Conan O’Brien praised late-comedian Norm Macdonald’s past jokes about O.J. Simpson’s murder trial that resulted in Macdonald losing his job at “Saturday Night Live.”
During the late-night talk show host’s appearance on Thursday with CNN’s Jake Tapper, the two talked about the news of the day — Simpson’s death at 76 following a battle with prostate cancer, Fox News reported.
“It was a huge deal back then,” O’Brien said as he noted the murder trial coverage from comedians. “Most notably – he’s passed on – Norm Macdonald, one of my best guests of all time and one of the great comedians of all time…”
“[He] just told some of the most – did the most brilliant, I think, comedy of anybody during that whole period,” he added, noting the jokes the late-star did following Simpson’s acquittal in the 1995 double murder trial of his ex-wife Nicole Brown…
