The Show: Hey Hey It’s Saturday.
Celebrity Guest: Harry Connick Jr.
The Country: Australia.
The Skit: Aussies in “Blackface” doing the Jackson 5.
Hero Harry’s response:
“I just wanted to say on behalf of my country, I know it was done humorously, but we’ve spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons, that when we see something like that, we take it really to heart. I know it was in good fun, and the last thing I want to do is take this show to a down level; because you know how much I love this show and this country —but I feel like I’m at home here, and if I knew that was going to be part of the show, I probably…I definitely wouldn’t have done it.”
The response back from the fools responsible for the performance:
“I suspect things are probably a bit different in America in terms of what that (black face) mean. I understand the history of the ‘Blackface’ but certainly it was not construed in that way at all. All six of us discussed this at length whether or not we should put this on because we realized it may be controversial. We did go to the trouble of checking with the production staff and they seemed to ok it. Two of us come from India and one of us comes from Lebanon so we can’t afford to be racist to be honest. If we did offend him (Connick) we truly didn’t meant to.”
WTF? That’s just not funny to us at all…Where’s Dame Edna when you need her?
Watch the clip above to judge for yourself, thanks Youtube!
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