Oh you know, just some casual pictures of Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon respectively. Nothing notable about them, I just somehow felt compelled to share.
Is Sarah Silverman trying out a charcoal mask and it looks like blackface, or is it like…😬😬
It’s worth noting that this is not necessarily commentary on whether blackface can be effectively used for comedic purposes, but rather an observation of the double standard that exists when some people can do something like this with little to no backlash or people even remembering it, yet the mere mention of blackface gets other people fired.
Silverman receive great backlash, but because she’s Jewish and a woman, apologising was enough. I don’t know how or why Kimmel and Fallon got away with this or had little to no fallout. – Purple
“I had an episode on ‘The Sarah Silverman Program’ that I love called ‘Face Wars’ where me and the waiter in the restaurant, played by Alex Désert, switch,” Silverman responded. “I say it’s harder to be Jewish and he says it’s harder to be black, and we switch for the day.”
“It’s really aggressively stupid and we’re both idiots,” she admitted to the caller and Bravo host Andy Cohen. “I’m in like the most racist blackface and he’s wearing paius and a yarmulke and a big fake Jewish nose and he’s wearing a t-shirt that says ‘I Love Money.‘”
Jimmy Kimmel – 2000, “The Man Show” that built its entire brand explicitly on being unapologetically anti-PC (trying to emulate south park)
That was Jimmy Kimmel, in 1999, announcing the guiding ethic of the new Comedy Central series he and Adam Carolla debuted that year. The Man Show, they declared, would be a show by men, for men, about men. It would be an exploration of Manliness itself, as an aspiration and an archetype: beer-chugging, boob-ogling, a little bit schlubby, a little bit sleepy, a little bit Bundyan. Such a cartoonishly narrow definition of what it means to be Manly would ultimately be unified, in the show’s conception, by an overarching resentment of feminism and its encroachments: “NO MA’AM,” basically, for the basic-cable audience. “After all, what do guys want to see on TV?” Kimmel asked The Man Show’s studio audience, during its premiere.
Carolla answered for them. “We want girls!” he said. “Girls jumping on trampolines! And monkeys! And midgets!”
The Most Revolting Moments from Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘The Man Show’
Before Jimmy Kimmel was hosting the Oscars, he hosted a show where he humped women on camera, made fun of their weight, and joked that Oprah had to do “a little more sock washing.”
The Man Show, created by Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel, harnessed male resentment towards women and turned it into “comedy,” propelling Kimmel to late night stardom—and, eventually, multiple Oscars hosting gigs.
Proudly crass, racist, and transphobic, the show also celebrated chauvinism by treating women as disposable fuck puppets. In a recent interview, Kimmel maintained that The Man Show sketches were created in jest but acknowledged that viewers were divided in their ability to recognize the show’s satire. Half the audience “really thought we had an agenda,” he told New York Magazine last October.
Sexism on The Man Show was so blatant and over-the-top that its creators could easily invoke the defense that it was all a hyperbolic send-up of male entitlement. But Kimmel has never been made to answer just how he thinks groping women on camera, making fun of their weight, mortifying them on the street, and objectifying them on trampolines functions as “satire.”
But what made the moment especially uncomfortable is that it harked back to an earlier rendition of the same impression—one that was infinitely more problematic. You know … back to that time in 2000, when Fallon donned blackface and spouted some fairly racist clichés while imitating Rock on Saturday Night Live.
Now, before I’m accused of supporting a double standard in which it’s fine for the likes of Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle and the Wayans brothers to don “whiteface” while Fallon’s portrayal is “problematic,” let’s make one thing abundantly clear: Although I’m personally not a fan of anyone portraying another racial group, there are broader institutional dynamics at play here. So, let’s stay on subject, shall we?
I don’t know. Maybe 1-2 decades and a whole slew of context matters.
Especially when a good portion of that context is “This shit is racist and that’s why it’s funny”.
You’re making me defend Sarah Silverman. Stop that.
“It’s worth noting that this is not necessarily commentary on whether blackface can be effectively used for comedic purposes, but rather an observation of the double standard that exists when some people can do something like this with little to no backlash or people even remembering it, yet the mere mention of blackface gets other people fired.”
Just posting again because it doesn’t feel like you read it. The point wasn’t that there wasn’t context for what they did. I’ve always defended RDJ’s use of blackface for comedic purposes in Tropic Thunder. The point is that these people still have thriving careers and a generally positive public image where Kelly gets fired for merely mentioning blackface. It isn’t as though she showed up to work in blackface, she was just talking about Halloween costumes when she was a kid. The fact is that when you’re a liberal you can get away with shit you wouldn’t hesitate to turn around crucify conservatives for, regardless of whether both instances were equally innocuous.
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