Posted on 06/19/2020 6:54:16 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
ABC's Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday announced he will be taking the summer off after facing criticism over wearing blackface in a recurring skit he performed while working on "The Man Show" on Comedy Central.
Kimmel, as a co-host of the "The Man Show," performed a recurring skit that included him dressed in blackface as then-NBA star Karl Malone. Videos and photos of the skits on the show, which ran from 1999-2004, have been circulating online recently with calls for Kimmel to apologize.
"I'm taking this summer off to spend even more time with my family," Kimmel said on Thursday night from his home studio. "There's nothing wrong. I'm healthy, my family's healthy, I just need a couple of months off."
"While I'm gone, a cavalcade of very kind and capable people will be filling in for me," the 52-year-old added.
The announcement from Kimmel comes after rival "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon recently apologized for a blackface skit he did on "Saturday Night Live" in 2000.
“In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface,” Fallon said on Twitter in late May following the police killing of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis. “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.”
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Adam Carolla must be laughing his butt off.
Just wow....this is really going to hurt me....wait...who is this guy??
Bye, Felicia.
And take Ted and Whoopi with you.
The one positive from all of this is that if White Liberals get taken down because of this, and black people wake up and realize that White Liberals (and by that, the Democratic Party) have never been their friends.
We Conservatives may not say what they want to hear, but we don’t BS them.
I believe his former girlfriend, some comedienne, also wore blackface elsewhere. Any comment from Ted Danson or Governor Northam?
I thought so called “comedians” got a pass because it was satire. Maybe if enough libs get a taste of they’re own medicine they’ll wake up and realize how insane this all is...but I doubt it
Well just dang. So jimmy, you know the only REAL way to mend your guilt right?
So, he’s basically taking a summer vacation as atonement???
Cosmo Kramer didn't
Yeah don't hold your breath for that one.
A taste of their own medicine isn't an extended vacation, it's the loss of their job and ability to earn a living.
he probably got busted for kiddie porn
They haven’t dug up a picture of Trump in blackface, so Kimmel is a worse human being than bad orange man.
Why doesn’t he get fired like all these no-name actors they’ve fired for their social media? Hypocrites.
Sarah Silverman, who is just as not funny as idiot Kimmel. She had some appeal in her younger days, though, because she was a cute girl who talked dirty. Kimmel has never had any appeal.
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