As for variety performances that are more refreshing to the palate, check out Das Racist’s performance of “Michael Jackson” on Conan, broadcast on TBS on November 28, 2011. Obviously, I’m a fan of the song and video, but after watching so many variety performances across decades of television, I have to hand it to them for doing some inventive staging, sound mixing, and costume changes. It definitely made for a fun to watch televised performance. Also, pretty confident that this is the first time that performers with the names Himanshu Suri, Victor Vazquez, Ashok Kondabolu, and Hanako Moondance were on US television, much less all together. After watching so much televised brownface for work and unfortunately coming upon it during my downtime, this was a very welcome change. Well done friends.