Adam Carolla defends Jimmy Kimmel after blackface apology: "That is not blackface"

TheWrap

Carolla, who worked on Los Angeles radio station KROQ with Kimmel starting in 1994 and co-hosted The Man Show with him from 1999 to 2003, responded to the ABC late-night host's apology this morning by saying he didn't do blackface when he impersonated Karl Malone. “Jimmy Kimmel is in my top three all time of decent people I’ve met in my life," Carolla said on his podcast, according to The Wrap. "He’s the most decent person you’ve ever met. He’s the most generous person you’ve ever met....He is amongst the best people I’ve ever met, and if everyone was like Jimmy Kimmel than we’d be living in a f*cking utopia." Carolla also drew a distinction between a comedian doing an impression and the abandoned practice of white performers donning black makeup to perpetuate racial stereotypes. “Blackface is something,” Carolla said. “Doing Karl Malone is something else. Or doing Oprah is something else… or Jimmy Fallon doing Chris Rock. That is not Blackface.”