Norm Macdonald took no prisoners on Weekend Update.
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In June of 1994, there was no bigger news than O.J. Simpson, who was accused of murdering his ex-wife and her friend. Weekend Update host Norm Macdonald gleefully went all-in on the drama, ruthlessly roasting Simpson at every opportunity.
This came to a head when Don Ohlmeyer, a former NBC exec and close friend of O.J. Simpson, saw some of Macdonald’s material. Ohlmeyer fired Macdonald for this — a topic that Macdonald revisited many times in the years to come.