During Whoopie Goldberg's roast, her then-boyfriend Ted Danson appeared in black-face—at her request!
A roast of Whoopi Goldberg at the New York Hilton Hotel in 1993 went badly wrong. What was meant to be a light and funny night turned into an offensive and angry event.
Ted Danson, Whoopi's lover and a white actor, showed up in blackface. This in itself would have been bad enough, but then he started spouting off racist jokes and talking about his and Whoopi's sex life.
Montel Williams, the television host, was so offended that he left the event. And many attendees afterward said the jokes were way over the line. Whoopi said that she resented how upset everyone got and that they should have known she had never been about political correctness. She also claimed she had written some of Danson's jokes.
