Showing 46 - 53 of 53 articles tagged "Blackface"

• Posted Tuesday 6/02/20 at 2:48AM EDT

  Jimmy Fallon dropped Lady Gaga for NAACP president: "I had to really examine myself in the mirror this week" after blackface controversy

  The Tonight Show host was originally scheduled to have Lady Gaga as a guest Monday night.

• Posted Thursday 5/28/20 at 1:02AM EDT

  Jamie Foxx defends Jimmy Fallon amid Chris Rock SNL blackface controversy

  "He was doing an impression of chris rock," Foxx wrote in an Instagram post about the controversy.

• Posted Tuesday 5/26/20 at 12:15PM EDT

  Jimmy Fallon receives fresh backlash over his 2000 SNL appearance in blackface

  Early this morning, #JimmyFallonIsOverParty began trending on Twitter after a 20-year-old clip of Fallon portraying Chris Rock in black race...

• Posted Thursday 1/23/20 at 8:09PM EST

  Megyn Kelly calls out the wrong studio in comparing her Today blackface controversy to Robert Downey Jr.'s Tropic Thunder blackface

  Kelly accused Universal of a double standard in its treatment of Downey's blackface and her blackface controversy in a tweet...

• Posted Monday 8/12/19 at 9:42AM EDT

  Sarah Silverman: I was recently fired from a movie over a 2007 for on The Sarah Silverman Program

  Silverman wore blackface on the first season of her 2007-10 Comedy Central show for a sketch that she would later...

• Posted Thursday 4/11/19 at 1:38PM EDT

  Australian comedian Chris Lilley under fire for apparent blackface in his Lunatics Netflix comedy

  In his upcoming comedy Lunatics, Lilley plays six characters, including what looks like a female character inspired by Rachel Dolezal,...

• Posted Friday 2/08/19 at 1:05AM EST

  Why haven't Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon mentioned blackface this week? Is it because of their own past blackface controversies?

  Kimmel and Fallon are among many celebrities -- including Ted Danson, Tom Hanks, Sarah Silverman, Joy Behar and Billy Crystal...

• Posted Thursday 2/07/19 at 1:23PM EST

  Joy Behar's admission on The View in 2016 that she darkened her skin resurfaces amid Virginia governor blackface uproar

  "That is me.