{"id":1209,"date":"2026-06-04T18:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:42:37","slug":"ted-danson-apologizes-for-blackface-at-1993-whoopi-goldberg-roast-so-stupid-and-entitled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"Ted Danson Apologizes for Blackface at 1993 Whoopi Goldberg Roast: \u201cSo Stupid and Entitled\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nTed Danson said he will \u201capologize for the rest of my life\u201d for appearing in blackface at a 1993 Whoopi Goldberg Friars Club roast.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1207\">Sadie Sink to Star in \u2018The Marriage Plot\u2019 Limited Series at FX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI need to and want to apologize for the rest of my life because somebody today can go on the internet and go, \u2018What the fuck? Wow, I feel betrayed, I feel angry.\u2019 And I did that,\u201d the actor said on Wednesday\u2019s episode of W. Kamau Bell\u2019s <em>Who\u2019s With Me?<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDanson\u2019s speech at the event, which drew backlash from those in attendance and public figures like former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, took place while he and Goldberg were having an affair and included racial slurs and jokes about their sex life.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDanson said that their romance was coming to an end and he tried to get out of the roast, but the Friars Club said, \u201cWe will sue you,\u201d Danson recalled to laughs, because they had \u201csold so many tickets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI will explain what was going on in my head, not as an excuse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cSo my brain was going, OK, here is one of the most outrageous, funny Black women in the world,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd I\u2019m supposed to be roasting her and I\u2019m not a stand-up, I can\u2019t run with the bulls. So I was like, \u2018What am I gonna do?\u2019 And then I thought, \u2018Well I can do performance theater.\u2019 I looked at all these tapes and it\u2019s like, well if I were Black, I could say all these outrageous things. I\u2019m not; then my mind went, I will do it in blackface and that will be funny or not, but it will be like, \u2018I have license now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe recalled how the press at the time was cruel to them as a mixed-race couple having an affair, focusing only on their sex life.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIt couldn\u2019t be because they liked each other or saw something in each other. \u2026 It had to be just pure sex, that\u2019s the only reason for a relationship like this,\u201d he said. Though he wanted to comedically address their relationship, he kept getting \u201cangrier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd he argued that he \u201ckind of latched on\u201d to something Goldberg had said in her act about not caring if people use the n-word because people didn\u2019t have to \u201cuse nasty language\u201d to be racist.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI thought I could pull this off,\u201d he added. \u201cThere\u2019s no one been whiter than me in the world. That I thought that this white guy could have something valuable to say about race and race relations was so stupid and entitled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring his months of working on the bit, he ran it past Goldberg, he recalled, but suggested that she didn\u2019t want to step on his creativity. The negative reaction was swift.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1205\">The Broadway Tax Credit Has Returned, For Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWithin 20 seconds, I was like, \u2018I stuck my finger in a light socket,&#8217;\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cTwenty percent of the crowd gets this and thinks it\u2019s pretty cool and gets it. Thirty percent of the crowd gets it and fucking hates it. Fifty percent of the crowd didn\u2019t get it and fucking hated it and hated me. And I kept going,\u201d Danson recalled, adding that when he returned to his hotel he had to get on the phone with Mayor Dinkins.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cMy poor manager said he couldn\u2019t open the door into his hotel room because there were so many messages stuck under the door,\u201d Danson added.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDanson said his justification had been that he knew what his intention was. \u201cMy intention was love,\u201d he said. \u201cDoesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cYour intentions do not matter. The impact you have on people is what matters,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if you haven\u2019t thought through that, then you need to. I thought I could run with the big boys, and I couldn\u2019t. And it was stupid, and it was not my place, and it was wrong and it was hurtful \u2026 So I apologize again to anyone who\u2019s listening, that I was arrogant enough to think that I had something to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGoldberg told <em>The New York Times<\/em> in 1993 that the situation \u201ccaused great hurt to a man who doesn\u2019t deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDanson offered another apology to Goldberg for bringing this up again, \u201cPoor Whoopi Goldberg has had to defend me over the years, sweetly and gracefully. So the last thing she probably wants to do is be put in this position again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe added that wife Mary Steenburgen \u201ccouldn\u2019t understand\u201d why he did it, and after clips of Danson\u2019s routine surfaced during the Black Lives Matter movement, he said he, \u201cgot dropped a little bit from some corporate things, and I was scared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt was then that Jane Fonda connected him with <em>The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together<\/em> author Heather McGhee, who helped Danson reflect on his actions: \u201cShe wasn\u2019t giving me a pass. She was saying this is an opportunity that I hope you take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBell said that he had asked Danson if there was anything he didn\u2019t want to talk about and gave him \u201ccredit\u201d for speaking about the blackface incident.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1203\">The First \u2018Masters of the Universe\u2019 Muscled Into Theaters in 1987<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Danson apologizes and explains why he did a blackface routine at a 1993 Friars Club roast of Whoopi Goldberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1082,1083],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-ted-danson","tag-whoopi-goldberg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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