By Patrick Hipes Executive Managing Editor Jimmy Fallon apologized on Tuesday after a Saturday Night Live skit that aired 20 years ago resurfaced featuring him appearing in blackface to impersonate former SNL castmate Chris Rock.
The video made the rounds on social media over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, prompting Fallon, now host of NBC’s The Tonight Show, to apologize.
It was part of the 2000 season and featured Fallon as Rock on a Regis Philbin-hosted talk show. Darrell Hammond played Philbin.
In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface. There is no excuse for this.
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