{"id":2308833,"date":"2026-03-02T18:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2308833"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:43:34","slug":"saturday-night-live-criticised-by-charity-for-hurtful-tourettes-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/saturday-night-live-criticised-by-charity-for-hurtful-tourettes-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live criticised by charity for &#8216;hurtful&#8217; Tourette&#8217;s sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US comedian and Black-ish actor Deon Cole has also received criticism for a joke he made while hosting the NAACP Image Awards, which honour black stars, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During a mock prayer in his introduction, in which he also took aim at several celebrities, Cole said: &#8220;If there are any white men out here in the audience, Lord, with Tourette&#8217;s, I advise you to tell them they&#8217;d better read the room tonight, Lord.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It might not go the way they thinketh. Whatever medicine they&#8217;re on, they&#8217;d better double up on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Broadcaster Piers Morgan was among those who didn&#8217;t find it amusing. &#8220;Hollywood continuing to mock John Davidson over his Tourette&#8217;s condition is one of the most despicable things I&#8217;ve witnessed in a long time,&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/piersmorgan\/status\/2028423463115870432\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">he wrote<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, external<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Shame on @deoncole and all those in the audience who laughed at his vile &#8216;jokes&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many fans, including fellow actor Jamie Foxx, defended Cole online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Brilliant!! You funny af all the time!!!&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVVkah8jAqd\/?hl=en\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Foxx posted<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, external<\/span><\/a> with a clip of Cole&#8217;s monologue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cole replied: &#8220;Appreciate u king! People got to learn how to take a joke. It&#8217;s all in fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC News has asked Cole for a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lindo acknowledged the incident at the event, telling the audience: &#8220;We appreciate the support and love we have been shown in the aftermath of what happened last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a classic case of something that could&#8217;ve been very negative becoming very positive,&#8221; he said from the stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thank you so much for the support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US comedian and Black-ish actor Deon Cole has also received criticism for a joke he made while hosting the NAACP Image Awards, which honour black stars, on Saturday. During a mock prayer in his introduction, in which he also took aim at several celebrities, Cole said: &#8220;If there are any white men out here in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2308834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2308833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Saturday-Night-Live-criticised-by-charity-for-hurtful-Tourettes-sketch.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308835,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308833\/revisions\/2308835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}