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Showing 16 - 30 of 53 articles tagged "Blackface"
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Posted Tuesday 6/30/20 at 11:36PM EDT
Nearly 20 shows have used blackface since 2000
Slate has compiled all the instances of blackface on American television in the past 20 years -- not just on...
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Posted Tuesday 6/30/20 at 3:41PM EDT
Alyssa Milano denies she was wearing blackface to impersonate Jersey Shore's Snooki
A conservative publication accused Milano of using blackface in a 2013 Funny Or Die parody of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi.
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Removing blackface episodes doesn't confront racism, says a scholar on racial caricature
"Every year, when I teach undergraduates about minstrelsy and blackface, I look around for a recent example -- and I...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:43PM EDT
Jimmy Kimmel has long tried to distance himself from The Man Show, but it is the reason he hosts a network late-night show
Kimmel's blackface apology last week wasn't the first time the late-night host has expressed regret for his time on Comedy...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 3:37PM EDT
Scrubs creator apologizes for blackface episodes, suggests they'll "probably" return to Hulu after some editing
Bill Lawrence joined Zach Braff and Donald Faison on their Scrubs podcast Fake Doctors, Real Friends Monday, taking sole blame...
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Alison Brie is "truly sorry" for voicing BoJack Horseman's Vietnamese-American character
"In hindsight, I wish that I didn't voice the character of Diane Nguyen," Brie wrote on Instagram of the Vietnamese-American...
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Posted Saturday 6/27/20 at 9:46PM EDT
Hulu removes a Golden Girls episode featuring blackface
The 1988 Season 3 episode "Mixed Blessings" features Betty White's Rose and Rue McClanahan's Blanche testing out a new mud...
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Posted Saturday 6/27/20 at 9:46PM EDT
Megyn Kelly says "Turns out NBC loves blackface!" after Hulu pulls Community's blackface episode
On Thursday, Kelly, who was ousted following her Megyn Kelly Today blackface controversy, slammed her former network in response to...
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Netflix pulls a Community episode featuring Ken Jeong in blackface
Community's Season 2 episode “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons," which aired in February 2011, features Jeong's Ben Chang wearing blackface during...
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 1:09PM EDT
Greg Daniels re-edits a The Office Season 9 episode to remove a blackface scene: "I am sorry for the pain that caused"
The December 2012 Season 9 episode "Dwight Christmas" features a brief joke of Mark Proksch's warehouse worker Nate wearing blackface...
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 3:15AM EDT
Blackface has long been an issue with SNL, going beyond Jimmy Fallon
Fallon's apology last month for wearing blackface on Saturday Night Live while impersonating Chris Rock in 2000 is a reminder...
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 1:42PM EDT
Megyn Kelly slams NBC as 30 Rock, SNL and Scrubs deal with blackface controversies
When Tina Fey pulled four blackface episodes of 30 Rock on Tuesday, Kelly tweeted sarcastically: "Wait - what network aired...
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Pulling 30 Rock's blackface episodes is a bad idea: "NBC is muddying the historical record"
NBC yanking four episodes of 30 Rock featuring blackface amounts to "cleaning up the record of two influential creators who...
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
Jimmy Kimmel's blackface apology was pretty weak: He was defensive after waiting to be called out
When Jimmy Fallon apologized a month ago for using blackface on SNL, he made it clear that "there is no...
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
It's comedy's turn to contend with its role in perpetuating systemic racism
The racial reckoning over cop shows has shifted to comedy, with Tina Fey, The Good Place's Megan Amram and Jimmy...