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Jimmy Fallon apologizes for 20 year old joke. I'm guessing liberals are really bored right now.

shortylickens

shortylickens

No Lifer
Somebody made a stink.


Jimmy apologized.
I don't think he's really sorry. I think he's trying to cover his butt with the angry P.C. crowd, who cant actually hurt him right now because he's working from home and doesnt have ratings as such.

Fun Fact: he was doing a Chris Rock impression. Chris Rock did not give a shit. Probably because its SNL and nobody cares except when they're looking for something to be pissy about.
 
First rule of PC is never apologize.

No matter what it's never good enough for them, and it's their ticket to combing through your entire past just looking for anything else.
 
shortylickens said:
Somebody made a stink.
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Ah, so that's what Fallon used.

In which case I don't know what people are complaining about, its not Fallon trying to be black, he's just revealing that he's shit.

At least he's not a complete shit human and is willing to apologize for past behavior, so kudos to him.
 
fskimospy said:
I would prefer that Jimmy Fallon apologize for the subsequent 20 years of horrible attempts at comedy.
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Says it all for me. I've never really considered him funny, and remember being a little baffled when he got his own show.


It's been a rough time for Team Treason and it's cultural warriors lately, kinda not surprised things like this are being discovered. All part of a strategy by those seeking to smooth over their racist behavior and talking points.
 
With the resurgence of white nationalism, the normalization of tribalism and the current verbiage coming out of the White House and the GOP\FoxNews, people are quick to distance themselves from anything that might align to that bullshit.

Fallon's original skit slipped by because it predated the open institutionalized hostility from "Birther\Blue Lives Matter\All lives Matter\Trump" crowd.
 
Cleary some take these things too far. He shouldn't have to apologize, but those who raised the issue may have enough ability to influence a controversy large enough to affect his career, so what choice did he have?

There are Mobs of various stripes out there. Sometimes it's difficult not to be in one.
 
fskimospy said:
I would prefer that Jimmy Fallon apologize for the subsequent 20 years of horrible attempts at comedy.
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Pretty sure Chris Kattan is responsible for at least half of that shit. Took me forever to realize they were 2 different people back in the day.
 
I was watching Team America World Police (2004) again the other day, and a key plot element was Hollywood figures running the Film Actors Guild, and the FAGs are conspiring with Kim Jung Il to turn the world into a bunch of pussies (to quote the movie) by being too PC.

Yeah... can't make that movie today.
 
Not sure the social stigma of doing that 20 years ago is the same as it is today. People are more sensitive to it today probably due to the numerous racially charged publicized incidents involving deaths, injuries, civil rights violations of people of color than before. Of course with the internet, phone cameras and social media bring it to everyones attention today when it was almost non-existent 20 years ago.
 
Times and attitudes change. Lots of folks go for that ride and adapt accordingly while others want that ride to either stop or go backward in time because things were better for them that way. They liked feeling the comfort of learned superiority, of entitlement and of self-anointed privilege and don't like it when that supposed "right" gets threatened or taken away.

Still, life goes on and it's not so much a problem for those who go for the ride of changing times and attitudes whereas it's a ride of existential doom fro those who refuse to take that ride.

So be it. The tides of time and the changes it brings is unstoppable. Those wishing to resist that tide are doomed to failure and find themselves floating aimlessly on the flotsam they end up clinging to.

Adapt or get left behind, stubbornly kicking and screaming for the world to stop and obey them "or else". lol
 
Lanyap said:
This sounded familiar like it has come up before but it was the other Jimmy. I had to wade through 15 pages of google search to find the older story. Nick Cannon called out both Jimmys last year.


metro.co.uk

Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel exposed for wearing blackface by Nick Cannon

Sarah Silverman also wore blackface in a 2007 sketch.
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lol... totally forgot about the Karl Malone impressions. Had no idea he did a full getup, just remembered the impression from Kevin & Bean on KROQ.
 
tweaker2 said:
Times and attitudes change. Lots of folks go for that ride and adapt accordingly while others want that ride to either stop or go backward in time because things were better for them that way. They liked feeling the comfort of learned superiority, of entitlement and of self-anointed privilege and don't like it when that supposed "right" gets threatened or taken away.

Still, life goes on and it's not so much a problem for those who go for the ride of changing times and attitudes whereas it's a ride of existential doom fro those who refuse to take that ride.

So be it. The tides of time and the changes it brings is unstoppable. Those wishing to resist that tide are doomed to failure and find themselves floating aimlessly on the flotsam they end up clinging to.

Adapt or get left behind, stubbornly kicking and screaming for the world to stop and obey them "or else". lol
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Thats very nice but what does it have to do with the above story?

A young comedian did something 20 years ago thats considered very offensive today. Bored people decided to call him out on it. He apologized profusely.
Bill Maher had an excellent piece on this concept, I wonder if I can find it now.
 
Didnt a someone human play Jeff Sessions on that show? Have the hobgoblin society taken a stand to that obvious racism yet?
 
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