Jimmy Kimmel has apologized after receiving backlash for using the N-word while impersonating Snoop Dogg.

In a January 2013 podcast, Kimmel recalled recording the song, saying “This is when Snoop Dogg first came out, hit the scene, and I used to imitate him by only saying, ‘You know what I’m saying?'”

Just when you thought he knew better, the previous co-host of Comedy Central’s The Man Show, which ran for six seasons ending in 2004, performed a recurring skit that included Kimmel dressed in blackface as then-NBA star Karl Malone.

I never considered that this might be seen as anything other than an imitation of a fellow human being, one that had no more to do with Karl’s skin color than it did his bulging muscles and bald head,” Kimmel explained in his statement.

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