A very sober Jimmy Fallon fronted the camera from his home on Monday evening for the first time since a 2000 blackface sketch resurfaced online during the Tonight Show‘s week-long Memorial Day hiatus. Fallon offered an unqualified apology last week, but given he returned to screens as the U.S. is gripped by protests against police brutality and systemic racism, he acknowledged the moment called for more than jokes and celebrity video calls.
“Seeing what is going on in our country, I’m not going to have a normal show tonight, I’m going to have a different kind of show,” Fallon began. “I’m going to start this personally, and then expand out because that’s where we all need to start, with ourselves and looking at ourselves in the mirror.” Read more…
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