(CNN) -- Movie star and singer Harry Connick Jr. made waves around the world by condemning, on air, an Australian television skit featuring a group of performers who wore blackface to impersonate the late pop star Michael Jackson and his brothers. The "Jackson Jive" performed the song "Can You Feel It" Wednesday wearing huge black wigs, blackface and one spangled glove each. The Michael Jackson impersonator wore whiteface.Connick was one of the judges on the program, a special edition of the Australian variety show "Hey Hey It's Saturday," which aired Wednesday.
"If they turned up looking like that in the United States," he said, frowning, "Hey, hey, there's no more show." Full Story
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