CNN “It was a huge deal back then. Most notably, he’s passed on, but Norm Macdonald,” O’Brien said. “One of my best guests of all time and one of the great comedians of all time.

Conan O'Brien says Norm Macdonald made the most "brilliant jokes" about O.J. Simpson, even if that may have gotten him fired from "SNL." ...

O.J. Simpson’s death was greeted with an outpouring of love… for Norm MacDonald. Simpson leaves behind a, let’s say, complicated legacy; meanwhile, everyone loves Norm, who passed away in 2021.

Macdonald kept up the bit for years, and even tweeted a suggestion to Simpson when he joined Twitter in 2019. “Hey, OJ, it’s Norm. Listen, be careful about the videos you put out there.