(People) Jimmy Fallon opened Monday’s at-home edition of The Tonight Show with a somber and self-reflective monologue.
Fallon, 45, addressed the recent controversy surrounding a 2000 Saturday Night Live sketch in which he portrayed Chris Rock in blackface. After a clip of the performance resurfaced online last month, Fallon apologized on Twitter, going against the advice he now says he received.
“Seeing what is going on in our country, I’m not going to have a normal show tonight — I’m going to have a different show,” he began, referring to the ongoing nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism sparked over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed in Minneapolis police custody.