Word: whoopie
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Whoopi Goldberg Comedian and co-host of The View, who is an Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress...
...Whoopi's Whopper...
...Whoopi Goldberg defended Michael Vick's sick sadism as "part of his cultural upbringing" in the South [Sept. 17]? Is she really that stupid, or is she just trying to be controversial? One could offer the same pathetic defense of spousal abuse or even of racists lynching black people, which was definitely a part of many Southern white people's "cultural upbringing." Whether abuse is directed at animals or humans, we should not dignify it with euphemisms...
...gave me some of that monkey love she's so famous for." TED DANSON, in blackface, describing then girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg in a 1993 Friars Club routine laced with racial humor AFTERMATH: Opinion was divided, with some viewing the comment as appropriate for a roast and many more condemning it. Goldberg was said to have co-written the gags. OUTRAGE FACTOR...
...audience. Trouble might come if material meant for that smaller audience went public, as in 1993, when Ted Danson got in trouble after word got out of a Friars Club routine he did in blackface, though his jokes were defended - and reportedly written by - his then girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg...