Ted Danson still sorry for blackface Whoopi roast — 30 years later

Once you go black, you never go back.

But once you go blackface, you have to revisit it endlessly — at least if you’re Ted Danson.

Kimmel’s embrace of the tradition had been especially enthusiastic; the comic donned full-body makeup to play NBA star Karl Malone in a ‘Man Show’ sketch.

More than 30 years after donning minstrel makeup for a Friars Club roast of then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg, the “Cheers” actor’s face is still red.

“I need to and want to apologize for the rest of my life,” Danson said during a recent appearance on comedian W. Kamau Bell’s podcast. He went on to describe his tasteless gag as “so arrogant and stupid.”

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The racially risque routine occurred in 1993 at New York’s Hilton Hotel, where Goldberg served as