What Was He Thinking?

With the nation still reeling—and Los Angeles still smoldering—from the 1992 L.A. riots in minority communities, race is a red-hot issue in early 1990s America.

Yet former Cheers jokester Ted Danson decides to fete his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg at a Friars Club Roast with an N-word-laden monologue staged in the decidedly racist greasepaint makeup known as "blackface." The reaction, as you might have guessed, is less than "cheery." Learn all about Ted's monumental misstep in this episode.

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