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.
Jimmy Fallon Apologizes for Doing Blackface on ‘SNL’ 20 Years Ago After Clip Resurfaces: ‘I Made a Terrible Decision’
27.05.2020 - 03:41 / usmagazine.com
Making amends. Jimmy Fallon apologized for taking part in a blackface skit on Saturday Night Live 20 years ago, after the clip resurfaced on social media on Tuesday, May 26.
“In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface,” Fallon, 45, wrote via Twitter after the video became a trending topic. “There is no excuse for this.”
The SNL sketch, which is no longer available in the NBC show database, featured Fallon in blackface impersonating
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