Norm's first line on the Weekend Update after O.J. was acquitted: "It's official: Murder is now legal in the state of California."

@nonaligned293

Ай бұрын

Some of these people making compilations are useless.

@auntypc4791

Ай бұрын

lol, that's hilarious!

@Gutslinger

Ай бұрын

The compilation is a complete failure without it.

@larrydeshazo260

Ай бұрын

Yep, this Montage of OJ Jokes Should Have Started With This Joke!!!

@chocolatechimichanga

Ай бұрын

​@@nonaligned293the compilation she's watching is jokes before the verdict, and there is another compilation by the same channel of jokes after the verdict, which includes the above referenced joke.

What made Norm so great is he didn’t care if a joke hit. He just went for it without worrying about the reaction. He was fearless as a comedian.

@ryanr4156

Ай бұрын

My favorite thing was how he was amazing at explaining his own joke too

@jackson9282

Ай бұрын

I think his joy was when they didn't get it.

@mwmwm3388

Ай бұрын

because he knew the joke was good and its just the crowd that doesn't get it, at least that's what people close to him have said

@Lyka-U-Kair

Ай бұрын

Makes me think of when he was on the Bob Saget roast and all he told were old dad jokes. I don't know how me could make it funny, but by God he did it and more.

@9ine-fd6zc

8 күн бұрын

​@@Lyka-U-KairNorm really knew how to play with the expectation of the audience. In that roast everybody expected him to be the savage, he was savage but not in the way everybody expected

At least OJ can rest in peace knowing his wife's killer is dead..

@MC-fv4vv

Ай бұрын

Oooo!

@philippesauvie639

24 күн бұрын

Two-tiered justice system in action 30 years ago just like it is today. You’ll find out

@drServitis

22 күн бұрын

@@flyeaglesfly9940 Don't be a racist.

@flyeaglesfly9940

22 күн бұрын

@@drServitis that’s cute.

@drServitis

21 күн бұрын

@@flyeaglesfly9940 Only white people think OJ killed his white wife. He was found innocent in a court of law.

Here's the TL: DR version if you don't want to fully research the OJ case: - A blue beanie and righthand glove were found at the crime scene. - Bloody footprints at the scene matched rare and expensive shoes owned by OJ and were the exact size. Less than 300 pairs of that shoe at that size were sold in America. - OJ's blood was found at the crime scene and leading away from the crime scene alongside the bloody footprints. - Nicole's blood and Ron Goldman's blood were found on the door of OJ''s white Ford Bronco and inside the Bronco. - OJ's blood was found leading from his Bronco into his home. - OJ's blood, Nicole's blood, and Ron's blood were found on lefthand bloody glove found at OJ's house, which was an exact match of the RH glove found at the crime scene. - Nicole's blood was found on OJ's socks inside his home. - OJ's hair fibers were found on the two dead bodies, inside the blue beanie (deeply embedded into the knit showing it had been worn often over a long period of time), inside the glove at the crime scene, and inside the matching bloody glove at OJ's house. - Blue clothing fibers were found on the dead bodies, matching the color of a shirt worn by OJ in a video from an earlier event that day, and corroborated by a friend of OJ who said he saw him wearing that color shirt right after the murders. - Carpet fibers that could only be found in OJ's year, make, and model of vehicle (the Bronco) were found on the dead bodies. - Blood was found on the sheets of the hotel bed that OJ stayed in the day after the murders. - A cut was found on OJ's thumb by investigators. He claimed he cut it "on some paper" after he learned about his wife's murder. There is a LOT more evidence, but that list covers the overwhelming forensic evidence that the defense claims was ALL planted by racist cops. And then a jury of 9 blacks, 2 Hispanics, and one white person (even though the crimes took place in Brentwood which was over 90% white) acquitted OJ despite the overwhelming evidence of his guilt. Years later several black jury members said they voted not guilty as payback for the Rodney King verdict, basically letting a black man go free for murdering two white people as revenge for what they considered to be a racist LA police force beating up a black man and getting away with it. Those interviews are all on KZread. Feel free to go watch the racists admit what they did. Anyway, that covers the broad strokes. And today, almost half of black Americans still believe OJ is innocent according to recent polls taken after his death.

@JoshieMadhatt

Ай бұрын

I dunno if you've read this book but you seem very knowledgeable about the case so if you haven't it's by Vincent Bugliosi and it's called Outrage: The five reasons OJ Simpson got away with murder. I feel like it gives a different perspective than most people do. The biggest thing most people mention is the "Dream Team" 2nd biggest is prob those jurors who admitted it was revenge. 3rd is Mark Fuhrman getting caught for being extremely racist. But Vincent spends a LOT of time talking about the prosecution and how it was stupid of them to leave certain evidence out like the police interview where they pretty much caught him in a lie about that big gash on his finger. And also their dumb asf decision to allow OJ to try the gloves on himself instead of having someone do it. Cuz they gave OJ a green light to like "struggle" and go ugh I can't get em on

@user-yr3hu1ug7r

Ай бұрын

@@JoshieMadhatt , yeah i had read some things about the prosecution being very incompetent as well. Like you said though....many factors but the prosecution really failed to present a good solid case.

@davidm5646

Ай бұрын

I mean the fact that no other suspect has come up for such a high profile case is telling enough.

@z.kramer6027

Ай бұрын

@@user-yr3hu1ug7r this is why a chosen jury system is stupid. Judges who know the law and have sworn to leave out personal opinion should convict people. not everyday people influenced by the media. People like OJ can be pardonned purely because people like him.

@a3gill

29 күн бұрын

TLDR

Norm was fired for the OJ jokes because Don Ohlmeyer was a senior NBC executive who was also very close friends with OJ. After a while Ohlmeyer had enough and fired Norm. After OJ was arrested Ohlmeyer visited OJ in jail pretty much every day.

@billebrooks

Ай бұрын

Yeah, this makes no sense to me. Why would anyone listen to some idiot that nobody ever heard of? Did he threaten to fire Lorne Michaels as well? Why didn't they just fire Don Ohlmeyer? It is no wonder SNL that is a complete failure now.

@nunyanunya4147

Ай бұрын

... this reminds me ov that tragady. you know the one...? 9/11

@jackgilchrist

Ай бұрын

​​​​@@billebrooksBecause Ohlmeyer was a top NBC executive and thus Michaels' boss. Who was gonna fire the guy, other than even higher NBC executives? Which rarely happens and I believe is something the board would have to vote on. You think they're gonna fire one of their high mucky mucks over some comedian? Norm may be great to us but not to a bunch of old suits at NBC. Besides, Ohlmeyer probably had shit on half the board.

@billebrooks

Ай бұрын

@@jackgilchrist It is not just about Norm though. Nobody defends OJ anymore. It is hard to believe that that is the hill this Don idiot wanted to die on. It is like Prince Andrew standing up for Jeffrey Epstein. How did that turn out? What did it really prove getting rid of a comedian because of jokes about a guy wanted for murder? Just think about the attitude of our friendly video maker Britt.

@flingonber

Ай бұрын

@@billebrooks You don't have to be famous to be powerful, dude...really powerful people usually aren't household names.

There were a lot of OJ fans who didn't want to believe OJ was guilty. But I was standing next to a black friend of mine at work when the verdict was announced. He just shook his head and muttered "He killed those people".

@amirsim2479

Ай бұрын

@kurtjohnson4816 Yeah …. This new generation doesn’t understand the time frame and how big oj was back then before the murders ….. a lot more people believed oj was innnocent or didn’t want to believe that a black sports hero could do that ….. my personal opinion studying the trial etc ….. I believe oj went there to scare Nicole and I believe he sorta blacked out in a fit of rage that’s just my take ……

@lloydwaycott8178

Ай бұрын

@@amirsim2479 Blacked out after taking a knife, gloves, and pull-down hat to meet her? Right.

@amirsim2479

Ай бұрын

yeah that could be done to scare her to you know ….. he might have been debating if he really wanted to kill her or just scare the shit out ov her ……

@JakeKoenig

Ай бұрын

You own anecdotal evidence aside, the vast majority of black Americans (or as you called them, "OJ fans") celebrated like they had just won the lottery because a black man got away with murdering two white people. I was only 12 at the time, but even at that age I realized that this whole melting pot experiment called America was doomed to fail someday. I can't peacefully coexist with 45 million people who hate me and want my whole race dead. Somewhere between 40-50% of black Americans right now STILL believe OJ was innocent, and a black woman on CNN recently said the OJ "represented something for black Americans" and that "incidents like OJ would keep happening" if the country doesn't "deal with the issue of race." Sounds like she's threatening that blacks will keep murdering whites until they no longer feel oppressed (as if them not feeling oppressed will EVER happen). Let all that sit with you for a while. Still think your one black friend in 1995 represents black America? I don't.

@alanclinton4239

Ай бұрын

Nice to know you have a black friend.

Norm was savage and fearless. He was true to himself

@skyhawk4946

Ай бұрын

Norm was truthful and never gave in.

@gerrym.9354

Ай бұрын

I wish I had the balls to be Norm.

@Believer1980

Ай бұрын

I would like to say now Norm has a chance to roast OJ's murdering arse to his face. However , where OJ is going, they don't need Norm for the roasting, I heard they have spits over pits of fire for that job.

@gamehappenings

Ай бұрын

Norm was the kind of guy who didn't care if no one else found it funny. As long as he found it funny

There’s a major flaw with that compilation! It leaves out the ending! “Well, it is finally official; murder is legal in the state of California.” - Norm MacDonald. RIP. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZneGmtdmYrexkpM.htmlsi=uvgAWzPDwnNJiyki

@akanshsrivastav8269

Ай бұрын

So true

@nunyanunya4147

Ай бұрын

dont give the Juice a hard time! he died doing what he loved. not being held accountable for double murder!

@debjorgo

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I was waiting for that one too.

A matching size 12 shoe print of the shoes he had been known to wear were found at the crime scene. The day before OJ was to wear the gloves in the court room, Johnny advised him to stop taking his arthritis medication so his hands would swell up. Leather that has been dampened with blood will shrink as it dries out, then you add on top of that the latex gloves he had on underneath during the fitting and you can see him forcibly spreading his fingers out the whole time he is pulling the gloves on.

@hebber1961

Ай бұрын

It was a dumb move by the prosecution.

My two favorite jokes. 1) Hey hey, easy with that. That's my lucky stabin' hat! 2) Ron Goldman's last words, "Hey! You're O.J. Simpson!"

@JoshieMadhatt

Ай бұрын

My two favorites 1. The most popular Halloween mask is OJ Simpson and the most popular greeting is "I'll kill you and that guy who's bringing over your glasses...or treat 2. It's official. Murder is legal in the state of California( why wasn't it in this compilation is beyond me)

Overwhelming evidence. Guilty as F

Honesty loves questions. Power does not.

I don't even think that Norm was particularly obsessed with the Simpson case, he just enjoyed how uncomfortable it made people. Today it is not unusual for comedians to tap into dangerous and taboo subjects in order to exploit them for comedic effect, which made Norm's humor way ahead of his time.

@MarkMay-cr6bv

Ай бұрын

I LOVED Norm, but Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryer and George Carlin among others were doing edgey, controversial comedy about taboo topics long before Mr. McDonald came on the scene. I would say he was at least partially influenced in one way or another by all those guys.

@lurx2024

Ай бұрын

Yah, I agree, another ground breaking comedian who pushed the envelope of the audience's discomfort was Andy Kaufman.

@jkelly02

Ай бұрын

Sorry, but that is not ahead of anyone or any time. It's practically the definition of a comic, or at least, a court jester.

@immanuelcunt7296

Ай бұрын

Comedians always did that, always

OJ never hired anybody to find Nicole’s killers. Doesn’t make you raise an eyebrow.

@750count

Ай бұрын

To that point. If OJ didn't do it, shouldn't the case still be open?

@this.is.a.username

Ай бұрын

EX wife

@jaegybomb

Ай бұрын

@@750count OJ was convicted in civil court and probably only got off in the initial trial because of sloppy dna collection.

@GenerationalDisappointment

Ай бұрын

@@this.is.a.username Ex wife who had 2 children with him.

@this.is.a.username

Ай бұрын

@@GenerationalDisappointment lmfao and why didn't the kids ever hire anyone to find the killers then? everyone knows the son killed her and OJ covered for him.

The Bronco chase happened June of 94. Verdict took place October of 95. 15 months of wall to wall OJ coverage

Norm was a savage! He got to do so many OJ jokes because that trial took 11 months. And, yes, those set ups were factual.

What do I think? If the crime was committed in today's age, the news papers would never report any information on the suspect at all. At all.

I think 99% of America knew he was guilty. It was more shock than anger when he got off.

@amirsim2479

Ай бұрын

@timgray3790…. You’re wrong …. Tim …. people of colour especially blacks stoood by oj side … which is evident by the verdict reaction …… so your statement about 99% of the country thought he was guilty is flat out false …..

OJ should have never outlived Nicole and Ron but also Norm.

@mynameisnotearl4383

Ай бұрын

That’s a Sad thought or comment

@mahametsoumounou8273

Ай бұрын

He did not do that shit, get over yourself

@auntypc4791

Ай бұрын

@@mahametsoumounou8273 lmaoooo!

@MyOpinionish

Ай бұрын

​@@mahametsoumounou8273lol yet he still manage to get jail time? Yeah what a stand up man.

@mattcollins4646

Ай бұрын

Yeah he f'n did. Lol​@@mahametsoumounou8273

Norm has to have over 100 OJ jokes.

Dorf is a character that Tim Conway would play on The Carol Burnett Show. They would sometimes do fake infomercial Dorf videos, typically about golf. You should add Dorf / Carroll Burnett Show to your collection.

@MoyeBoy420

Ай бұрын

There was a whole Dorf series. I use to watch it when I was a kid and it was hilarious. My favorites were Dorf on Golf and Dorf and the first games of Mount Olympus. Tim Conway played that character perfectly.

@robertstuart480

Ай бұрын

"Dorf and the first games on Mount Olympus."

@chrischar9428

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure Dorf was post carol burnett

@EricArmstrong-vo6dp

Ай бұрын

Not the best joke. I thought he should’ve gone with “Stabbing to the Oldies”

@MoyeBoy420

Ай бұрын

@@chrischar9428 Yes it was, never meant to imply that it came first

One of O.J.'s lawyers was Robert Kardashian, father of Kim etc. The O.J. trial was quite long. One of the memorable aspects of the trial was the extensive use of DNA evidence. This trial was the inspiration for all the crime scene investigation t.v. shows that did not exist prior to the trial.

@amyaeschbach3581

Ай бұрын

The beginning of the Court TV channel! The trial was on 24/7! 1st time public got to see up close and such a long trial. Evidence was overwhelming. Obsession began when OJ drove his white SUV down LA Highway chased by police and wouldn’t surrender. We all watched this live on TV hours and hours. The world was shocked by the verdict and even more by the protests and violence. I think the only reason anyone could laugh at jokes about this horrifying tragedy was because the trial and verdict seemed so far beyond comprehension that laughing felt like the only thing to do besides sitting in anger.

@terrygreene4166

Ай бұрын

@@amyaeschbach3581 all true except OJ wasn’t the driver. Cowlings was.

Norm did at least 2 oj jokes every episode for months. An exec at NBC who used to be a friend of OJs got sick of it and ordered him to stop, norm didn't stop. I think they tried to fire the writer who worked with Norm and not him but norm just stood by the writer.

Britt, Norm loved bombing, numerous comedians have confirmed that when Norm would bomb at a comedy club, he would stand out front and shake hands w/ every patron as they left the show. Conversely, when he killed, he would go backstage & hang out w/ comedian buddies… he was one of a kind!

@samil5601

Ай бұрын

Norm didn't kill. That was OJ.

@davedecker1725

Ай бұрын

At least he wasn't a hypocrite

Britt, I was in elementary school during this trial. Me, a white kid, in a rural Arkansas school full of other white kids. And they interrupted school the day of the verdict to let us know what happened. Literally(1) everyone in the country was following this case.

@davidoriggan

Ай бұрын

Go hogs!

@jeffk.9075

Ай бұрын

I was a sophomore in high school and our history teacher had AV set up a tv in the classroom and we watched the verdict. I can say that the opinion in the classroom was not split. We were all sure he did it.

@scottNNJ

Ай бұрын

I was in college. Two of my fraternity brothers stayed back to watch the verdict, arriving late to class. The professor scolded us, in his proper British accent, “The REST OF US don’t skip the beginning of class to watch the OJ verdict.” Then, a bit quieter, under his breath, asked “So, what was it?”

@laudanum669

Ай бұрын

I was the Chief Engineer at a Hotel during the trial. I moved a TV into my office and did as little as possible over the next 11 months so I could watch the trial.

@-scrim

Ай бұрын

Is that supposed to be shocking or abnormal? A school of white kids??? WOAH???

I grew up in Buffalo, NY and was the hugest O.J. fan. It was sad when my hero fell from grace.

RIP Norm Macdonald

For months we all heard the 911 calls of Nicole Brown calling while OJ was flipping out in the background during several upon several domestic abuse calls to their house. Nicole had several photos of her body after the beatings she incurred at his wrath.

I was 7 when he got acquitted. I remember being at Pizzeria Uno with my family and it came on the TV and it got really quiet and theb everyone freaked out.

When a juror is axed they are removed from considering the case.

@MintyFreshTurds

Ай бұрын

😂 OJ wanted to try an axe this time!

He had a great cushy gig at SNL. He didn’t care. He said what he believed and was fired. Still didn’t care. Did great afterwards. Solid guy. He was dying and didn’t tell anyone. Went out like a hero

It wasn't anyone who works at SNL's decision to fire Norm, it was an exec from the network. Like someone at Amazon seeing something on Twitch and deciding someone needs to be fired after the fact. They wouldn't necessarily be paying attention to what's going on during pre-production.

@seanmackey8552

Ай бұрын

Don Ohlmeyer fired Norm. Don was a good friend of the double murderer.

Norm on the Late Show with David Letterman talking about his firing from NBC is pretty classic. Worth a watch.

Truly Norm's greatest joke ever was dying of cancer without telling anyone he was sick

@user-xi4nq2wb7h

Ай бұрын

In classic Norm fashion, in his last phone conversation w/ Podcast partner & best friend Adam Eget, Norm said, “ we are gonna start the podcast back up & you’re getting a huge raise.” lol.. classic Norm troll!

@TheDylls

Ай бұрын

@@user-xi4nq2wb7h Oh, MAN... I feel like I've heard that before, but THANK YOU for reminding me! Guy was truly a savage 😂 "The MAAANNN grate..."

I worked with a woman for 17 years that was so obsessed by this trial she wore headphones all day listening to the trial. Six months later a team of police swarmed our work place. Early that morning she stabbed the woman her husband was fooling around with. Went home, showered, got rid of knife and clothes and came to work. She passed in prison.

@aadpiraat7126

Ай бұрын

She was just listening for some tips

@MC-fv4vv

Ай бұрын

Wow! That is crazy!

The FX show American Crime Story does a great job of covering the trial, definitely recommend it.

Just heard an interview with Rosanne Barr. Called him her favorite comedian.

@Bear78420

Ай бұрын

Well let’s not hold that against him 😉

@MjandDilly23

Ай бұрын

Norm and Roseanne were good friends. Norm wrote for the Roseanne show.

@joshritz7067

Ай бұрын

You beat me to saying it lol​@@Bear78420

You hit the nail on the head, Norm was the goat

Norm just did not accept the OJ situation... much love, sir

The trial lasted for 11 months and OJ was in jail for quite a while before the trial started.

@inthedarkanonymous5625

Ай бұрын

Quite a while like 20 to life for a double murder?

@Chrisrob90406

Ай бұрын

People forget that the trial seemed to go on forever. And it did not start until months after the murders so the event was in the news nearly a year and a half before the verdict. That gives lots of time to make jokes on the subject which keeps it current.

@CuttinEJ

Ай бұрын

@@inthedarkanonymous5625, like several months pre trial confinement.

This video is only scratching the surface. There are 2 videos, “Norm constantly shitting on OJ Simpson” Part 1 & Part 2, containing most or all of Norm’s OJ jokes. Part 1 is kinda short, but Part 2 is nearly 30 mins long.

This is only part 1 of the OJ and Norm on Saturday Night Live he also covered the Civil Trial

I remember watching the verdict live in class in high school.

3:30 It was a LIVE show, so rehursal could be one thing and once live he could go off script and sort of flip it to his bosses because he actually was super popular for doing that stuff. There were people above him on both sides but he just kept hitting the hammer on it.

I do remember this whole trial. My wife would watch it all day. Most everyone knew he did it. Back then you could make fun about it and not have the government knocking down your door, dressed in black face. It was comedy!

Norm also went heavy after the Clintons, when several of the people set to testify against their dirty real estate dealings suddenly committed suicide. One man, Vince Foster, died and fell Uphill after shooting himself twice, and still had the gun in his hand, something that normally would have fallen to the ground. (just like the J. Epstein case, where his 6' 6" Italian bodybuilder cellmate, with ties to the mob, could do nothing to stop Jeff from choking himself?) So many powerful people were afraid of Norm and George Carlin for spouting truth.

Norm didn’t give a 💩!

RIP Norm, Ron, and Nicole.

Even outside of the OJ jokes, and even outside of SNL, Norm had a comedy style that was entirely his own. Not even like anyone else.

This was a compilation of Norm's jokes before and during the trial. There is another compilation out there of Norm's OJ jokes after the trial.

Norm just threw the absurdities of real life at the audience then studied their reactions. As a side note during this video , at one point I seen Norm’s head with Dolly Parton hair so that was entertaining.

Most every joke starts with something true about the case, before Norm puts his spin on it. And, yes, the jokes kept coming because the trial went almost a year. Local TV news people made a career out it, becoming national TV commentors. But, Norm was a pure genius! King of dry humour!

I wouldn't say Norm Macdonald was the funniest person to ever live, but nobody has been or ever will be as funny in the way that he was. One of one.

He’s still my favourite weekend update host. RIP Norm

I used to watch SNL but don't remember this one or the firing behind it. But of course do remember seeing that OJ bronco chase on the freeway in 1994 live as it happened, was on every major news channel that was a major TV event along with the trial of course in 1995

The trial lasted 11 months... so yes, plenty of weeks for Norm to lay into OJ over and over again. I remember vividly and lividly being unable to watch my after-school cartoons for eleven months.

There never will be another Norm. Let’s get him the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Please contact them. The more l listen to Norm the better l like him. My favourite is his discussions with Dennis Miller.😂 😂😂 hilarious

On SNL the people that did the weekend news report They write their own skits and Norm wouldn't stop writing these OJ jokes you got to remember OJ was acquitted so basically Norm thought he was guilty and ever joke he wrote it was very blunt about it but anyway that's how it was back then

I was a teen when OJ was at USC. He was a star. In the NFL he was a star breaking so many records. He was a hero. OJ in Los Angeles was one of the most loved native sons. He was welcome guest in the homes of the most important and influential people across the nation. He was admired and people wanted to be in his orbit. It was hard to believe a man of his stature could possibly be a murderer. But then the evidence started mounting up. The trial was more than a trial. It was high drama. From the high powered attorneys, the Kardashian connection, the glove and shoes, arguments of timelines, the slow motion Bronco chase and the comic relief of Kato, it was compelling television. At the end I was convinced of his guilt and believe the verdict was a travesty-later somewhat corrected by the civil trial. I’m surprised that there haven’t been reruns of the trial on television; would probably get good ratings.

@amirsim2479

Ай бұрын

@gsparkman… but the verdict and the reaction was polorizing ….. the majority blacks thought he was innnocent vs majority whites thought he was guilty …..

@auntypc4791

Ай бұрын

@@amirsim2479 It wasn't the fact that they thought he was innocent (they knew he was guilty), it was the fact that they CHEERED when he was found Not Guilty. We were SHOCKED when we heard them cheering.

Norm in beast mode.

This was only every saturday night, try to imagine living through it daily on television. It was on 24/7

It's interesting to see how universally understood it is now that he was guilty, when during his trial in 1995 people were fairly split between his guilt or innocence.

A few things. Norm was a genius, he graduated high school at 14. Also, he was exceedingly kind and a devout Christian. You can find clips if you look where he says nothing is more important than kindness. Feel whatever you want about his humor, but he was an incredibly beautiful soul

Don Ohlmeyer was the dufus NBC president that canned Norm. He was a sports nut and a good friend of OJ's. Norm was told to back off and Norm did want Norm does, he doubled down and went harder on OJ. Norm was told he wasn't funny and was fired. Norm dove right in when he bombed on a joke. One of Norm's friends that is a comic tells a story about Norm going out on stage and falling flat. After the show he stood at the door and greeted that audience as they were leaving. He was absolutely one of a kind. Only Norm could make you squirm and laugh at the same time. Smartest guy in town.

There is a South Park episode where they make fun of the oj defense team and oj getting off the if Chewbacca Was a wookie defense

During this time, the OJ trial was on the news 24/7. Norm played on this by including OJ jokes in almost ever skit, often several times. There was also overwhelming evidence that he was guilty so that became the ongoing crutch of these jokes. Don Ohlmeyer was one of NBC's producers and eventually had enough of Norm's relentless jokes about OJ. So he pulled his strings and got Norm removed from Weekend Update. For many people, Norm's Weekend Update was the only reason to really watch SNL during this time as the show's quality was starting wane and the fact that Norm was the best Weekend Update host ever.

There were so many stories about OJ on SNL was because the OJ trial was THE #1 story in America for about a year

As others have noted these jokes were spread out over the length of trial which was 9 months. His jokes were the best part of the whole 24/7 coverage of OJ from the moment of Nicole and Ron's death until the verdict was read. The coverage was round the clock six days a week. As for how many episodes of Weekend Update from Saturday Night Live I'd say at least 50. It was really a clown show of a trial for the prosecution, the defense and especially Judge Ito. This whole thing was so long a friend of mine and his wife conceived and she gave birth to a child in between the slow speed chase and the verdict.

It’s always so interesting to see what younger people don’t know about things that were once very relevant. This is not a criticism, just an observation. It’s just weird to see people who don’t know what actually happened with the trial.

Yes, he did these jokes in real time, as in each week of the trial before and after the verdict. That's why this was so legendary.

NBC West Coast division President Don Ohlmeyer, who happened to be an extremely close friend of Simpson begrudgingly put up with Macdonald’s O.J. jokes during the trial, but he lost his mind when Macdonald kept making references to Simpson in the months that followed. Midway through the 1997-98 season, he fired Macdonald from Weekend Update. “Lorne’s point at the time was, just do it for the rest of the season and we’ll make a change in the summer,” Ohlmeyer recalled in the SNL oral history Live From New York.

Ron Goldman's final words; Hey aren't you OJ Simpson?

I was in high school when the verdict came. They brought tvs into our class. The room had black kids on one side and white kids on the other. There was a lot of tension in that room.

I was in college at the time of the trial and I remember that people were torn, but not innocent versus guilty. There were people who were furious that he got away with it and people who were thrilled that he got away with it. Very few people thought he was innocent because the evidence was so overwhelming.

Britt, at the time the country wasn't split. Virtually everyone thought OJ did it. It was only the jury and very few contrarians who thought him innocent.

@dab_family9405

Ай бұрын

Absolutely. Today there's more OJ fans because all the qanon and trumpers have crawled out of their mama's basement. At the time, we knew he was guilty. K. N. E. W.

@jkelly02

Ай бұрын

I don't recall it that way. There was a racial divide.

@ronthompson95

Ай бұрын

Exactly right 100%.

@ronthompson95

Ай бұрын

@@jkelly02 A racial divide is where a situation occurs, there are two ways to look at it and come to a conclusion, and the outcome is a decided. 100% of the population knew that OJ was guilty. It was only those who decided to look past it for whatever reason they felt so. That’s not split. That’s a percentage of really stupid people saying to have no soul and support a murderer that hated his own race. It’s a simply equation. I hate injecting reality like that.

@joeconcepts5552

Ай бұрын

I don't think that's right. I think it was probably MOST people who thought he did it. But it wasn't just the jury who thought the way they did.

Norm became the legend he is for defying SNL!

When Norm's boss said you "cant talk about OJ" he went way harder

Norm was the man!!!

I have been waiting for the day you watched the OJ compilation, it's almost like you were inadvertently waiting for something to happen before you did, and here we are lol.

Not only did they have to submit the jokes, they spend all week rehearsing the show. There was plenty of time to figure out what was or what wasn't in good taste.

12:30 I'm also glad Norm didn't go for jokes involving the kids. Because in reality, that was the worst part and making dark jokes about it would be easy. Now they have to spend Christmas with the guy they must be 95% sure killed their mom.

I don't think I've ever seen another comedian who seems to take perverse pleasure in people not liking his jokes.

The silence in the many of Norm's audiences is often awkward silence. People are in disbelief that he says some of the things he says.

Norm had no filter

It was revealed in court the O.J.'s computer password was : "slash slash backslash escape." 😏

@MC-fv4vv

Ай бұрын

OMG! Is that true?

It is funny to see these all rolled together like this, but one lost element of it presented this way is it had a much subtler, slow burn effect all spaced apart as they were. These items came one or two per Saturday on the SNL Weekend Update segment, interspersed among the regular bits there. In real time this compilation spanned many months, and in hindsight, even in the pre "cancel culture" era, it is pretty amazing Norm maintained it so long.

@Taylorswiftfan13308

Ай бұрын

And yes, just as you suggested/suspected, the news headlines that started the jokes off were real news releases as the case progressed.

The nation wasn't split, everyone knew he did it. Some just wished he could get away with it. 😒😢😒

@auntypc4791

Ай бұрын

Exactly.

I was a huge OJ fan and hoped he didn't do it, but as more and more info came out, it seemed pretty clear that the Juice did it. It was a fascinating case the whole country lived day after day. It was wild watching the white Bronco slow-speed chase live and also the trial live.

To truly appreciate the brilliance of Norm you need to watch his career, not just SNL. The man is a genius of comedy.

Robert Kardashian was one of his lawyers.

Rodney King was still very much in the mind of the nation and the thinking with acquitting OJ was that two wrongs made a right

“That’s my lucky stabbin’ hat” 😂

Lets not forget that Norm's WU was the most popular segment of SNL at the time. Apparently some executive asked Lorne to ask Norm to stop with the OJ jokes because he was friends with the juice. You can't say something like that to a born comedian. They'll bite 100% of the time. He's a legend, RIP =(

One of OJ's lawyers was Kim Kardashian's Father Robert Kardashian.

The Great Tim Conway had a video called Dorf on Golf. Hertz had a commercial where OJ runs through the airport to get to his rental car.

The one thing that came out of the OJ Simpson trial you might not be aware of is the Kardasians. They got their start because their dad was one of OJ's lawyers. Their appearing next to their dad in trial photos got them in front of the public's eye. The rest as they say is history.

The trial went on for almost a year, but it was a huge story for even longer than that...that's why there are so many updates.

@jonlate4581

Ай бұрын

People have talked about it for the past 30 years so there ya go.

@flingonber

Ай бұрын

@@jonlate4581 That's true, but back when it was actually happening it was a different level. I was in high school and my school wheeled TVs on carts into our classrooms so we could watch the verdict...it was a BIG deal.

norm was like dave chappelle and bill burr: utterly fearless. he didn't care if he was cancelled or if some folks didn't like him. he told his jokes and dared you not to laugh.

The most important thing to know about the case is that DNA evidence was basically brand new at the time. If it happened five years later it would've been a completely open and shut case. But because there wasn't much precedent for DNA being used in court before this, a lot of the jury and public were skeptical of if you can really know who the blood belonged to. Most of the prosecution's case was based on the DNA.

That isn't even all of the jokes. One of the best after the not guilty verdict: "Well, it's official, murder is now legal in the state of California". Another: "Police admitted that they conspired to frame OJ, but had to call off the plan when they got to the scene and discovered he really was the murderer".