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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 April 2024 02:44 (two months ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 April 2024 02:45 (two months ago) link
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?
― frogbs, Friday, 12 April 2024 02:45 (two months ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 April 2024 02:48 (two months ago) link
Should clarify, these were on-the-street interviews in L.A. when they announced the verdict.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 April 2024 02:49 (two months ago) link
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"
― frogbs, Friday, 12 April 2024 02:50 (two months ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 April 2024 02:59 (two months ago) link
Jesus, Laura Coates has Kato Kaelin on right now.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 April 2024 03:06 (two months ago) link
Kato is a huge Milwaukee Bucks fan he's alright
― frogbs, Friday, 12 April 2024 03:07 (two months ago) link
xxpost otm
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 April 2024 03:08 (two months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 12 April 2024 03:21 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWjKHuCca9Y
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 April 2024 03:28 (two months ago) link
Wow, that joke went way over my head.
― jmm, Friday, 12 April 2024 03:33 (two months ago) link
Yeah it's funny I remember that and not making the connection.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 12 April 2024 08:38 (two months ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/G7vxCwEB7FJJViuo/?mibextid=oFDknk
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 April 2024 13:43 (two months ago) link
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.
― I. J. Miggs (dandydonweiner), Friday, 12 April 2024 16:02 (two months ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 April 2024 19:22 (two months ago) link
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.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 12 April 2024 19:47 (two months ago) link
I mean when he died the collective response was "good, fuck you OJ" so yeah not exactly a great legacy he's left
― frogbs, Friday, 12 April 2024 19:55 (two months ago) link
Which somewhat similarly-named actor will get OJ's role?https://www.vulture.com/article/liam-neeson-naked-gun-reboot-release-date-details.html
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 12 April 2024 19:59 (two months ago) link
https://www.cracked.com/article_41808_special-guest-star-oj-simpson-nearly-ruined-a-classic-simpsons-episode.html
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 April 2024 14:16 (one month ago) link