Like the Iran–Iraq War

IN 1993, Ted Danson appeared at a Friars Club “roast” of his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg. In a now infamous, and infamously unfunny, routine, Danson spewed a string of tasteless and racist jokes, peppering every sentence with the N-word. And Danson did this whole monologue in blackface.

Whoopi defended Danson’s act by telling everybody to lighten up, it was all in good fun. Heck, she’d helped write Ted’s material.