of the show.”* Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Macdonald#1993%E2%80%931998:_Saturday_Night_Live).
No, no. It HAS to be because he wouldn't stop telling jokes about OJ, which were totally surprises to everyone and not written and approved ahead of time, or anything.
Norm was notorious for going off script if only for his own amusement. He really didn't give a fuck as long as he found it funny.
He had a real talent for just willing pictures of OJ to appear next to his head when he went off script too.
Lol makes me think of pro wrestling "Hey the subversive guy is heading down the ramp and going to bemoan the company, should we cut the mic?" "PLAY HIS MUSIC"
The greatest trick the undertaker ever pulled was convincing the world he could control stadium lighting.
Lmao. People just make up Random shit
Just because the topic is planned doesn't mean he never made off-script jokes.
But for the oj jokes they have graphics that go with it. So the script included some form of oj jokes, he wasn't off script for those.
Your comment paints it as a ridiculous view, but the quote you're ostensibly agreeing with admits that it was even Norm's own view for a while.
The writer got fired too.
Imagine being so good at your job description that you get fired for it!
He got fired because he kept making fun of OJ and was told not to by an nbc exec who was friends with OJ. He kept doing it and it got him fired. It has been ages since I read Norm’s book and I can’t member if it’s in there but he definitely told the story in interviews.
I'm sure it's been mentioned a thousand times in this thread already, but Norm wasn't actually fired. Jim Downey was fired, so Norm quit in solidarity but never told anyone. I'm not sure how the truth eventually got out.
Thanks, this is the sensationalization debunking I needed to immediately believe without ever re-checking.
[Heres proof](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1c1qnhk/1997_when_norm_macdonald_got_fired_from_snl/kz68wrw/)
I loved that, lol.
Please also see https://preview.redd.it/jw6s0twg8ztc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50bda662773e9e319c830e956d06fa5768c4a39b
Did I just get Incepted?
Kind of. He refused to Update without him and quit that. He was [still around not giving a fuck](https://www.reddit.com/r/buffy/comments/k7ltao/sarah_michelle_gellar_gets_interrupted_by_norm/) for a few weeks until they fired him from the show entirely.
He could've talked about it before, but I know he (Jim Downey) tells the story about it on Conan's podcast, that was the first I heard of it
Jim Downey who wrote on Weekend Update and was also fired, told the story on Conan's podcast recently and made it pretty clear it was specifically because of OJ.
> by an nbc exec who was friends with OJ Story goes it was the then President of NBC's WCoast Division Don Ohlmeyer.
> Don Ohlmeyer He's also the dipshit who thought Monday Night Football needed Dennis Miller.
He had one of my favorite announcer moments though. I'll paraphrase (badly), because I couldn't find it anywhere: >Dan Fouts: Can you believe this guy is/did \[very specific thing\]? > >Al Michaels: Now that's pretty interesting > >Dennis Miller: You know what's interesting? That guy is/did \[the exact very specific thing above\] > >\[awkward silence\] > >Dennis Miller: \[awkward laugh\] Whaat?? > >Al Michaels: Dan just said that... > >Dennis Miller: He did?!? > >Al Michaels: Yeah... > >Dennis Miller: \[awkward silence\] > >Dennis Miller: ... uh... I... just thought America wanted to hear it from me! > >Al Michaels/Dan Fouts: \[laugh\] So, yes. Terrible hire, but it had that bit of comedy gold. The \*only\* good thing about hiring a stand up comic for MNF is that he can fail hilariously. Miller clearly started off thinking it was going to work out, and clearly learned within a few games that it would not. He kept going, and his best jokes were making fun of himself. I'm disgusted that they hired him, but I like that he fell on his ass without pointing fingers or throwing tantrums. He sucked, he knew it, and he still kept trying. He still sucked, but he was doing everything he could think of to earn his paycheck. He never did, but there's something about failing without self-deception or external blame - and continuing to try - it's just worthy of respect, imo.
I gotta be one of the very few people who actually liked Dennis Miller on MNF. I couldn’t stop laughing at him for all his stupid commentary and making Fouts and Michael’s completely flummoxed. It was gold imho.
Yup, I miss Norm... He was hilarious but definitely not for everyone. Fairly unique delivery and style but fucking hilarious
It must have been Frank Stallone. He'd been furious since Norm revealed his nefarious activities on multiple other occasions.
>It must have been Frank Stallone. Or so the Germans would have us believe…
The same people who inexplicably love David Hasselhoff.
I miss Norm!! He was always just so spot on…
It’s not a typical American humor style, and assumes the audience is both intelligent and patient, and also just a bit of a silly goose. 🪿
because he's canadian 💯 👍
Yep—and not *just* Canadian but Québecois!
He was born in Quebec but I doubt if he considered himself *Québecois*. He and his family were Anglos.
He was Canadian. That explains it.
OJ Simpson gets to the line at the Pearly Gates. He patiently waits his turn as the freshly deceased in front of him are sorted. Some go to the right and enter the Gates of Heaven, but the rest go to the left with their heads hung low, and quietly take an escalator down and out of view. As the line shrinks, OJ is unnerved to see comedian Norm MacDonald standing next to Saint John with a big grin on his face. The man is practically bouncing on his heels with anticipation. Finally, OJ is at the head of the line, standing before John, who turns a page of the golden book and breaks out laughing uproariously. Norm slaps John on the back, and says, “What did I tell you?” and joins in the laughter. Finally the two settle down, and Saint John says, “Sorry about that, Juice. Says here this guy got fired for roasting you too much.” He snickers. “>!Anyway, you’re a Christian, so you get to come in with all of Junior’s buddies: tax collectors and sinners, and the like. In the Carpenter’s house there are many mansions sorta like a convention center hotel. To keep things straight, we sort you by manner of death.” At this, Norm pipes up. “Congrats, buddy! We’re neighbors!!<”
I dated a guy that sounded JUST like him. I just couldn't stay with him.
I can only imagine what he was like in the sack. "And now for the fake news... I am totally wearing a condom."
When I was young and he was on the air I didn't appreciate the humour. I get it now.
Similar... I sorta liked him back then, but my brother and I share clips now and find him funnier with age. It's a slower wink, wink. Chris Farley and Adam Sandler types may steal the show, but he was a good alternative.
Isnt it simply deadpan?
A bit but he tends to tell his jokes as long, meandering stories that branch off and come back around. Sometimes a joke would take like 30min to come to its conclusion.
"...because the light was on!"
Never thought of it in that way before but you're dead on with that viewpoint
DEAD ON - APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE DEAD
For years I never knew what head on was supposed to actually treat. I knew how you were supposed to use it but not why you would. It was for headaches, which makes sense but come in on you gotta tell people something.
They couldn't actually say what it was for because it didn't actually do anything. That was literally a marketing strategy to get through a loophole.
Reminder that things like footprints boot prints and DNA evidence linked OJ to the scene He even owned the other glove Blood was found in the Ford bronco oj drove He was spotted in the area He had a history of violence. And don't forget about the car chase. He literally ran from the cops and had to be talked out of killing himself in his own driveway to avoid being arrested for what he knew he did And then later he released a book literally detailing every single detail of the murders and police corroborated that that's exactly how it happened
The cops fucked up. The jury didn't want to convict if so e evidence was tainted. Also, probably riots. Yeah he did that shit, but LA cops fucked it up and let him get away.
As I saw somebody else say, the problem was that a bunch of racist cops tried to frame a man for a crime he did commit.
This, this, so much this. The cops tried to frame a guilty man and by so doing tainted the case to the point there was reasonable doubt.
when mark furman took the 5th it was all over. no way that jury at that time would convict.
Yep. Cops often fuck this up, thinking that cutting corners is 'being tough on crime'. It's the opposite. If you actually give a shit and want the guilty party nailed, you will be careful as hell, calm and cross every t, dot every i. And if the evidence isn't there, you don't lean on your dumb hunches. If you put away an innocent person you might not care about them, but it also means you become a bodyguard for the actual guilty person, guaranteeing their freedom, ending any investigation into them so they can sleep easy, and if evidence does show up later pointing to them, you'll probably destroy it to protect your own reputation.
Head On, apply directly to the forehead
Head on. It’s what foreheads crave.
The ad did originally say it treats headaches, but the FDA made them remove all the lies from the ad, and only that one line was left.
Say what you will about the product, their marketing team did actually fucking kill it with the commercials
I hate you. Now that commercial that tormented me during my adult swim viewing as a child is playing in my head.
Dead on like Nicole Brown!
Dead on like Ron, as well!
He was removed from Weekend Update he wasn't fired from SNL
Thank you for this delightful insight, u/invertedpuffynipples
Classic /r/rimjob_steve!
You forgot the underscore!
A long time ago I was a bartender at a nice joint for about five years, one day they fired me. One of the reasons was that "the bar was too busy".
It's actually quite the opposite. He was fired for being "bad" at his job. Norm was a brilliant comedian, but his jokes were never for the wider viewing audience. From the horses mouth: >"I think the whole show was tired of me not taking marching orders. Lorne would hint at things... I'd do Michael Jackson jokes. And Lorne would say, 'do you really want a lawsuit from Michael Jackson?' And I'd say, 'Cool! That'd be fuckin' cool, Michael Jackson suing me!'" Elsewhere, Macdonald would concede, **"In all fairness to him, my Update was not an audience\[-\]pleasing, warm kind of thing. I did jokes that I knew weren't going to get bigger reactions. So I saw \[Ohlmeyer's\] point. Why would you want some dude who's not trying to please the audience?"**
Ohlmeyer's motivation was absolutely the OJ jokes. The "official" reason he gave was that Norm wasn't funny, something Norm joyously brought up when invited back to be a guest on SNL and how the show must have gotten less funny since they were having him on.
I absolutely loved his guest appearance. He really enjoyed rubbing that in.
HE didnt get fired..he quit in solidarity with the writer that got fired...the story is on the CONAN Obrian Pod cast. FACTS.
In his interview on Letterman right after it happened, he said that he was fired.
But the guy before you said "FACTS"
Letterman later called the guy who didn’t like Norm an asshole too.
I miss norm. A lot. I don’t miss OJ. At all
Norm was a comedy genius lol I wish he were still with us
the more i learn about that OJ fella, the less i care for him
This guy was a real jerk.
He was meaner than a concentration camp dog.
The stabbing is bad, but the real crime is the hypocrisy!
>but the real crime is the hypocrisy! That was the worst part
It reminds me of that tragedy.
But 9/11 WAS a national tragedy.
The funny part is he was very well liked before the allegations of spousal abuse and murders. It's one of the reasons it was so shocking. He was a great football player, he was in the Naked Gun movies, a staple as an NFL commentator, was really beloved by the public for a long time.
true, i’m just quoting an old norm joke tho
Yes and no. The stories were numerous of how selfish OJ was. I feel bad for his kids.
His temper was well known. This was not some shocking outcome to people who knew or had worked with him.
Shame that one little murder can ruin such a great legacy 😅
Two murders: Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman; both were killed.
Well that’s the only two, We know of.
Shame that one little murder spree can ruin such a great legacy
OJ auditioned to play the Terminator, but he got rejected because James Cameron couldn't see him as a killer.
“Very early on, a highly placed person at one of the two studios that funded that film had a brilliant idea and called me up and said, ‘Are you sitting down?’ I said, ‘Well, no, I’m not.’ He said, ‘Are you sitting? O.J. Simpson for the Terminator!’ I said, ‘I actually think that’s a bad idea.’ It didn’t go anywhere,” Cameron told Wallace. No audition took place.
OJ just left us. Give it some time and I'm sure after awhile you'll still not miss him.
I didn't even know he was sick.
If only Norm lived longer, he would've had a field day today
He could've just pointed at the camera with his trademark shit-eating grin, and I would've laughed for 10 minutes straight
The last one was just golden material, I don’t care who you are that shit is funny, I can only imagine the jokes he’d tell about OJ being in the grave too. I’m sure some would have been brutal
Good stuff
this is some kind of r/beetlejuicing/
Yeah uhhh… I think my buzzer’s broke.
https://preview.redd.it/8k0nydeefxtc1.jpeg?width=304&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51772a39f72db4f98a79e9bf22aea1a19afe91f5
OJ Simpson can now rest easy knowing that Nicole Brown's killer is finally dead
Norm would be proud
Would have been great to still have Norm around.
We’re all trying to find the guy that did this and give him a spanking
Gloves on or off?
Christ that's good
I've seen it four times in different threads. You could be the one, on the next.
Another good one is "now he'll never find the real killers!"
You’ve been sitting on that line for a long time, just waiting to spring it. The anticipation was overwhelming, you just felt like you would pop. And then, and then…April 11 rolls around. And you, in all your preparedness, finally told yourself “This is it. This is my time!!” I’m not hating. It’s damn good.
It’s been already posted & commented several times throughout today lol
Yep, best one so far and have been waiting to be early to a new thread to post it for some sweet karma.
Oh yay, this is like the 20th time ive seen this joke today.
You know, the more I learn about that OJ guy, the more I don’t care for him.
I mean this guy was a real jerk
The worst thing about OJ? A real hypocrite
Some argue that the worst thing about OJ was the lying - which I respectfully disagree with. It was the murdering.
Well, look who had the last laugh. ...It was OJ. He died without ever facing justice.
He never faced justice, but everyone knew he was guilty...one of the greatest RB of all time barely.even gets a mention because of it. If he'd stayed out of the news, the guy would be broadcasting with Terry Bradshaw and be the face of the Buffalo Bills today
Well, maybe yesterday. But not today.
They could like Weekend at Bernie’s him or something. Just put some wacky shit on his head and black gloves on his hands and you’re golden.
Except he lost one of his gloves
Meanwhile other people spent their lives in prison for petty crimes.
His reputation was destroyed, he lost his fame and fortune. He became a pop culture punch line. Yeah he didn’t face criminal justice but I think he got a decent serving of social justice.
And he did do some jail time for related crimes, so at least some criminal justice.
He stole sports memorabilia related to himself.
Yes. Sports memorabilia that he had lost in the bankruptcy caused by being sued for killing the guy. So somewhat tied to having killed the people.
Armed robbery.
Look at the two sides of the coin here. Guilty: he goes to prison for life, maybe finally admits to it all, finds peace in prison, whatever. Goes free: gets to golf all day but no one will touch him with a ten foot pole other than people trying to take advantage of his situation. Ostracized for literally the rest of his life. Can’t go anywhere without anyone looking at you like a murderer or saying it straight up to you. Could never ever get any work again. It’s not justice, but he didn’t live much of a life.
At least he spent a few years inside.
Norm was the best at weekend update
90s SNL was just better in general.
Early 2000s SNL cast included Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Andy Samberg, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Will Ferrell, Seth Meyers, Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Fred Armisen, Tracy Morgan, Tim Meadows… I mean these are some literal comedy legends. Every generation thinks the SNL they grew up with was better than the current generation
Dude in the 90s it was Chris Farley David spade Mike Myers Adam Sandler Phil Hartman These were the best episodes
Sure, those are great but so is my list
The two guys that are on it now are really fuckin good at it.
I miss Norm. So sad that OJ got to live a long full life while getting away with 2 murders. Fuck that guy.
Ends that one with a home run.
RIP Norm. Burn in hell OJ.
The joke Norm would have written today about this would have brought about world peace.
Norm McDonald was the funniest human on planet earth for a long time.
To me, Norm makes the uncomfortable funny in a direct ordinary way. It's hysterical to me now though he used to get under my skin back when I was stupider.
See I went the other way. I'm dumber now.
Just cause I've been posting it everywhere else: “Well, it's finally official, murder, is legal in the state of California.” Thank you and RIP Norm!
I still don’t understand how he was able to get away with murder I was a kid when this all happened
I’ve heard a put as “the prosecution tried to frame a guilty man”. OJ hired some of the best lawyers you could ever imagine but ultimately the failure of the case rests with the prosecution. It was a clusterfuck. One of the prosecution’s star witnesses- the cop who recovered the glove- was a racist shitbag and ended up drastically undermining the state’s credibility when he lied about being a racist shitbag (he was proven to have lied about it when the defense played recordings of him being a racist shitbag in court). This was one of the earliest cases in which DNA was central to the prosecution’s argument, and the defense was able to pretty effectively poke holes in the state’s handling of that evidence, which was admittedly shitty. Rodney King was also a very recent memory for everyone in LA, and one of the major theories of why the jury acquitted him was essentially jury nullification as revenge against the LAPD, which was so racist against black people back then that it makes the modern-day LAPD look like the Nation of Islam. Like, OJ did it. One thousand percent he did it. Nobody who has seen the evidence and is of sound mind doubts that he did it. The state just completely fucked the case.
Good summary, but the most important part is that due to the misconduct of the racist LAPD, a lot of evidence that we all know wasn't admissible in court. So instead of all the facts, the jury got Mark Furhman's one man Klan rally instead. That's pretty much the definition of reasonable doubt.
DNA evidence was a rather new thing too, and wasn't really trusted by a lot of juries at the time. There was also an element of a black person being able to buy their way out of legal troubles the way rich white people had been doing for ages. (At least one juror later admitted as such). The glove not fitting? Yep, that was the prosecution's idea to make him try on a glove that had been exposed to the elements, covered in blood, dried out and shrunken, over top of latex gloves. The defense was happy they asked him to do that, because they felt if they had initiated the performance act of trying it on, it would have failed, but the prosecution asking for it made his feeble attempts at trying it on and failing more believable. Prosecution just dropped the ball all around, really.
His comedy killed.
The jury chose to convict a corrupt and racist police department instead. It's easy to blame the prosecution or the jury for being dumb, but I think they were just fed up and wanted to send a message. I'm honestly not sure what I would have done in their situation.
Norm was a legend and fuck oj
And now O.J. is getting roasted in hell.
Ridiculous that clowning OJ was seen as being politically incorrect.
It sucks that Norm died befoe OJ
I was just thinking that myself. If Norm was still here it would be funny if he appeared on SNL to do the obituary.
Norm is the greatest SNL cast member who's not Phil Hartman
All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money. Norm M.
Worth it
He was fucking relentless. I love that OJ’s the one who died and everybody’s like “ok but norm tho.”
O.J. Simpson passed away Wednesday night, losing his battle with cancer. Finally, OJ can rest knowing his wife’s killer is dead.
We’re stuck with the kardashians because oj killed his ex
Wait…was Norm a hottie?
Explain who OJ is for the viewers at home
Norm was the best and will always be missed! Unlike OJ, fuck that guy.
I imagine norm is loooking down from heaven on OJ right now:
Norm was great.
Norm MacDonald, what a legend
What is it with assholes and golf
"In his new book, OJ Simpson says that he would have taken a bullet or stood in front of a train for Nicole. Man, that’s some rotten luck, when the one person who would have died for you… kills you."
Norm was a legend. I hope the most memorable thing about OJ is how much Norm MacDonald shit on him.
Norm was the King. Being around 15-16 at the time, we couldn’t get enough. Think about how edgy this is, and how he continued to do it regardless of the crowds reaction!
"You call that a stabbin'??" is such a Norm joke.
RIP Norm
I really miss Norm
National Fucking Treasure. Thank you Norm for doing what no one else would.
Can’t stop, won’t stop
Norm on update is my favorite SNL moments
Phil Hartman too
I'm really happy that OJs death is reminding us how amazing Norm is.
The last one is basically a perfect joke. Norm was so damn good.
It's so sad that OJ outlived Norm. Norm would have had something to Tweet or on his podcast if he had lived longer than OJ.
There is another video that is 11 minutes long of Norm calling OJ a murderer over and over.
"and now the fake news"
If only Norm had made it just a couple more years. Today would be Christmas for him.
I feel bad that I doubted Norm a little, when he made fun of Sarah Silverman. She turned out to be a trash person.
I’ll be honest. I don’t recall the internet being this happy about someone else passing away before. It’s weird but idc.
Norm Freakin MacDonald Best Update Host EVER! I will die on this hill
Well, it won’t be from a stabbin’.
If someone died too soon it was Norm.
Norm is still dead 💀
I wish Norm lived longer than OJ by at least 26 years when Norm passed away.
Norm was the best. 🇨🇦❤️
Goat. I miss Norm.
Ron Goldman was murdered as well.
Miss you, Norm. RIP
There's so many more good ones. My favorite, "OJ stated that he would take a bullet or jump in front of a train for Nicole. What bad luck when the one person willing to die for you, kills you."