Courtney Thorne-Smith Was Grateful Norm Macdonald Destroyed ‘Chairman of the Board’ on Conan O’Brien’s ‘Late Night’

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Courtney Thorne-Smith Was Grateful Norm Macdonald Destroyed ‘Chairman of the Board’ on Conan O’Brien’s ‘Late Night’
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The 1997 moment went viral after the shocking, heartbreaking death of the comic-actor in September.

writers Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskell on the podcast she knew at the time that the film was going to be a dud and was not sure how to sell it while a guest on the talk show.

“So when Norm started going, it just felt like a relief to me … because that was not a project of great pride for me,” Thorne-Smith admitted on the podcast. “And I had to promote it. I was so happy when Norm took it and ran with it because I didn’t know what to say. It was a gift. I was beside myself I was so happy.”

One such Macdonald quip was, “If it’s got Carrot Top in it, do you know what a good name for it would be?. I’m going to go see it for Courtney,” he said, along with another clever jab at the title, “I bet the Board it spelled bored.” On the podcast, the actress explained that she took the film because she wanted to do comedy after the heavy character drama of, which she considered to be just as silly as“It is one of those things — it read as funny, I had high hopes for it,” Thorne-Smith said. “The experience wasn’t great and I thought, ‘This is not going to be what I hoped.

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