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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Hahahahahaha! Love it! Telling those kinds of jokes requires a certain type of technique, and not all comedians have it! He certainly does!
I must say, I don’t watch any of those things, and haven’t for decades. But I will say, I don’t know squat about Conan O’Brien...his politics or anything.
So...I have to think that has to count for something from a total ignorance of what O’Brien is about. Because I know damn well what the OTHER hosts are all about, even if I ignore them just as much.
“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.”
That’s pretty petty. No sense of humor on the left, only hate and spite.
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