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Watch Jimmy Kimmels Gentrified Brooklyn Send-Up Do the White Thing


Jimmy Kimmel Live!wrapped up a week of Brooklyn-filmed episodes by reflecting one last time on how much the borough has changed since Jimmy Kimmels childhood here decades ago. To illustrate how different Brooklyn is now, Kimmel reimagined one of the greatest films about the area Spike Lees 1989 classic Do the Right Thing as the gentrifiedDo the White Thing, an all-starsendup of Bedford-Stuyvesants hipster transformation.

In the sketch, many of Do the Right Things famous scenes and characters are lampoonedto reflect the neighborhoods current trends: Instead of the boombox-carrying Radio Raheem, theres portable record player-toting Vinyl Raheem, played by Mr. Robot star Rami Malek. Even Samuel L. Jacksons radio DJ Mister Senor Love Daddy is replaced by Democracy Now!s Amy Goodman in the quasi-sequel.

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At Sals Pizzeria where Jimmy Kimmel and Girls Alex Karpovsky play the roles previously occupied by Danny Aiello and John Turturro, respectively Zooey Deschanel asks why there are no photos of people wearing thrift shop finds on the walls. In the original, it was Spike Lees Mookie asking where the framed photos of black celebrities were.

The role of Mookie in the updated version isnow filled by a mustached, ponytailed Billy Crudup, while his girlfriend portrayed in the original film by Rosie Perez features that actress reprising her role. However, the seductive ice cube sequence from Do the Right Thing now features ice cubes crafted from water hand-pumped from a sustainably harvested spring frozen using bicycle power.

Perez isnt the only mainstay from Do the Right Thing making an appearance: Public Enemys Fight the Power was constantly projected out of Radio Raheems boombox in the original film, and when the sketch ends with a folk version of that Fear of a Black Planet cut, Flavor Flav appears to note, Hey, I know that song! Yeah boy!

Flav returned later in the episode withPublic Enemyto put the finishing touches on Jimmy Kimmel Live!s Brooklyn vacation by performing a Fight the Power medley, featuring Flav wearing a Mets hat and riding a drift board:

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