Ted Danson said this week that he wants to "apologize forever" for doing blackface during a roast of former girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg in 1993."I would like to address this and apologize forever," the "Cheers" star told W.Kamau Bell on his "Who’s With Me?" podcast on Wednesday.He reiterated, "I have no problem talking about this, but I need to and want to apologize for the rest of my life because somebody today can go on the internet, you're right, and go, ‘What the f---? Wow, I feel betrayed.
I feel angry’ and whatever.And I did that."Danson said he was intimidated about roasting Goldberg at the Friars Club, whom he called one of the most "outrageous, funny Black women in the world at that point."‘SEINFELD’ STAR MICHAEL RICHARDS MOUNTS WILD COMEBACK AFTER INFAMOUS RANT SPARKED COMEDY EXODUSTed Danson said he will continue to apologize for doing blackface.
(Robin L Marshall/Getty Images; John Nacion/FilmMagic)Knowing that he wasn’t a stand-up comedian, he decided he would go with "performance theater" for her roast.He said during their relationship, the tabloids went after them for their interracial romance, saying, a White man and Black woman couldn’t be dating "because they liked each other or saw something in each other.It had to be sex.
It had to be just pure sex, that's the only reason for a relationship like this."In his mind, as he pondered what he would do for his performance, he thought: "If I were Black, I could say all these outrageous things.I'm not.
Then my mind went, ‘Well, I will do it in blackface.’"TED DANSON SAYS BILL CLINTON GRILLED HIM ABOUT HIS 'INTENTIONS' WITH MARY STEENBURGEN USING SECRET SERVICEHe added that at the time he wanted to address what the tabloids had said about their relationship in his performance, but didn’t realize at the time it was getting "darker" and "angrier" and ended up having an "edge to it."Danson added that he had also "latched onto" a stand-up bit that Goldberg was doing at the time about not...