 The jokes were written primarily by Macdonald and longtime SNL writer Jim Downey, who was fired from "SNL" outright at the same time (but he was rehired in 2000).Downey said later that Ohlmeyer and Simpson were good friends and that the former had thrown a party for the jurors who acquitted Simpson.Shortly after Macdonald was taken off the "Weekend Update" desk, David Letterman (during a taping of the "Late Show") called Ohlmeyer an "idiot" and referred to him as "Happy Hour Don" (a reference to Ohlmeyer's problems with alcohol).