I still remember finding out about that and having my mind blown that A) Goldberg wasn't her actual last name, B) that it was taken cynically so she'd fare better in Hollywood, and fucking C) that the plan apparently worked?? Also Whoopi is a taken stage name too that she adopted because she used to rip ass constantly while on stage doing stand up which is insane in its own right
Also Whoopi is a taken stage name too that she adopted because she used to rip ass constantly while on stage doing stand up which is insane in its own right
She has stated that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. So if you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' And that's where the name came from."[15]
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About her stage surname, she claimed in 2011, "My mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name—it's part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black", and "I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don't go to temple, but I do remember the holidays."[16] She has stated that "people would say 'Come on, are you Jewish?' And I always say 'Would you ask me that if I was white? I bet not.'"[16] One account recalls that her mother, Emma Johnson, thought the family's original surname was "not Jewish enough" for her daughter to become a star.[16] Researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr. found that all of Goldberg's traceable ancestors were African Americans, that she had no known German or Jewish ancestry, and that none of her ancestors were named Goldberg.[12] Results of a DNA test, revealed in the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives, traced part of her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of modern-day Guinea-Bissau. Her admixture test indicates that she is of 92 percent sub-Saharan African origin and of 8 percent European origin.[17]
An actress who cynically took the stage name "Goldberg" has a bad take on the holocaust?!
I still remember finding out about that and having my mind blown that A) Goldberg wasn't her actual last name, B) that it was taken cynically so she'd fare better in Hollywood, and fucking C) that the plan apparently worked?? Also Whoopi is a taken stage name too that she adopted because she used to rip ass constantly while on stage doing stand up which is insane in its own right
omg :data-laughing: lmfao
Okay that last point brings her back up a notch in my books
lmao her stage name is Farting Jew?!
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lol literally inverse of eve fartlow
Holy hell...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg#Early_life
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