Conan O'Brien says ex–NBC exec tried to ban Norm Macdonald from his show - EW.com

The longtime host shared memories of the late comedian, his favorite guest, on a new episode of his podcast Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend.

Conan O'Brien, who welcomed Macdonald as a guest on his late-night NBC talk shows many times throughout the years, tweeted, "I will never laugh that hard again" after news broke of Macdonald's death.

O'Brien elaborated his thoughts on what made him so funny in a new episode of his podcast Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend — but he also revealed that a former NBC boss once tried to ban Macdonald from his show.

But it didn't stop there — as O'Brien details on the new podcast, Ohlmeyer also pressured O'Brien to stop booking Macdonald as a guest.

O'Brien said that the reply he received from Ohlmeyer was along the lines of "I expected better from you." But O'Brien won the standoff and continued to book Macdonald as a guest on both Late Night and, later, The Tonight Show.