“I think it was in poor taste that you were doing Murtaugh in whiteface” – Blackface goes West (and White) in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX, 2005-) by Sébastien Lefait

“…One of them is embodied by the villainous “Chief Lazarus,” a Native Indian chief played by Frank Reynolds (Danny De Vito). Analysis of key sequences in the episodes shows that the Southern/Northern blackface may go west to expose persistent Western movie clichés, and to expose derivatives such as “whiteface,” “redface,” “bimboface,” or even “gayface.” …”
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