Twenty years after he sported blackface for a Saturday Night Live episode, Jimmy Fallon, the host of NBC's The Tonight Show, has apologised.
The SNL episode in 2000 featured a sketch in which Fallon darkened his face with makeup to impersonate black comedian Chris Rock.
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