According to this Newsweek account: “Steve Martin’s seminal “King Tut” sketch is being blasted as cultural appropriation by a group of students at a prestigious liberal arts college in Oregon after the classic “Saturday Night Live” parody was played in a humanities course. “The sketch, created by Martin in 1978 to parody the hysteria and commercialization surrounding a traveling Tutankhamen exhibit, has outraged students who say the sketch is the cultural equivalent of blackface because one of the side actors emerged from a sarcophagus with his face painted gold. “That’s like somebody … making a song just littered with the … Continue reading Steve Martin’s ‘King Tut’ Sketch is Racist, Liberal Arts Students Say