Howard Stern responds to backlash over resurfaced blackface sketch, use of N-word

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Howard Stern is under fire after a video resurfaced in which he appeared in blackface and liberally used the N-word during a 1993 sketch.

The video resurfaced online Thursday where a user cut together his segment on a past episode of “The View” in which co-host Sunny Hostin asked him about his past use of the N-word on-air.

In the clip, Stern vehemently denies ever using the word and receives applause from the audience. The video, posted by filmmaker Tariq Nasheed, then cuts to the radio shock jock using the racial slur in comedy sketches where he also appeared in blackface.

A sketch from 1993 that appeared on Stern’s pay-per-view “New Year’s Rotten Eve Pageant” shows him parodying Ted Danson’s infamous blackface performance that he did that year alongside Whoopi Goldberg. In the sketch, Stern plays Danson in blackface as his longtime sidekick Robin Quivers asks him questions in which the answers are punchlines that involve the use of the N-word. When the audience seems shocked at the language, Stern as Danson defends himself by saying, “Whoopi wrote that.”

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