Ever hear the back story on that? Norm MacDonald was great playing Burt on SNL. Plan was that on a future episode, Burt himself was supposed to play a dumber Burt on a Jeopardy skit. But Norm got demoted and the fired for telling too many OJ Simpson jokes as the then President of NBC was a good friend of OJ’s.
Norm is now doing OK now as he steals the show on “Mike Tyson Mysteries.” He plays a guy who’s ex wife who was a witch turned him into a pigeon. She threatened turn him into a pigeon if he ever messed around on her ever again. He did so she did. He’s like Bender only twice as funny. Worth checking out.
I’ve heard good things about this Mike Tyson’s Mysteries... “sadly”, though, I don’t own a television set.
If memory serves, Norm McDonald was kicked off SNL for saying on air, “Bill Clinton. He’s a murderer, you know,” while Clinton was in office.