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June 20, 2006

III supreme moment in whiteness award: james lipton with dave chapelle

supreme.pngWatching "Actor's Studio" host James Lipton try to casually slip dated black vernacular ("I'm a honky") into a conversation with Dave Chapelle is cringe-inducing, in that familiar oh-please-Dad-just-please-shut-up way. And the honky moment might have won the award, were it not for a moment 30 minutes later. Commenting on Chapelle's dead-on impression of a stuffy white anchorman, a genuinely perplexed Lipton asks the following: since Chapelle's so good at speaking white, why doesn't he "just speak that way all the time?"

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