6.23.20 Bee-otches of the Day: right-winged morons who want comedians who once used blackface out of show business

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Bee-otched For: wanting Jimmy Kimmel dead over Live                                                              

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The world always needs laughter. 

However, one late night comic has decided to take a little vacation. 

Last week, Jimmy Kimmel announced that he's taking the summer off of his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! In a statement, Kimmel simply wanted to be with his family. 

But, rumor has it that Kimmel's sabbatical is really due to the fact that his past is catching up to him.

Many Drumpf supporters have been calling out Kimmel for attacking their leader for being racist. But to those Drumpf supporters, they look at Kimmel as a hypocrite. 

Kimmel first rose to national fame as the co-host of Comedy Central's Win Ben Stein's Money in the 1990s. A few years later, he teamed up with Loveline co-host Adam Carolla to host a weekly program called The Man Show. It would be one of Comedy Central's most-popular shows, running from 1999 to 2003. When Kimmel was signed to ABC, the show did continue with new hosts Doug Stanhope and Joe Rogan for one more - yet disappointing - season. 

The Man Show was a bawdy program that thrived on good 'ol 1990s humor and scantily-clad women. The show was definitely funny, but like "Blazing Saddles", a show of its nature probably couldn't be produced today. Segments of the show involved one where Rosie O'Donnell fell through a manhole, another where Jimmy and Adam have women sign a petition to end women's suffrage and another called "The Wheel of Destiny" where people are given either cool or lame prizes. 

However, several times on the program, Jimmy dressed up like African American celebrities, namely Karl Malone and Oprah Winfrey as "Oprah Jimfrey". One of Jimmy's Oprah bits had him sitting on a toilet.

It was also revealed that before he became a cable TV sensation, Kimmel recorded a song impersonating rapper Snoop Dogg that involved repeated use of the n-word. He recorded the tune when he was a regular of the long-running Kevin & Bean Show on Los Angeles' KROQ. 

Jimmy ended up apologizing in a statement, stating that he feels terrible that he waited over 20 years to make the apology. He says that he's matured over the years and that he knows that people will still try to shut him up, apology or not. 

Late night's other Jimmy, Jimmy Fallon also recently issued an apology after an old episode of Saturday Night Live surfaced of him impersonating Chris Rock with blackface. 

It's no secret that blackface comedy has offended many in the African American community for centuries. Even after the beginning of the Civil Rights Act in 1965, whites have long-impersonated people of color. Even black-positive TV shows like Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids had white actors voicing African Americans (the show's Jewish producer, Lou Scheimer, voiced Dumb Donald). SNL had a myriad of whites impersonating blacks; speaking of Fat Albert, Adam Sandler did Bill Cosby several times. Billy Crystal impersonated Sammy Davis, Jr. and Darrell Hammond - currently the show's announcer - performed as Jesse Jackson on several occasions. 

Granted, there's a plethora of famous celebs - living or dead - who have all done blackface or even impersonated people of color. Same goes with cartoon characters. With George Floyd's vicious murder being the straw that broke the camel's back, yes, black lives matter. But, should somebody's past be the reason for ending their career? Well, it depends on what they did, of course. 

The sad reality is that nobody's perfect and we're all judged by what we did in the past. Hell, I get angered when people I once knew years ago and haven't been to my blogs in ages judge me about what I posted in my 20s. Yes, I was once young and at times, immature. But, haven't we been there before? Trust me, an 18-year-old doesn't have the mindset of a 40-year-old and vice versa. 

Both Jimmy Kimmel and Howard Stern did blackface and both have said that they feel sorry doing so. IMHO, both have matured a lot over the years while Drumpf is the opposite. If people don't want to watch Jimmy Kimmel Live!, that's their M.O. Personally, I lean on Stephen Colbert the most simply because I think he's further to the left than Fallon or Kimmel. Seth Meyers is awesome, too. Ratings talk. If enough people abandon Kimmel, then yes, ABC has even God-given right to cancel him. But if people like him and will defend him through all this, then may he survive. 

In the end, Drumpf will lose because he'll have a black face of his own, as in black and blue when Joe Biden or somebody else will kick his ass out of the White House.

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