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7 Funniest Rachel Dolezal Late-Night Jokes: Jimmy Fallon, Conan O'Brien, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart Take Aim
"This is not a Buzzfeed quiz — Which 'Living Single' character are you?" Comedy Central host Larry Wilmore joked at the former NAACP leader's expense
Rachel Dolezal captured the country's attention as a white woman who identifies as black, and on Tuesday, got the spotlight from plenty of late-night hosts, too.
Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart and Conan O'Brien are among the comedians who set their sights on the former head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP.
What'd they have to say? TheWrap found the seven best jokes from some of the funniest personalities on television so you don't have to.
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-Jimmy Fallon:
"How about this woman Rachel Dolezal in Spokane, Washington? She was president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP but was exposed as a white woman who was pretending to be black. A lot of people are upset, especially her white friends who thought they had at least one black friend."
-Conan O'Brien:
"Rachel Dolezal, the white woman pretending to be African American, has resigned from her position in the NAACP. She was last spotted walking out of the NAACP offices with a box full of her Coldplay CDs."
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-Seth Meyers:
"It was a beautiful weekend in New York. This is how nice the weather was: I went outside without sunscreen for about an hour, and I was elected to run the Spokane NAACP."
-Jon Stewart:
"So her mouth says, 'I don't understand the question.' But her eyes say, 'F-k. I'm busted.'
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-Larry Wilmore:
"Sorry lady, you are white, you don't get an opinion on this. This is not a Buzzfeed quiz — Which 'Living Single' character are you?"
-Deon Cole on "Conan":
"You thought she was black? She looks like every white girl that went to Jamaica on spring break."
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-Angela Morrison on "Late Night with Seth Meyers":
"The only thing I fault the NAACP for is the use of 'colored people' in our name. I am not a colored person. I'm black. Rachel Dolezal is a colored person. She is literally a person who colored herself, and that color is tangerine sable."
21 Times Hollywood Tackled Race Issues (Photos)
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Selma (2014) - David Oyelowo plays civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in a biopic that explores the civil rights leader's role in the 1965 Selma protests.
Harpo Films/ Plan B Entertainment -
Dear White People (2014) - This biting satire follows four black college students making their way in "post-racial" America.
Homegrown Pictures -
12 Years a Slave (2013) - Chiwetel Ejiofor led the 2014 Best Picture winner, which is a true story about a freeborn black man who spent over a decade in slavery in the pre-Civil War South.
Fox -
Django Unchained (2012) - Quentin Tarantino's controversial Oscar winner follows a freed slave who fights to liberate his wife from a brutal plantation owner.
The Weinstein Co. -
Gran Torino (2008) - Clint Eastwood plays a grizzled Korean War veteran who reluctantly takes his young Hmong neighbor under his wing.
Warner Bros. -
Crash (2004) - 2006's Best Picture Winner traces the intersecting lives of people of different races in present day Los Angeles.
Bob Yari Productions -
American History X (1998) - Edward Norton plays the leader of a violent neo-Nazi gang who reevaluates his life when he sees his little brother going down the same path.
New Line -
A Time to Kill (1996) - Based on the best-selling John Grisham novel, Samuel L. Jackson plays a man on trial for murdering the two white supremacists who raped his daughter who turns to an untested lawyer played by Matthew McConaughey.
Warner Bros. -
Schindler's List (1993) - Steven Spielberg's unflinching look at the Holocaust through the eyes of a man who saved thousands of Polish Jews.
Universal -
Malcolm X (1992) - Spike Lee and Denzel Washington teamed up for the true story of the inflammatory Nation of Islam leader.
Warner Bros. -
School Ties (1992) - Brendan Fraser led this all-star cast (which included Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) in which he played tbe only Jewish student at an exclusive 1950's prep school.
Paramount -
Boyz n the Hood (1991) - John Singleton's hard-hitting look at life in South Central Los Angeles saw Cuba Gooding Jr. trying to avoid the pitfalls of life in the ghetto.
Columbia Pictures -
Dances with Wolves (1990) - Kevin Costner won multiple Oscars for this tale of a Civil War soldier who comes to identify with an oppressed native tribe in the American West.
Orion Pictures -
Do the Right Thing (1989) - Spike Lee's searing portrait of a day in the life of a mostly black Brooklyn neighborhood during an intense heat wave.
Universal -
Mississippi Burning (1988) - The true story of the disappearance of three civil rights protesters in 1960's Mississippi and the FBI agents who investigated.
Orion Pictures -
The Color Purple (1985) - Whoopi Goldberg was nominated for Best Actress in this story of a black woman at the turn of the century fighting for her place in society.
Amblin -
Blazing Saddles (1974) - Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor collaborated on this hysterical look at a black sheriff taking charge of a frontier town.
Warner Bros. -
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Sidney Poitier stars in this groundbreaking film about a white woman who brings her black fiancee home to meet her parents.
Columbia Pictures -
In the Heat of the Night (1967) - Sidney Poitier again challenged conventions when he portrayed a black detective investigating a murder in a rural Southern town.
United Artists -
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Gregory Peck cemented his place in film history as Atticus Finch, a white lawyer defending a black man accused of rape, in the adaptation of Harper Lee's masterpiece.
Universal -
Birth of a Nation (1915) - Considered the first true narrative film, it attracted widespread criticism for its portrayal of African Americans and its glorification of the KKK.
D.W. Griffith
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