A video clip of Jamie Foxx doing “I kill all the white people” joke from “Saturday Night Live” has resurfaced.
The Oscar winner’s movie “Django Unchained” co-starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson received a Golden Globes nomination for best picture.
More than a decade ago, while hosting “Saturday Night Live,” Jamie Foxx used his opening monologue to riff on how “It’s good to be black,” with a refrain of “How black is that?”
He mentioned basketball’s Nets going to Brooklyn, Jay-Z, President Barack Obama and, in the middle of it, his new movie, the Quentin Tarantino-directed “Django Unchained.”
In the movie, set before the Civil War, Foxx said that he plays a slave and “How black is that?” But he went on to reassure the audience that “I save my wife, and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that? And how black is that?”
Clearly, Foxx was trying, however unsuccessfully, to be funny. His character, Django, does not kill all the white characters in the movie and, in fact, becomes close friends with a white character played by Christoph Waltz.
Speaking with “The Today Show‘s” Samantha Guthrie, “Django Unchained” actor Jamie Foxx even defended his Sort of. During the interview, Guthrie asked, “Some people raised some eyebrows at a part of what you said. It was part of your monologue, a joke. You said your character gets to, quote, “kill all the white people,” adding, “how great is that?” I know you know about the criticism, you think it was fair? I mean, how do you look back on it now?”
Foxx responded, saying, “I mean, I — I’m a comedian. So, I mean, I’m not a — I don’t even know what to say.”
Jamie Foxx: "I kill all the white people in the movie, how great is that?"
Audience: Clapping & cheering.
We cannot coexist with people who feel this way about us, it won’t end well.pic.twitter.com/4pVDBkydAG
— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) August 6, 2023
