Jon Stewart & Co. have some fun with Dov Hikind’s decision to go black face on Purim.
In the spirit of our "How to tell a kosher Jewish Oscars joke" video, check out Billy Crystal at the 2012 Oscars (jump to 2:02 of the video below). Two lessons for future Hikinds:
- There’s a difference between a comic impersonating an actual celebrity and a politician deciding it would be holiday fun to be some random, generic black dude.
- Keep it in the mishpocha — just one Jew impersonating another.
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