Between J. Lo's nipple and Angelina's right leg, there is much to discuss about Sunday night's Oscar Awards that has nothing to do with the awards themselves. Today, we can add the Academy's budding controversy: Billy Crystal's opening monologue, during which the host appeared briefly in blackface.
Some context: back in the 1980s, when Crystal was a cast member on Saturday Night Live, his Sammy Davis Jr. impression was a mainstay. This impression came with a costume, and that costume included blackface. Skip forward to 2012, when Crystal's Sammy Davis impression makes a brief appearance during a Midnight in Paris sketch (which also featured Justin Bieber — watch it here). Cue outcry. (It certainly didn't help that that sketch was immediately followed by one poking fun at The Help.)
Within moments of Crystal's controversial sketch, the Twitter community slammed the host, with comedian Paul Scheer's tongue-in-cheek criticism among the most quoted:
Octavia Spencer's win shows just how far we've come since Billy Crystal performed in Blackface. #TheOscars—
Paul Scheer (@paulscheer) February 27, 2012
But what do you think? Was Crystal's sketch offensive? Let us know in the comments!
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