Jay Leno has issued an apology for the numerous anti-Asian jokes he made over the course of his career.“At the time I did those jokes, I genuinely thought them to be harmless,” he said in a joint statement released Wednesday with activist group Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA).
Leno apologized verbally in a Zoom call with MANAA last month.On Wednesday, Leno shared an extensive apology for his jokes in the joint statement.
The release chronicles the various incendiary comments Leno has made, singling out a total of nine instances where Leno had joked about Asians eating dogs, from 2002 to 2012.
He dismissed the racist remarks, explaining that he was “making fun of our enemy North Korea, and like most jokes, there was a rung
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