Jimmy Fallon is apologizing after a clip from a 20-year-old “Saturday Night Live” sketch resurfaced that featured the future “Tonight Show” host in blackface.
In the vintage “SNL” sketch, Darrell Hammond is impersonating Regis Philbin, who welcomes guest Chris Rock — who’s played by Fallon with his skin darkened.
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Fallon took to social media to do some damage control, and issued a full apology. “In 2000, while on ‘SNL’, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface.
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