Red Faces
Twenty years ago myself and five friends painted our faces black and performed the Jackson Jive skit on Hey Hey It’s Saturday to great acclaim.
Two nights ago we did exactly the same skit and we’ve been pilloried for it.
It’s no defence to say that we didn’t think it wouldn’t have caused offence, because we’re all grown men now, not uni students, and we should have known better.
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Have we grown up as a nation at all in the past 20 years? There’s never been an event more perfectly designed to answer that question than last night’s Hey Hey it’s Saturday reunion special.
The Jackson Jive skit that sent Australian conversations into melt-down from about 10.30 last night is like a smelly time capsule that’s been opened up, in front of 2.6 million of us, and a guest no less.
And in case there was any doubt about it, the guest’s face immediately give away what a stinker it was. The Hey Hey reunion specials should now be put reburied for good.
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james says:
I have never watched HeY Hey but I have some photos of Americans performing in Abu Ghraib Prison and one of the Hey Hey Skit . I would like to ask Harry Connick Jun which of these acts are the most degrading to humanity? Read more »
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Brian Johnson says:
Couldn’t agree more P Groessler and B Higgins. Well said. Read more »
Update 11.30am: Click here for the latest reaction on this story from Australia and around the world.
Update 10.50pm: Daryl Somers just apologised to Harry Connick for the skit. Connick said if he’d known it was going to be on he would never have agreed to be a part of the show.
Harry Connick looked like he wanted the ground to open up and swallow him tonight when as a judge on Red Faces on the Hey Hey it’s Saturday reunion he was confronted with a troop of black and white minstrels taking the piss out of the Jackson Five.
The American crooner, possibly sensing a backlash back home, gave the Jackson Jive act a big fat zero, and said if the show was on air in the US it would be off air again immediately, “Hey Hey No Show”.
The Jackson Jive, complete with cheap afro wigs and boot polished faces had been on Red Faces 20 years ago. The joke might have been funny then, but have things changed?
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Peter says:
OK this article is a bit old now. But has anyone out there seen South Park, American Dad or Family Guy recently? They make Hey hey seem really lame with their un-PC satire on anyone and anything held sacrosanct by today’s society, and yet nobody complains about them. If anything,… Read more »
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