Howard Stern under fire for past blackface sketch
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torontosun.comHoward Stern has come under fire after a video appeared online showing the broadcaster in minstrel-style makeup, liberally using the N-word.Amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, the clip was unearthed by fans, who swiftly took to social media to call out Stern over the segment, from his New Year’s Rotten Eve Pageant in 1993.According to the New York Post’s gossip column Page Six, the skit takes aim at Ted Danson’s infamous 1993 blackface performance with then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg, and includes highly racist jokes, such as, “What do you call a black rocket scientist?,” the punchline to which is the N-word.When his audience seems shocked by the language, Stern, who plays Danson, defends himself by saying, “Whoopi wrote it” –
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