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?
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]”