“TIL in 1993, during a Friar’s Club roast of Whoopie Goldberg, her then-boyfriend Ted Danson appeared in black-face and began telling racially charged jokes. Montel Williams stormed out of the event and then-Mayor Dinkins claimed offense. It was later revealed that Whoopie wrote the jokes.”
After they broke up, he was on the cover of one of the tabloids (or newsmagazines, basically the same thing), saying, ‘basically, I went crazy for about a year’. So, all is forgiven. And Whoopsie? She was hired for “The View” of course.