Laraine Newman Says Awkward Thing About O.J. Simpson Ahead Of 'SNL' Special

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Laraine Newman not only didn’t speak ill of dead football star O.J. Simpson, but she gushed over him on “Watch What Happens Live” Tuesday. (Watch the video below.)

Ahead of the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special this weekend, several alums gathered with “WWHL” host Andy Cohen. He asked them in a “Work the Polls” segment, “Do athletes make good ‘SNL’ hosts? Yes or no way?”

“Any of you there when O.J. hosted?” he continued.

Newman sheepishly raised her hand.

“Was he a good host?” Cohen asked.

“And a good kisser,” Newman replied enthusiastically.

Cohen confirmed with the OG “SNL” trouper that she had indeed kissed Simpson.

“We did a parody of a movie that is so horrifyingly objectionable, ‘Mandingo,’” she said of their working together in a February 1978 episode when Simpson was a guest host on the sketch comedy show.

“It wouldn’t play today,” Cohen said.

O.J. Simpson and Laraine Newman in a "Mandingo" parody that aired Feb. 25, 1978, on "Saturday Night Live." Newman recently revealed that the late athlete was a "good kisser." — O.J. Simpson and Laraine Newman in a “Mandingo” parody that aired Feb. 25, 1978, on “Saturday Night Live.” Newman recently revealed that the late athlete was a “good kisser.”

Newman also played a reporter distracted by Simpson’s package in a locker room sketch during that same episode.

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Simpson’s Hall of Fame career was already on the wane by the time of his “SNL” appearance, but infamy awaited. He would be accused of the double murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. He was controversially acquitted in 1995 but later found civilly liable for their deaths.

Simpson died last April from cancer at age 76.

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