Posted on 12/13/2022 3:51:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
http://funny115.com/norm/normsaysfireme3.htm
Our top story tonight, as new questions arise about Hillary Clinton’s role in Whitewater, the President appears to be distancing himself from the First Lady. Earlier today, in his weekly radio address, the President insisted, “Hey, I sleep with hundreds of girls, I can’t vouch for all of ‘em. You know?”
Rejecting conspiracy theories that President Clinton killed Vince Foster, a report out this week from independent counsel Kenneth Starr has officially concluded that Vince Foster took his own life. Among other things, the report cites evidence that Foster was deeply depressed in the days leading up to his death. Although the report does concede, Foster was deeply depressed because President Clinton was trying to murder him.
For years, Hillary Rodham Clinton has told people that she was named for the first man to climb Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. But as Esquire magazine recently pointed out to her, Edmund did not climb Mount Everest until 1953, six years after Hillary was born. However, the First Lady does have a good explanation for the discrepancy: she loves to lie.
Meanwhile, President Clinton is hard at work on Tuesday’s State of the Union Address, in which he’ll focus on crime, education, and the economy. At the request of the First Lady, part of the President’s speech will be huge lies.
Well, the Trial of the Century is over. Late yesterday, the fate of O.J. Simpson, the most famous murder suspect in United States history, was placed in the hands of the jurors. They must now decide whether to free him or get all their heads cut off.
Classic. He didn’t pull punches and people loved it.
Maybe not Ohlmeyer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Ohlmeyer#Firing_of_Norm_Macdonald
I honestly don’t understand the point of this article other than Norm was amazing, NBC was/is political and Colin Quinn sucked.
Is the larger story here network censorship of comedy?
When ratings were getting shaky, the LA honchos looked at the cast including Jim Breuer and Chris Katan, and decided Norm McDonald had to go.
Now, Will Ferrell was consistently great. And I have nothing against Anna Gasteyer, Tim Meadows, Darrell Hammond, Cheri Oteri or Molly Shannon. But there are precisely zero stars here besides Ferrell. (Hammond’s Sean Connery on Celebrity Jeopardy still leaves me in a heap on the floor laughing... but he’s actually too good: you remember the people he impersonates, not him.) Love him or hate him, apart from Will Ferrell, Norm MacDonald was the star of that show. That they never used him beyond Weekend Update is their fault, not his.
Read EEGator’s link:
“In early 1998, Ohlmeyer had Norm Macdonald fired from his role as anchor of Saturday Night Live’s popular Weekend Update segment, falsely citing declining ratings and a drop-off in quality. The actual reason for the decision was Macdonald’s inclusion of a series of lacerating jokes calling O. J. Simpson a murderer during and after his murder trial (1994–95).[8] The jokes were written primarily by Macdonald and longtime SNL writer Jim Downey, who was fired from SNL outright at the same time (he was rehired in 2000). Downey said later that Ohlmeyer and Simpson were good friends.[9]”
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