• See More Blogs »
    • Film Drunk
    • Warming Glow
    • With Leather
    • Smoking Section
    • Kissing Suzy Kolber
    • RealTalk NY
    • BuzzCuts
    • Gamma Squad

Uproxx

Warming Glow
Warming Glow is a blog dedicated to the best and worst of television programming. Mostly the worst.


08.31.09 ‘MAD MEN’ GOES BLACKFACE

roger-blackface

Yup, that’s Roger Sterling (John Slattery) in blackface on last night’s episode of “Mad Men.”  Why?  Well, a bunch of rich white people went to the Hamptons for a Derby Day party, and when else are you gonna break out the blackface if not at a rich white people party in the Hamptons? (It’s a tradition that continues today, I believe.)  Anyway, inexcusable racial insensitivity aside, Slattery has a lovely baritone.  Suck on that, Al Jolson.

But that wasn’t all for the musical performances last night.  Not only did Paul Kinsey and his drug-dealing friend from Princeton get high and relive their a cappella days, but Joan (Christina Hendricks) and her dickbag fiancé husband hosted a dinner party, and the dickbag pressured Joan into performing.  “Play a little,” he said, and immediately every red-blooded male wanted to know what she played.  The clarinet?  The flute?  Something phallic!  Something she has to blow!  Yeah, high-five!

Nope:

joan-accordion

It may look like an accordion, but it sounds like this.

23 Comments » TAGS: AMC, CHRISTINA HENDICKS, JOHN SLATTERY, MAD MEN
Share
submit to reddit
Stumbleupon

« Previous Post
Next Post »

  • Links
  • Upcoming on Digg
  • Popular on Digg
‘PEDOBEAR’ IS NOT IN THE OLYMPICS (With Leather)
bradley cooper has a secret (WWTDD)
‘MR BELDING’ SIGNED MY SHIRT (With Leather)
Michael Jacksons face was tattooed on (WWTDD)
BEST PHOTO OF SUPER BOWL XLIV (With Leather)
Jennifer Aniston is a racist bitch (WWTDD)
LINDSEY VONN IS AN ATHLETE (With Leather)
site news (WWTDD)

There are 23 comments about:
‘MAD MEN’ GOES BLACKFACE

August 31st, 2009 at 9:33 am
essequemodeia says:

Never go full blackface.

August 31st, 2009 at 9:33 am
essequemodeia says:

Everybody knows that.

August 31st, 2009 at 9:43 am
Vagoo Guru says:

Looks like poo butter.

August 31st, 2009 at 10:02 am
BadKarma says:

Way too much singing in this episode

August 31st, 2009 at 10:19 am
La Schmoove says:

Joan is the only woman that can make an accordion look sexy. Hopefully one day, I can get her to play my bagpipes…….and by bagpipes, I mean my penis and nutsack.

August 31st, 2009 at 10:23 am
Chazz_Goodtimes says:

Nothing like a fine lookin’ broad playing the accordion… seriously though, huge wtf moment, and the singing was so blatantly dubbed the whole scene left me reaching for the fast forward dvr button… only it was live so I had to deal with it.

August 31st, 2009 at 10:28 am
La Schmoove says:

……or maybe she’d like to play with my “organ”.

//holds up hand for high-five

August 31st, 2009 at 10:30 am
jrkumor says:

I am confused, because Joan’s fiance, was wearing a wedding band. Did they get married, and just skip over it, like Joan and Roger? Or did I get a contact high from the weed from my downstairs neighbors and miss something?

August 31st, 2009 at 10:30 am
Oscar says:

Mama’s got a squeezebox.

August 31st, 2009 at 11:01 am
Enrico Pallazzo says:

I found the blackface hilarious but at the same time questioned if it was truly necessary. I mean, does Slattery sing better while being racist?

August 31st, 2009 at 11:12 am
Bobman says:

I am confused, because Joan’s fiance, was wearing a wedding band. Did they get married, and just skip over it, like Joan and Roger?

Yes, they got married.

From Sepinwall’s review of the season premiere :

Since the episode doesn’t entirely spell it out (you could assume Peggy and Joan are discussing her engagement ring), I want to clarify, as Weiner did in the interview, that both Joan (to Greg the rapist) and Roger (to Jane) have gotten married in the ensuing six months.

August 31st, 2009 at 11:17 am
Jamie says:

“Suck on that, Al Jolson.”

You take the piss out of Al Jolson again and I will remove your iPod from its tiny nano-sheath and push it up your cock, Then I’ll put some speakers up your arse and put it on to shuffle with my fucking fist. Then, every time I hear something that I don’t like – which will be every time that something comes on – I will skip to the next track by crushing your balls.

August 31st, 2009 at 11:27 am
jrkumor says:

@Bobman – Thanks

So then it should read “and her dickbag husband”

Why are all the hot guys gay, priests, married or dickbags?

August 31st, 2009 at 11:34 am
Mick says:

Somehow the blackface wasn’t nearly as sad as Campbell’s desperate attempt at social acceptance with the Charleston. Talk about pageant queen in training.

August 31st, 2009 at 1:28 pm
MoneyCashDolla says:

It may not be her blowing a phallus, but she is fingering a red box.

August 31st, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Panty Man says:

Without a doubt, the worst thing the German people have ever done was introduce the accordion to Mexico.

August 31st, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Strange Botwin says:

C’mon Panty Man, what about the holo…no, you’re right.

August 31st, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Strange Botwin says:

^^ And that’s not a knock against Jewish people at all, simply a testament to how bad ranchero music really is.

August 31st, 2009 at 4:54 pm
jackin'4beats says:

That’s it, I’m not watching this show if people are rocking blackface.

September 1st, 2009 at 12:20 am
YetAnotherBaldwin says:

@La Schmoove — you know, a joke’s usually much funnier if you don’t elbow someone in the ribs as you’re telling it.
You really think we had no clue what you really meant by “play my bagpipes”?

September 1st, 2009 at 2:32 am
'Merica says:

at least it isn’t sheep’s blood this time. Wait. Is sheep’s blood better or worse than blackface?

September 1st, 2009 at 3:27 pm
La Schmoove says:

@YAB

I’ll just let this explain itself.

Sarcasm
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sarcasm is a form of humor that uses sharp, cutting remarks or language intended to mock, wound, or subject to contempt or ridicule.

September 15th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
RW says:

@Jamie

Thank you for making me cum.

Comment on this post:

RELATED POSTS

[image]
MAD MEN
INVESTIGATIVE FOLLOW-UP: ALISON BRIE STILL KIND OF ATTRACTIVE
Last week, my productivity churned to a halt when I watched the video of Alison Brie licking stuff for her [...]

[image]
MAD MEN
CHECK OUT THIS UGLY NERD
Christina Hendricks was at the Directors Guild Awards this past weekend, where she presented a special-edition gold coin to the [...]

[image]
MAD MEN
TODAY’S TOP STORY: HALF-NAKED ALISON BRIE LICKING STUFF
Regular readers of this website know that Warming Glow is ground zero on the Internet for lust for Alison Brie, [...]

[image]
MAD MEN
BASTARDS!
Pictured on the right here is “Mad Men’s” Christina Hendricks as she looked in real life at Sunday’s Golden Globe [...]

[image]
AMC
I’D RATHER WATCH PBS
I love AMC’s original programming. “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” are two of the best shows on television, and I’m [...]

TOP POSTS ON WARMING GLOW

1
SNL: WHAT IS 'BURN NOTICE'?
What with yesterday's orgy of Super Bowl news, I never got around...

2
WELL, THIS IS DEPRESSING
Here's video of Mike Tyson's recent appearance on Italy's "Dancin...

3
I GUESS THIS IS NEWS?
Well, this is lame, but people seem to be talking about it: MTV g...

4
LINKS FROM A DOG WITH ARMS
Creepy and yet also funny. I'm not sure what I find most unsettli...

5
AND NOW, GRATUITOUS SHOTGUNS
Okay, okay! I take it back! This chicken is delicious. Below is th...

THIS ROXX ON GAMMA SQUAD

BEER DOES A BODY GOOD
    This guy inspired the Bruce Willis character in Unbreakabl...

GOYER DUMPS FLASHFORWARD FOR DARK KNIGHT FOLLOWUP?
The showrunner of ABC's "FlashForward", David Goyer, has left the...

LINKS AND SWINE FLU AVAILABLE HERE
ABOVE: Walgreens put stickers on products around the store to a...

THIS ROXX ON FILM DRUNK

IT'S OFFICIAL: DAREDEVIL GETS A REBOOT
(Get it?  His hair's messed up because he's blind.  Stupid Hollyw...

COMMENTS OF THE WEEK: BLACK DYNAMITE ON DVD
The Plug: The commenting was fiercely competitive this week, as i...

THE MIRROR SCARE, A COMPILATION
Fourfour recently put together this video compilation which does fo...

SITE NAVIGATION

  • About

EMAIL TIPS

  • warmingglow-tips@uproxx.com

FOLLOW US

  • FAN US ON FACEBOOK
  • @WARMINGGLOW ON TWITTER
  • RSS FEED

Site Archives