Jason Lee condemns David Baddiel’s blackface impersonation
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Jason Lee has said that he was “violated on so many levels” by David Baddiel doing Blackface. open image in gallery Lee in 1995, when ‘Fantasy Football League’ was airing “To be a parent and witness your son go through that, to go to a stadium and listen to people abuse your child must be difficult,” he said. It’s now happening to him, the realisation: this is how I feel, that’s how Jason feels.” Appearing on Good Morning Britain last week, Baddiel discussed the moment he met Lee. “I shamefully impersonated Jason Lee in Blackface 25 years ago on Fantasy Football, and I felt that it was important, if I’m going to do a documentary about Jewish representation and minorities, that I should go and meet Jason and apologise and talk to him,” he said.
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David Baddiel apologises to Jason Lee for blackface mockery in his new documentary Jews Don’t Count
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