Originally aired in 2000, the sketch features Fallon playing fellow 'Saturday Night Live' veteran, Chris Rock.
Jimmy Fallon has publicly responded to an online controversy that erupted after a two-decades-old Saturday Night Live sketch surfaced on Twitter that showed him performing in blackface. “There is no excuse for this,” the current host of The Tonight Show wrote in his own Twitter statement. “I am very sorry for making this unquestionably offensive decision and thank all of you for holding me accountable.
— jimmy fallon May 26, 2020 Originally aired in 2000, the offending sketch features Fallon playing fellow SNL veteran Chris Rock, who appears alongside Darrell Hammond as then-Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? host Regis Philbin. Emerging to audible gasps from the audience, Fallon-as-Rock proceeds to make uncomfortable jokes like, “I’ve seen Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and guess what? Not a lot of black folks on the show. ...
— Nancy May 26, 2020 jimmy fallon really did blackface and people gave him a SHOW#jimmyfallonisoverparty pic.twitter.com/YhhSOHFToJ — tommy May 26, 2020 The latter tweet revived another blackface-related controversy that erupted earlier this month over Ben Stiller’s 2008 Hollywood satire Tropic Thunder, which features Robert Downey Jr. as a movie star so committed to Method acting that he has a “pigmentation alteration” procedure to play an African-American character in a Vietnam War film.
— Kohl ツ May 26, 2020 Also another piece of twitter discourse I’m screaming at right now: “Ya I know Jimmy Fallon did blackface but so did Jimmy Kimmel and Robert Downey Jr and etc etc.”— Kelz💥 queer as in fuck you May 26, 2020 Robert Downey Jr.'s blackface in Tropic Thunder is never the same thing as the latest celebrity's blackface .
— meg May 26, 2020 Like clockwork, the 2004 comedy White Chicks — starring Marlon and Shawn Wayans as FBI agents who go undercover as white socialite sisters — was inevitably invoked in relation to the #jimmyfallonisoverparty controversy. That’s when Marlon Wayans himself logged on to defend both Fallon and his own movie.
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