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cut. There, Maddie, We're the downbeat. I'm Kevin. Hi,
Kevin. Hello, that's Danny. What's up. It's Mike. I'm May.
We have Maddie in for jj J on a mysterious trip, very us,
mysterious trip. Maddie. I'm getting a notification on my phone. The
bagels are one minute away. But you know whatever, Okay, So i'll
let you know when. I'll let you know when today. He's gonna give
you a double thumbs up. Yeah, I'll give you two thumbs up.
Ciskel and Ebert, one of each. So OJ died yesterday at the age
of setenta. He says, sure, Yeah, that was right, thank
you. Yes, there you go. Cancer cancer got him. I've cancer
got pretty much everyone who defended him in court. To hate cancer. I
do too. Almost all the O. J. Simpson Dream team, though
pretty much all have gotten cancer. Jesus is kind of nuts. But I
think it's said a lot of things, and what percentage members of this year's
Cowboys team's got cancer? Probably a lot. Cancer sucks. But I went
through something and spent way too much time yesterday doing something because we got to
discuss it. But I was like, this is more of a cultural touchstone
here, which probably spent a little more time on it. But I've always
associated Norm McDonald with OJ Simpson because I just love SNL in that story.
But you know, I was six when the chase happened, and then I
was six through ten when the trial was happening, and that was in the
news cycle just before impeachment talk. You know, that was my understanding of
the news growing up in the late nineties, and those are the big,
biggest two stories probably of my first ten years of life. So I pulled
a lot of audio chronologically of saturd Not Live, Weekend Update, jokes of
Norman McDonald. But the reason I wanted to do this is expound on this
because I think the next segment we can talk about what this meant to us,
the court, TV, all of that. I think that's kind of
interesting. But what you need to know as we begin this segment is that
the West Coast president of NBC was a guy named Don Olimier, and he
was good friends with OJ. I think OJ was doing some analysis too on
NFL on NBC. Every once in a while you have him in to you
break down a game. I can see that. So there are golf buddies
for twenty seven years, and Olamier never was in the camp of OJ did
it. He was always like it maintained his is his friend. I've been
loyal to him for twenty seven years. Doesn't sound like something he would do,
you know, but that is when So they covered this on Saturday Night
Live. They didn't have a lot of interference until the trial ended. And
OJ was basically an unconvicted murderer, you know. That is when they had
submissions. That's a nice way of putting it in a convicted murderer. I
think bagel time is now, Maddie, get the audio up. I'll play
thatgels. So I'm just I just have it's corn ringing in my head,
so that I all I care about corn. Norm m MacDonald came came on
the scene in SNL in ninety four, and here is a season twenty episode
three. Your your host was John Travolta. Your musical guest was Seal.
That tells you where we were in life. But Normal is still kind of
nervous new to the gig at this point, as he'd replaced Kevin Nealon and
we kend up doting sorry not live According to retailer, is the most popular
Halloween mass this year is O. J. Simpson and the most popular Halloween
greeting is I'll kill you and that guy who's bringing over your glasses or treats.
By the way, we can now purchase a brin statue of the jokes
for only three, three and ninety five dollars, and for an even five
grand you can buy one that Al Collings has kissed the ass up. Okay,
you see joke. Okay, dude, that first joke is brilliant or
treat So that's the October October after after the murder, chase, the murder
after the chase. Yeah, so I haven't gone to trial yet, and
I want to be clear. Like Don Olamier, the executive, NBC did
not tell them not to make O. J. Simpson jocks. It's in
the news. You guys do what you do. He did not like Jim
Downey, who was a writer at SNL for a long time legendary producer,
and basically fired him. Now Lorne Michaels at SNL maneuvered it behind the scenes
and said, well, look, Jim, when you won't be with us
writing sketches, but you go help Norm do weekend Update essentially a weekend updates
yours will pay you that table. Yeah, and Olmeyer was fine with that,
I think, but he did not like Jim Downey. So there's a
big war there. But then so there's a thing where Lauren finageled that.
Lauren also boss is Oldmeyer, so he's got to play at both sides there.
It's a middle management thing. You know, he's sitting there taking it.
But then Oldmeyer steps in and starts critiquing weekend Update, specifically the O.
J. Simpson jokes that were happening weekly, and I went through them.
There are one or two jokes about OJ every effing episode, twenty episodes
a year for the three and a half years that Norm did it. Now
I say three and a half because he got fired midyear. He got fired
at Christmas, right around when Chris Parley died. I love him so much.
Now I'm gonna do a couple more jokes from Norm, right, and
then we'll get to like when Norm got fired, because that is incredible.
This is episode six of season twenty. This would be November of ninety four,
after the murder. This is or after the chase. John Taturo and
Tom Petty are your musical guest. Judge Edo was interviewed this week by a
local TV station in Los Angeles. Asked by the interviewer if it was appropriate
for a supposedly impartial judge to be on TV with his case still pending,
Itto said, maybe not, But how appropriate isn't to kill your ex wife?
Wow? This is episode ten here, guys, this is Jeff Daniels
and Okay, Lucius Jackson band kind of a female band. Yeah, oh
lu what was it? Luscious Jackson? Think it is? Okay? I
was like confused with that because I was like, here's something I've never heard
of. But this is January of ninety five. Let's get to ojoj.
Simpson's lawyers say they don't want the families of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman in
the courtroom during the trial. They're afraid the presence of the family members will
just remind Ojy of how much more killing he still has to do. Whoa,
oh dude, wow, oh my god, I mean just pushing it
up. That's kind of shocking. Episode twelve is February ninety five. Bob
Newhart is your host. Desray is your musical guest. Don't know me neither.
It was revealed this week the defense lawyer Johnny Cochran once abused his first
wife. In his defense, Cochrane said, hey, at least I didn't
kill her like some people I know. In his book, O. J.
Simpson says that he would have taken a bullet or stood in front of
a train for Nicole. Man. I'm gonna tell you that has some bad
luck. When the one guy who would have died for you kills you,
that's probably that has some bad luck. He loved Norm so much. I
did love the just consistent killing us. Yes I did, and it never
stopped. And part of it, like you know, he claims, Olmeier
was like never really talked to him. Again. Omar was the West Coast
president of NBC, but he still had a lot to say. I don't
know the East Coast president. And even when he got fired, like Norm
was not told straight up. And we'll get to that in a minute episode
fifteen Pole Risers, your host, Annie Lennox, this is March ninety five.
Was OJ Simpson high on speed the night of the murders? Absolutely not,
said defense attorney Johnny Cockran today, And a simple test of any of
OJ's blood found at the crime scene will prove it and OJ pal Al Colling
said this week that in looking for the truth in the OJ Simpson case,
he sometimes talks to a picture of Nicole Brown Simpson, something that in the
past would have gotten him killed by OJ. I mean, it's just like
I like going through this chronologically too, because there are storylines that I kind
of knew about but don't remember that one. Yeah, well he was drugs
are throwing that out there vaguely even remember that at all? He was sixteen,
John Goodman musical guest Mike the Tragically hip all Right Canadian at Canada's Own
Right, Yeah. Aflee Vailey said this week that if the defense only knew
what Ron Goldman's last words were, they might be able to find the real
killer. You know, if you asked me, and Goldman's last words were
probably hey, you're OJ Simpson. Oh. They don't even know to laughed.
They're like, I don't know if we should laugh with that or not.
And then at Bob Saggett was your host, and then TLC this is
the last one of that of season twenty. Here at Norma's first year old
weekend update after grizzly photos of the murder Nicole Brown Simpson were showing in court.
OJ turned his head away and wept. It was at that moment that
he realized he would never be able to kill her again. Good lord,
they hadn't grown. Oh my god, I mean, dude, you got
a couple of booz You got a couple of boos there, and then like
god. So I don't remember this specifically, but I remember like talking about
whatever anniversary it was, and it might have been in twenty nineteen, was
the twenty five year or whatever. I remember them talking about the trial and
diving into that. Yeah, they did show you know, the photos were
there, and Court TV showed you some of that, which is crazy.
So we get the summer off and you return in September of ninety five.
Okay, So now the trial's going to be heating up. Muriel hemingways your
host Blues Traveler as your musical guest. In a brilliant move during closing arguments,
simpson attorney Johnny Cochrane put on the nick cap. Prosecutors say OJ war
the nightie, committed the murders, although OJ may have heard his case when
he suddenly blurted out. Hey, easy with that. That's my lucky stabbing
hat, my lucky stab in hand. Episode two, see you with that
Chevy Chase and Lisa Lobe of Dallas. Hey, Well, that covers the
main developments in the OJ Simpson case this week and after So, first of
all, I edited out he'd had a joke that was kind of bad,
okay, and this is when I first started to go okay. He knows
now that management does not like this. He is doubling and tripling down.
So he's done a joke, and then he does this. Well, that
covers the main developments in the OJ Simpson case this week, and after all,
other important things are going on in the world. Now more OJ Simpson.
When Simpson trial juror Gina Rodborough returned home this week, her little girls
were delighted to have her back, and no wonder she lets him get away
with murder. Meanwhile, in Washington, Mayor Marion Barry praised the verdict as
quote wise and just, and he called upon people of all races to please
get him some crack knew it boy, He always all ages, yea,
all over Mary and Barry one that whole fiasco was going down. One of
his go tos. February nineteen he's high on crack. I like to imagine
February nineteen ninety six is probably an odd time in our history. The Cowboys
had just won Super Bowl thirty though, yep, their third and four years.
Kevin Nil O'Donnell was paid to throw the ball to Larry Brown directly into
his hands multiple times hundreds of dollars. Tom Arnold and Tupac or your your
solid well weird duo. OJ Simpson claimed that he never ever beat, choked,
or hit his ex wife with a closed or open fist. Luckily for
OJ, lawyers forgot to ask if he had ever cut her head off,
and he just stared at the camera with that s eaton grin of his boy.
I imagine March of ninety six is a good time for Mike is El
Macpherson is hosting Saturday Night Live musical guest sting Lyle and Eric Menandez were found
guilty of first degree murder. So to review California law, it is killing
your wife legal, killing your parents illegal. Yesterday and Rivera Alive, Kato
Kalen made the startling admission that he now thinks O. J. Simpson is
guilty, although authority suspect this may just be part of an attempt by Kato
to crash at Fred Goldman's place for a while. Meanwhile, simpson dream team
attorney Alan Dershowitz was back in the news this week, and good lord,
is he ugly. Take a look at the guy. I mean, this
is an ugly, ugly guy. I know two ways about it. An
ugly character. Yeah, my, oh my season finale of his second year.
This is May ninety six, Jim carreyon Soundgarden. On an Electric episode.
Arriving back in the US after his week in London, O J.
Simpson was asked by a reporter why he hadn't spent Mother's Day with his children.
Visibly annoyed, Simpson replied, idiot, I didn't spend Mother's Day with
my kids because I killed their mother. I mean, you know where it's
going. Yeah, Okay, this is year three of him doing this.
Now, this is Bill Pullman in new edition. Okay, so the trial's
over. Trial's over. He's been found you know, this is kind of
not guilty. So he's just the salt. There's a wound, there's some
salt, and he's got a large bag of it, and he was cramming
it. In the civil trial this week, OJ and Fred Goldman got into
an explosive shouting match. Mister Goldman bellowed at OJ, don't give me that
damn look, while OJ shouted back, I wasn't even looking at you.
You're just mad because I killed your son. It's just such a hard sentence
to laugh at. I don't know what that's about it. That's what's brilliant
about it. Robert Downey Junior and the woman Danny turned down Fiona apple O.
J Simpson was in a different courtroom this week, attempting to regain custody
of his two children in order to prove to the court how much he loves
his kids. OJ pointed out, quote, hey they're still alive, aren't
they. God joke about the kids, and the audience was that's really funny.
Sting and Veruka assault things back. He was hosting the study. More
bad news for OJ this week, HarperCollins reached an agreement with the Brown family
to publish his late wife's diary. Especially troublesome to Simpson is this final entry,
dear diary. I have to run now because OJ is here to murder
me. And also the guy who returned my glasses. I think he might
murder him too, jau stupid dude. And then Mike Myers hosted as He's
Back with Aerosmith as your musical guest. Here we Go. Jay Simpson was
awarded custody of his children mainly because a court ordered psychological test showed that he
is a loving father. It should be noted, however, that the same
test also showed that he was a loving husband. Okay, So when we
get back, not only will we discuss how this changed TV? Yeah,
I think people being infatuated with crime and things like that. Also how Norm
got fired, how that went down, and then his strategy on his end
while still technically an employee at Saturday Night Live, when he went on David
Letterman to talk about it, okay and talk about his bosses. That's next
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