"In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface," Fallon wrote in May 2020 on Twitter. Once the clip went viral, #jimmyfallonisoverparty started trending on Twitter, prompting Fallon to respond 20 years after the sketch went live. Although there was no public outcry at the time, a tweet in 2020 brought the sketch back to the forefront, according to Variety.
To complete his impersonation, Fallon wore blackface. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon YouTubeīack in 2000, Jimmy Fallon did a sketch opposite Darrell Hammond in which he impersonated Chris Rock, who was a cast member of the show years before. In September 2020, Jimmy Fallon told Chris Rock on a Zoom call: "I'm learning." Chris wanted so much to be liked," Rock said in 2008 in a biographical book - titled "The Chris Farley Show" - about Farley. The joke of it is, basically, 'We can't hire you because you're fat.' There's no comic twist to it. "Although I love this kind of comedy, sometimes I feel trapped by always having to be the most outrageous guy in the room," Farley said in 1996, the Washington Post reported.įellow cast member Chris Rock said the sketch was even detrimental to Farley's mental health. "But that was 28 years ago, and body shaming is no longer cool or funny." "It's funny - or at least it was - because Farley, dancing without his shirt on to Loverboy's 'Working for the Weekend,' presents himself as hideous," the Washington Post wrote in 2018. The joke was that Farley would never get a job as a stripper because of his weight. In the now-famous skit from 1990, cast member Chris Farley and host Patrick Swayze performed a striptease to get a job as a Chippendale.
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