I watched the "offending" item with my partner. She laughed. I didn't, but that's just because I prefer my humour dry and with a twist of lemon. (I found the resulting discomfiture more funny.) I'm not sure what I think, but I can't say I find the fact that one of the performers has Indian background particularly relevant. And I think Harry Connick Jnr handled it pretty well. Maybe Daryl did too. There's a lot of insensitive racism around still. There's also a lot of hyperstrident piety around too. The former is more Australian, but I can't say I like either. (When I was a kid, if you had a black labrador, I remember chances were it was going to be called Nigger. I've also worked on APY lands, and not a lot has changed.) Perhaps the closest I feel about this issue is summed up in this article from the Age:
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/hey...1008-gowg.html