Al Jolson

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• Personally I blame Al Jolson for the Rwandan genocide. "Toot Toot Tutsi Goodbye" is a terrible piece of racial incitement. -- Adam Ramet
• Iggy is a 21st century Al Jolson that we've all gotten too cynical to even notice. She is the third horseman of the apocalypse. -- Daniel Roberts
• Bringing the cast of Big Bang Theory to a comic book convention is like inviting Al Jolson to the Million Man March. -- Timmy Williams
• OK so we make a film about Al Jolson. Do we cut the blackface? -- David Neary
• Al Jolson's been dead since 1950 so I'm sure there's no breaking Jolson news but I'm still kind of intrigued. -- Hayley
• Al's so stupid he would vote for Al Jolson before a shower. -- OA
• My MP3 player is mostly soul and doo-wop. It ranges from Al Jolson to Azailea Banks, though. -- Anne Hegerty
• I'm not sure how you expect Eric Holder to go after terrorists when he's so busy tracking down Al Jolson's agent..... -- Pooka Luck
• dunno even who the smirking dude is but my mom saw Iggy Australia on DWTS & says she talks like Moon Unit & raps like Al Jolson -- summer b
• Listener wants us to play more Al Jolson...that may displease others ... is there one song that everyone likes? -- James Valentine
• Hang on. So nobody on either team can recognise Al Green and Al Jolson. (Not to mention Al Kooper) 'ks sake! -- Donald Clarke
• Is Golddust doing an Al Jolson impersonation? -- Jim Lundy
• Iggy Azalea is the Al Jolson of hip hop. -- Kids and Chemicals
• Al Jolson used to scare me so much when I was little and he still does -- Emilу Caswell
• Bono is the 21st Century's Al Jolson. -- Gabby Hayes
• Twilight is for feminism what he is for racial harmony. -- Owen Williams
• In 'Swanee' it feels like Al Jolson's voice is moving faster than the instruments are playing -- Christopher Auray
• "Swanee": he is clearly singing about a girl he's in love with -- Pat Burpee
• Al Jolson has a greaty jazzy voice and sense of rhythm. His piano playing isn't bad either -- Kevin Cooney
• Al Jolson, just murdering the talkies game. Seriously, talented vocal range. Played the bass clef portion while continuing his convo. -- Tom Andrews
• No doubt "Swanee" is a show tune. You can almost see Al Jolson skipping around belting out the lyrics. -- Charles Fox
• I know Al Jolson gets everyone's Racism Sense tingling, but this part of the movie (and his rendition) is very good. -- PJM
• Someone explain why "Swanee" by he is in my head -- Hailey
• "there is a 100% likelihood that Al Jolson will be invoked" -- Chris Lilley
• The Carousel Of Progress didn't really need the Al Jolson reference and although I get the idea of change over the years it's hard to enjoy. -- Aaron Watson
• What is a good station to play in the workplace? Darkthrone? Al Jolson? Goldfinger? -- Ryan Helling
• Why are they playing Dropkick Murphys at the darts? Surely playing DM to an Irish crowd is like playing Al Jolson LPs to black guys? -- Yates' Eddo-Lodge
• Al Jolson? Is that who this is? Al Jolson. -- Tshirtguy
• Hey does anyone have the paper for CPE over the interpretive analysis essay for Bruno? About "In the cemetery where he is buried" -- kyle
• Iggy Azalea is our Al Jolson. -- JonathanDanielBrown
• What old-time song is the burgers' favourite? 'Hammy' - as sung by Al Jolson! -- Вероника Егорычевa
• No matter how many times I read "In the Cemetery Where he is Buried," I will never, ever get over it. -- Casey Guerin
• Like Paul Mooney said "Everybody wants to be a ni- -a, but nobody wants to be a ni- -a." It's 2014 and he is alive in Iggy Azelia! -- MJ Martin
• Nobody understands how brilliant my "Weird Al Jolson" halloween costume idea is. What a world. -- Gretchen Klein
• Iggy Azalea is a modern day Al Jolson and Yall all know what Al Jolson used to do back in the day with that mammy blackface shit -- DJ Nikez
• Just to clarify; My Halloween comment user pic is me dressed as Black Mask, it is not Al Jolson! -- Philip MONSTERson
• The only tap dancer missing from this NYC presser is Al Jolson -- Lori Hoeksema
• A4: First heard of blackface on television at about 8 or 9... a special about Al Jolson. Remember being totally taken aback. -- Yvette Foy
• I was going to spend the night with Dororthy Mackaill, but tonight is the anniversary of Al Jolson's death. So Jazz Singer it is! -- Olive Thomas
• So what's next on the "We're not really racists" list? Perhaps Nigel Farage 'blacking up' & impersonating Al Jolson singing 'Mammy'?! -- DANIEL DAVID GOTHARD
• They think it's a game, they think it's a joke.... No,.. we think it's a minstrel show, & Bassem Masri is starring as Al Jolson -- Todd Roberts
• Just left a message for Mike Read with radio berkshire asking if he is going to be doing a cover of 'Mammy' by Al Jolson in the near future -- Jon Harvey
• MTV still exists! That's very nice. I wonder if Al Jolson and Judy Garland are still around too. -- grodaeu
• Guys. Going in blackface for Halloween is always racist, unless you're dressing up as Al Jolson. -- Noel Rogers
• FUNFACTS: Iggy Azalea is officially more offensive than Al Jolson -- T-White Went Nuts
• Juan Williams always wide eyed like some Al Jolson parody? blinks repeatedly like hes so shocked to hear the truth . -- PlanckEnsteinQuanjue
• Irrationally worried someone is going to knock on the door and mistake my facial for racist make-up...probably should turn off the Al Jolson -- Krissy Whasserface
• The sad part is I probably should amend this to "How probably a slim majority" look at Al Jolson & Song of the South. -- τwiττer's Good Boy
• Is it true that Al Jolson learned from the devil at the dixie crossroads? Or has that story been exaggerated? -- tent dweller
• The other side of the coin is al Jolson so eitherway I'm not leaving my house -- Quinton

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