O.J. Simpson was on everybody’s thoughts at the moment after his demise, and Conan O’Brien took the chance to salute his late buddy, comedian Norm Macdonald, who continued doing Simpson jokes even after being warned by NBC higher-ups to knock it off.
Sitting Thursday with CNN’s Jake Tapper to advertise his new present, Conan O’Brien Must Go, the previous Late Night host remembered Macdonald for doing “some of the most brilliant comedy of anybody during that whole period.”
It finally led to his firing by NBC head Don Ohlmeyer in 1998. O’Brien defined that “The head of the network at the time was tight with O.J.”
O’Brien praised Macdonald as “one of my best guests of all-time,” and “one of the great comedians of all-time.”
Macdonald anchored SNL’s “Weekend Update” section for the twentieth season, which ran through the Simpson trial. He insisted Simpson was responsible, and as soon as launched a e book about one other well-known determine, Prince Charles, claiming the title was “Of Course O.J. Did It, Come On.”
Macdonald later tweeted a suggestion to Simpson when the Juice joined Twitter in 2019.
“Hey, OJ, it’s Norm. Listen, be careful about the videos you put out there. I recognize the golf course behind your house I know that exact street and could easily print your address,” he wrote.
“Of course I never would, but others would. Be careful, Juice.”