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Norm Macdonald’s scathing OJ takedowns on SNL resurface after Simpson’s death: ‘Murder is legal in California’

Following the announcement of the death of OJ Simpson, Saturday Night Live fans are sharing compilations of Norm Macdonald roasting the infamous NFL star. Simpson died on Wednesday aged 76 after a ...
Uproxx

Conan O’Brien Praised Norm Macdonald For His ‘Brilliant’ O.J. Simpson Jokes On ‘SNL’

O.J. Simpson’s death was greeted with an outpouring of love… for Norm MacDonald. Ohlmeyer fired Macdonald from the Weekend Update gig after he continued to joke about Simpson following his acquittal. ...
Yahoo

The unlikely but enduring bond between Norm Macdonald and O.J. Simpson

As helicopters hovered over Brentwood to see how O.J. Simpson celebrated on the first weekend since his acquittal in October 1995, Norm Macdonald took his seat at “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend ...
Awful Announcing

O.J. Simpson and ‘SNL’ agitator Norm Macdonald reportedly connected in 2019

Perhaps nobody became known more for publicly accusing O.J. Simpson of murder during the trial over the deaths of his wife and her friend in the mid-1990s than Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” ...
Yahoo

Conan O’Brien Remembers Norm Macdonald After the Death of His Greatest Foil, O.J. Simpson

The death of O.J. Simpson this week brought no shortage of jokes out of the woodwork, as the controversy over his double murder acquittal followed the former Buffalo Bills running back around for the ...
Variety

Conan O’Brien Says Norm Macdonald Did the ‘Most Brilliant Comedy’ About O.J. Simpson on ‘SNL’ When ‘the Head of the Network Was Tight With O.J.’

Conan O’Brien appeared on CNN for an interview with Jake Tapper a few hours after news broke that O.J. Simpson had died. Making the press rounds in support of his new Max series “Conan O’Brien Must Go ...
Wall Street Journal

Norm Macdonald’s Brilliant O.J. Takedowns

Peggy Noonan’s “America in the Age of O.J. Simpson” (Declarations, April 13) reminds me of the relentless stream of jokes that Norm Macdonald told at O.J.’s expense as a fake news anchor of Weekend ...
Rolling Stone

‘SNL’ Weekend Update Addresses O.J.’s Death, Trashes Trump’s Abortion Comments

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update, which famously saw Norm Macdonald make O.J. Simpson the target of many a punchline from behind the desk some thirty years ago, marked the former football player’s ...
AV Club

O.J. and me: The Bills, the murders, the Norm jokes, and growing up under the shadow of the Juice

“Thank you, I just had it stuffed.” [Hands over a stuffed beaver.] It’s a beautiful back-and-forth between Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley in The Naked Gun, a scene concreted in my cortex as I ...
Variety

Norm Macdonald, Comedian and ‘Saturday Night Live’ Star, Dies at 61

Norm Macdonald, the deadpan comedian, actor, writer and “Saturday Night Live” star, has died after a battle with cancer, Variety has confirmed. He was 61. Macdonald privately battled the disease for ...
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Conan O'Brien on Norm Macdonald's "Brilliant" SNL/O.J. Simpson Jokes

Article Summary Conan O'Brien discusses Norm Macdonald's SNL legacy and O.J. Simpson jokes. Macdonald's controversial humor on SNL led to his firing due to NBC's Ohlmeyer ties with Simpson. O'Brien ...