"I am very sorry for making this unquestionably offensive decision..."
In the sketch, Jimmy wore blackface to impersonate Chris Rock on Regis Philbin's talk show. The sketch was uncovered and posted to Twitter last night, where it quickly went viral - along with the hashtag #JimmyFallonIsOverParty.
Well, Jimmy just released a statement on Twitter in response to the controversy, and apologized for his "terrible decision" to do blackface.
"In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface," Fallon wrote to his nearly 52 million followers. "There is no excuse for this."
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