Jimmy Fallon Impersonates Chris Rock
Jimmy Fallon played Chris Rock in a 2000 SNL comedy… while wearing blackface. To put it mildly, the sketch has not aged well, and when it went viral in 2020, many people demanded that he be fired from The Tonight Show. “In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while wearing blackface,” Fallon said on Twitter. There is no justification for this. I sincerely apologize for making this clearly insensitive mistake and appreciate you everyone for keeping me accountable.”
Jimmy Fallon Impersonates Chris Rock
Kenan Thompson As Abused Tiger Woods
At the height of Tiger Woods’ public marital problems in 2009, SNL ran a spoof in which Kenan Thompson depicted Tiger Woods being questioned by CNN. Throughout the conversation, Woods went off-screen only to return with new bruises, implying that his wife was beating him. Domestic abuse organizations slammed the sketch, accusing it of ridiculing the topic.
Kenan Thompson As Abused Tiger Woods
