In another joke at the Academy’s expense, Rock introduced the "Clueless" actress-turned-Fox News pundit as the Academy’s new minority outreach liaison. Give Stacey Dash points for being game enough to show up after all the backlash she got for dismissing both the #OscarsSoWhite controversy and Black History Month as reverse racism. But if you hadn’t been following the issue closely, you wouldn’t have known why Dash’s mere presence was supposed to be funny, and neither performer did anything to sell the gag, which fell painfully flat.
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