Cold Opening: OJ Simpson Jury - Saturday Night Live

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O.J. Simpson and his lawyers impress the jurors with a field trip to his house. Aired 02/18/95
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[@jackwags]

Chuck McGill was the most underrated member of the dream team

[@zippydooda]

David Spade and Michael Mckean. Classic

[@scottculliton1008]

man, SNL in the 90s was so good

[@busterhikney6936]

Completely immaculate visual description of the real jury.

[@AGoodHairDay]

Yep 😂

[@justiceriser8970]

But th part about kato was wrong he thought oj was really guity

[@wisdomcb]

Michael McKean seems to like the lawyer type roles.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

Michael McKean was hilarious as Lenny on Laverne & Shirley.

[@professorfox3758]

Man SNL has legendary sketches. Period.

[@suwaidajalal]

OJ owed his freedom to the fury over Rodney King.

[@warrenwhite9085]

OJ owed his freedom to his defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran, who got the venue moved from Santa Barbara to downtown LA where the jury consisted of 8 blacks, 2 Hispanics, 1 half-Caucasian, half Native American, and 1 Caucasian female. The defense agreed out of a belief that their case was so strong no jurist would be stupid enough to be swayed by the defense.

[@suwaidajalal]

@@warrenwhite9085 you mean, the prosecution agreed. And yes, that largely PoC jury was pissed at the Rodney King injustice.

[@johnnyhammer]

What injustice

[@zippydooda]

Rodney owed his traffic stop and arrest to being stupid.

[@toniomiklo2406]

@@suwaidajalal Injustice? He got justice. The only one who didn't was Oj' wife. Thanks to black privilege.

[@fw5995]

The irony is the fact that over a decade later he would meet his Waterloo for taking back his valuable sports memorabillia.

[@fundifferent1]

Oh yeah..... LMAO!!

[@Shorty_Lickens]

thats not irony. Its what you would expect when someones life falls apart.

[@steelermia]

true he got Some punishment after all .. but then they fkd it up and freed him .. so now he'll live out his golden years enjoying himself in the free world

[@junkboxxxxxx]

People just don't understand the definition of irony. Irony would be him winning the Nobel peace prize. It is not ironic that he should commit another violent crime. That is the opposite of irony.

[@torin3167]

Yup. That's basically what happened.

[@queensgaelsmenshockey]

The giving away of sports memorabilia really made sense years later lol

[@theordinarychannel9334]

Who is here after OJ died?

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

I am. It's so surreal that O.J. Simpson is gone.

[@BonJody]

My dad drove oj to court everyday in a bus just like the one they just had on the screen

[@cl759]

I can never have enough of these.

[@MrDino1953]

He never faced “Maine justice”!

[@TheJcg14]

These sketches were considered bad they were killing snl in 95 but I think there funny as hell😂😂

[@espinosa1989]

It was actually 94. 95 had Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, & the others.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

I was 13 or so when OJ got arrested, and I kinda remember the Bronco chase on the highway, and very little about the trial even though it was televised. Mostly what I remember was the late night scene exploding with OJ related content. Sketch shows and talk shows and everybody else had their own little take on how funny the media frenzy was. Except the Simpsons. The Simpsons often took aim at American life but only in generalities. Never anything specific, like the Nicole Brown murder. That would have been tasteless for them. Family Guy on the other hand.....

[@mrluvit8232]

kung fu...fully agree! 💯

[@starlite025]

This is from the 94-95 season, it was bad but it had its moments (this is an example). Will Ferrell et al came in the following season and it was like night and day

[@SKa-tt9nm]

@@espinosa1989it says 1995 within seconds of the video starting.

[@punkbob81]

And they sacked Norm because of his weekend update jokes! 😂

[@fluxcapacitor1621]

Norm later acknowledged that he was fired for being insubordinate.

[@roddydykes7053]

@@fluxcapacitor1621and not wanting to let Downy get canned alone

[@zalroj92]

Lol marcia Clark

[@adamkis3569]

I thought this was supposed to be SNL. How did they get actual footage of behind the scenes at the OJ trial?!

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

You're so funny 🤣.

[@justiceriser8970]

2:12 sadly that did not happen kato thought oj was guilty broke ties with him

[@ianlacey6588]

Is that Janeane Garafolo?

[@QueenAlexis556]

Yep

[@josephrad82]

Yes

[@user-gn9vu7wn7t]

Shapiro looks just like the ral Shapiro hahahahaha!

[@markriley5784]

They make the jury look every bit as stupid as they are in real life.

[@wtfj4462]

Why do idiots blame the jury? It was the prosecutions fault. They were the idiots and they did everything wrong.

[@JohnDoe-sl6di]

Juror of idiots

[@hiawathaclemons]

AWWWWWWWW BAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA

[@JohnnyMac2237]

This is the most 90s I have felt in a while

[@eianoespolon2980]

OMG , is that Chuck? As Shapiro #BCS

[@WillMcFarland]

HE'S NOT A REAL LAWYER

[@FormerHumanX]

This was the "weird cast" year with Mark McKinney from Kids in the Hall, Michael McKean, Chris Elliott, Laura Kightlinger, and Jay Mohr. Lorne Michaels fired half the cast by the next season.

[@raheemhamilton8624]

I heard Micheal McKean left on is own.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

Yeah mostly what I remember about SNL isnt the sketches or the famous characters, I mostly remember all the drama with cast shake-ups and deaths.

[@DystopianUtopia8]

Smart move, they had bad chemistry.

[@nvkulk]

RIP Norberg

[@chrisanderson7984]

This is toooo funny

[@larryalvares1369]

imagine if this was shown in the trial

[@21972012145525]

The reality is not too far off from this sketch. The staged ojs house

[@rahulkadian2972]

Omfg💀💀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

I could go for a margarita

[@willymcpeters2982]

3:55

[@johnp82]

I like to imagine they did that in real life. All the lawyers on both sides hanging out together at a bar after work, Marcia Clark poplocking to California Love.

[@josephlawson9950]

In memory of oj Simpson a killer

[@Choices2aa]

SNL had a field day with the OJ Simpson case.... Everyone was talking about it.

[@Guitarkid80]

There was some hilarious skits over it

[@abhid.2679]

Judge Itoooo!

[@zachjones6944]

Motion the Jury for a Beer.

[@oscarmanouchehrian5325]

Chuck!

[@cl759]

MARGUERITA!!

[@exmcgee1647]

Memories of when SNL was actually funny !

[@sto2779]

Fucking wow 🤣🤣

[@mangagoybislig622]

Very heartfelt for the Goldmans family they should sue SNL for millions 😜🇺🇸

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

It was very disrespectful.

[@chgosatrap]

Emmett Till thanks you.

[@TL-is8pk]

KITH Mark McKinney as Judge Ito

[@willymcpeters2982]

2:10

[@steelermia]

my god this was so wrong at the time .. can you imagine the goldmans or browns watching this at that time .. yikes

[@stevenrichards3699]

I agree ! And I thought Jay Leno was just as wrong for having that "Dancing Ito's" skit too ! Two people were butchered alive, and these Hollywood puke are cashing in and making jokes about it. I felt so sorry for the Goldmans, and Nicole's family, to have to see trash like this, and bunch of shit heads making a comedy of the whole thing.

[@frek175]

@@stevenrichards3699 its just comedy. And the tv had an off button even back then. But how noble of you to get offended on their behalf.

[@ontheruntonowhere]

@@frek175 Nah, it's just straight-up shitty. Lack of empathy is a symptom of sociopathy, or Republicanism, or both.

[@wa2k99]

It was hysterical​@@stevenrichards3699

[@DC-uc4sh]

ixnay....so 90's

[@TheElixir007]

Why is nobody playing johnny cocrain? he was a key player

[@freehugs2823]

TheElixir007 Cochran wasn't involved in the OJ case until after the jury's tour of Simpson's mansion.

[@philsurtees]

Cochran most certainly WAS involved when the jury toured Simpson's mansion. He was there! The reason he isn't portrayed in this skit is that SNL only had one black comedian at that time, and although he played Cochran in other sketches about the trial, he obviously couldn't portray both Cochran and OJ at the same time...

[@TheBlexi3]

They had only one main black actor

[@bmarkrundle]

Not having any Japanese actors didn't stop them from making someone Ito.

[@sexyhomeowner9345]

They've also had Maya Rudolph play Lucy Liu and a Japanese waitress, despite being half-Black and half-Askenazi. @@bmarkrundle

[@subhashnarasimhan22]

Glenn???

[@Choices2aa]

Everyone was talking about this case from June 12 1994-October 5 1995 That's how long this lasted and lets not forget Rodney King was also still fresh in ppl's minds and then OJ Simpson was a prime suspect in a double murder and everyone wanted to know what was going down and that white bronco case I was in LA when it happened. Everyone was watching the NBA basketball and then it was OJ Simpson with a gun to his head saying he was going to kill himself. People just couldn't let this go. OJ was on every cover new story every magazine every one was talking about it*** The whole jury who was on that case wanted off and it lasted a whole year. One of the jurors ended up in a state hospital b/c of this trail. It was all about OJ & Nicole and Ronald Goldman was the forgotten victim. I felt for the Goldman's I did Fred Goldman was basket case thru out that whole court case and LA was going to explode if OJ was found guilty*** The LA riots would be even worse and everyone was holding their breath on October 5 1995. I hour the jury said NOT GUILTY**** UNBELIEVABLE then 2008 came Casey Anthony and we all know she got off and she is living her beautiful life. She and OJ should hook up

[@Private-tq5hs]

Casey Anthony is an accidental killer though. Almost a non violent one too. I think OJ's perfect match is Jodi Arias - too bad she's in prison for life.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

@@Private-tq5hshow was killing her daughter accidental?

[@Sephy7777]

2:14, who is she?

[@imabirdlawyer]

Janene Garofalo

[@InJapan74]

He is so short hahaha

[@BjManberries]

Back when they knew their lines and didn't CONSTANTLY STARE at the cue cards. Unwatchable today.

[@scottburns2600]

Pretty accurate depiction

[@nicoli4356]

I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers. I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn’t prove it. He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He’s done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! *He* orchestrated it! Jimmy! He *defecated* through a *sunroof*! And I saved him! And I shouldn’t have. I took him into my own firm! What was I *thinking*? He’ll never change. He’ll *never* change! Ever since he was 9, *always* the same! Couldn’t keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn’t be precious *Jimmy*! Stealing them blind! And *HE* gets to be a lawyer? What a sick joke! I should’ve stopped him when I had the chance! …And you, you *have* to stop him! You

[@FoxRivers778]

But I thought Tim Meadows played Johnny Cochran. Michael Meyers made a better Ito but he left the show in the middle of the trial.

[@samslick9000]

This should have been funnier

[@drpete0616]

Ironic he mentions sports memrobilia

[@coreycullom5166]

I don't won't to like it's at 696

[@jerryjanik480]

Weirdly o.j. Simpson had a picture of himself and Nicole with Donald Trump Donald Trump's second wife

[@capecodder04]

I just looked at the crime scene photos of Nicole and Ron for the first time tonight and they were unbelievably gruesome. Nicole was slit from ear to ear literally and at least half way from front to back. I can't believe they are available for the public to see. Ron Goldman was just about as bad too. If I was part of the Brown family or the Goldman family I wouldn't be too happy that Saturday Night Live was making a joke about this, at all. I can't believe they actually did it.

[@nattyps3160]

In the actual courtroom their were lots of jokes going on ! The brown & Goldman families were there everyday & to hear the lighthearted joking actually during a double murder trial where 2 people were slaughtered had to be so sickening for those poor people. Even during Kato 's testimony their were a few places of big laughs. Ugh. I guess people thought they needed levity but that's only b/c that fool ito let the trial go 11 months !! The avg murder trial of a nobody goes 2 weeks tops. Ito allowed a separate satellite trial about Mark furhman. I get it he was a racist but one thing someone pointed out to me where I never doubted again all that bs about even furhman planting the second glove At ojs was at that time furhman & all the other detectives didn't know at the time if oj had a rock solid alibi or not. How could they ? Why would anyone plant a glove when oj for all they knew could have been out of the country or state for days or weeks. The calif penal code says any person cop forensic person etc that plants evidence in a capital murder case which this was as they were seeking the death penalty when calif still had the death penalty that person or persons would receive the death penalty themselves ! So why would furhman Lange or vanatter risk not only their job pension but their own lives just to frame oj Simpson. A former pro football player who did some sportscasting at times for the bills or cover things for NBC? Cochrane we know compared furhman to Hitler but vanatter he also accused of sprinkling ojs blood at his house he was one of the detectives kissing ojs butt in the interrogation. Also something I didn't know was Marvia Clark said a couple years ago that the police hated the d.a. office b/c they desperately had wanted to nail Micheal Jackson the year b4 the murders for abusing that kid who's dad eventually took a pay off. The d.a at the insistence of the Santa Barbara police a county in Los Angeles even convened a grand jury & found they had zero evidence that Jackson abused the child at that time & didn't charge him so the lapd as a whole had serious issues w/ the d.a. for not choosing to charge Jackson. So it's crazy to think that literally a hundred plus people all engaged in a conspiracy w/ the district attorneys office was ridiculous. Like the criminalist who was head of collecting forensics was one of the people on the stand that was accused of planting evidence. It's despicable. Why would fung who literally just met all these detectives conspire to frame this man. It makes zero sense. On top of it the crimes were committed in Santa Monica so why was the trial held in downtown Los Angeles? Obviously the d.a office was so terrified of riots as Rodney kings trial of the 4 cops that beat him on tape were acquitted b/c the trial was where the beatings occurred in Simi Valley. Simi Valley is where those cops live & is " Copland " 80% of lapd live there so the jury in that case was biased that I agree w/ b/c every person on that jury was so pro cop & was either friends w/ or relayed to or was neighbors w/ a cop. So the riots happened in l.a. which was so sad. Why destroy ur own neighborhood. Go to Simi Valley & burn it down if u must riot. That's wo people should have been furious w/ instead they burn down where they all lived. It's so sad. All it did was now make it so a rich famous guy who never cared or gave back to the black community walked. Marcia clark also said she knew & the d.a.s office knew the best they couod hope for was a hung jury. Then they'd only get one more crack at another trial & again get a hung jury. Then oj would have walked anyway. So it was a no win situation. At that time in that area no way was any jury gonna convict oj & risk another riot. To me the saddest thing was seeing all these black people cheering. Like it's not a football game. Either way u slice it ( no pun intended ) 2 people were brutally murdered. Their was nothing to celebrate & oj of all people was no civil rights figure. The guy ran from the black community. He dumped his black wife pre fame for 18 year old blonde Nicole. He only dated white models. Most of his friends were white. I get that black people were horribly oppressed but it was obvious this was payback. It was not about Ron & Nicole losing their lives so young & it wasn't about oj either. It was sadly black people vs the lapd. That's the tragedy. I hope oj getting off changed things. Looking at l.a in general no matter what yr color religion etc is its a wasteland. Very sad looking at Los Angeles on the news.

[@DP-hy4vh]

Everybody was making jokes about the trial in 1995. Leno, Letterman, SNL, Howard Stern, etc. The whole thing became one big media circus.

[@User26352]

Eh. Jay Leno's Dancing Itos was more funny.

[@PinkHitMe]

Rodney king walked so oj could run. Not for touchdowns or anything like that though

[@sirgothnerd9297]

Wow mock8ng kardashian before it was cool

[@jinxai83]

Ben Shapiro covering up for Israel’s genocide 😂

[@justinmorris4285]

Hey look it's just like every other SNL skit. Goes from sorta funny to shitty.

[@meflove]

Big fan of SNL but the only thing I found funny about this was the knife bit. And it wasn't even that funny.

[@daverogers5609]

This is funny?

[@lookbovine]

Many would say it is.

[@JL-uo1di]

Depends how old you are. At least it is way funnier than snl today.

[@johnrotten3268]

Better than the shit today

[@canadianfortrump4057]

The Brown and Goldman families would not find this skit amusing in the least.

[@daniellestengel6732]

If this offends you, don’t listen to Howard Stern during the oj trial

[@GamerNate30]

The skit was making fun of OJ. Not the victims.

[@chemfan8398]

I know that it is supposed to be funny, but 2 people are dead. It seems to me a little unrespectful...

[@Euskalbikoizketak]

Precisely, I think that it is making fun of the people who allowed him to go free.

[@bradenhue6066]

I think it's a commentary on the absurdity and unprofessionalism of the court proceedings.

[@ZarkowsWorld]

@Dhi Mancini You are a moron - there was no proof of fabricating evidence, only idiots amongst the jury and viewers that fell for some fancy hand-waving from his lawyers.

[@doc8013]

@Dhi Mancini boy, you need a refresher course on what really happened. You seem lost.

[@KOSMICKEN09]

Since when is comedy supposed to be safe all the time