rip oj simpson

"maybe I was the greatest rusher to judgement" lol. Nice to see Spade and Miller getting annoyed anyway

Norm's standup special from like 2006 had a bunch of OJ jokes in it

Something I think I remember correctly (and concede that it's frivolous): along with Hugh Grant, O.J. jokes were part of how Leno was able to jump out in front of Letterman. He was making them almost immediately, starting with the (really lame) "Ito Dancers"; Letterman wouldn't go near the subject for a while, the idea being that murder wasn't especially funny. But at a certain point the Alan Alda rule kicked in--"tragedy plus time"--and he also had to jump on board out of self-preservation.

Prostate Cancer is releasing a new book: "If I Did it"

xp A quick google search confirms your memory:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/1995/06/11/dear-jay-since-when-is-a-double-murder-something-to-make-jokes-about/

In one show, Mr. Letterman cut off the noxious shock jock Howard Stern, who attempted to tell O. J. jokes during a guest stint, saying he just didn’t find much humor in double murder.

But even Mr. Letterman, whose ratings have fallen in recent months, is now telling O. J. jokes, and poking fun at Judge Ito.

Also:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/06/a-kinder-gentle

In the mid-90s, Letterman at first refused to tell jokes about the O. J. Simpson affair, explaining that he didn't think a double murder was funny—this at a time when Jay Leno had Judge Ito clones tripping over their robes in silly sketches.

I think Norm's being dry, I don't think he seriously changed his tune.

― jmm, Thursday, April 11, 2024 9:12 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

outside of people directly involved with the case or the family are there actually people out there who still seriously believe he didn't do it? or at least will say they believe he's innocent in public?

Yes. I saw archival news coverage around the time the ESPN series came out (I don't remember it being used for the series) and they had sound bites of O.J. supporters who were actually in tears and feeling vindicated about his innocence.

Should clarify, these were on-the-street interviews in L.A. when they announced the verdict.

oh, I meant like recently. I am sure a lot of people worked themselves up into actually thinking he didn't do it at the time but I'm guessing most of them looked back and went "naaah, come on"

One other thing that bothers me whenever I come across a claim of innocence - typically from someone who still adores him - is how they completely ignore his long and well-documented history of physically and violently assaulting his wife. How the fuck do you get around that even if you, say, believe in some conspiracy against O.J., and you still want to maintain some bootlicking friendship with him? It's really sickening.

Jesus, Laura Coates has Kato Kaelin on right now.

Kato is a huge Milwaukee Bucks fan he's alright

xxpost otm

Too many people had seen The Fugitive perhaps

two days ago my wife and I were watching an episode of Seinfeld which had several OJ references - it's the one where Kramer tries to sue a lady for wearing a bra in public

since she's from Mexico and didn't know anything about the OJ trial (she only knew the basics - he was a famous athlete who killed his wife but was found innocent) it made me hyperaware of how many OJ references there are in like, every comedy within the span of a decade. so many jokes she just didn't get. hard to imagine anything like that ever happening again, where even the minor details became huge elements of pop culture lore. you'd think the 2020 election/insurrection stuff would be like that but outside of the QAnon Shaman and the Rudy/Dildo shop thing it really hasnt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWjKHuCca9Y

Wow, that joke went way over my head.

Yeah it's funny I remember that and not making the connection.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/G7vxCwEB7FJJViuo/?mibextid=oFDknk

I met Johnny Cochran at a wedding in Florida a few years before he died. He was charming and funny. I asked him point blank if he thought OJ did it.

He laughed and said, "I can tell you are a smart man. You don't even need to ask me that question!" Then he winked and laughed and that was that.

Meanwhile, Alan Dershowitz tells NBC News he's saddened to learn that his onetime client had died. "I knew he was very sick, so I'm upset that he died. I got to know him fairly well during the trial."

FWIW, I remember when William Rehnquist died, Dershowitz pulled nothing back and trashed him. But hey, shed your tears for a wife beater.

Sure he was successful, handsome, a great football player, and a minor celebrity, but in the grand scheme of things that's diddly squat. After he wrote the book called If I Did It, he removed the last possible doubt about whether he was an unrepentant double murderer who escaped conviction and a morally loathsome human being.

I mean when he died the collective response was "good, fuck you OJ" so yeah not exactly a great legacy he's left

Which somewhat similarly-named actor will get OJ's role?
https://www.vulture.com/article/liam-neeson-naked-gun-reboot-release-date-details.html

https://www.cracked.com/article_41808_special-guest-star-oj-simpson-nearly-ruined-a-classic-simpsons-episode.html