Don Ohlmeyer was the West Coast NBC producer and best friends with OJ. After some time he told Norm to stop joking about OJ. Norm refused and was eventually fired.
My girlfriend at the time watched every second of that trial. She recorded it on her VCR and would watch it all after school. This was when I learned that justice can be bought in this country. I think I was 17.
@@russlupky3505 This was right after the Rodney King beating and racial tension was high with the L.A. Police Department. The prosecutors (Darden and Clark... along with Judge Ito) were told to throw the criminal case to avert another black riot and that OJ would probably lose in a civil case. He was found guilty and ordered to pay $8 million. The glove didn't fit due to shrinking (when blood soaked leather dries it shrinks) and OJ had gained weight... approximately 30lbs.
Norm was relentless. Keeping OJ in his crosshairs is what got him fired from SNL. OJ is friends with Don Ohlmeyer (sp?) who was head of NBC at the time and who David Letterman referred to as an idiot live on air.
@@MagicianandtheJock Al Cowlings “AC” was OJ’s best friend since college football at USC and it wasn’t proven, but he probably disposed of the murder weapon. The knife was probably hidden in OJ’s golf bag. I think there was a photo of Al Cowlings with the bag or he had charge of the golf bag after the murders. I’m positive he disposed of the evidence where NO ONE will ever find it (probably smelted) and there’s no way he’ll ever talk. Maybe on his deathbed.
I am Canadian and I believe that Norm McDonald did not always get the kudos that he deserved for being such a straight comic, but he had the ability to make others think about what he had said. He had no filter and why should he, he said things like they should be..honest..direct and with thought. He will be missed.
The greatest thing about Norm is he simply did not care. A lot of people claim not to care, but Norm really really didnt. He would occasionally bomb on stage on purpose, just because it was funny to him.
He used to fuck with Frank Stallone like this too. Except instead of being a murderer of people, Stallone murdered logic on his way to pseudo fame. Check out a compilation of those.
OJ was an amazing football player and was a well known public figure in the seventies. After he retired from football, his popularity grew even more within the eyes of the general public. Everybody loved OJ. He was extremely charismatic, good looking, personable, and very likable. He was admired for his football and acting careers. When it was reported, in the late eighties, that he beat his wife Nicole, his reputation became somewhat tarnished. They divorced in 1992. In spite of the spousal abuse, OJ continued to be a beloved celebrity. In 1994, the murders happened. It shocked the nation. It was almost unbelievable that OJ would commit such horrible crimes. I remember the bronco chase. I heard a lot of the testimony on the radio (I didn’t own a TV at the time). Public opinion was very divided on whether or not OJ was guilty. When the not guilty verdict was announced, I was not surprised. The entire trial was a circus and the prosecution was not able to prove without a reasonable doubt that OJ had killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. The jurors deliberated for only four hours.
Back then, I was a 21 year old undergrad who didn't want to believe he did it because I had grown up with him doing NFL Live and the Naked Gun. Today, I think he was guilty and should have been locked up for good.
The OJ jokes, and his refusal to stop them, is what led to his firing. The president of NBC at the time was good friends with OJ. Norm refused and doubled down on the jokes! Lol. And that's just another reason Norm MacDonald is a legend.
The DNA evidence was iron clad, rock solid, slam dunk. He was guilty as hell. Black jurors interviewed in the years gone by have admitted they acquitted him because they were still pissed off about the Rodney King incident.
I watched the whole trial live on Court TV. My biggest takeaway from this trial was the level of mistrust so many black people had for law enforcement. Being a white guy from a small town, I assumed everyone trusted cops.
Al Cowlings was OJ's buddy who was also a pro football player and was the one driving the white Bronco in the famous slow speed chase of OJ on the freeway
When it first happened, I assumed he was innocent. My cousin whom I respect said he did it. I started to rethink my stab, I mean stance, at that point.
Everyone looks at Norm's hounding of OJ as being aimed purely at OJ. There is barely a joke that does not start with a news headline. The trial came at the dawn of "rolling news" there was also a desire by news media - especially stations like CNN who wanted to milk everything out of the story. They therefore reported everything said as if it was true, they applied no journalistic principles at all. It is also likely that they did not want to alienate part of their audience. Almost everyone of Norm's gags are more a critique of feeble media, invariably taking the form of showing a headline from the newspaper and then stating what it should have said
It didn’t occur to me right away, but once you spot it, I think it’s there to see. He often used the most inane headlines as his set up. Critics of comedy will always point out that nobody likes the smartest guy in the room, and that’s why some comedians diffuse it by playing dumb. Norm constantly did this, using it as a cover to completely skewer people and stories. There is video somewhere of Norm at a roast - possibly for Bob Saget? - where Norm bombs every single joke. It’s pretty excruciating to watch, but the comedians around him are dying with laughter, as to them it is clear what he is doing. There are also a number of interviews where he says things that were regarded as unacceptable, at first you worry he’s gone bad, then you realize he is just breaking the status quo. - he was particularly prone to this on banal morning and daytime shows, deliberately introducing topics or making statements that were outside the shows comfort zone. There was an appearance on loose women in which everybody is trying to shut him down and he just keeps going - Barbara Walters gets pretty upset with him
There were problems with trying the case. The prosecution put on a weak case, and there was testimony that police officers planted evidence to incriminate OJ. The officer who planted the evidence was on a recording, cursing and insulting black people with his choice of words. So, the jury voting to acquit was probably more about police misconduct in a.case that wasn’t strongly proven by the prosecutors. I didn’t watch the trial, unfortunately. I was at work when we heard the verdict, the last person to lean into a cubicle. Everyone else in the cubicle was in disbelief, but I felt a small victory moment I kept to myself. The black community of Los Angeles had had been through years of a bad relationship with the police, with a broadcasted beating of Rodney King showing everyone what happens in the hood. Then there was the trial of the officers followed by their acquittal and the people in the black neighborhoods rioted. OJ’s trial was a couple years later. His acquittal felt like scoring in this long game of racial tension between the police and black Angelenos. I started out thinking I wasn’t sure if he did it because he wasn’t covered in blood. Where was the blood? I thought he did it but still wondered how, without a lot of blood. I believe he did it, if not exactly as the prosecution described. I love Norm. RIP
A leather glove (especially higher dollar split leather) will shrink if any liquid containing water soaks into the leather.. The water in blood will cause the leather to shrink unless the leather has a hand or form for the leather to dry around... OJ's bloody glove was scrunched up wet with blood and parts of it shrank... Dad had expensive leather gloves.. He had a pair of ostrich leather, he had lamb's leather gloves, he had sheep leather gloves and a pair of calf leather... all being black dress gloves except the ostrich, and they were light tan... His gloves fit me perfect.. Before getting them wet for my experiment, I tried putting them on while wearing nitrite gloves, and during the fight to get them on, I ripped the end out of a couple of fingers and the thumb of the nitrite glove, but I DID pretty much get the glove on my hand...now, THAT was the glove in a dry state before getting parts of it wet by picking up a large wet sponge a couple of times and squeezing it.... I then squeezed it and put it at the back of Mom's counter where it stayed drying out until the next weekend when we went back over to BBQ,,,.... I got the glove about as far as OJ did while wearing the nitrate gloves, but was able to force it all the way on without the nitrite and the thumb stitching in the palm was starting to rip..... When I saw that pathetic display done at OJ's trial, I asked myself just how stupid would the world have to be to give any viable credit at all in OJ's defense.... If that had been a brand new glove in his size, he'd have to have fought to get it on wearing the nitrite gloves as he was... Absolutely and pathetically preposterous...
OJ had lots of powerful friends, this was apparent, throughout his life. This is what pisses SOME people off. He traveled in rare circles that few billionaires travel in. I was no great fan of OJ but i give him much props for playinf the game of football, and LIFE. SUCK IT UP HATERS
The president of NBC was best friends with OJ, when he was warned to stop, he did twice as many and was fired from SNL
Makes sense.
And the excuse he was given was that he wasn't funny enough. He had a laugh about that a year Later when he was invited back as a guest host.
@@josiaharaki7310 "either i've gotten funnier, or this show sucks!"
He wasn’t best friends ..geez
@@MearnieToon fine! Lovers then.
Norm doing these bits are the sole reason he was fired from SNL.
I thought it was for saying "fuck" on live TV. Which goes to show that it's ok to kill your wife, but saying the f word is the mother of all crimes.
Yah, when the NBC exec, who was friends with OJ, told Norm to stop doing OJ jokes, Norm doubled down and did MORE OJ jokes. 😂
Norm talks about getting fired on Letterman: th-cam.com/video/Ki6z4ohppbE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=dd4VqFuRcaExBG53
That was Charles Rocket@@CodeBleu724
@@CodeBleu724 democrats call it the "birthing person of all crimes"
A C Cowlings (sp?) was the friend driving OJ in the Bronco during the " Chase"
Norm’s boss on SNL was one of OJ’s best friends for 30 years so he ended up firing him.
It was Lorne's boss at NBC
Don Ohlmeyer was the West Coast NBC producer and best friends with OJ. After some time he told Norm to stop joking about OJ. Norm refused and was eventually fired.
Not only did he not stop, he started doing twice the amount of OJ jokes.
My girlfriend at the time watched every second of that trial. She recorded it on her VCR and would watch it all after school. This was when I learned that justice can be bought in this country. I think I was 17.
100% true
Bought how?
@@russlupky3505 If you have enough money and/or clout, you can literally get away with murder.
@@russlupky3505 This was right after the Rodney King beating and racial tension was high with the L.A. Police Department. The prosecutors (Darden and Clark... along with Judge Ito) were told to throw the criminal case to avert another black riot and that OJ would probably lose in a civil case. He was found guilty and ordered to pay $8 million. The glove didn't fit due to shrinking (when blood soaked leather dries it shrinks) and OJ had gained weight... approximately 30lbs.
Double bonus points for knowing the Dorf story! RIP Conway.
Norm was relentless. Keeping OJ in his crosshairs is what got him fired from SNL. OJ is friends with Don Ohlmeyer (sp?) who was head of NBC at the time and who David Letterman referred to as an idiot live on air.
Norm also said "but he also thinks OJ is innocent."
Oh the good old days! Loved me some 90s, especially SNL! Not so much anymore, although at times it is on point
So good!
Al cowlings was also a former NFL player that I think played with OJ.
He was also driving the getaway Bronco.
Al Cowlings drove the White Bronco
That’s right! Thank you.
@@MagicianandtheJock Al Cowlings “AC” was OJ’s best friend since college football at USC and it wasn’t proven, but he probably disposed of the murder weapon. The knife was probably hidden in OJ’s golf bag. I think there was a photo of Al Cowlings with the bag or he had charge of the golf bag after the murders.
I’m positive he disposed of the evidence where NO ONE will ever find it (probably smelted) and there’s no way he’ll ever talk. Maybe on his deathbed.
@@MagicianandtheJock
He was also an offensive lineman for the Buffalo Bills who blocked for OJ
That compilation misses the end-all of them: "Well, it's official.... Murder is now legal in the state of California."
"You know who I am God dammit!!" - Al "AC" Cowlings, on phone with 911 while at the wheel of the infamous white Bronco
That's terrible! He knows he's not supposed to talk on the phone and drive!
Fired from SNL. Made him a legend.
My favorite Norm running gag bit is still "This once again proves my theory..Germans love David Hasselhoff"
"or so the Germans would have us believe."
norm's passing before OJ did robbed the universe of some absolutely prime material from him.
Always believed OJ was guilty as hell and should be sitting in prison until Nichole came back, that means until his death
Same. Thanks Big D
Norm roasted OJ on earth, now the devil is roasting OJ in hell.
100% thank God
And I'd bet he's having to listen to an endless loop of all of Norm's jokes about him.
And Norm is just giggling like a deranged child with the angels❤
Comedic Ninja. Spot on.
I am Canadian and I believe that Norm McDonald did not always get the kudos that he deserved for being such a straight comic, but he had the ability to make others think about what he had said. He had no filter and why should he, he said things like they should be..honest..direct and with thought. He will be missed.
These jokes never get old!! Norm is a Legend!!!!
Never. Thank you.
God I miss Norm. There is nobody else like him.
The greatest thing about Norm is he simply did not care. A lot of people claim not to care, but Norm really really didnt. He would occasionally bomb on stage on purpose, just because it was funny to him.
We do too!
Al Cowlings was his best friend and the guy that drove him in the White Bronco. He was also an NFL football player.
Who's more famous?
Tim Tebow or the White Bronco OJ was in? lol
Al Cowlings was OJ's teammate. He played at USC and for the Bills. He was the guy driving the white bronco
He used to fuck with Frank Stallone like this too. Except instead of being a murderer of people, Stallone murdered logic on his way to pseudo fame. Check out a compilation of those.
We will for sure. Thanks
OJ was an amazing football player and was a well known public figure in the seventies. After he retired from football, his popularity grew even more within the eyes of the general public.
Everybody loved OJ. He was extremely charismatic, good looking, personable, and very likable. He was admired for his football and acting careers.
When it was reported, in the late eighties, that he beat his wife Nicole, his
reputation became somewhat tarnished. They divorced in 1992. In spite of the spousal abuse, OJ continued to be a beloved celebrity.
In 1994, the murders happened. It shocked the nation. It was almost unbelievable that OJ would commit such horrible crimes.
I remember the bronco chase. I heard a lot of the testimony on the radio (I didn’t own a TV at the time). Public opinion was very divided on whether or not OJ was guilty.
When the not guilty verdict was announced, I was not surprised. The entire trial was a circus and the prosecution was not able to prove without a reasonable doubt that OJ had killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. The jurors deliberated for only four hours.
RIP OJ, you were part of a great comedy double act...sorta
Please react to Jim Downey and Conan talking about how he and Norm wrote these jokes. It is incredible!!!
We will give it a go. Thank you.
Good job, fellas! Keep going!
Thank you. We appreciate you.
Norm ,what a legend
Yes he was. We need more like him! Thank you
Back then, I was a 21 year old undergrad who didn't want to believe he did it because I had grown up with him doing NFL Live and the Naked Gun. Today, I think he was guilty and should have been locked up for good.
Since his passing his reputation as a great comic as only grown⚛️
The OJ jokes, and his refusal to stop them, is what led to his firing. The president of NBC at the time was good friends with OJ. Norm refused and doubled down on the jokes! Lol. And that's just another reason Norm MacDonald is a legend.
The DNA evidence was iron clad, rock solid, slam dunk. He was guilty as hell. Black jurors interviewed in the years gone by have admitted they acquitted him because they were still pissed off about the Rodney King incident.
I watched the whole trial live on Court TV. My biggest takeaway from this trial was the level of mistrust so many black people had for law enforcement. Being a white guy from a small town, I assumed everyone trusted cops.
I am happy for OJ. He is getting what he earned. He certainly deserves everything he gets.
Al Cowlings was OJ's buddy who was also a pro football player and was the one driving the white Bronco in the famous slow speed chase of OJ on the freeway
Cowlings was driving the van during OJ’s attempted escape.
When it first happened, I assumed he was innocent. My cousin whom I respect said he did it. I started to rethink my stab, I mean stance, at that point.
These jokes are for people who know stuff.
There's Part-2 to this on the same channel do react👍🏼
I miss Norm ❤ RIP
Guilty as hell
Based on what?
RIP
Al Cowling Oj's s buddy that was driving the white bronco!
Sorry but this wasn’t journalism
Norm is funny but SNL doing the daily updates is not news nor journalism
Everyone looks at Norm's hounding of OJ as being aimed purely at OJ. There is barely a joke that does not start with a news headline. The trial came at the dawn of "rolling news" there was also a desire by news media - especially stations like CNN who wanted to milk everything out of the story. They therefore reported everything said as if it was true, they applied no journalistic principles at all. It is also likely that they did not want to alienate part of their audience. Almost everyone of Norm's gags are more a critique of feeble media, invariably taking the form of showing a headline from the newspaper and then stating what it should have said
@@adrianmcgrath1984 that’s a great take on it. Never thought about that. Thank you.
It didn’t occur to me right away, but once you spot it, I think it’s there to see. He often used the most inane headlines as his set up. Critics of comedy will always point out that nobody likes the smartest guy in the room, and that’s why some comedians diffuse it by playing dumb. Norm constantly did this, using it as a cover to completely skewer people and stories.
There is video somewhere of Norm at a roast - possibly for Bob Saget? - where Norm bombs every single joke. It’s pretty excruciating to watch, but the comedians around him are dying with laughter, as to them it is clear what he is doing.
There are also a number of interviews where he says things that were regarded as unacceptable, at first you worry he’s gone bad, then you realize he is just breaking the status quo. - he was particularly prone to this on banal morning and daytime shows, deliberately introducing topics or making statements that were outside the shows comfort zone.
There was an appearance on loose women in which everybody is trying to shut him down and he just keeps going - Barbara Walters gets pretty upset with him
He did it. His fame got him off
There were problems with trying the case. The prosecution put on a weak case, and there was testimony that police officers planted evidence to incriminate OJ. The officer who planted the evidence was on a recording, cursing and insulting black people with his choice of words. So, the jury voting to acquit was probably more about police misconduct in a.case that wasn’t strongly proven by the prosecutors.
I didn’t watch the trial, unfortunately. I was at work when we heard the verdict, the last person to lean into a cubicle. Everyone else in the cubicle was in disbelief, but I felt a small victory moment I kept to myself. The black community of Los Angeles had had been through years of a bad relationship with the police, with a broadcasted beating of Rodney King showing everyone what happens in the hood. Then there was the trial of the officers followed by their acquittal and the people in the black neighborhoods rioted.
OJ’s trial was a couple years later. His acquittal felt like scoring in this long game of racial tension between the police and black Angelenos.
I started out thinking I wasn’t sure if he did it because he wasn’t covered in blood. Where was the blood? I thought he did it but still wondered how, without a lot of blood. I believe he did it, if not exactly as the prosecution described.
I love Norm. RIP
Al Cowlings was O.J.’s best bud.
he got fired from snl for his oj jokes
A leather glove (especially higher dollar split leather) will shrink if any liquid containing water soaks into the leather.. The water in blood will cause the leather to shrink unless the leather has a hand or form for the leather to dry around... OJ's bloody glove was scrunched up wet with blood and parts of it shrank... Dad had expensive leather gloves.. He had a pair of ostrich leather, he had lamb's leather gloves, he had sheep leather gloves and a pair of calf leather... all being black dress gloves except the ostrich, and they were light tan... His gloves fit me perfect.. Before getting them wet for my experiment, I tried putting them on while wearing nitrite gloves, and during the fight to get them on, I ripped the end out of a couple of fingers and the thumb of the nitrite glove, but I DID pretty much get the glove on my hand...now, THAT was the glove in a dry state before getting parts of it wet by picking up a large wet sponge a couple of times and squeezing it.... I then squeezed it and put it at the back of Mom's counter where it stayed drying out until the next weekend when we went back over to BBQ,,,.... I got the glove about as far as OJ did while wearing the nitrate gloves, but was able to force it all the way on without the nitrite and the thumb stitching in the palm was starting to rip..... When I saw that pathetic display done at OJ's trial, I asked myself just how stupid would the world have to be to give any viable credit at all in OJ's defense.... If that had been a brand new glove in his size, he'd have to have fought to get it on wearing the nitrite gloves as he was... Absolutely and pathetically preposterous...
Billy "Free the Nip" Collins
🤣
I might like Daddy Downblouse Billy Collins, better.😂
@@MagicianandtheJock Im known as Poppa Goulash around the house. We never get a say when it comes to these things🤣
how could you not include the final one "its offical, murder is now legal in california"
Norm really, really gave a full zero shitz about what people think...
A George Floyd Jury.
Only one of so many funny Canadians
Norm and Downey did not give a f@ck
Nope.
Does Howdy Doody have wooden balls?
Does the pope shit in the woods?
Norm would despise this type of content lol. But at least you got your 10k views and made no money off of it!
OJ had lots of powerful friends, this was apparent, throughout his life. This is what pisses SOME people off. He traveled in rare circles that few billionaires travel in. I was no great fan of OJ but i give him much props for playinf the game of football, and LIFE. SUCK IT UP HATERS
You could say all the same stuff about Jeffrey Epstein... or, did you think you actually had a point?
Do a bit a historical research if your going to put yourself on TH-cam talking about a subject. You’ll actually get all the jokes.
Thanks but I was in the scene most of what Norm was talking about. Actually lived in LA at the time. Thanks for the comment.
Sorry Don't Find Him Or This Funny 😡👎🏿💔 2 people are dead in OJ suffer enough 😢 as always no disrespect intended New York City USA 🇺🇸
OJ suffered enough? He got away with murder FFS!
Do you own a dog house?
What's my have to do with this it happened in la i don't feel sorry for oj an afterwards robbery? Your nuts
😂😂😂😂😂
And I ALWAYS thought New Yorkers had a sense of humor!!!......(by the way...that was sarcasm)
Canceled, today.. Comedy back in the day, !!!!