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

The Daily Mail

Kimmel and Fallon are among many celebrities -- including Ted Danson, Tom Hanks, Sarah Silverman, Joy Behar and Billy Crystal -- who have controversial pasts wearing blackface. But Fallon and Kimmel's jobs as late-night hosts are to joke about what's happening in the news. And so far this week, they've avoided delving into one of the past week's biggest news stories: the controversy over Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page that shows a person wearing blackface next to person in a KKK robe. Fallon did touch on the scandal after the State of the Union, joking:. “Pretty much all the Congressional Democratic women wore white. In response, the governor of Virginia said, ‘Oh sure, when they do it, it’s OK.'” Both Fallon and Kimmel have been criticized in the past for using blackface -- Fallon for his impersonation of Chris Rock on SNL and Kimmel for his portrayal of Oprah Winfrey and Karl Malone on The Man Show. This week, conservative critics have pointed to Kimmel and Fallon's past blackface use in claiming hypocrisy over the Northam scandal.