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Actual article title: O.J. Simpson, former football star acquitted of murder, dies at 76.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This just makes me miiss Norm McDonald

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)
[–] Patches 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

He knew he would be fired if he didn't stop. He didn't stop. That absolute legend.

[–] mindbleach 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Norm was a comedian whose audience was never really the folks in the cheap seats. He was playing for other comedians. Even when he was playing to piss them off.

Like that roast where he used an entire deck of generic gags - cards in hand! - and then sat down and opened a newspaper. The laughs he cared about were from people onstage with him. The schmucks at home couldn't understand it. The professionals around him couldn't believe it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How many of the weekend update jokes did he write? I assumed they mostly came from the writer's room (and that he may or not be there, but it at least wouldn't be all or maybe even mostly him)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He had writers too, but he was largely in charge of Weekend Update, I believe. There are some good interviews with Jim Downey, who worked closely with him.

Here he is on Conan's podcast: https://youtu.be/OPjqzMl2VX8

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Nice, thanks for that link!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Your montage is just a link to youtube. Well played?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He sent you to YouTube. What, you need him to find the video for you too? Lazy ass millennials.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Omg, fixed! Sorry. I meant to delete the timestamp part that was added to the URL, but absentmindedly removed too much...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What’s the deal with all the norm comments? I’m unsure what the correlation is.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

He famously talked about OJ being a murder till they fired him from SNL for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks friend.