An Australian variety show featuring performers parodying the Jackson Five while in blackface so outraged its American judge, that the program's host immediately apologized.
New Orleans native Harry Connick Jr. was serving as a guest judge on Wednesday night's 'Hey Hey It's Saturday' when he became visibly shocked by the skit, in which four men with afro wigs and dark make-up calling themselves the "Jackson Jive" sang and danced behind a Michael Jackson impersonator wearing white makeup. Watch it after the jump.
Connick gave the skit a zero and later confronted the show's host, Daryl Somers, about the taboo subject.
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He said we have done so much in this country to not make black people buffoons. Now, look at the policies coming out of the White House.
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