Jamie Foxx Defends Jimmy Fallon After ‘Saturday Night Live’ Blackface Sketch Resurfaces: ‘This One Is a Stretch’

Pete Davidson isn’t going anywhere just yet. The comedian has no plans on leaving Saturday Night Live at the moment despite slamming the variety show back in February.SNL’s Most Successful Stars“I will be there as long as they allow me to be,” Davidson, 26, told Entertainment Tonight in a recent interview, which was published on Friday, June 5.

Pete Davidson has been part of 's cast for almost six years — and says he isn't planning to leave anytime soon. While promoting his upcoming film,, the 26-year-old comedian touched on his future at the legendary comedy sketch show.«I will be there as long as they allow me to be,» Davidson told ET's Lauren Zima.

Pete Davidson has been part of “Saturday Night Live”‘s cast for almost six years — and says he isn’t planning to leave anytime soon. While promoting his upcoming film, “The King of Staten Island”, the 26-year-old comedian touched on his future at the legendary comedy sketch show.

Happy Birthday, Dana Carvey! The Saturday Night Live player and star of Wayne’s World celebrates his 65th birthday on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Born in Missoula, Montana on June 2, 1955, the family moved to San Carlos, California where Dana grew up and attended school.

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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Aidy Bryant has been a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” since 2012, and she addresses her future with the show in a new interview with Variety‘s “The Big Ticket” podcast with Marc Malkin.

Jamie Foxx has defended fellow comedian Jimmy Fallon for donning blackface to impersonate Chris Rock on TV 20 years ago.

Jamie Foxx stuck up for Jimmy Fallon after the “Tonight Show” host received immense backlash over a resurfaced video of him appearing in blackface on “SNL” 20 years ago. Fallon responded to the controversy after a sketch from 2000 in which he appeared in blackface to perform an impression of Chris Rock resurfaced on Twitter.Things got so bad that the hashtag “#JimmyFallonIsOverParty” was briefly trending on the social media platform.

On Tuesday, Jimmy Fallon issued a public apology for an old SNL clip where he impersonated Chris Rock. The resurfaced sketch caused people on social media to call for his cancelation.

Jamie Foxx has defended fellow comedian Jimmy Fallon for donning blackface to impersonate Chris Rock on TV 20 years ago.

Jamie Foxx is speaking out in support of Jimmy Fallon, after the late-night host apologized for performing in blackface in a 2000 sketch.

Jimmy Fallon is apologizing after a clip from a 20-year-old “Saturday Night Live” sketch resurfaced that featured the future “Tonight Show” host in blackface.

It’s pretty safe to say that absolutely no famous person is immune to being “canceled,” especially now that the internet is, like, a thing and receipts are forever. Hell, in the past seven days alone, people online have tried to cancel both and Doja Cat on Twitter. And late-night talk-show host Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show is probs on his way to being canceled too because—surprise!—he’s currently under fire for doing blackface a couple of decades ago.