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Conan O’Brien praises late Norm Macdonald for O.J. Simpson jokes that got him fired from ‘SNL’
New York Post ^
| April 15, 2024
| Michael Starr
Posted on 04/15/2024 11:37:58 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Conan O’Brien had some lavish praise for late comic Norm Macdonald following the news of O.J. Simpson’s death — and why Macdonald was fired from “Saturday Night Live.”
O’Brien, 60 — who was promoting his Max series, “Conan O’Brien Must Go” — appeared on CNN with Jake Tapper in the hours after news broke on April 11 that Simpson died at the age of 76 from cancer.
When the conversation turned to Simpson, O’Brien wasted no time in remembering how Macdonald mercilessly ripped Simpson on “Saturday Night Live” in his “Weekend Update” segments after Simpson was arrested in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: normmacdonald; simpson; snl
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To: nickcarraway
norm is goat. love his long 10 minutes jokes with punchline that may or may not pay off
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posted on
04/15/2024 11:39:38 AM PDT
by
VAFreedom
(Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
To: nickcarraway
Norm’s appearances on Conan’s show were always classic.
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posted on
04/15/2024 11:40:49 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/15/2024 11:40:56 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/15/2024 11:41:31 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
04/15/2024 11:41:56 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: VAFreedom
Norm was a comedic genius.
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posted on
04/15/2024 11:42:22 AM PDT
by
JennysCool
("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
To: nickcarraway
Remember when comedians were funny?
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posted on
04/15/2024 11:44:07 AM PDT
by
bray
(Science says a human life begins at conception.)
To: JennysCool
Norm’s genius was delivering the jokes, in a manner that made it difficult to cancel him, he still had a lot of leftists as friends in Hollywood.
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posted on
04/15/2024 11:44:28 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: nickcarraway
“...and why Macdonald was fired from “Saturday Night Live.”
This makes no sense. All of his SNL weekend update content had story graphics associated with them. That means it was scripted.
How does Norm get fired for reading scripted content?
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posted on
04/15/2024 11:50:36 AM PDT
by
ConservativeWarrior
(Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
To: ConservativeWarrior
He wrote the scripted content (with a writing partner).
The show’s producer was OK with it, but an NBC executive was not and had him fired.
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posted on
04/15/2024 12:03:31 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/15/2024 12:07:15 PM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
(Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
To: nickcarraway
get the f out not funny hoser Conant
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posted on
04/15/2024 12:09:04 PM PDT
by
A strike
(There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
To: VAFreedom
10 minutes jokes with punchline 'Because the light was on' punchline was great.
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04/15/2024 12:13:51 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: ConservativeWarrior
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posted on
04/15/2024 12:19:36 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: MotorCityBuck
The ‘moth joke’ should be taught in university courses on humor, if there is such a thing. The joke teller (Norm) starts by telling the audience that the main character is a moth. Then he goes through ten minutes of rambling and humanizing the character in order to make the listener forget it’s a moth. By that time the listener thinks it’s just a person at a therapists office. Then *bang* comes the reminder it’s still a moth.. and the listener laughs at the silliness.
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posted on
04/15/2024 12:23:04 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: ifinnegan; ConservativeWarrior
He wrote the scripted content (with a writing partner).
The show’s producer was OK with it, but an NBC executive was not and had him fired.
Turns out an NBC exec (Don Ohlmeyer) was a personal friend of OJ's-to the point where he supposedly threw the jury a party after they acquitted. Ohlmeyer fired the writer, too. He also tried to blacklist Norm MacDonald from appearing on NBC's late night shows.
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posted on
04/15/2024 12:29:22 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
To: verum ago
Yeah. Later tried to, and may have, keep advertising or promotion for Norm’s movie off NBC.
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04/15/2024 12:37:58 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: libh8er
then there’s the dirty version of my wife is in coma. lol
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posted on
04/15/2024 12:46:52 PM PDT
by
VAFreedom
(Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
To: Yo-Yo
I watched the whole thing and laughed my ass off. Fired because “he wasn’t funny”.
Sure...he wasn’t funny to OJ’s golf buddy at the network, that is for sure!
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posted on
04/15/2024 1:01:29 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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