After a 20-year old clip of Saturday Night Live resurfaced on social media last week that featured Jimmy Fallon in blackface, the comedian has issued a formal apology on air and he claims that he is “not a racist.” Fallon opened up Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show by promising his fans “a different kind of show” to address the controversy. The clip was from a 2000 episode of SNL that saw Fallon in blackface while impersonating his fellow comedian and SNL alum, Chris Rock.
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28.05.2020 - 01:59 / torontosun.com
Jamie Foxx has defended fellow comedian Jimmy Fallon for donning blackface to impersonate Chris Rock on TV 20 years ago.
Fallon has apologized for taking part in the 2000 Saturday Night Live sketch, calling it a “terrible decision”, but Foxx insists he didn’t need to.
“He was doing an impression of Chris Rock,” he said in a post on Instagram. “It wasn’t black face… I know it’s a tough time right now. But this one is a stretch.”
In his apology, released on Tuesday, Fallon wrote: “I am very sorry for
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28.05.2020 / 15:33
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27.05.2020 / 21:57
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27.05.2020 / 20:25
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27.05.2020 / 11:11
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torontosun.com
27.05.2020 / 04:21
'TERRIBLE DECISION': Jimmy Fallon sorry for 'SNL' blackface skit from 20 years ago
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27.05.2020 / 01:57
SNL Skit
The Internet never forgets, and Jimmy Fallon was reminded of that fact Wednesday when 20-year-old footage of him impersonating Chris Rock on Saturday Night Live surfaced prompting calls for his firing. In response, Fallon issued an apology on Twitter saying "In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface.
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27.05.2020 / 01:29
Jimmy Fallon apologizes for 2000 ‘SNL’ blackface skit
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