Lol and that episode doesn't even make this thread of "The Worst of Hey Hey It's Saturday" I guess that incident was only particularly notable for Americans
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Jfc I remember this, they bullied Kamahl in that segment, even though he wasn't on the show anymore They had a bit where a sketch artist doodled commentary on what was going on and during the blackface act he doodled "Where's Kamahl?" and did a caricature of him
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And then like after Harry Connick Jr had a live freakout onstage all the people connected to the show told the media "Wow I never expected this big shot American to overreact like this to our little joke" and Kamahl just said "This is why I quit It was like this every day"
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That would be the one, yes
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Yep. And a years long campaign of racist abuse towards a lovely man. That FB response is because of this interviewhttps://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/mar/27/i-felt-humiliated-kamahl-on-racism-hey-hey-its-saturday-and-cancel-culture …
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The way they treated Kamahl was really awful. Even when he wasn't on the show he was the butt of racist jokes, like constantly
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I remember that episode the most clearly of any
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The reason that the Harry Connick Jnr episode caught them off guard was because they didn't actually think what they were doing was bad. It was a ha ha reminiscence of that "other" time they did blackface. Remember when we did it and everyone loved it. It's okay if its irony?
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From the country that brought you chris lilley, who'd have thought?
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I love how it's the humiliated black man's job to go up to a respected member of the establishment and challenge him. He could have fixed racism, but he didn't!
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