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Blackface

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Blackface	comment	Blackface is the tradition of a performer putting on stylized black makeup to appear as a stereotyped character of African descent. The usual version includes dark or pitch-black makeup and bulging red or white lips. Blackface was often used in Minstrel Shows. The image is associated with negative, stereotypical depictions of black people in the Western world and has become shorthand for anti-black racism. As much as some people would like to forget it, blackface was a part of mainstream American entertainment for almost 100 years until racial backlash ultimately capsized it. Because of their pervasiveness in the US, blackface minstrel shows traveled widely throughout Europe and Australia, where they were imitated by local actors. This led to domestic blackface traditions springing throughout the West and even in many non-Western countries. Lesser cultural stigma outside the US ironically allowed mainstream blackface to survive for far longer than in its country of origin. While most European countries nowadays do not consider the trope as mind-blowingly offensive as the Anglosphere, a mix of Eagleland Osmosis and a greater awareness about racism has led to it becoming increasingly socially unacceptable and controversial. Blackface characters still pop up in Japanese culture and media from time to time, often causing massive headaches for exporters. The trope remains a sensitive subject to this day, partially because of its close association with Uncle Tomfoolery, and causes quite a backlash whenever it shows up in mainstream American culture. Even depictions that criticize the trope or people who engage in it can cause a work to become embroiled in controversy. Instances of Fake Nationality involving lighter-skinned actors playing darker-skinned characters will often raise eyebrows due to straying too close to the trope. Yellowface is a similar practice involving Asian characters, while Brownface is for characters of various "brown" races. The inversion, black actors playing white people, is rarely done straight. When this happens, it's almost always in-universe and for comic effect. Compare and contrast Black Like Me. Both involve using makeup to make a white person look black. However, Black Like Me is usually done to teach a moral about tolerance to the audience.
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Blackface / int_144ea6e4	comment	The title character in Shakespeare's Othello was traditionally played by a white actor in makeup, though the original King's Men might not have used it. It wasn't until 1943 that a black actor played the role in a major stage production of the play, but the success of that production didn't stop the common practice of using blackface to last well through the 60s.
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Blackface / int_17af7793	comment	Trading Places also uses it as a Paper-Thin Disguise for Dan Aykroyd in the scene on the train. The others with him are also in disguise/costume, but their target for a theft has met Aykroyd's character before, necessitating something more drastic: brown shoe polish. It doesn't fool anyone.
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Blackface / int_18f4b8c1	comment	Satirized by Jreg. One of the ideologies featured in Centricide 6 that join Nazi's "International Union of Nationalists" is Pan-Africanism, which is depicted by Greg Guevara jremself wearing a paper with the word "BLACKFACE" attached to jris face.
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Blackface / int_19d5167b	comment	Inverted in Chappelle's Show in sketches where the black host Dave Chappelle lightens his skin in order to play white character Chuck Taylor. Chuck has appeared in several episodes of the show, and as a Running Gag, his skin gets lighter and lighter with each appearance until his final appearance has him almost literally white.
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Blackface / int_20117302	comment	In the arcade version of Sunset Riders, a character caught in fire got a blackface look before he collapsed. The SNES version censors that, replacing it with the standard death drop animation instead.
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Blackface / int_231ed759	comment	Tosh.0 once featured a Webredemption for the little boy who dressed up as Martin Luther King Jr., make up and all, as part of his Black History project.
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Blackface / int_240c8daf	comment	Jeeves and Wooster: Bertie Wooster disguises himself in as part of a troupe of blackface minstrels comprised of his fellow Drones in order to escape J. Washburn Stoker, father of Pauline, the girl in of Bertie's ill-fated engagements. The minstrels were there as part of Stoker's son's birthday party. Wooster ends up having to perform Lady of Spain in blackface with the minstrels before being able to escape. Later the the Harley St. doctor Sir Roderick Glossop has to dress up in blackface to entertain a young boy who was promised that he could see the minstrels at Stoker's son's birthday party, but is unable to go in the confusion, while Jeeves advises Stoker to cover his face in black to be less visible during the night in order to catch Wooster. In another episode, Bertie is persuaded to disguise himself as an African chief in order to retrieve a tribal artifact, making things very awkward when the real chief shows up. In each case, Unfortunate Implications are mostly skirted because the joke is not on black people but on what a dolt Bertie is for thinking it would work.
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Blackface / int_243d7f8	comment	The Sarah Silverman Program played with this. Sarah argued with a black man that being Jewish is harder than being black, and the two agreed to go through one day as the other ethnicity for a day to test it. Sarah dressed up in a horribly stereotypical and offensive way, receiving very unpleasant remarks, thinking they actually thought she was black and their responses were genuine racism. When she met the man in the usual spot she and the gang get their coffee and said that she agreed that being black was harder, the black man said he realised being Jewish was actually harder. He was wearing a yarmukle, peot, a long false nose, and a shirt saying 'I <3 Money'. The man left the place as the two exchanged suspicious looks.
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Blackface / int_24ffd341	comment	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Discussed and Lampshaded in "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth", where the gang decides to do a sequel to Lethal Weapon with both Mac and Dennis alternate playing Murtaugh. Dennis refuses to be in blackface, but has no problem doing a "black voice." Mac dons full shoe polish and tries to retroactively use Laurence Olivier as justification. Nobody remarks on the fact that Frank spends the entire movie playing a villainous Native American stereotype. Used again in "Lethal Weapon 6," when Mac again darkens his skin to play Murtaugh. During the shower scene, Mac's makeup begins to wash off. Dee also plays Murtaugh's daughter in blackface and does a stereotypical voice.
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Blackface / int_2777c062	comment	Are You Being Served?: Mr. Grainger does himself up in blackface to perform "Mammy" in the B-plot of an episode. Ultimately, this rolls back into the main plot: In order to replace a malfunctioning animatronic Santa, the Men's and Lady's Wear staffers are auditioning for the role (and its extra pay). Grainger doesn't have time to remove the blackface before the audition... which makes him more attractive to the child brought in to select who'll get the role. The kid is black. Another episode has the staff performing a minstrel number, in blackface, to celebrate Old Mr Grace's supposed African heritage. As you can see on his face at the end of the show as his staff is strutting about in blackface, he is horrified at this spectacle.
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Blackface / int_2a1b28fc	comment	Smiling Friends: Discussed in The Halloween Episode. Early in the episode, Charlie and Alan discuss about what sorts of costumes may be offensive in the future, citing blackface as an example. Later, towards the end is the Forest Demon, a horrible creature from a haunted forest that also has to repeatedly insist it actually looks like that, and that it's not wearing blackface. To it's credit, though, it lacks the Gag Lips, but the misconception is still definitely there. After chasing Pim into the Halloween party, it's forced to repeat this same spiel to partygoers that don't believe an ounce of it, and beat it to death before eating its corpse over its assumed offense.
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Blackface / int_2ad4ca99	comment	David Byrne put on dark makeup and a curly wig to play a black reporter in the "Self-Interview" used to promote Stop Making Sense. He would eventually apologize for the bit on a Twitter thread and on his blog in 2020, describing it as "a major mistake in judgement" and clarifying that the reason why he took so long to apologize is that he forgot about the bit's existence.
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Blackface / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Characters such as Bugs Bunny would often get soot blown in their faces, causing them to spontaneously parody The Jazz Singer or Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. A famous example is Bugs singing Al Jolson's "Mammy" in Blackface in Any Bonds Today?. Scenes featuring blackface tend to be Bowdlerized in modern TV airings, but The Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD set features unedited short cartoons featuring blackface and other stereotypes. note Whoopi Goldberg hosts an introductory segment on the disc to explain the intent behind this: while such stereotypes are bad, it would be worse to pretend that they didn't exist. Further details are here.
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Blackface / int_3133ed69	comment	Black Like Me: A white person makes himself look black and experiences everyday life as a black person and learning An Aesop about tolerance.
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Blackface / int_3250970d	comment	The Turkish movie Battal Gazi had the protagonist, a Turkish warrior, disguising himself as an Indian sheikh using blackface.
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Blackface / int_33fdae4d	comment	The Mad Men season 3 episode "My Old Kentucky Home" features Roger Sterling in blackface, singing the title song to his new, twenty-something wife. Some of the characters are horrified, but more about a respectable businessman making an ass of himself than moral indignation over the racial insensitivity.
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Blackface / int_34768535	comment	MadWorld has the Black Baron, revealed to be white by the announcers (who proceed to argue on whether or not it's important). He has the mannerisms of a stereotypical pimp. Perhaps bowing to how the overseas market would view it, Anarchy Reigns (which is in color as opposed to its precursor's Deliberately Monochrome) portrays the Baron as an actual black man who goes by the title "The Blacker Baron".
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Blackface / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community: Chang dresses up as his Dungeons & Dragons Drow character, which includes jet black skin. Both Shirley, a black woman, and Pierce, a white man with antiquated social views, think he's in blackface. The episode was taken off of Hulu and Netflix following the 2020 George Floyd protests. In a season 4 episode, Pierce entertains a gathering with a "blackface Senor Wences routine in which he darkens his hand to act as a handpuppet of a stereotypical black caricature.
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Blackface / int_3932a05b	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_3932a05b	comment	In opera, the title part in Verdi's adaptation of Othello and Monostatos in The Magic Flute were written for white actors using makeup, and some portrayals veered toward blackface caricature. Today they are usually done without the makeup (or with black performers) to avoid accusations of blackface.
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Blackface / int_3a219aa4	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_3a219aa4	comment	Peep Show: In one episode, Jeremy's girlfriend darkens his whole body to resemble a black man before sex. Jeremy is extremely uncomfortable with the idea.
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Blackface / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs has a flashback to an incident where Turk convinced JD to wear blackface (where Turk himself would be wearing whiteface) while they met with some friends of Turk's. Turk ends up being distracted at an inopportune moment, meaning that JD seems to be alone when the guys see him. It does not end well.
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Blackface / int_3f4e6a1a	comment	In an episode of Gimme a Break!, Samantha dresses Joey up in blackface to perform at Nell's church in a Very Special Episode about racism.
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Blackface / int_3fdafaad	comment	At WrestleMania VI, Roddy Piper fought Bad News Brown with half his body in blackface, after Bad News Brown called him racist. Apparently he did it as part of a mind game to show that color doesn't matter, but the WWE ended up burying the entire match and its promo from their network and on Peacock (having understandably gotten them in trouble with the latter on day one of their partnership). The paint was a concoction that could only be removed by a specific solvent (so Piper wouldn't sweat or smear the paint off during the match). Piper would claim later that AndrÃ© the Giant and Arnold Skaaland, as a joke, dumped the solvent down the drain and replaced it with plain water; it took weeks of scrubbing and sitting in a sauna for the paint to finally come off.
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Blackface / int_40b4d50d	comment	In the Father Brown story "The God of the Gongs", a black murderer tries to escape the police by disguising himself in blackface as a minstrel performer, as the one kind of person who nobody would imagine would actually be black.
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Blackface / int_42256342	comment	Australian sketch-comedy Fast Forward had an all-white cast who played various ethnicities, with Michael Veitch and Magda Szubanski getting blacked-up for some roles (in one Magda only has her face painted black) and impersonations of Nat "King" Cole and Natalie Cole. Averted with a Paula Abdul impersonation, where Gina Riley just plays her as a white woman. Magda Szubanski has since expressed regret for this.
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Blackface / int_42a5b98c	comment	Dear White People begins with a How We Got Here moment, where the main cast watch a news report depicting the race riot that ensued when a predominantly white fraternity threw blackface party. A montage following the end of the film showed pictures from numerous American universities were such parties had taken place.
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Blackface / int_43ce5692	comment	In Django Unchained, Samuel L. Jackson put on darker makeup to play Boomerang Bigot house slave Stephen. Jackson conceived of the look when deciding that Stephen had no white ancestry at all. Funnily enough, he actually wore more than needed because he thought he didn't look dark enough yet, only to later see the film and realize the photography was making him even darker.
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Blackface / int_481d55f7	comment	One of the many wild looks adorned by Goldust (or rather, "The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust" at the time), featured along with an afro wig and a boom box before the 1998 Royal Rumble on Raw. He happened to be facing Flash Funk, who actually was black.
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Blackface / int_4e45b093	comment	In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper invites LeVar Burton to his podcast Fun With Flags, and, despite Leonard telling him it was racist, shows him a video of him portraying George Washington Carver. Burton was not pleased.
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Blackface / int_4f847312	comment	In the Nero Wolfe novel Too Many Cooks, a witness to the murder claims to have seen an African American waiter at the scene of the crime, but when questioned another waiter reveals that it was actually a white man in blackface. As the novel is a critique of then-contemporary race relations, when questioned further the waiter rather scathingly points out that he can tell the difference between someone of actual African American descent and someone who's just covered themselves in burnt cork. The murderer was indeed a white man who had "blacked" himself up.
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Blackface / int_524499fe	comment	Parodied by Spitting Image in "The White & White Minstrel Show" that features the polar opposite of this trope: black people wearing whitefaces. The sketch itself is a biting satire of The Apartheid Era in South Africa where they think "that blackfaces don't belong with black".
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Blackface / int_55b41fea	comment	The all-black cast of Stormy Weather makes the film an anomaly from The Golden Age of Hollywood era, and it's really wonderful to see such a rare showcase of black entertainers. But it does include a small moment of black characters participating in black minstrel.
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Blackface / int_56b91f38	comment	Although Colombian-born Zoe Saldana herself is considered black by American standards, her use of darker makeup and prostheses to play Nina Simone was part of the many difficulties faced by the 2016 biopic Nina. Simone had made her dark skin tone a key part of her identity, and for many other dark-skinned African-American fans of the singer it was such a slap in the face to cast a light-skinned actress in the role and then make her up to be darkernote when darker-skinned actresses were available who could have played the part without makeup ... indeed, Mary J Blige was originally cast that not only were several online petitions started calling for production to stop, Simone's family asked Saldana to never again quote the singer after she did so in a tweet to defend herself.
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Blackface / int_57e3ab58	comment	In an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rob and Laura manage to accidentally dye their hands black with permanent ink just before they need to attend a ceremony to accept an award from "the Committee for Interracial Understanding." Realizing that this could be a major Fee Fi Faux Pas, they eventually decide to wear fancy gloves to the banquet in an attempt to cover it up. Fortunately when the truth comes out, everyone sees the humorous side of it.
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Blackface / int_5ae12912	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_5ae12912	comment	In the episode "Korzenie" ("Roots") of Polish sitcom Swiat wedlug Kiepskich, the main protagonist wakes up to discover that not only him, but everyone around is suddenly black, including people on TV. Nobody understands his surprised reaction, all the pictures in the family album suggest that he has always been black, and his apartment holds a church service with gospel music. The episode ends with him finding out that his asshole neighbour is still white, and upon pointing it out he responds with "So what? Just because I'm white doesn't mean you can bully me! I'm a human being just like the rest of you!" The title of the episode references the TV miniseries, which was extremely popular in Poland in the 1980s.
Blackface / int_5ae12912	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_5ae12912	featureConfidence	1.0
Roots (1977)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_5ae12912
Blackface / int_5f7aea6d	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_5f7aea6d	comment	Pops up in C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, where in the Alternate Universe in which the South won the Civil War it never becomes taboo. Also, Abraham Lincoln (who in real life regularly attended Minstrel Shows) used blackface to disguise himself as a black man to try to escape to Canada with Harriet Tubman. (They were caught by the Confederate forces.) There was also a clip from an in-universe film depicting Jefferson Davis' scheme to enforce slavery throughout the country in which a house slave also present at the event is clearly being depicted by a white actor in blackface, surely as a bit of commentary on the whole convention of blackface.
Blackface / int_5f7aea6d	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_5f7aea6d	featureConfidence	1.0
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America	hasFeature	Blackface / int_5f7aea6d
Blackface / int_60f02ddb	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_60f02ddb	comment	The Smiths in American Dad! show up to a black organization's banquet in blackface after misreading the invitation. It turns out the party's name was "Black People Changing the Face of America".
Blackface / int_60f02ddb	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_60f02ddb	featureConfidence	1.0
American Dad!	hasFeature	Blackface / int_60f02ddb
Blackface / int_65073206	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_65073206	comment	The antagonist Aaron in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus was often played by a white man in blackface, most notably by Anthony Quayle in the 1955 staging at Stratford-on-Avon that starred Laurence Olivier in the title role.
Blackface / int_65073206	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_65073206	featureConfidence	1.0
Titus Andronicus (Theatre)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_65073206
Blackface / int_650ed28d	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_650ed28d	comment	Alluded to in the music video for "Say Say Say" by Paul McCartney and a pre-vitiligo Michael Jackson. The video, a satire of race relations in America, feature the two donning identical clown makeup and doing a vaudeville act in a parody of minstrel shows. Neither actually appear in blackface, but Jackson's white-painted lips against his dark skin deliberately reference it.
Blackface / int_650ed28d	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_650ed28d	featureConfidence	1.0
Pipes of Peace (Music)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_650ed28d
Blackface / int_667daa0b	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_667daa0b	comment	A character seen briefly at the start (and in a throwaway gag near the middle) of Forbidden Zone is a slumlord and crack dealer played by a man in blackface; there are several others in bit parts throughout, done for comedic shock value. In a particularly odd case, one of the actors in blackface happened to actually be black.
Blackface / int_667daa0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_667daa0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Forbidden Zone	hasFeature	Blackface / int_667daa0b
Blackface / int_679fba8c	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_679fba8c	comment	Parodied in Be Kind Rewind as Jack Black's character attempts to portray an overweight African-American. As soon as the locals see him in blackface (a majority of which are African American themselves), they react with disgust. Mos Def's character is given the part and Jack Black points out the hypocrisy that while he may not be black, he's still the right body type for the role.
Blackface / int_679fba8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_679fba8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Be Kind Rewind	hasFeature	Blackface / int_679fba8c
Blackface / int_6a4c8f1b	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	In One-Punch Man, Superalloy Darkshine, an originally pale, presumably Japanese, guy with a cartoony broad nose and thick lips, somehow got dark and shiny once he hit peak physicality.
Blackface / int_6a4c8f1b	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_6a4c8f1b	featureConfidence	1.0
One-Punch Man (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_6a4c8f1b
Blackface / int_6a94689f	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_6a94689f	comment	One episode of Do Not Adjust Your Set features the show's band, The Bonzo Dog Band, performing their song "Look Out, There's a Monster Coming" in blackface. This included rather large examples of exaggerated lips, even as far as blackface is concerned!
Blackface / int_6a94689f	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_6a94689f	featureConfidence	1.0
Do Not Adjust Your Set	hasFeature	Blackface / int_6a94689f
Blackface / int_6ac55ec7	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Chang dresses up as his Dungeons & Dragons Drow character, which includes jet black skin. Both Shirley, a black woman, and Pierce, a white man with antiquated social views, think he's in blackface. The episode was taken off of Hulu and Netflix following the 2020 George Floyd protests.
Blackface / int_6ac55ec7	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_6ac55ec7	featureConfidence	1.0
Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_6ac55ec7
Blackface / int_6c2356d2	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_6c2356d2	comment	Gangs of New York features a propagandized performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which actors playing parts of slaves wear blackface.
Blackface / int_6c2356d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_6c2356d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Gangs of New York	hasFeature	Blackface / int_6c2356d2
Blackface / int_70362c21	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_70362c21	comment	Chris Liley blacked up for the character S'Mouse in Angry Boys. The immediate reaction was one of disgust and made people leery of his most recent comedy series Lunatics, which featured a South African character who wears lots of fake tan.
Blackface / int_70362c21	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_70362c21	featureConfidence	1.0
Angry Boys	hasFeature	Blackface / int_70362c21
Blackface / int_7460586f	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_7460586f	comment	Archer: Krieger shows the other staff members a flyer for his horrible one-man show, which, according to their comments, includes him using blackface.
Blackface / int_7460586f	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_7460586f	featureConfidence	1.0
Archer	hasFeature	Blackface / int_7460586f
Blackface / int_74fb542e	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_74fb542e	comment	That Mitchell and Webb Look: The show briefly uses blackface as a punchline to a skit about a group of historical re-enactors who get tired of covering the English Civil War all the time and briefly try to re-enact a scene from the Congolese Civil War while awkwardly trying not to be racist (and failing). This also happened in the very first episode after Mitchell had come out in a burqa for a parody of "Improve your looks!" show. He was sporting this trope underneath because he felt more natural when wearing it.
Blackface / int_74fb542e	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_74fb542e	featureConfidence	1.0
That Mitchell and Webb Look	hasFeature	Blackface / int_74fb542e
Blackface / int_75584731	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_75584731	comment	Lampshaded/parodied in Tropic Thunder—Robert Downey Jr.'s white Australian character, dedicated method actor Kirk Lazarus, portrays black Sergeant Lincoln Osiris by getting his face and body surgically altered to look like a fairly realistic black man. His character's personality, however, is embarrassingly over-the-top, and he stays in character at all times, much to the chagrin of the actually-black Alpa Chino. The fact that the whole thing is meant to be a parody of Oscar Bait and extreme Method Acting went over the heads of some critics and viewers, who claimed it was tantamount to blackface. On the flipside, though, the NAACP approved of the character in their own screening of the film, and Downey was nominated that year for an Oscar. It's also mentioned that the character's casting and actions are also highly controversial In-Universe.
Blackface / int_75584731	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_75584731	featureConfidence	1.0
Tropic Thunder	hasFeature	Blackface / int_75584731
Blackface / int_75f553ac	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_75f553ac	comment	The Deuce: Vincent arrives at his bar to discover a band playing a cover of "96 Tears" with the lead singer in a blackface get-up. Vincent asks his bartender why the singer is dressed like Al Jolson, and she says it's because he's half black. This only confuses Vincent more. Although never named, the singer is supposed to be Garland Jeffreys, who covered "96 Tears" and was half black.
Blackface / int_75f553ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_75f553ac	featureConfidence	1.0
The Deuce	hasFeature	Blackface / int_75f553ac
Blackface / int_765be284	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_765be284	comment	In the seventh episode of the second season of The Knick, a vaudeville duo performs in blackface to entertain the audience of a ball.
Blackface / int_765be284	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_765be284	featureConfidence	1.0
The Knick	hasFeature	Blackface / int_765be284
Blackface / int_78244146	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_78244146	comment	Depending on the country and the company, blackface is still used in some ballets, such as for the Moor doll in Petrouchka, the Moor doll in The Nutcracker (if the production has one), and the children in the Golden Idol sequence in La Bayadere. In the US and UK, some companies have eliminated blackface or cast the roles with dancers of color, although the practice has still not disappeared.
Blackface / int_78244146	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_78244146	featureConfidence	1.0
TheNutcracker	hasFeature	Blackface / int_78244146
Blackface / int_7884ec15	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld: One episode has Kramer falling asleep in a tanning bed just before a date to meet his black girlfriend's parents. They are outraged that he appears to be in blackface.
Blackface / int_7884ec15	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_7884ec15	featureConfidence	1.0
Seinfeld	hasFeature	Blackface / int_7884ec15
Blackface / int_7a36aae5	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_7a36aae5	comment	Referenced in The Mikado with N-Word Privileges that are generally reworded these days. "The n- serenader and the others of his race" shows up on the original version of "I've Got a Little List" of "society offenders who might well be underground", showing what Sir William S. Gilbert thought of the practice.
Blackface / int_7a36aae5	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_7a36aae5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mikado (Theatre)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_7a36aae5
Blackface / int_7aaf9e41	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_7aaf9e41	comment	During the 2001 Batman story "Close Before Striking", it was established that Bruce Wayne himself, of all people, tried this before he started his Dead Person Impersonation of Matches Malone, as one of his failed attempts at a deep cover identity was trying to pose as a black man to infiltrate the Joker's gang — only for the Clown Prince of Crime see right through it.
Blackface / int_7aaf9e41	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_7aaf9e41	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_7aaf9e41
Blackface / int_7d57932a	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_7d57932a	comment	This was also used in the 1980 remake of The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond. Diamond's character dons blackface to join a group performing in a black nightclub in Harlem... in 1980.
Blackface / int_7d57932a	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_7d57932a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Jazz Singer	hasFeature	Blackface / int_7d57932a
Blackface / int_7d5e43b0	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_7d5e43b0	comment	According to The Goodies, their ancestors were cruelly kidnapped by the BBC and forced into blackface as cast members on The Black and White Minstrel Show (see corresponding entry). They eventually fought for equal rights, no matter what colour paint, be it black, white, green, polka-dot. The episode was actually labelled: DO NOT BROADCAST - RACIST in the BBC archive. The Goodies also appear in blackface in the South Africa and Eckythump episodes. The show also mocked The Apartheid Era racists by showing how horrified they are of blackface performers: white people imitating black people. One episode has Bill Oddie covering his exposed arms and face with shoe polish and converting to Islam.
Blackface / int_7d5e43b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_7d5e43b0	featureConfidence	1.0
The Goodies	hasFeature	Blackface / int_7d5e43b0
Blackface / int_7df0c5ac	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_7df0c5ac	comment	Played for laughs in Life Support, Penne tries passing for an aboriginal to receive government benefits, but only paints her face black while wearing a tank top.
Blackface / int_7df0c5ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_7df0c5ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Life Support	hasFeature	Blackface / int_7df0c5ac
Blackface / int_7e1563ba	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_7e1563ba	comment	In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Cartman briefly appears wearing blackface during his performance of "Kyle's Mom is a Bitch."
Blackface / int_7e1563ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_7e1563ba	featureConfidence	1.0
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	hasFeature	Blackface / int_7e1563ba
Blackface / int_7e7d443f	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_7e7d443f	comment	Dear White People: Just as in the film, a party where white students dress up as black people occurs, and sparks the plot.
Blackface / int_7e7d443f	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_7e7d443f	featureConfidence	1.0
Dear White People	hasFeature	Blackface / int_7e7d443f
Blackface / int_7ec0cdab	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_7ec0cdab	comment	The Mighty Boosh has two characters that brush against the trope, which got the episodes banned from streaming services in 2020: Julian Barret plays "Rudy", a partially two-dimensional guitarist/sage with an appearance resembling Jimi Hendrix. Barret has darkened skin as well as fake teeth to make him appear to be gap-toothed. He also has a large afro with a door to another dimension. In another episode, Rudy is fully three-dimensional and is no longer blackface, though he does retain his magic afro. The recurring character "the Spirit of Jazz" is played by Noel Fielding, with black and white face makeup to resemble Baron Samedi. In spite of the inhuman nature of the character, his dreadlocks and jive accent make it clear that the character is supposed to be black.
Blackface / int_7ec0cdab	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_7ec0cdab	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mighty Boosh	hasFeature	Blackface / int_7ec0cdab
Blackface / int_82439e64	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_82439e64	comment	In The Office (US), Dwight has a warehouse employee dress up as Black Peter, complete with blackface. Luckily he figures out that the office staff will find it offensive, so he texts Black Peter to not show up. He appears later with most of the makeup wiped off.
Blackface / int_82439e64	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_82439e64	featureConfidence	1.0
The Office (US)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_82439e64
Blackface / int_84e99c18	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_84e99c18	comment	The 1973 French comedy Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob (English title: The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) has a scene in which the protagonist, a bigot, accidentally gets a face full of ash. Although (unlike in similar gags from older animated shorts) he doesn't proceed to act "minstrel," he does get mistaken for a black person.
Blackface / int_84e99c18	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_84e99c18	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob	hasFeature	Blackface / int_84e99c18
Blackface / int_8773436b	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_8773436b	comment	The otherwise squeaky-clean classic Holiday Inn shows for Lincoln's Birthday a full minstrel show featuring dancers in blackface. Notably, its Spiritual Successor White Christmas omits this scene in favor of a blackface-free stage performance.
Blackface / int_8773436b	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_8773436b	featureConfidence	1.0
Holiday Inn	hasFeature	Blackface / int_8773436b
Blackface / int_87d9eb64	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_87d9eb64	comment	Ex Bonzo, Neil Innes, reprised his blackface part for Python's successor series on TV, Rutland Weekend Television, where Innes provided the music; one of his musical interludes involved his performing pastiches of Motown acts like Four Tops.
Blackface / int_87d9eb64	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_87d9eb64	featureConfidence	1.0
Rutland Weekend Television	hasFeature	Blackface / int_87d9eb64
Blackface / int_89446aa7	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_89446aa7	comment	Alluded to in Glass Onion, where Birdie, a white woman, mentions having gotten in trouble recently thanks to a costume that she intended as a "tribute to BeyoncÃ©." The details of the costume are never elaborated upon, but it's strongly implied that it included dark makeup.
Blackface / int_89446aa7	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_89446aa7	featureConfidence	1.0
Glass Onion	hasFeature	Blackface / int_89446aa7
Blackface / int_89bf8ce	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock: Has had two episodes removed from streaming services for riffing on the trope: Jenna Maroney has appeared in blackface twice. The first time, not unlike the The Sarah Silverman Show example, arose from an argument with Tracy Jordan about whether it is harder to be black or a woman; Toofer calls her out after spotting her in dark makeup doing a minstrel performance. The second occurred when Jenna dressed as Pittsburgh Steeler Lynn Swann while her crossdressing boyfriend dressed as Natalie Portman in Black Swan making them ...two black swans. A live episode, where Kenneth defends live television, has a flashback to an Amos And Andy expy show— Tracy Jordan plays one half of the team, and Jon Hamm plays the other, in poorly applied blackface and horribly over-the-top mannerisms that finally got on Jordan's last nerve. Kenneth explains that the network thought two black people on the same show would make the audience nervous— "...a rule NBC still uses today!"
Blackface / int_89bf8ce	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_89bf8ce	featureConfidence	1.0
30 Rock	hasFeature	Blackface / int_89bf8ce
Blackface / int_90032631	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_90032631	comment	When Julianne Hough and friends went as characters from Orange Is the New Black in 2013, Hough dressed as "Crazy Eyes," a black inmate. Her costume included face make-up to darken her skin, which caused a controversy. She later apologized.
Blackface / int_90032631	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_90032631	featureConfidence	1.0
Orange Is the New Black	hasFeature	Blackface / int_90032631
Blackface / int_91022d91	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_91022d91	comment	In Nellie Bly's travel memoir Around the World in Seventy-Two Days she describes some of the male passengers aboard ship putting on a minstrel show, complete with blackface, as their boat sailed down the Red Sea.
Blackface / int_91022d91	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_91022d91	featureConfidence	1.0
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days	hasFeature	Blackface / int_91022d91
Blackface / int_925f766f	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_925f766f	comment	Episode 8 of Love Lab features a scene where the main characters pay tribute to American black celebrities by wearing brown makeup and imitating black culture. While intended as an Affectionate Parody, with the girls complimenting black women as strong and beautiful, the scene drew backlash from Western audiences due to its resemblance to a Minstrel Show.
Blackface / int_925f766f	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_925f766f	featureConfidence	1.0
Love Lab (Manga)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_925f766f
Blackface / int_99beaff4	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_99beaff4	comment	The pilot of the original Demo Reel had a bit where Tacoma, playing the Joker, wasn't sure if a black man wearing whiteface makeup was offensive or not. Rebecca points out that he's essentially playing a slave, so even if it is offensive they've got it coming.
Blackface / int_99beaff4	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_99beaff4	featureConfidence	1.0
Demo Reel (Web Video)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_99beaff4
Blackface / int_9d3237c8	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_9d3237c8	comment	The Christmas episode of Adam Ruins Everything averts this when Adam talks about the different incarnations of Santa Claus. He mentions the Dutch Sinterklass' slave, Black Peter (who is usually depicted by a man in blackface), but his sister, Reah, prevents the camera from showing Peter.
Blackface / int_9d3237c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_9d3237c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Adam Ruins Everything	hasFeature	Blackface / int_9d3237c8
Blackface / int_a04b0ca3	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin disguises himself as a black cabin boy in the album The Broken Ear. The animated series turned his disguise into Wig, Dress, Accent. It became something of an Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole because both the comic and the episode had the antagonists being Properly Paranoid about Tintin following them and so they target two people who look like Tintin in disguise (an old, short man and a short fat man wearing a wig) but due to his very obvious disguise in the episode (similar facial features, voice and height with just a wig and a goatee), it becomes baffling that Alonso and RamÃ³n didn't think of this guy as Tintin in disguise.
Blackface / int_a04b0ca3	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_a04b0ca3	featureConfidence	1.0
Tintin (Franchise)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_a04b0ca3
Blackface / int_a2c9fa2d	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_a2c9fa2d	comment	The Man Show had two recurring skits where Jimmy Kimmel browned his skin. One skit had Jimmy dressing up like Utah Jazz forward Karl Malone and dispensing Cloudcuckoolander ramblings about nothing. Kimmel had previously developed his Malone impression for the radio, where costuming was not an issue. The other skit had him dressed up like Oprah Winfrey as a parody of Oprah's feminine lifestyle segments on her own show. It's worth noting that Kimmel deeply regrets these moments.
Blackface / int_a2c9fa2d	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_a2c9fa2d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Man Show	hasFeature	Blackface / int_a2c9fa2d
Blackface / int_a356f4da	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_a356f4da	comment	British comedians and social commentators David Baddiel and Frank Skinner of Baddiel And Skinner Unplanned attracted controversy after footage was unearthed of a long-ago TV show where they regularly blacked up to parody black footballers while providing commentary.
Blackface / int_a356f4da	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_a356f4da	featureConfidence	1.0
Baddiel And Skinner Unplanned	hasFeature	Blackface / int_a356f4da
Blackface / int_a578ebb5	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_a578ebb5	comment	A very rare inversion in the 1932 film adaptation of The Most Dangerous Game. Black actor Noble Johnson wore makeup to play the White Russian Cossack Ivan. The black-and-white cinematography made this easier.
Blackface / int_a578ebb5	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_a578ebb5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Most Dangerous Game	hasFeature	Blackface / int_a578ebb5
Blackface / int_a71ca7e6	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_a71ca7e6	comment	In the 1936 film version of Jerome Kern's Show Boat, Magnolia and the show boat troupe don blackface for the "Gallivantin' Around" number. Since one of the themes of this musical is the destructive nature of race prejudice, this may be deliberate irony — or it may just be a lamentable lapse of taste.
Blackface / int_a71ca7e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_a71ca7e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Show Boat (Theatre)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_a71ca7e6
Blackface / int_a720bcca	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_a720bcca	comment	In Brad Jones' Demo Reel, Gretchen said she played the title role in Othello while wearing blackface, and then whiteface over that.
Blackface / int_a720bcca	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_a720bcca	featureConfidence	1.0
Brad Jones Demo Reel (Web Video)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_a720bcca
Blackface / int_a796bde8	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_a796bde8	comment	Metal Gear Solid: While normally fair-skinned, the only time Decoy Octopus is seen in-game is when he disguises himself as Donald Anderson, a Black man.
Blackface / int_a796bde8	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_a796bde8	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid (Video Game)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_a796bde8
Blackface / int_a79abf11	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_a79abf11	comment	"Real Housewife" socialite Luann de Lesseps caused controversy in 2018 by dressing as Diana Ross using blackface.
Blackface / int_a79abf11	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_a79abf11	featureConfidence	1.0
Diana Ross (Music)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_a79abf11
Blackface / int_a94fc74e	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_a94fc74e	comment	Discussed and Lampshaded in "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth", where the gang decides to do a sequel to Lethal Weapon with both Mac and Dennis alternate playing Murtaugh. Dennis refuses to be in blackface, but has no problem doing a "black voice." Mac dons full shoe polish and tries to retroactively use Laurence Olivier as justification. Nobody remarks on the fact that Frank spends the entire movie playing a villainous Native American stereotype.
Blackface / int_a94fc74e	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_a94fc74e	featureConfidence	1.0
Lethal Weapon	hasFeature	Blackface / int_a94fc74e
Blackface / int_ad29dc16	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_ad29dc16	comment	In the All in the Family episode "Birth of the Baby", Archie is forced by his lodge to appear in blackface in a minstrel show. Right before he's supposed to go onstage, he's informed that his daughter has gone into labor, so he ends up in the hospital in blackface.
Blackface / int_ad29dc16	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_ad29dc16	featureConfidence	1.0
All in the Family	hasFeature	Blackface / int_ad29dc16
Blackface / int_b0fc9724	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: When Fred Armisen started playing Barack Obama, a minor stink was raised about whether it constituted blackface. The issue died out after it was argued that Fred Armisen and Barack Obama are both mixed race and the fact that they're not the same mix just makes it a standard case of Fake Nationality. Plus the darkening of Armisen's skin looks like the spray tan it probably is, and most people aren't offended by spray tans. In some older episodes, Billy Crystal portrayed Sammy Davis Jr., using extensive makeup and darkened skin. Unlike some other examples, this was done very convincingly. Crystal even performed that character with Jesse Jackson when he hosted the show, without complaint from Jackson. Jimmy Fallon infamously impersonated Chris Rock in a sketch. Darrell Hammond played Jesse Jackson with fewer complaints.
Blackface / int_b0fc9724	featureApplicability	1.0
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Saturday Night Live	hasFeature	Blackface / int_b0fc9724
Blackface / int_b132ebd8	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_b132ebd8	comment	In the pilot episode of Life's Too Short, Warwick Davis watches a performance of "Ebony and Ivory" performed by two dwarfs, one of whom is a woman in blackface. Warwick says that he's pretty sure you can't "black up" these days, but "maybe in the North."
Blackface / int_b132ebd8	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_b132ebd8	featureConfidence	1.0
Life's Too Short	hasFeature	Blackface / int_b132ebd8
Blackface / int_b2784fb4	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_b2784fb4	comment	Rather shockingly, the only black nurse in Doctor in the House (1954) is played by a white actress.
Blackface / int_b2784fb4	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_b2784fb4	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor in the House (1954)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_b2784fb4
Blackface / int_b5cd3b89	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_b5cd3b89	comment	In The Book Thief which takes place in Nazi Germany, Rudy pretends to be the black Olympic runner Jesse Owens by painting himself black with a mixture of water and charcoal then runs an imaginary race. He doesn't realize that trying to emulate a black man could land him in serious trouble with the Nazis, something that his father quickly sets him straight on.
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Blackface / int_b5cd3b89	featureConfidence	1.0
The Book Thief	hasFeature	Blackface / int_b5cd3b89
Blackface / int_b5e05a50	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_b5e05a50	comment	Cloud Atlas: Inverted. Halle Berry plays a Jewish woman, Jocasta Ayrs, in Frobisher's story.
Blackface / int_b5e05a50	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_b5e05a50	featureConfidence	1.0
Cloud Atlas	hasFeature	Blackface / int_b5e05a50
Blackface / int_b7f8a84e	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_b7f8a84e	comment	Parodied in the first series of Little Britain in a recurring sketch featuring minstrels facing discrimination in a similar manner to minorities, with the joke being that they'd be accepted if they just stopped wearing blackface. It's also played straight as there are a number of black, Asian and Arabic characters played by the white leads. The copious use of blackface in the show would eventually get it pulled, then reedited by the BBC following the worldwide George Floyd protests in 2020.
Blackface / int_b7f8a84e	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_b7f8a84e	featureConfidence	1.0
Little Britain	hasFeature	Blackface / int_b7f8a84e
Blackface / int_bb485066	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_bb485066	comment	During a feud with Team 3D, the James Gang mocked them by cosplaying as them, complete with Kip James in blackface to imitate Brother Devon.
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Blackface / int_bb485066	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dudley Boys (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_bb485066
Blackface / int_bcd5e92c	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_bcd5e92c	comment	Get Shorty: Miles blackmails April with an old photograph of her in blackface, which will destroy her career in Hollywood if it ever goes public. The photo is never shown, but it's implied to be a Halloween costume of Oprah Winfrey. April defends herself by saying that it was a long time ago and meant as a tribute, but caves to his demands all the same.
Blackface / int_bcd5e92c	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_bcd5e92c	featureConfidence	1.0
Get Shorty	hasFeature	Blackface / int_bcd5e92c
Blackface / int_be03a5ee	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_be03a5ee	comment	In the Left Behind book Glorious Appearing, Mac McCullum had his face tinted dark to disguise himself as a Global Community officer of a different race so that he could go into Jerusalem to find Buck Williams. At that point, with the Global Community being more concerned about uniting together to destroy the Jews, the Christians, and the God they believe in, nobody on either side of the conflict either notices this or even cares to be offended by it. It also helps that Zeke Jr. is just that good of a makeup artist.
Blackface / int_be03a5ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_be03a5ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Left Behind	hasFeature	Blackface / int_be03a5ee
Blackface / int_bee23918	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_bee23918	comment	Monica Vitti in L'eclisse made in 1962 dances wearing blackface with a spear imitating an African warrior.
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Blackface / int_bee23918	featureConfidence	1.0
L'eclisse	hasFeature	Blackface / int_bee23918
Blackface / int_bee47cbe	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_bee47cbe	comment	An inversion is mentioned in Unsounded: the people of Cresce are black, so actors in a Crescian play with fair-skinned roles wear paleface.
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Blackface / int_bee47cbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Unsounded (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_bee47cbe
Blackface / int_c19fab95	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_c19fab95	comment	The Birth of a Nation used blackface not as a comedic device, but as a means to allow white actors to portray black and "mulatto" characters in an overtly racist film.
Blackface / int_c19fab95	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_c19fab95	featureConfidence	1.0
The Birth of a Nation (1915)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_c19fab95
Blackface / int_c223e919	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_c223e919	comment	The Black Looks, an anti-robot hate group, hide their identities by wearing blackface in the classic Astro Boy story Capetown Lullaby (aside from their leader who wears a weird mask that looks like a black Gonzo the Muppet).
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Blackface / int_c223e919	featureConfidence	1.0
Astro Boy	hasFeature	Blackface / int_c223e919
Blackface / int_c24649f8	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_c24649f8	comment	Played with in Zoolander. At one point, Derek Zoolander uses a makeup kit to disguise himself as a black person, but blackface-Zoolander is played by an actual black person rather than Ben Stiller with his face painted. Not only did this help the film avoid negative publicity, but it creates a joke that the normally dim-witted Zoolander is unnaturally talented when it comes to cosmetics.
Blackface / int_c24649f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_c24649f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Zoolander	hasFeature	Blackface / int_c24649f8
Blackface / int_c324e922	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_c324e922	comment	After a rather infamous bootleg production of the show in Italy which utilized this trope, Marc Shaiman banned the usage of blackface in all productions of Hairspray. As a a result, if a production of the show has actors of a different race in the roles of the African Americans, the following message was put into the program of each show:
Blackface / int_c324e922	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_c324e922	featureConfidence	1.0
Hairspray (Theatre)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_c324e922
Blackface / int_c43df4d8	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_c43df4d8	comment	A rare example of whiteface that was not intended to make a satirical point took place in the Doctor Who story "The Curse of Fenric". For a shot of a dead Soviet soldier under the sea, the only stunt artist available was black, which was considered unlikely for a WWII-era Soviet soldier. As a result, he was "whited up" for the shot. His facial features are still obviously Black British.
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Doctor Who	hasFeature	Blackface / int_c43df4d8
Blackface / int_c46bc237	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_c46bc237	comment	In Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl there's a high school club that dresses up in blackface and revere what they think is black culture, but is really just a mishmash of African and African-American stereotypes.
Blackface / int_c46bc237	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_c46bc237	featureConfidence	1.0
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl	hasFeature	Blackface / int_c46bc237
Blackface / int_c73f511c	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_c73f511c	comment	Seen in the pilot episode of Boardwalk Empire (which takes place in the 1920s) during the New Year's celebration.
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Blackface / int_c73f511c	featureConfidence	1.0
Boardwalk Empire	hasFeature	Blackface / int_c73f511c
Blackface / int_ca5d97f1	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_ca5d97f1	comment	The Python crew occasionally donned blackface to play Indian or black roles for Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches. For instance, on "The Atilla the Hun Show" (reimagining Atilla in a bland domestic sitcom) includes Eric Idle in an exaggerated blackface character named Uncle Tom.
Blackface / int_ca5d97f1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Monty Python's Flying Circus	hasFeature	Blackface / int_ca5d97f1
Blackface / int_cc2a7289	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_cc2a7289	comment	The very creepy Papa Lazarou from The League of Gentlemen is a subversion. That's what he really looks like.
Blackface / int_cc2a7289	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_cc2a7289	featureConfidence	1.0
The League of Gentlemen	hasFeature	Blackface / int_cc2a7289
Blackface / int_cd866b61	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_cd866b61	comment	Unintentionally occurs with Passionate Patti in Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work due to a malfunctioning copy machine.
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Blackface / int_cd866b61	featureConfidence	1.0
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work (Video Game)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_cd866b61
Blackface / int_cec1c78d	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_cec1c78d	comment	In "Betsy~Tacy Go Downtown" of the Betsy-Tacy series, a major point in the beginning of the book is a girl having passes to see "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on stage. Betsy, Tacy, and Tib try to get up their own play, where Tacy is to wear blackface. They end up attending "Uncle Tom's Cabin", where there are many performers in blackface. Which isn't too surprising, as the book takes place sometime around 1904 in Minnesota.
Blackface / int_cec1c78d	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_cec1c78d	featureConfidence	1.0
Betsy-Tacy	hasFeature	Blackface / int_cec1c78d
Blackface / int_d1710616	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_d1710616	comment	There's an unusual version in Sharps which inverts the connotations of blackface. Nobility and elite soldiers from The Empire are darker skinned than people in the city states that have broken off, and so in the provinces, when actors portray aristocratic characters in plays, they darken their skin and put on plummy accents that are pale imitation of how Imperials actually talk.
Blackface / int_d1710616	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_d1710616	featureConfidence	1.0
Sharps	hasFeature	Blackface / int_d1710616
Blackface / int_d4efb984	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_d4efb984	comment	The Golden Girls: The episode "Mixed Blessings" has Rose and Blanche wearing mud face treatments, which makes it look like they're in blackface as they watch Dorothy and the mother of her son's black girlfriend argue about their children's mixed relationship. Rose explains, "This is mud on our face. We're not really black." The episode was removed from Netflix in 2020 for its depiction of "blackface."
Blackface / int_d4efb984	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_d4efb984	featureConfidence	1.0
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Blackface / int_d4efb984
Blackface / int_d5ddd6c1	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	A number of PokÃ©mon: The Series episodes were altered or pulled from rotation as a result of the controversy surrounding this trope: An episode where Ash disguises as a Passimian was skipped over in international releases of the Sun and Moon arc, as the makeup Lillie puts on him could be mistaken for this trope.
Blackface / int_d5ddd6c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_d5ddd6c1	featureConfidence	1.0
PokÃ©mon: The Series	hasFeature	Blackface / int_d5ddd6c1
Blackface / int_d968facb	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_d968facb	comment	Face/Off: In this promo, Greg Cannom transformed young model Malia Bautista into an 60-year-old African-American.
Blackface / int_d968facb	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_d968facb	featureConfidence	1.0
Face/Off	hasFeature	Blackface / int_d968facb
Blackface / int_d9c602eb	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park riffs on this trope in "Summer Sucks". The town gets covered in ashes, causing all the ash-covered residents to look like they're in blackface. Needless to say, Chef, the resident black man who'd just returned from his vacation, isn't pleased.
Blackface / int_d9c602eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_d9c602eb	featureConfidence	1.0
South Park	hasFeature	Blackface / int_d9c602eb
Blackface / int_db83635	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_db83635	comment	Comes up during an episode of OneyPlays, in which Jeff Bandelin relates an unfortunate story (with included photo) from his childhood where his parents dressed him as a Smurf. Unfortunately, due to the high contrast of the old photo and the dark blue face paint used on the costume, the photo instead looks like poor, young Jeff is actually wearing blackface. In fact, it's this story which is implied to have inspired the similar events which occured in Smiling Friends, as detailed below.
Blackface / int_db83635	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_db83635	featureConfidence	1.0
OneyPlays (Web Video)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_db83635
Blackface / int_dbaabb61	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_dbaabb61	comment	The book Kaboom! Explosive Animation from America and Japan mentions that "Even today, the question can be legitimately asked: How much of Mickey Mouse is mouse, and how much is blackface clown?"
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Blackface / int_dbaabb61	featureConfidence	1.0
Mickey Mouse	hasFeature	Blackface / int_dbaabb61
Blackface / int_dbb31d3c	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_dbb31d3c	comment	Tex Avery MGM Cartoons has used this in the same vein as Looney Tunes.
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Blackface / int_dbb31d3c	featureConfidence	1.0
Tex Avery MGM Cartoons	hasFeature	Blackface / int_dbb31d3c
Blackface / int_df2122ef	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_df2122ef	comment	In one of the Little House on the Prairie books, the town has a contest where different townsfolk each put on a little show. Laura's father and a few of his friends win it with a Blackface routine. Don't bother looking for this scene on the television series, obviously.
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Little House on the Prairie	hasFeature	Blackface / int_df2122ef
Blackface / int_e2b8afce	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_e2b8afce	comment	In Up Pompeii, Lurcio covers his body in black makeup to disguise himself as a Nubian eunuch.
Blackface / int_e2b8afce	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_e2b8afce	featureConfidence	1.0
Up Pompeii	hasFeature	Blackface / int_e2b8afce
Blackface / int_e5c6748d	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_e5c6748d	comment	The Three Stooges disguised themselves as slaves using blackface in the Civil War-themed short "Uncivil Warbirds".
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Blackface / int_e5c6748d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Three Stooges	hasFeature	Blackface / int_e5c6748d
Blackface / int_e62ded01	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_e62ded01	comment	Bart Baker had a few parodies with himself in blackface. An elderly Chris Brown in "Senior Citizen Love" (International Love) Rihanna in the "Pour It Up" parody Kanye West in the "Bound 2" parody.
Blackface / int_e62ded01	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_e62ded01	featureConfidence	1.0
Bart Baker (Web Video)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_e62ded01
Blackface / int_e7327ca8	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_e7327ca8	comment	In 1941 (1979), when Sgt. Tree's tank heads to the Pacific to face against the Japanese sub, Private Jones, played by Frank McRae gets flour on his face, and Pvt Foley, played by John Candy, laughs at him. Until Jones points out that he has soot on his face, and guffaws while telling Foley to "go the back of the tank."
Blackface / int_e7327ca8	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_e7327ca8	featureConfidence	1.0
1941 (1979)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_e7327ca8
Blackface / int_e752668	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_e752668	comment	In The Littlest Rebel, Shirley Temple plays the daughter of a Confederate family during The American Civil War. When Yankee troops invade her home, she dons blackface to disguise herself as a slave. Blackface is also featured in another Temple film, Dimples, although there it's not worn by Shirley herself.
Blackface / int_e752668	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_e752668	featureConfidence	1.0
The Littlest Rebel	hasFeature	Blackface / int_e752668
Blackface / int_ea4f62db	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy Parodied in season 9, when Chris wanted to dress up as Bill Cosby for Halloween, using blackface as well as his trademark sweater. Lois tried telling him itâ€™s wrong, but Chris just said, â€˜Why, donâ€™t I look like him?â€™ Lois agreed that he did, but then said, â€˜You canâ€™t just go out on the street in blackface, itâ€™s racist! Now go put on that Indian head gear I bought you!â€™ Defied in another episode, where Peter gets in trouble for accidentally shooting Cleveland Brown Jr. and tries to prove he's not racist by wearing a fake afro and painting himself brown. He doesn't even get to do it because the moment Lois hears this plan, she completely snaps and starts beating the living shit out of Peter with a rolled-up magazine while screaming how sick she is of his horrible ideas.
Blackface / int_ea4f62db	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_ea4f62db	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Guy	hasFeature	Blackface / int_ea4f62db
Blackface / int_ec6862b4	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_ec6862b4	comment	Watchmen (2019): Inverted for the reinvented backstory for Hooded Justice, as the show's version is a black man named Will Reeves who applied makeup around his eyes to make himself seem white. When Ozymandias meets with Dr. Manhattan after the latter's return to Earth, Veidt chastises Osterman, who was born white, for taking the appearance of a black man.
Blackface / int_ec6862b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_ec6862b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Watchmen (2019)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_ec6862b4
Blackface / int_ed32a52a	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_ed32a52a	comment	The Black and White Minstrel Show performed musical numbers in blackface on a primetime BBC slot from 1958 to 1978. The show scaled back the blackface numbers toward the end of its run. Its cancellation was not due to the blackface, however, but due to cutbacks on variety shows. The stage show version continued until 1987!
Blackface / int_ed32a52a	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Black and White Minstrel Show	hasFeature	Blackface / int_ed32a52a
Blackface / int_f0a86c12	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_f0a86c12	comment	It's implied Barney once used this on How I Met Your Mother. He mentions that the worst lie he ever told to get a woman into bed (and that is a very competitive category) was when he used a seduction technique called "The Soul Man". We're not told the details of what it involved, but aside from namedropping the film of the same name, he explains that he used it to hook up with a woman who would only date black guys, and that he did it while going by the alias "Barnell".
Blackface / int_f0a86c12	featureApplicability	1.0
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How I Met Your Mother	hasFeature	Blackface / int_f0a86c12
Blackface / int_f120845f	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_f120845f	comment	Kingdom of Loathing features a status effect called Black Face, which raises your Muscle stat and damage, but lowers your combat initiative. The effect description simply reads: "Yeah, we went there."
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Blackface / int_f120845f	featureConfidence	1.0
Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_f120845f
Blackface / int_f361b493	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_f361b493	comment	I Love Lucy: When Lucy goes into labor, Ricky had been performing — and he shows up at the hospital in a faux-African tribal getup and blackface.
Blackface / int_f361b493	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_f361b493	featureConfidence	1.0
I Love Lucy	hasFeature	Blackface / int_f361b493
Blackface / int_f550676c	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_f550676c	comment	A white actor with dark make-up plays a black farm hand in Seven Chances.
Blackface / int_f550676c	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_f550676c	featureConfidence	1.0
Seven Chances	hasFeature	Blackface / int_f550676c
Blackface / int_f6611684	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_f6611684	comment	Averted and Inverted in Watermelon Man. Originally, the film producers wanted a white man who'd be made up as a black man for the rest of the film. Instead director Melvin Van Peebles managed to convince them to cast Godfrey Cambridge, who was made up as a white man for the first section of the film before his transformation.
Blackface / int_f6611684	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Watermelon Man	hasFeature	Blackface / int_f6611684
Blackface / int_fb8ab875	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_fb8ab875	comment	The cover of Joe's Garage features Zappa posing comically with dark makeup on his face, with the cover of Acts II & III depicting a woman applying the makeup onto him.
Blackface / int_fb8ab875	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_fb8ab875	featureConfidence	1.0
Joe's Garage (Music)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_fb8ab875
Blackface / int_fc95bd6b	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_fc95bd6b	comment	In The Last Emperor, the deposed Emperor Pu-yi performs a concert backed up by Chinese musicians in blackface.
Blackface / int_fc95bd6b	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_fc95bd6b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Last Emperor	hasFeature	Blackface / int_fc95bd6b
Blackface / int_ff6a8d79	type	Blackface
Blackface / int_ff6a8d79	comment	Babylon: Sidney, a black jazz trumpetist in the 1930s, is made to wear blackface so that his appearance will match the white musicians who are also in blackface. He goes through with it under great pressure but quits his position immediately afterward.
Blackface / int_ff6a8d79	featureApplicability	1.0
Blackface / int_ff6a8d79	featureConfidence	1.0
Babylon (2022)	hasFeature	Blackface / int_ff6a8d79

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Le Boulet / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
L'eclisse / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Miss Mend / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Monty Python's Life of Brian / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Morocco / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Münchhausen / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Neighbors (1920) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Night Witches Of The Sky / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
O Lucky Man! / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Othello (1951) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Pardon Us / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Pootie Tang / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Seven Chances / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Silver Streak / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Soul Man / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Spite Marriage / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
St. Trinian's / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Stormy Weather / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Swing Time / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Tarzan the Ape Man / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Birth of a Nation (1915) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Cinema Snob Movie / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Defiant Ones / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Dresser / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Exorcist III / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Great Ziegfeld / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Jazz Singer / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Johnstown Flood / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Little Rascals / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
The Littlest Rebel / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Lost World / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Lovely Bones / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Ninth Configuration / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
The Umbrella Coup / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Torch Song (1953) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Trading Places / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Up Pompeii / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Utu / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Watermelon Man / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Wilson / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Yankee Doodle Dandy / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Yankee Zulu / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Cloud Atlas / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Duma Key / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
I Am Ozzy / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Insubmissas Lágrimas de Mulheres / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Koziołek Matołek / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Left Behind / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Save the Pearls / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Sharps	seeAlso	Blackface
Special Assignments / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Thank You, Jeeves / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Most Dangerous Game / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Weight Of Blood / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Uncle Tom's Cabin / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Yps (Magazine) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Australian Television Shows	seeAlso	Blackface
BlackFace	sameAs	Blackface
RobertCrumb	seeAlso	Blackface
RussiaIranDiscoSuck	seeAlso	Blackface
TheWildParty	seeAlso	Blackface
Love Lab (Manga) / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
The World God Only Knows (Manga) / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Kissing to Be Clever (Music) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Moymoy Palaboy (Music) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Pipes of Peace (Music) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Rough and Rowdy Ways (Music) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
AKBingo! / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Adam Ruins Everything / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
All in the Family / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Any Day Now / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Atlanta / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Bewitched / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Call the Midwife / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Dear White People / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Defiance / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Diff'rent Strokes / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Do Not Adjust Your Set / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Fantasy Football League / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Fast Forward / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Father Ted / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Girls on Top / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Grotesco / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Harry and Paul / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
History Bites / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Kabouter Plop / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Kenny vs. Spenny / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Law & Order: Criminal Intent / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Little Britain / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Mad Men / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
MADtv (1995) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Murdoch Mysteries / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Open All Hours / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Outland (2012) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Porridge / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Recht Op Recht / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Space Force (2020) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Spitting Image / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
That Was the Week That Was / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Benny Hill Show / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Black and White Minstrel Show / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
The Comic Strip Presents / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Deuce / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Goodies / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Knick / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The League of Gentlemen / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Man Show / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
THEM (2021) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Time Trumpet / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Watchmen (2019) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Avenue Q (Theatre) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Lend Me a Tenor (Theatre) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Othello (Theatre)	seeAlso	Blackface
Porgy and Bess (Theatre) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Emperor Jones (Theatre) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Topdog/Underdog (Theatre) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Kirby Super Star (Video Game) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work (Video Game) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
MadWorld (Video Game) / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Touhou Kenbun Roku (Video Game) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Xenoblade Chronicles 1 (Video Game) / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Hard Drinkin' Lincoln (Web Animation) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Walrusguy (Web Animation) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Bart Baker (Web Video) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Con Man (Web Video) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Shane Dawson (Web Video) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Sidemen (Web Video) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Take (Web Video) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Unsounded (Webcomic) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Any Bonds Today? / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Asterix and Cleopatra / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Bacall to Arms / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Balloon Land / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Betty Boop's Penthouse / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Color Classics / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Coonskin / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Gold Diggers Of '49 / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Magical Maestro / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Mickey's Mellerdrammer / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Paradise PD / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Adventures of Tintin (1991) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Little Mermaid / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Little Orphan / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Milky Waif / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Yankee Doodle Mouse / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Goldust (Wrestling) / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Holiday Inn / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Kids in the Hall / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Show Boat (Theatre) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Brad Jones' Demo Reel (Web Video) / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface

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