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Howard Stern under fire for past blackface sketch
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” – seemingly implying the Ghost star was complicit in the racist vocabulary.Fans cut the footage together with a recent appearance by Stern on U.S.