Jake Paul says he has been contacting makeup artists to film a response to Druski’s viral skit parodying “conservative women in America.”
The 29-year-old content creator turned pro boxer made the comments on the latest episode of This Past Weekend with Theo Von. Near the 10-minute mark in the video linked here, the two discussed the skit, which featured Druski in whiteface and seeming to parody conservative women such as Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk.
“Honestly, it’s f**kinghilarious. I loved it,” Paul admitted. “I’m obviously Republican and all the Republicans being mad about this s**t is like a f**kingL for Republicans because this is f**kinghilarious. And even though it’s f**kingdark and twisted, this is what comedy f**kingis—that we are f**kinghumans. Let’s make fun of ourselves, and there’s truth in this. An extreme truth, and people weren’t ready for that.”
However, the conversation took a turn when Paul suggested that a response of his own might be in the works.
“I want to ask you something because I’ve been, over the last couple of days, calling makeup artists and I was going to do a response to this [Druski’s video] and like go and do like the full on,” Paul said.
“Darker?” Von asked, to which Paul responded affirmatively.
“And do it and just do it back, because why not?” Paul said. “Like, are we on the same playing field?”
Paul then rejected Von’s suggestion of partnering up with another Black creator, such as Charles Barkley, to provide support for the hypothetical Black character being parodied.
“That’s pussying out,” Paul insisted. “Doesn’t that make us more prejudiced? … That makes us [prejudiced], if we have to partner with someone. Duski just dropped this.”
He continued, “We should f**kingmake fun of each other. And I don’t see in color, I see in truth and comedy. So like, what are we talking about? What era are we living in?”
Elsewhere in the podcast, they compared the proposed skit to past blackface incidents involving public figures, such as Justin Trudeau and Jimmy Kimmel. Both Trudeau and Kimmel have issued apologies.
“Look at f**kingJimmy Kimmel on the left. Untouchable,” Paul said of Kimmel’s political inclinations. “What the fuck, bro? Why? How can they get away with this shit?”
“The s**t that pisses me off. It’s like kids can’t be Black for Halloween, dude,” Von said. “You know? Like, a kid is his favorite athlete. He never grew up with anything racist in his heart or anything.”
“Yeah, and he wants to be LeBron [on] Halloween,” Paul answered.
As explained by Clare Corbould, an Associate Professor of History at Deakin University, the backlash for Druski’s “whiteface” parody of conservative white women ignores the difference in power dynamics. Blackface minstrelsy, which emerged in the 1830s just as slavery was beginning to disappear, punches down as a form of mass entertainment designed to degrade Black people, while whiteface punches up to critique power, privilege, and entitlement.
Despite critics labeling it “reverse racism,” Corbould says whiteface comedy exposes whiteness as an artificial social performance rather than a natural state.
Corbould also says that complaints of racism against Druski draw a false equivalence and show that apparently many white people are “still refusing to laugh at themselves.”
Jake Paul did not provide a timeline of when he would record and release a skit, nor who he would parody.
Druski’s skit drew controversy for his character’s resemblance to Erika Kirk, though he did not explicitly name her. The video’s virality reached the White House, where President Donald Trump seemingly implied that Kirk “should sue” the content creator.
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