Wow!
To think that I did not know about that until now! The things you learn on Imgflip!
But wait! There's more!
Look what I found when checking up on this:
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Remember When Ted Danson Wore Blackface to Roast Whoopi Goldberg?
https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/ted-danson-blackface-whoopi-goldberg-political-correctness.html
In October 1993, actor Ted Danson appeared at a Friars Club roast of his then girlfriend, Whoopi Goldberg, with his face painted dark brown and a wide white stripe encircling his mouth. He used the N-word more than a dozen times in his bawdy routine, talked in explicit detail about their sex life, joked about having her clean his parents’ house, and ended the set by eating from a tray of watermelon. Before the performance, a reporter had asked him to preview his performance, which he had been told was closed to the press. “My career would end,” he joked.
It almost did. Danson bombed—first in the room and then outside it, as word spread about the disastrous performance. Critic Roger Ebert was there and reported that each joke drew successively fewer laughs from the audience of some 3,000 people at the New York Hilton. Attendees including Halle Berry, Vanessa Williams, RuPaul, and Mr. T sat stone-faced in the crowd. Talk show host Montel Williams stormed off the stage...
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But Ted was OK after that disaster: he's a liberal.
