Pressure is growing on Jimmy Fallon to apologize after footage of the popular TV host in blackface has emerged from a 2000 SNL sketch.
In the clip, which has attracted widespread criticism online, Fallon can be seen wearing blackface to impersonate comedian Chris Rock.
Watch the footage from the controversial sketch below:The 20-year-old clip was reposted by @chefboyohdear, and it was captioned: "NBC fired Megyn Kelly for mentioning blackface. Jimmy Fallon performed on NBC in blackface."
While this is not the first time that the controversial footage has done the rounds on social media, this time the clip was accompanied by the hashtag #jimmyfallonisoverparty.
One Twitter user wrote: "No one is asking ya'll to cancel Jimmy Fallon.
"However, what we are asking from Jimmy is an acknowledgment of his use of blackface, why did he do it and an apology to black people for donning such a racist, oppressive, and downright disgusting overt display of symbolic racism."
Another Twitter user wrote: "He never acknowledged nor apologized for it. [And] PLS he's not even funny."
A third added: "Glad these clowns are being exposed."
However, a fourth Twitter user said the footage resurfacing was proof that no one was safe from questionable past decisions coming back to haunt them.
They wrote: "I know I did not just open Twitter and see that Jimmy Fallon did blackface in 2000. Nobody is safe from Twitter when we got this much time [on] our hands. First Lana, then Doja Cat, and now Jimmy Fallon. Please let me catch my [breath]. #jimmyfallonisoverparty."
The resurfaced clip comes after Doja Cat was forced to issue a statement denying allegations of racism after chatroom conversations leaked.
Representatives for Jimmy Fallon were contacted by the New York Post about the incident, but they did not immediately respond to the news outlet's request for comment.
