Foxx appeared Tuesday on NBC’s “Tonight Show” where he told host Jay Leno, “Sometimes as comedians, you know, we go a little too far.”
On April 11 during his Sirius XM satellite radio show “The Foxxhole,” a caller told Foxx and his crew that Cyrus had vowed to “ruin Radiohead” for allegedly snubbing her during the Grammys.
Fox and his radio comrades responded to the caller by saying Cyrus should take heroin, smoke crack and become a lesbian, among other things. An audio clip of the moment went viral on YouTube, and, well, you can guess the rest.
Evidently Foxx, or most likely one of his handlers, realized a grown man saying America’s 16-year-old sweetheart should catch “a sexually transmitted disease” was a bit over the top even for satellite radio, and that it was time for a little damage control.
Three days later Foxx is telling Leno he’s sorry for getting carried away, telling the nighttime host,” "I didn't mean it maliciously.”
Maybe Foxx learned that it’s not nice to publicly bully any 16-year-old regardless of whether the target is an international music star or just a local teen. Or maybe he learned one shouldn’t pick on any teen whose father is in great physical shape and doesn’t take kindly to folks dissing his family.
“It was hurtful, there wasn’t nothing funny about it,” Billy Ray said during an appearance on “The Bonnie Hunt Show,” according to Access Hollywood, adding, “And quite frankly, I think if I said those things about his daughter he might not find it so comedic.”
For our report on the radio rumble that started it all, including the audio clip, please click here.
For Access Hollywood’s report, please click here.