Australian talent show “Hey Hey It’s Saturday” guest judge Harry Connick Jr. was completely shocked, giving a zero score to the “Blackface” Jackson Jive skit, in which four men with afro wigs and black face sang and danced behind a Michael Jackson impersonator wearing white makeup (watch video below).

The 42 year-old American singer/actor visibly upset with the performance told the group that if they ever attempted it in the United States, it would have been pulled off the air. The show host Daryl Somers apologized to Harry at the end of the live show, saying, “I know that to your countrymen, that’s an insult to have a blackface routine like that on the show, so I do apologize to you.”

Harry confessed he would have never accepted to appear on the show if he’d known about the ‘racist’ skit. “I just want to say, on behalf of my country, I know it was done humorously, but we’ve spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons, that when we see something like that we take it really to heart,” he told Somers after his apology.

Blackface Jackson Jive Video