Adrien Brody

Racism isn’t cool. It never was, and it never will be. Not even when well-respected actors like Adrien Brody did it. That’s right! The Academy Award-winning actor once went on national television and made a very inappropriate racial joke that earned him a ban from SNL.

The moment in question is his 2003 SNL guest-hosting gig where he needed to introduce the Jamaican musician Sean Paul. Let’s just say the joke Brody ad-libbed sounded a bit different in his head. Instead of squeezing some peals of laughter from the audience, he only found himself banned from the show for an indefinite amount of time. How bad was the joke, you ask? Well, the actor stepped out on stage wearing faux dreadlocks and sported a fake Jamaican accent, which clearly rubbed people the wrong way. He was lucky no lawyers were called in for his racially insensitive stunt.