Frank Skinner “deeply ashamed” of ’90s blackface Jason Lee sketch
nme.comFantasy Football League from 1994 to 1996 alongside David Baddiel, and used a pineapple to mock Lee’s hairstyle in one sketch while Baddiel donned blackface in another.“It was bad, yeah,” Skinned said in a recent interview with The Guardian. “I spoke to Dave about it recently, from a how-the-fuck-did-that-ever-happen point of view.
I still don’t know how it happened.“I know why we took the piss out of him, because I’d watched him on Match Of The Day missing several goals, so a sketch about him being unable to put a piece of paper into a bin worked.
But when Dave walked out from makeup [in blackface] that night, I still don’t know why one or both of us …. or someone there didn’t say what the fuck is happening?”Skinner continued, reflecting on the response: “I can’t look back on it now without seeing it as bullying.
There was a big response to it. People started to send in loads of pictures of pineapples, and so it ran and ran and ran.“Looking back, it was a bullying campaign.
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