The news of O.J. Simpson’s death yesterday engendered a massive outpouring of love—for Norm Macdonald, whose O.J. jokes got shared like crazy. To the average fan, Norm was defined by his adversarial relationship with O.J. in the 1990s. And that’s not unfair. At least a few of those jokes were candidates for the best late-night joke ever told. They had this bluntness, this total lack of the wordplay and whimsy that defined so much comedy at the time. There was never any fat on those jokes, and... Read this story
