Howard Stern has become the latest in a long list of celebrities and power players who are forced to face the use of blackface.
On Thursday, a video appeared online and featured Stern dressed in singer style, freely using the N-word. That was cut along with a recent appearance in “The View” where he claimed he had never used the word.
Sources told Page Six that the clip – a play that seemed to target Blackface’s poor appearance in 1993 Ted Danson famous for his lover Whoopi Goldberg – was part of the Stern New Year’s “Rotten Eve Pageant Contest”, which aired on pay-per-view on December 31 that year.
In the video he plays Danson, and discusses his long-time best friend, Robin Quivers, making cliché and racist jokes, such as, “What do you call black rocket scientists?”, The funny thing is that the word N.
When his listeners seemed surprised by the language, Stern defended himself by saying, “Whoopi wrote it!” Then he called Quivers the word “smell,” and once again forgive himself by saying, “Whoopi wrote that.”
The essence of the play was that Danson used Goldberg’s apparent blessing on his behavior as a license to become a free racist.
Stern’s former employee, Steve Grillo from the Aftershock XL podcast network – who works in a special section – told Page Six that he did not believe Stern was racist and that he never used the language in the air. He said that because the show was based on pay per view and was not regulated by Stern’s old enemy, the FCC, their attitude was, “We have made the whole world watch – let us limit it.” He added, “The rope is loose and they will become mad dogs.”
This clip was first posted by controversial filmmaker Tariq Nasheed and bubbled up among right-wing Twitter users – perhaps because Stern recently came out against President Trump – and was finally retweeted by Donald Trump Jr.
Representatives for Stern did not return to us.
