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.” In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface. There is no excuse for this. 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. ... Know why? ‘Cause black folks don’t like to answer questions!” The SNL clip was resurfaced by a Twitter account that features the hashtag #jimmyfallonisoverparty, as well as a note that references Megyn Kelly’s high-profile departure from NBC in 2018 after making widely-condemned comments about blackface on the now-defunct Megyn Kelly Today. “NBC fired Megan Kelly for mentioning blackface,” the note reads. “Jimmy Fallon performed on NBC in blackface.”— s🅰️m🐀 May 26, 2020 Reaction to the video was swift, and split between those who condemned Fallon outright and those who took the age of the sketch into account.Uh... yeah, that’s not bueno.#jimmyfallonisoverparty pic.twitter.com/PkfDupA0FG — The Funny List May 26, 2020 Y’all whack. How long ago was this? Was this snl? No one can be famous anymore bc we’ve all done something the society of 20years from now doesn’t like🙄🙄 can we stop with trying to cancel people on their ost and focus on the present? — Nancy May 26, 2020 jimmy fallon really did blackface and people gave him a SHOW#jimmyfallonisoverparty pic.twitter.com/YhhSOHFToJ — gabbie May 26, 2020 20 years ago. Lots of people did stuff like that. It’s totally racist but he’s no longer doing it and he’s just a dorky talk show host who does impressions. Get over it. Attack an actually problematic person. — Sam Ibrahim May 26, 2020 Robert Downey jr still out there like #blackface #JimmyFallon https://t.co/T6zup9uuHu pic.twitter.com/6Sdh81DvLo — 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. The Iron Man star received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his over-the-top performance and defended the film in a January appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience. “Ninety percent of my black friends were like, ‘Dude, that was great,’” he remarked on the podcast, adding: “It's an interesting and necessary meditation on where is the pendulum? ... You know, there's a morality clause here on this planet and it's a big price to pay and I think having a moral psychology is job one. Sometimes, you just gotta go, 'Yeah, I [f*****] up.' Again, not in my defense, but Tropic Thunder was about how wrong that is." #jimmyfallonisoverparty This is why cancel culture is cancer! It was 20 years ago! It was a SNL sketch and I'm sure he did it with Rock's permission... Are y'all gonna go after Robert Downey Jr next for his character in Tropic Thunder? pic.twitter.com/Tzb1jhbP4X — 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 . — CBG May 26, 2020 Robert Downey jr also did black face and tried to justify it by saying all my black friends didn’t care.. LMFAOO - Jimmy Fallon is also disgusting though don’t get it twisted pic.twitter.com/rokVs4RDJN — b May 26, 2020 jimmy fallon is being cancelled for doing black face in a sketch from 2000 where he’s playing chris rock. this will bring up rdj’s role in tropic thunder. someone will mention the wayan’s White Chicks. i will start drinking at noon. — 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. This #jimmyfallonisoverparty is dumb as hell. @jimmyfallon is truly one of the nicest guys I’ve known in our industry. Y’all stop digging up old shit. Go find a new tree to piss on. This one is clean — marlon wayans May 26, 2020 Nah marlon just FUNNY. Don’t try to drag our classic into yall bullshit argument. We told a good joke... do you know who loves white chicks the most? WHITE CHICKS https://t.co/TBwz39trPa — marlon wayans May 26, 2020 Please cancel me. This culture is as shitty as you are. Now go fuck off i got more offensively hilarious shit to write https://t.co/ZgrbwX4LbG — marlon wayans May 26, 2020 Fallon may have apologized for his role in the SNL sketch, but it sound sounds like Wayans, at least, has no beef... or regrets.
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