NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK– Jimmy Fallon has been facing major backlash on Twitter for his impersonation of Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show from 2 weeks ago in which he appeared in hackface and pretended that he was an original comedian with funny material that he had actually written himself.
The Tonight Show host issued an apology after a video of him hosting the show from 2 weeks ago resurfaced on social media, showing him using unoriginal material in his monologue and throughout the entire hackneyed show.
“In 2020, while on Tonight Show, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Jimmy Fallon while in hackface,” Fallon wrote on Twitter with the help of twenty social media writers. “There is no excuse for this. I am very sorry for making this unquestionably offensive decision and thank all of you for holding me accounting for using hack material.”
Before insulting the world with his offensive late night hackface routine, Fallon was a cast member on Saturday Night Live where he is remembered for his numerous pleasant performances, which included impersonating fellow comedian Chris Rock in blackface by respectfully darkening his skin, wearing an afro, and then speaking in his most believable black man’s accent.
To make up for his reprehensible mistake, Fallon later promised that he would never do stand-up comedy, improv comedy, comedy writing, or host The Tonight Show again, and every future episode of the show will instead play reruns of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
