Will Smith knocked the shit out of Chris Rock (official thread)

Wow

that silenced the crowd...now we get to see him get up there and accept award

Huh?

At first I though the hit was fake and part of the act. I agree with Will Smith, the remark was a low blow -- but seriously it was just a joke. But the way Smith reacted was over the top, and now if he wins, he better calm the fuck down before he makes his acceptance speech.

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What was the joke?

Thank you, r5. I'm not watching the event so I didn't understand the reference.

r6, apparently Kris Rock made a joke about Jada looking like GI Jane because she's bald. It's a low blow given she shaved her head due to an illness.

An unusual move on Smith's part when there's a lot in his personal life that comedians might decide is no longer off-limits.

That was shocking. He's so zen. Insane.

Calm the fuck down you asshole.

It's called a joke. Brush it off cause you're about to win an Oscar, you pathetic fucking asshole!

God how I hate Will Smith!!

I didn't complete my thought: I'm not watching the event, so I didn't understand the reference and had to search Twitter.

[quote] apparently Kris Rock made a joke about Jada looking like GI Jane because she's bald. It's a low blow given she shaved her head due to an illness.

Umm, it's not an illness, she has hair loss from doing it up in braids for 50 years.

I fucking loved it!

Definitely is going to breathe some life into the Oscars now lol.

Everyone is going to tune in right now to watch. There’s finally a reason.

Everybody was stunned. The salute to The Godfather was diluted.

Worst Oscars ever. The putative best actor winner assaulting a speaker who is a COMIC doing a joke about a woman who has to be "protected" by her husband?

Astonishing. Nasty ghetto trash. And don't pretend it's not all about stereotypes.

Shit.

It's a joke. A JOKE.

Comedy is dead. I laughed my ass off and I thought Jada and Will might let down their egos and laugh, too.

But, nope, they behaved EXACTLY how I expected them to. Like assholes.

R17, was comedy dead when Lenny Bruce was arrested for the things he said? I swear, people have no perspective

That was shocking. The Oscars = Source Awards.

Audio from foreign broadcast

R16 is nasty Trumpster trailer trash

They shut off the sound for a lot of what was said. What did Chris Rock say back to him?

It ruined the mood. Go do it backstage or something.

It did because I got a few texts about it and no one was watching the show, but tuned in. I tuned right back out after the memoriam segment with singing and dancing.

I can’t tell if it was truly real though.

America is so classy. LOL.

I'm surprised no one on the DL made that joke first

I'm also shocked Jada didn't go up there herself, you know she could take him out

VIA JAPANESE TELEVISION: The uncensored exchange between Will Smith and Chris Rock

Wow it looks as tho Twitter is killing all the unmuted feed posts.

If he wins, it's going to get interesting. And what do the hosts say when they first come back out?

Well, there's the marker for how low society has sunk. Thanks for thinking of the billions watching, Will. And the kids.

Having been disrespected we are lucky Will didn't gun down Chris

American society just gets trashier and trashier by the year. Shouldn't he be removed by security after punching the freaking host? Where is Steve Wilkos when you need him?

Pop culture is now at rock bottom.

I am legitimately shocked.

This makes me like him more.

Hee had to protect his beard. Even if she’s bald.

I'm with Will Smith on this one - the joke was really inappropriate

What is this bullshit

This could be early dementia. He has been acting odd during the last few months.

Whatever their sexual arrangement is I’m sure he cares deeply for her and good for him.

Will is ghetto trash . I hope Rock Eviscerates him later

Holy shit! That was the last thing I expected to happen at the Oscars.

R35 and R37, so you condone violence as a response to disagreement about a comedic’s joke?

Jesus. No wonder American society is in complete devolvement.

r13, if we were talking about Brandy, that'd be a valid observation. However, an image search for Jada shows she's worn various hairstyles over the years and hasn't stuck primarily to braids. Also, she has alopecia, which is an illness -- it's not stag 4 cancer, but it is an illness. It makes sense she'd be sensitive about it, especially if someone is making a joke about it at her expense in front of her peers and millions of people.

Right or not, it was not the way to handle things. Swearing, assaulting people during a televised national event? What is this?

[quote]An unusual move on Smith's part when there's a lot in his personal life that comedians might decide is no longer off-limits.

In the middle of will's tirade, Chris Rock said, "I could . . . . "

I think Chris was going to say, "I could say something" (about you or about your marriage"

oh shit is will gonna punch jane campion now?

Will Smith just committed a crime on tv for the entire world to see

When a couple of guys who were up to no good

Started making trouble in my neighborhood

I got in one little fight and my mom got scared

She said, "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air"

Word.

Better link

Part of me thinks this was planned to help boost ratings. Or at least get people talking about the Oscars.

That was far worse than you guys made it sound. Holy shit. What a douche!

A punch is rarely appropriate, and certainly not in response to a joke, no matter how unkind. Jada’s support fraus need to get real.

I felt the punch may have been staged but everything after, especially Chris's reaction after Will cussed him out, not so much.

Here's an even better link with the joke and the punch

will smith is such fucking trash

Looking at R50 makes me think Will Smith has rage issues or maybe a mental health issue. A more appropriate reaction would’ve been to take care of it off camera after the show. Then you can punch Chris Rock!

Exactly

I wonder if Jada recently received news she has some very serious medical condition and they haven't released the news yet because Will is taking it so poorly and then this happened.

It's the only thing that would turn this around. I am not saying it's ok, I am talking from a public relations standpoint.

R51 Which part of you - the stupid part?

Chris just got a viscous face slapping

The smack in slow motion. What a pussy.

The Oscars are so ghetto now. No class or glamour. Just a Jerry Springer episode. Black people ruin everything. No wonder property values go down when they move. The ultra-liberals who support such behavior in the name of diversity won't even live near them.

I don't think Chris Rock knew that she has alopecia. Jada is one arrogant, overbearing woman. Will Smith just ruined his big night.

Amen!

R56 apparently Jada struggles with some hair disease which is why she is bald......so that joke from Chris might seem like a very low blow....still Will shouldn't have let it ruin his night.

The Smiths are all fucking weirdos.

This will be referenced FOREVER

He's doubled down!

When I was younger I used to look forward to the Oscars as a night of glamour and fun. The movies were about entertainment and escapism, and so were the Oscars.

I guess those days are gone. I am all for diversity and inclusion, we need more of it. But we also need people to behave with class. This show seems to be celebrating trashy behavior.

The interesting thing was that Will Smith actually laughed at the joke while Jada was clearly unhappy. I'd love to see the few seconds where the laughter stopped and he charged on stage.

R66, I don't agree, it's only Morrissey that's an asshole

Fuck Will Smith. I'm out.

Acting like that, and then sitting there all smug through the rest of the ceremony, when he should be hiding in shame.

I've never liked him much, he's massively overrated as both an actor and a rapper, and he can go fuck himself forever.

I'll never pay a penny to see anything he's involved with ever again.

Oh for fuck’s sake Will, it’s a vicious slapping accompanied buy a loud hiss.

Again, it's not a disease. She has hair loss like millions of other people have hair loss.

Didn’t Will get into a fight with someone when he was nominated for something else? He and Jada left and blamed it on a sick kid at home.

R4 I didn't even get the joke. Did everyone realize he was talking about her hair? I thought he was joking about her butch persona.

Thanks, Will Smith, for throwing the punch which finally downs the Oscars to the trashy level of Jerry Springer.

Sure your colleagues are thrilled to be brought down to that level.

Denzel and Tyler Perry comforted Will after the incident. What a fragile manbaby.

Mocking an illness deserves a punch

FB post by Michael Musto:

Apparently, Denzel pulled Will aside during a commercial break after the incident and spoke to him. The last time Denzel gave Will advice was when he told him not to kiss a man on screen, so I'm not optimistic.

There is nothing kkklassy about your little online klan rally

Apparently Jada shaved her hair after dealing with alopecia. It was hard for her and Will may have been reacting to that.

This has overtaken Ukraine in the news. Legitimately shocked.

Chris Rock didn't know she had an illness. Can't be mocking if he didn't know.

So comedians aren't allowed to make fun of people anymore?

the world is so fucked up if Smith is tweeting through the whole thing

“Didn’t I promise you fireworks?”

R85 How the hell do you know? I doubt that.

He owes Chris Rock an apology. This acceptance speech looks like more acting ... he is a fucking phony.

I guess Will felt humiliated because this was his big night and Chris Rock ruined it. But I don't think Rock meant to do it. After all, Rock had a made a documentary about black women's hair if I remember correctly.

Will Smith is trash for doing that in public. He knows it'll reflect badly on black people.

Don't you wish now you had invited me to the show as Sean Penn wanted ?

They're fucking cheering him. What a prick!

Wow. Now he is going full blown messiah.

R85 agreed but then you can't act all surprised if something you said gets the wrong reaction. I am absolutely 100% for mean jokes and un pc-ness but it's a risk you take, I'm sure that's not the first time Chris Rock had to deal with a face punch because of his jokes. He lives for that shit. And honestly, I like him all the more for it.

I think the Hollywood power brokers will make Chris Rock apologize to Will Smith. They have to do something. This doesn't look good for Black Hollywood as they are both huge stars.

Fuck your fake invoking the name of God and love. You have real anger issues.

I cannot believe the trashy, smug guy is up there talking about having to “protect” people after punching/assaulting and screaming obscenities on live tv at the 2022 Oscars.

He is not a “vessel of love”.

He’s full of shit.

R72 You're out? How will we go on without YOU, of all people!

Damn.

Kathy is right. Though with all the hairtrigger tempered gun nuts in the US, a punch might be the least of your worries.

R89, not everyone is going to be tuned into everything Jada is saying. He probably didn't know.

He needs to apologize to Chris Rock, not the academy or his fellow nominees!

Did I just see GI Jane in the audience ?

Can you imagine if, say, Sean Penn had gotten on stage and punched the host? We'd hear endless rants about him assaulting a black man, his white male privilege, and he'd be canceled forever. But Will Smith does it and gets an Oscar and a standing ovation. Such fucking bullshit.

Talk about delusional!!

R86, yes. And to think of some of the things that Ricky Gervais said at the Golden Globes.

The stuff he said to Mel Gibson - to his face - as he was standing on the same stage as him.

Denzel does NOT look pleased. Will really fucked up.

He should have his Oscar revoked.

He has clearly demonstrated the low caliber of his character.

Remember what happened to Russell Crowe as a result of his anger issues. It was said he lost out on awards as a result.

I'm gonna punch a guy on live tv and get rewarded for it.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the 2022 United States of America.

Some of you bitches just can't wait to put on your hoods, can you.

SO he punches the crap out of Rock, swears at him, all on live TV, as the idiot enablers around him act like it's normal, and now he's apologizing and talking about love.

Looks like someone is having a meltdown, I hope he has some dolls at home. Wait… do those pep you up or calm you down?

The Oscars are now full on BET awards. Hollywood is ovah.

R108 Ok

It's an undeserved Oscar. He got it for all the money he's raked in for the industry, and will hopefully continue to rake in. Period.

The movie was a total whitewash of what a shithead Richard Williams really was.

Yes, what he did in the world of tennis was remarkable, but he was still an insufferable asshole.

Smith's performance was serviceable at best. He didn't embarrass himself by any means, but he was nowhere near the level of most of his competition.

He is defending the mother of his children rather than beating his lover in private like Sean Penn. that’s way more respectable.

I'm stunned. Just stunned. How was he not dragged out of there and arrested?

Scientology didn't work this evening Will??

I love this btw, they are both massive idiots. Hopefully this is the end of their totally undeserved careers.

This is the type of crazy shit that used to happen at the VMAs every year, not the Oscars.

The punch didn't look like it landed so I'm not sure if it was real. Regardless, if the Chris Rock jock was directed to another actress, Will Smith would have laughed. What a disgrace.

Smith is a comic, so I'm there's plenty of proof we'll find of him mocking others.

I can't believe he's just sitting there, smiling and clapping like nothing happened.

So unreal, Ricky Gervais would be lynched if everyone decides to assault comedian for their jokes.

A black man acting like a violent piece of trash in front of millions of people. Way to fight those stereotypes, Will. I used to be a fan, I will not watch anything else he is in ever.

Piece of shit.

Damn. The assault and battery seen throughout the world!

SETTLEMENT! It's pay day, baby!

I thought Will Smith was known for not swearing? That punch must have been a slap or light punch. Chris Rock is a smaller guy with a slight build, so the physics would indicate a different outcome than we saw. Also, Rock’s mouth looks full of expensive caps or veneers. These would probably have been damaged if Smith used any real force.

It’s a sad, disturbing clip.

Good one

Everyone in the audience seems to be just fine with what he did.

[quote]Will Smith is trash for doing that in public. He knows it'll reflect badly on black people.

Exactly, R92, and he did it in front of an international audience.

If he was that bothered he could have waited and talked to Rock afterwards instead of committing assault, this makes me wonder if there wasn't something else already bubbling under the surface - either between Smith & Rock or something else.

Here it is in slow motion.

R68 you know that's not him, right?

[quote] I'm stunned. Just stunned. How was he not dragged out of there and arrested?

Ditto, R120.

How he could then go up there and lie through his teeth above “love” and “God” after assaulting and screaming at someone is incomprehensible.

The fact that he wasn’t pulled immediately and instead given support/applause is tacit acknowledgement that violence is acceptable (also per other defenders here) and only puts others (comedians/people who disagree/etc) at risk.

This is sick. He is sick.

what the hell was he talking about? having to "protect" the actors on the movie.... suppose to be a river of love because GOD wants him to be...

sobbing but yet not asking forgiveness or saying he was sorry to the person he just assaulted?

MY GOD THE AMOUNT OF NARCISSISM, AND SELF ABSORBTION AND SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS OFF THE CHARTS!.....LITERALLY DOESN'T THINK HIS SHIT STINKS!... HE IS THE REASON WHY MANY HATE HOLLYWOOD! PURE EXAMPLE OF THIS...

R132 came to say the exact same thing to R68

Would Will have done the same if the host was white? Gervais or Letterman for example? Hmmmm 🤔

Let's not be dramatic, unless Chris lost a tooth, it's not a big deal. This is the best thing to ever happen on the Oscar's stage. Seriously I was snoozing through the whole thing up to that point.

#Oscarsobald

Now no one is talking about the other winners.

HOLLYWOOD: " hey, he killed 10 people, but his movies still make money, so who cares!"....

Good. I know I will get shit for saying this, but it’s kind of refreshing to see a man actually stand up for his woman like that. Tired of men being total passive cucks these days.

We all know this is true.

This says the smack could be heard in the audience

Maybe Chris Rock and Will have never gotten along??

I can't tell if R141's a sly joke or not.

I thought black women use wigs a lot, or its that an stereotype?

what is wrong with LIza?

R136 or a woman?

[quote] Will Smith knocked the shit out of Chris Rock (official thread) A black man acting like a violent piece of trash in front of millions of people. Way to fight those stereotypes, Will. I used to be a fan, I will not watch anything else he is in ever. Piece of shit.

[quote] Regina King presents her son and his boyfriend on CNN Women always lose their shit when their SON dies, losing a daiughter doesn’t seem like such a big deal.

[quote] Joy Reid: We're supporting Ukraine & their refugees because those people are white Is there anything at all black peoples don’t need to make about themselves?

He can protect his woman off stage.

Chris Rock's joke was tasteless and I don't blame Will Smith at all....that being said...completely out of line and he should not have accepted that Oscar.

[quote] do you notice how they canged oscars into black party .gospel, godfather with black music, stupic black actors

[quote] fucking nigger

[quote] he tried to save face

[quote] Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama : Lee Jung-jae, Squid Game ! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA

[quote] The Golden Globes, which will not be televised this year, releasing nominations anyway R21 because no one wants to watch your woke shit

[quote] The Golden Globes, which will not be televised this year, releasing nominations anyway R24 you got it all wrong... blacks are obsessed with their skin because they think it is only thing it matters. So now we have no- names nominated like some asians and latin, who cares about them?

[quote] The Golden Globes, which will not be televised this year, releasing nominations anyway right , where is evan peters?

[quote] The Golden Globes, which will not be televised this year, releasing nominations anyway R66 I wouldn't like to have a black son,too.

[quote] The Golden Globes, which will not be televised this year, releasing nominations anyway R69 it was a joke, chill out

Chris Rock must press charges.

Word salad grandiose acceptance speech when he needed to be in a psych ward or jail at that moment

This is exactly why I felt Laverne Cox was totally justified in not apologizing to Will and Jada. They put all their business out on front street but can't stand when someone even makes a joke about it! She knows they are full of it hence her refusal to bow down.

Will has been clearly suffering since Jada revealed her affair with the young man. Im black and Im so disappointed that he turned into the angry violent black man instead of getting a therapist to help him deal with those problems. Just like Jussie, totally making sure no one ever trusts a black man.

Will Smith is a cuck!

R145, I’m totally serious.

OMG the Oscar producers clearly have no idea what to do at this point and it's looking bad.

I can't believe this is even being debated on Twitter. Yes, Rock made a tasteless joke, nearly all comedians do, but he didn't deserve to be assaulted. Assault is worse than a joke, 1000x worse.

I saw a few people who remained seated after Smith's speech. Good for them.

Will Smith made non-stop jokes on Fresh Prince about his uncle's weight. I guess that's okay though.

[quote] Word salad grandiose acceptance speech when he needed to be in a psych ward or jail at that moment.

Absolutely, R155.

Smith completely degraded this Oscar event tonight.

Sad, messy, undignified. Also a lot of ego and hubris in evidence, and a different standard of acceptable behavior. Why is that? It’s all a real downer.

Jesus, I knew there were POS racists here on DL but some of the comments in this thread are genuinely shocking. Seriously gross.

Slapping is the new punching.

He was really angry

I hope Will bitch slaps Amy Schumer next!

Check out Nicole!

The thing which irritates me even more than the incident is the fact that Will and Jada are two of the biggest sanctimonious assholes in Hollywood - and who have raised a new generation with the same rotten traits. Thank god Will's oldest son was largely raised by his mother and not be Will and Jada. Tonight, people saw the real Will instead of the act he always puts on.

Worldstar!

Good for Will

Didn’t I teach you anything?

It makes me sick that not ONE person showed support to Chris Rock. Not even Jessica Chastain who looked so disingenuous when she spoke about love. (I'll forgive Anthony Hopkins because he's older).

No sense of humor and super ratchet.

Someone has to speak out. This is so fucked up

Interesting that he just slapped him and don’t punch him.

Just like the little girl he is

Will Smith sounded really angry at r166.

That’s a man having a very public meltdown

[quote] Good for Will

Surely you are joking?

With all the violent assaults occurring throughout the USA, you condone this act in front of millions throughout the world on live tv?

Unbelievable.....

Just so we’re clear, the joke about their open marriage is funny and good, the joke about Jada looking buff and bald is a punchable offense?

Slap her Wilona!

OK Will, please provide a list of celebs that comedians can poke fun of.....we'll wait.

R167 oh, there's a long list of who I would wish he'd slap

Will Smith and Chris Rock certainly have one thing in common-

They're both CLOSET QUEENS

Maybe there’s some history between Chris and Will that led to this

It was just a love tap!

I’m so glad it’s black on black

Clairee is selling “I slapped Chris Rock” T shirts out of the back of her car in Chiquapin Parish.

It's all about Will's ego, and it always has been.

It always has been. Even when he's been the #1 box office star in the US, and he's winning the biggest accolade the film industry can give him, his ego is so fragile it could not bear to hear his wife insulted. It had nothing to do with protecting his wife from any real harm; it had everything to do with protecting his own image.

And he blew it.

I have to ask this question...if Will was white, he would have been escorted out of the Oscars and twitter would be out for his blood, right?

The thing is, Will Smith and Chris Rock have known each other for decades. Chris Rock was on “Fresh Prince”.

So there must have been something deeper too.

r189, try to imagine if Bob Hope had made a joke about Alfred Steele's weight, and the subsequent hard slapping Joan Crawford would have given him!

Oh please, you know he wouldn't, R189. This isn't about race, it's about wealth and privilege. If this had happened at a school board meeting the dude would have been arrested, not reading last meetings minutes moments later.

Still photos reveal Smith’s hand was open, so this interaction looks like a slap in the face. The yelling and swearing are pretty obnoxious and disgraceful. This whole mess is just confusing and sad.

Chris Rock was like a deer in headlights. I feel bad for him on so many levels. It looks so hard to be funny and edgy. Why would anyone even want to be a comedian? I know many comedians have stopped performing on college campuses. Stand-up feels like those 70’s TV specials where Evil Knievel would ride a motorcycle through a burning hoop.

So many people thinking this was staged. It wasn't staged, obviously. Chris Rock could call the cops but you can't call the cops on black people at the Oscars, or anywhere else, it's unfashionable.

I'm enjoying celebrity twitter totally confused on how to respond to this because they don't want to "pick the wrong side."

TV media can't even decide on how to cover it yet. My local news station defaulted to Ukraine war and basketball instead of the usual Oscars reporter. Its so sad that Will Smith is that raging abusive family member that has the whole house shook

So Jerry Springer is directing the Oscars.

Don't like 95% of black women wear some kind of fake hair? Just because she's losing hair doesn't mean we have to see it. Put a damn wig on, you midget skank.

On Will and Jada: please refresh my memory. Isn’t this the obnoxious couple that feels the need to share every disgusting detail of their lives with the world?

[quote] Good. I know I will get shit for saying this, but it’s kind of refreshing to see a man actually stand up for his woman like that. Tired of men being total passive cucks these days.

Will Smith is a punk. He wasn't being chivalrous, he was being an entitled, arrogant prick. He is larger than Rock and knew he could get away with it.

ooooo I can't wait to hear what Aunt Viv has to say about this!!!!

Shelly Winters and Oliver Reed did this better in the Tonight Show.

Given that they still handed Smith a coveted Oscar, does this mean that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences condones violence?

Women in general but especially black women are shit on for the way they look every day. Maybe this really hurt her and he just snapped at that moment.

[quote]Given that they still handed Smith a coveted Oscar, does this mean that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences condones violence?

You’ve just handed Tucker Carlson the angle for his lead story Monday night.

So did the gay man in a bearding marriage with his bisexual wife just punch a dude on stage to try to sell the fantasy that he's a heterosexual?

r204: Hi, Jada! Cut it out with the self-exculpating bullshit.

My first thought was “DL is gonna love this!”

Beyonce!! 🤣💀

Americans are depraved. Not only is this behavior on TV, but it won't be punished. It's celebrated by Americans online.

This has not one thing to do with black hair. This is about a gay man who had to look straight on tv. Maybe the black community needs to get its homophobia under control so self loathing jackasses like Smith don't act a fool.

R203 Will Smith will not be the first Best Actor winner to be known for violence.

At least Kanye West wasn’t there

[quote]He should have his Oscar revoked.

Will never happen. Nor will he (or Rock) face any kind of penalty from the Academy. Because, you know...

To the poster upthread asking about a previous incident, yes, Will got into it with Ethan Hawke the year Denzel won for Training Day. Both were removed from the ceremony and Hawke had to BEG to attend the ceremony when he was nominated for Boyhood.

R211 This sounds like white gay theory lol.

But he is the first to manifest violence at the Oscars.

While I agree that Will should have probably waited until he was backstage or at an after party to make a fool of himself. I just find it hilarious at all the pearl clutching on here. It wasn't a White House State dinner, hell... it wasn't even the Kennedy Center Honors, it was the fucking Oscars. Calm down. If this is your idea of class and sophistication that is above reproach, then you don't know actors or you need to get out more. And one final note, Will and Jada are phonies who make it very hard to root for them on anything, but some of you are just too much with all this.

[quote]Maybe the black community needs to get its homophobia under control so self loathing jackasses like Smith don't act a fool.

Fuck you.

Uncensored.

Jaz Z needs to give Jada some of his hair lol

R216 Oh so only award the off screen violent actors lol.

R217 was raised on a steady diet of Maury Povich and Real Housewives.

[quote]Good. I know I will get shit for saying this, but it’s kind of refreshing to see a man actually stand up for his woman like that. Tired of men being total passive cucks these days.

Bitch please, Will wasn't standing up for Jada when she was sitting on this! He's still mad!

This has become acceptable behavior in America today thanks to Trump and his MAGAs. No class, no self control, inappropriate behavior. We’ve sunk so low in our society. When you’re famous you take the shots and the jokes or get the hell out of the business

R59? SHUT THE F#CK UP or I will come over there and SLAP your stupid face!

R190 There's an article talking about Jada and Will being pissed about how he threw shade at the 2016 Oscars towards them.

Almost think it was staged to boost ratings.

Damn. Will was one of the black people that white people like.

lol, enjoy DL-ers

A) I don't think Jada has alopecia.

B) That wife has made a laughing stock of him for over 20 years with her bullshit and musings.

C) In his speech, he says that actors have to go through all of these humiliations. No - no they don't. You've been humiliated and made fun of because of your wife. SEE POINT B.

D) Shoving your talentless kids down our throats and having them talk about themselves like their the next coming of Jesus is nauseating and offputting. Again, SEE POINT B that allowed this shit to happen.

You've done this to yourself. And now, if he says he has never cheated on Jada - he should probably clarify that he never cheated on her WITH A WOMAN. Or it's some weird reference to their open marriage and swinging which was under her permission.

Dude - just shut the fuck up. Ain't nobody keeping you down or working against you - it's all coming from within your own DAMN HOUSE!

This will damage his career

It wasn't assault, assault.

Well, this will start the Oscar curse double speed.

“…an I’ma letcha finish…

Seriously, I wonder if it might have been more effective to not respond at all. Or maybe shake your head and look away dismissively. But the combination or slapping, swearing and simpering makes Smith look spoiled and deluded. It’s not a great look on anyone.

[quote]I felt the punch may have been staged but everything after, especially Chris's reaction after Will cussed him out, not so much.

That makes absolutely NO FUCKING SENSE whatsoever. You are too stupid to live, let alone to comment on anything in any public forum.

Chris Rock not pressing charges.

The guy above is trying to blame Hollywood star Obama supporter Will Smith's violent immaturity on Trump. Reed Richards couldn't stretch that far.

Ryan Gosling located in the lower right of the photo at R229 is hilarious!

What do they need a police report for? It happened on live television.

How soon before Will & Jada come forward with the (most likely false) bombshell that Jada is secretly fighting cancer and the stress of it all caused Will to snap? They'll go on to suggest that Chris knew what was going on & still made a joke about it for extra sympathy. Mark My Words.

This is a TERRIBLE look for the Oscars. A man punches a guy on stage live in front of millions of people. Is allowed to stay, wins an Oscar and he's given a standing ovation!!! How did they think that was okay?

Does this improve Will Smith's chances of being cast as the next James Bond?

R229 is from the La La Land thing. Not this year.

Give it a few days.

Especially after the late night comedians dig in with their claws.

I bet divorce is on the horizon...

lol at Mel Gibson's face at r229. It's to his credit he's clearly shocked but maybe he saw himself in Smith, too.

He has well-documented anger issues.

Yeah I have to say I feel at least some of those aren't from this year lol. Still funny.

I was always ambivalent about Smith. Now I don’t really ever want to see this guy again in any medium. He looks like a real unhinged egomaniac. A great big fragile phony messiah, crowing about protecting everyone and being a River of love. Yeah, no.

Punching a guy who at worst made a bad joke and yelling obscenities at him? Will Smith has displayed a new low in public decency. I find his behavior disgusting. Maybe he thought he’d upstage the disgusting grilling of judge Jackson by a bunch of snarling mostly white Jen, anything was game. Making fun of movies stars by Oscar hosts goes back to Bob Hope. Will Smith is a jerk.

[quote] What do they need a police report for? It happened on live television.

So did the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald.

They still needed a police report.

Pfft. Smith wasn't simpering, he was embarrassed, and rightly so. No one is going to have the wherewithal to gracefully accept an Oscar moments after smacking one of the hosts.

[quote]Will Smith has displayed a new low in public decency.

Charlie at r248, you're 1000 years old, we all know you've seen much worse. We all have.

And then trying to turn this into some kind of political thing about Judge Brown Jackson? Why even link the two, just because black people are involved in both things? Fucking racist.

You are really hard to take sometimes Charlie, but this is beyond the pale, even for you.

[quote]The moment before Will noticed Jada wasn’t having it and had to slap Chris Rock to make up for laughing so hard at the GI Janet joke.

Smith was laughing until he noticed Jada was dismayed. The slap he gave Rock was probably in some way meant for the guy at R222

That was a real laugh, too. Jada must be a real harridan.

I never liked Jada ! She has a real coldness to her

Chris SHOULD have said right after the slap: "Get out Will. Get your wife out of this theater right now before I throw her into the street and you with her. Get out before I kill you."

Is there a reason why Jada's hair was short? There's talk of an illness?

[quote]It makes me sick that not ONE person showed support to Chris Rock.

Chris Rock is an asshole and it's human nature to not side with an asshole, even if he's been wronged. I'm not saying it's right, it's just how it goes.

Also, this is completely off topic, but Chris Rock looks weird lately. His face doesn't look the same, but it also doesn't look like he's had work.

[quote]HOLLYWOOD: " hey, he killed 10 people, but his movies still make money, so who cares!"....

I dunno, if you're having to falsely equate a smack with mass murder just to gin up outrage, maybe what you're upset about isn't actually that outrageous.

No one ever got slapped at a Dean Martin Roast... and those things were vicious!

This wasn't a roast.

Imagine if that was a white guy that slapped Chris Rock

I've always assumed people were brawling and shouting many, many swears at a Dean Martin roast, but they were just edited out!

[quote]That woman has him by the balls.

Ironically her head looks like a testicle!

Hey genius. This wasn't a roast.

The new cancelwillsmith account on Instagram already has over 600 followers.

Is Spike on Team Will or Team Chris?

Doesn't Jada openly sleep with other men and women?

"People didn't even get smacked at the Dean Martin roasts!" is not a serious comment, so all the dipshits saying "waaaah the Oscars aren't a roast waaaaaah" need to stop whining about r259, he was just being funny.

I hate people like r256.

Volodymyr Zelensky and Putin have offered to broker a peace deal between Rock and Smith.

[quote] some of the comments in this thread are genuinely shocking. Seriously gross.

Do you want to punch us?

Before slapping someone over a comment about a hairstyle, I’d at least appreciate a warning like “Bitch don’t you EVER!”

Seriously, maybe a backhand would have been more effective, and still technically be open fisted, for legal purposes.

R273 Yikes, that smarts. It’s unfortunately true, isn’t it?

I think Jada has ass cancer, can't prove it, but perhaps she's in chemo.

She's also worn white woman hairstyles her entire life which involve extensions, glue, tight braids, and are generally bad for your hair and scalp.

Obviously, this is the fault of white people, which induces rage. Say anything about black women's hair and it's a microaggression, say it on stage, and people lose their god damned minds, cementing the reality that black people on average are fucking crazy about certain topics.

I'm not saying white people are not crazy but you never saw a white person pull that shit on an awards show and then win the brass ring.

America is really fucked up on racial shit.

Bitch, you're bald, develop a mother fucking sense of humor, cunt

^Chris Rock is not white.

🖕🏽👏👏👏

Judd Apatow© @JuddAp... 56m He could have killed him. That's pure out of control rage and violence. They've heard a million jokes about them in the last three decades. They are not freshman in the world of Hollywood and comedy. He lost his mind.

I noticed that King Will and his consort Queen Jada were given the best seat in the house. They had the main throne.

And wasn't she the woman complaint about about 'OscarsSoWhite'?

𝐉𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬

Will and Jada's son Jaden Smith didn't reference the slap in his Twitter post, but he didn't speak out against it, tweeting, 'And That's How We Do It.'

Later, he included a photo of himself in a car wearing sunglasses and noted that his father's acceptance speech made him emotional.

'My Dads Speech Made Me Cry,' he wrote.

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Jimmy Kimmel

'What was the vegas line on the fresh prince punching little penny in the face?' he tweeted.

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Conan O'Brien

'Just saw the Will Smith slap. Anyone have a late night show i can borrow just for tomorrow?'

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Nikki Glaser

'Open relationships seem healthy.'

[quote]Bitch, you're bald, develop a mother fucking sense of humor, cunt

You're in a rage because Jada got mad at being made fun of. Do you not see the hypocrisy here? This is pathological, damn.

[quote]He could have killed him. That's pure out of control rage and violence.

What the fuck? Apatow needs to get a grip. EVERYBODY needs to get a grip. You're spiraling out of control and turning this into "the same thing as murder," you're enraged and angry because someone else got enraged and angry.

You're right, R283. That nelly slap wouldn't hurt a toddler.

R208 Yep! I dashed to DL as soon as I heard about it!😅

Accepting (or encouraging) physical violence as a response to speech is an indisputably fascist outlook.

The people who are “Team Will” remind me of the folks who thought that Wilkes-Barre guy was justified in executing two people in cold blood because they called him a queer.

Also funny to see how phony Will’s macho tough guy pose is—I doubt he’d have walked up to slap Dwayne Johnson or Jason Mamoa for making that joke.

R280 Jada got her wish, and it will now be known as #oscarssoghetto

What do Serena and Venus Williams have to say about Will's violent behavior?

2023 - Pay Per View

[quote] Word salad grandiose acceptance speech when he needed to be in a psych ward or jail at that moment

He’s telling us he has NPD without telling us he has NPD.

[quote] did the gay man in a bearding marriage with his bisexual wife just punch a dude on stage to try to sell the fantasy that he's a heterosexual?

Yes, they are both always overcompensating trying to convince us how het they are.

[quote]Chris Rock must press charges.

If Chris presses charges over a slap he received for insulting another man's wife, then he'll look like a wuss who doesn't stand behind his material. If it was worth making the joke, it was worth taking the consequences for it. He should laugh it off and make more jokes about that bitchslap and Will's histrionics.

[quote]Accepting (or encouraging) physical violence as a response to speech is an indisputably fascist outlook.

There have been innumerable cases of when someone's right to free speech infringed on the rights of others, to the point that their speech needed to be stopped. Putin's propaganda and lies to cover the rape, murder, and kidnapping of Ukrainian citizens, for example.

I am absolutely not saying this about Chris Rock's joke. What I'm saying is that the broad stereotype of "all speech should be free from consequences regardless of what was said" is not a noble philosophy and it's not entire defensible. Bringing up your personal internet edgelord philosophy about free speech as though it were fact is ridiculous.

Academy Issues Statement After Will Smith-Chris Rock Oscars Slapping Incident

The Oscars are under the domain of SAG/AFTRA though, right? Rock should probably bring up the incident to them, he was at work and got injured, and he's union.

Everyone is screaming for jail time and heads served up on platters, but give it a few days to shake out. I'd guess Smith won't be back for next year's Oscars (at the request of the Academy) unless they have some kind of mea culpa planned to try to smooth things over.

R265 he shouldn't be invited back next year just like Kanye and the Grammy's

I must see who stood for that criminal. I was furious that the Pulp Fiction crew was rooting for him.

And the Academy most certainly condones violence, if you sell enough movie tickets. We all saw it play out live tonight.

I think Jada really should have just owned it, laughed, and made some 'strong arm' movements, to show how she's a bad ass, and that maybe could kick Chris Rock's ass too. That would have been the best way to handle it.

GI Jane is a hero in the movie, so why not act the hero in response to the joke? Take it as a compliment.

I guess not everyone loves Chris.

Jada is humorless. She takes herself and her limited amount of talent way too seriously.

Because Chris Rock bitched about her incessantly in his 2016 Oscar stand-up, when she boycotted the Oscars. There was history there. He was either trying to refer back to one of his past "hits" or he was deliberately antagonizing her by going after her again.

[quote]Judd Apatow© @JuddAp... 56m He could have killed him. That's pure out of control rage and violence.

Judd, please! That bitch slap looked like it barely connected.

Yikes. What a water cooler moment.

Stupidly, because America is so racialized, this is raw meat (see this thread already). But condoning it is ridiculous--it's a mini version of honor-based, Hatfield-and-McCoy, Crips-vs-Bloods violence--you disrespect mine, I attack you.

I wonder how those people in the audience would've reacted if Mel Gibson had slapped Ricky Gervais.

Who would have ever dreamed that one black man would slap another black man on stage at The Oscars?

Well, there's a difference in context between the two, r305. Gibson had a history of being violent and making threats, for starters.

A lot of us aren't condoning it so much as getting exasperated at the people who are losing their shit about it, exaggerating what happened, making it political, using it as an excuse to be racist (like r306, who posted just as I was typing this).

Almost no one on DL is behaving like a decent, reasonable human being anymore. Everyone here is some low-intelligence, bigoted reactionary these days.

Imagine if Will had leaped on stage and strangled Cris Rock to death with the train of Jada's hideous evening gown. "I'm sorry Will was recently taken away in handcuffs . . . accepting the award for him is. 2023 "In Memorium" Chris Rock followed by June Lockhart etc . . .

R307 but Gibson didn't do it televised and in front of an audience of SJW who speak out about assaults real or not (Jussie Smollett)

Mama's mussy is moist as hell!

Probably why McDormand didn’t show up to give him the Oscar. She knew her friend Denzel was going to lose and didn’t want to deal with asshole Smith. I think a lot dislike or have no use for the Smiths in Hollywood, but he was able to overcome it in the vote tally because he’s made a lot of money for people in the industry and his nice guy persona with a cliched, sugar coated film about the Williams sisters father. That all changed tonight. This will be forever tied to his Oscar win. The one poster who said cunt Jada has him by the balls is absolutely correct. I’d never thought I’d live to see something so disgusting and disturbing on the Oscars. Thanks Will and Jada. Always keeping it classy.

[quote]but Gibson didn't do it televised

"But Gibson didn't go on a rant about kikes running Hollywood and talk in detail about how he was going to murder his wife on live TV!" Yes, and?

Congratulations, newbie troll, you discovered that stupid what-if scenarios get you attention.

[quote]I’d never thought I’d live to see something so disgusting and disturbing on the Oscars.

I'm embarrassed for you.

They certainly are change agents when it comes to the Oscars.

Apatow deleted his tweet. Most likely because he was called a hypocrite after someone mentioned James Franco assaulting Busy Phillips on the Freaks & Geeks set which Apatow probably witnessed it, was aware of it, and still made Franco into a star.

I agree, R307, that some exaggerate and indulge in black-and-white thinking.

But you can't play down that he got up at the Oscars (where, at least in my lifetime, everyone has been well-behaved) and slapped the host and then angrily shouted at him as if in a drunken altercation outside a bar.

R311 McDormand has worked with wife beaters and rapists.

Everyone on here getting on high horses needs to get off them.

R312 a majority of none

[quote] some exaggerate and indulge in black-and-white thinking

50% of Datalounge exaggerate and indulge in black-and-white thinking.

While 90% of Twitter exaggerate and indulge in black-and-white thinking.

R312 Gibson didn't get a standing ovation, did he?

R313 I personally don’t give a shit.

R317 wtf are you talking about?

#OscarssoGhetto

Sad that for all the talk of lack of Black presence in film and award nominations, and now an Oscars night that is chock full of talented Black people, it ended with violence, profanity, and what looks like, in Will Smith, an emotional breakdown. Sad because it gives fuel to bigots and will embarrass many in the Black community.

I long for the days when we are past racial divides and everyone can just be their authentic selves without fear of being targets of bullies. But, you have to admit, this Oscars had it all, including an elderly woman in a wheelchair in what appeared to be the early stages of dementia.

Black Americans have a huge presence in our culture, their influence in sports, music, language, literature, and other areas is profound. They are among the oldest of American groups, having been part of our history for over 400 years. They are only 13.4% of the US population but their impact is much larger. I'm sure Will Smith is in pain tonight, his tears revealed a troubled man. It has to feel terrible to have lost it in front of millions of people.

Chris Rock was off his game after the slap but he managed to keep going with professionalism and class.

Real men punch.

Bitches slap.

Apatow wasn't saying that the slap could've killed him. He was saying that Smith could have killed him instead of slapping him, he was so enraged.

I'm loving #OscarsSoBald

If a white man had done that there would be BLM bots rioting in the streets.

[quote] Will Smith knocked the shit out of Chris Rock

"Knock the shit out" is an ugly expression.

[quote] What do Serena and Venus Williams have to say about Will's violent behavior?

Venus was probably horrified. Thugrena on the other hand was probably thinking how she could punch an umpire or an opponent the next time she finds herself losing a match.

Then again her father, whom Will played, is violent ghetto trash too. I guess it takes a thug to play a thug.

See what Oscar diversity gets you?

Brawling blacks.

Go back to OscarSoWhite for a bit of civility.

#OscarsSoWhite = Oscars too classy for us black folks.

[quote]apparently Kris Rock made a joke about Jada l

Oh, dear.

Getting kind of Stormfronty in here.

He SLAPPED him? God what a fucking PUSSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm just glad they didn't script any jokes about Jada Pinkett Smith for Liza to read!

And now Will Packer is boasting about it on Twitter, knowing it's a pop culture moment. What a fucking asshole.

Our country is too violent.

R337 what is he saying

I know I shouldn't be, but I'm still kinda shocked the amount of people on social media praising Will Smith for assaulting a guy who made a tacky joke about his wife. We've ALL wanted to assault someone over the years but most of us know we can't do it because it's a crime. When you're a celeb I guess things work differently though and apparently a lot of people think this is the way our society should go. Could you imagine if everyone could just punch someone when they or their spouse felt offended? 90% of the world would have busted up faces

I hope Will doesn't clock next year's Best Actress if he doesn't like the name he reads out.

Will is being supported by many because it is now a crime to say anything about a black woman's appearance or her hair. It's worse than invading Ukraine or starting a war.

[Quote] I'm still kinda shocked the amount of people on social media praising Will Smith for assaulting a guy who made a tacky joke about his wife.

Really? We/the US have turned them into a fetish. Of course they are not going to fault. FETISH!

R226: It wouldn't at all surprise me, if that was the case.

I can just imagine what Joy Reid is going to say about this.

Will Packer's tweet.

Savage genes.

DL is now not only not joking about anything anymore, we're actively angry at someone named Will Packer for tweeting a joke?

This will push the invasion of the Ukraine out of everyone's mind for good.

I am really discussed with the Academy. They should have escorted out Will Smith that instant. Is there any doubt that some theater worker had even gone on stage because Chris Rock made a joke about the staff that he would already be sitting in jail by now. The fact that they didn't back up Chris Rock is equally discussing. What happened to there zero tolerance bullshit about bulling?

They should at the very least strip Will of his Oscar, kick him out of SAG, and Chris should seriously rethink filing a police report. Will is richer than god, but facing some jail time in court might take him down a notch.

Will Packer produced the show r348. He's not just someone named Will Packer.

You KNOW I wanted to do that to Crawford.

R350: Oh dear!

I haven't read the whole thread. Any begrudging respect for Will for not taking that shit? Or is it just SO out of line that it HAS to be vilified?

[quote] They should at the very least strip Will of his Oscar, kick him out of SAG, and Chris should seriously rethink filing a police report.

Black privilege, American hypocrisy, black hypocrisy, etc.

I didn't realize Smith had said "fucking" until he sat down, and I could read his lips. I was kinda hoping Smith had said "shut your n*gger mouth" just for the spectacle of watching racist hypocrites tying themselves in major knots rationalizing/justifying Smith's outburst.

[quore] Will is being supported by many because it is now a crime to say anything about a black woman's appearance or her hair.

Oh dear, I'm the one who thinks Beyonce wears a wig made in Sweden.

I feel strangely traumatised by all of this (yes, I'm being dramatic). Strangely, it's not as much by the slap/hit as it is the way Smith yelled and swore afterward, and then doubled down and did the same thing. It was like he was possessed. It was scary. On one hand, I feel bad for the guy, because he's going through something. On the other hand, you're filthy rich, have had access to everything for decades, and you were widely predicted to win (and won) a major award in your industry just minutes away. You couldn't manage a little class? Chris Rock was making jokes about people in the room (something that humourless industry needs more of), including Smith's wife. Do we honestly think he would have made the joke had he known about Jada's condition? I doubt it.

I've been watching the Oscars for decades. I'm pretty invested, which is why I can't oddly stop thinking about this. This has certainly given us something to talk about. I know they have been circling the drain for a while, but this may have just expedited things. This event was just a sad reminder of that reality. But, Hollywood will defend Smith's petulance, I imagine.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐬

In 2016, Chris Rock hosted the Academy Awards, where both Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, were the butts of some pointed barbs. Rock made fun of Pinkett Smith’s public avowal to boycott the show after another year of all-white acting nominees.

“Jada said she’s not coming. I was like, ‘Isn’t she on a TV show?’ Jada’s gonna boycott the Oscars? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties. I wasn’t invited!”

[quote] it HAS to be vilified?

R354 Of course violence HAS to be villified. America is an angry, violent society exactly because violence is not condemned.

Yeah, he was absolutely scary r357 when he went back to his chair. It's like he was triggered by something.

So the Academy has been losing buckets of money the last few years because viewers have dropped off the cliff. I am sure this little accident is no doubt going to give them that viral moment they have been dreaming about. But it will backfire. No one is talking about who won what awards. Even the media trying desperately to remind people it was about more than a fight talking about the rest of the night just falls on deaf ears.

Well congratulation Hollywood, you go the attention you wanted. Of course you traded your social status and class for Jerry Springier style label you will now forever be known for but hey, money is money and that's all you ever cared about anyway right? So just own it. Be the ghetto trash kind of show you are now.

You lost the worlds respect the instant the reward physical violence on stage with an award. Well done. Now everyone can point to this forever as a reason to never take your claims of social injustice seriously ever again when you fail to do something about it in your own house.

R357, Maybe Chris did know about her condition and still joked about it. So what? It is not like she has cancer/chemo or something. And if they are that sensitive about her bald head, wear a wig.

The whole thing was staged. It was like watching the WWF or something. Chris Rock is a homophobic moron so I would love to see him get owned though.

Not staged

[quote] Because Chris Rock bitched about her incessantly in his 2016 Oscar stand-up, when she boycotted the Oscars.

“Incessantly,” really? He made one joke.

Some of you are so sensitive, I can’t imagine what you’re doing on DL.

So Dave Chappelle can make anit-gay jokes and everyone comes to his defense. "you snowflakes cant take a joke" but Chris Rock makes a joke about another person of color and suddenly he deserved to be punched?

Everyone complained about the Oscars being so boring. Well, you wanted excitement, you got excitement.

celebs in the crowd reacting in real time

for some reason people are obsessed with The Rock's expression and he's now trending on twitter

One you let the HOOD in to the Oscars you get Black privilege?

I really hope Jessica Chastain's next win is for "The Slaps of Bonnie Franklin."

[quote] So Dave Chappelle can make anit-gay jokes and everyone comes to his defense. "you snowflakes cant take a joke" but Chris Rock makes a joke about another person of color and suddenly he deserved to be punched?

Who is saying that here? Most people here are condemning Will. It's the complete opposite on Lipstick Alley; they think he's a hero.

Omg

Why did he slap him rather than punch him? Does a slap have some sort of special meaning among black men? I remember Stanley Crouch infamously slapped Dale Peck hard in public once when Peck had given him a bad review. (And of course I cannot even count how many vicious face slappings David E. received in various upscale Santa Monica restaurants...)

If it’s not staged Will is seriously disturbed and needs help. Does he want to be Kanye west or something?

I still think it was planned by will and Chris before the show. They have not gotten this much attention in years.

It reminds me of this embarrassment.

Was that Lupita down there by Will as he’s cussing?

Violence at the Oscars how classy.

Yes, r375.

It’s an open palmed slap

[quote]Good. I know I will get shit for saying this, but it’s kind of refreshing to see a man actually stand up for his woman like that. Tired of men being total passive cucks these days.

I totally agree, of course along with that age of chivalry thinking, I woman should be treated that way because they are weak and cant take care of themselves. That's why they should be at home cooking, cleaning and taking care of kids instead of trying to be in the work place where they don't belong. Women who still think it's "refreshing" for men to commit violence on their behalf are the reason they will never be paid equally in the workforce. You want equal pay? Stop trying to have it both ways.

R377 She has to be a SJW, when will she tweet an apology for laughing at the violence?

I thought only gay men and woman slapped each other?

[quote]This will push the invasion of the Ukraine out of everyone's mind for good.

Or suggest that aggressor Smith is Putin to Rock's fellow comedian Zelensky.

The HOOD? This was Will Smith who has been to so many of these events without incident. I'm still stunned. People trying to say he was "going through" something. Honey, we're all going through something all the time. If he was super angry and rage-y and offended and triggered, I get that. People feel that way. Still, people control themselves.

I'm not really sure people are giving him a pass because he's black. There's been criticism from a broad spectrum. If anything, I do think the criticism, while rightfully serious, would have been even MORE heightened if Chris Rock were not a black man himself. Basically for those who think the racial angle is "Will's not being vilified enough because he's black," I'd argue that it's really "Will Smith isn't being vilified enough because the victim was a fellow Black man." And one he has history with.

THough who knows. There's criticism/vilification for the actual hit/violence. Which doesn't necessarily correlate directly with the criticism/vilification of the spectacle - doing it on stage, at the Oscars, live.

[quote]I thought only gay men and woman slapped each other?

I unashamedly slapped children. And I slapped them hard.

Smith LAUGHED at the joke. It's on tape. Then Jada SCOWLED. A performative SLAP followed. And finished with a RAGING fucking outburst in front of a room of peers.

There's no justification for violence. No justification for assault. ESPECIALLY OVER A FUCKING JOKE.

But look at Woke Twitter and you'll see the little shithead mobs defending it over her "illness" and "alopecia". Give me a fucking break. It's not a death sentence, or particularly uncommon. ALL bald men suffer from a form of it, yet those jokes are open season. I hope Rock makes a meal out of this.

[quote] It’s an open palmed slap

But it was a heavy slap. The sound was like a 'thwack' or a 'thud'.

☝️💯

Will and Smith were treated like the King (Richard) and Queen of the Oscars tonight.

They were better feted than Beyonce and Jay-Z who always get the premium treatment.

And yet, they basically changed the whole tone of the evening.

Also -- what was with all the 'Oscar' bumper screen cutaways during Smith's acceptance speech?

I wonder if it was multiple cameras pointed at various celebrities who either were flipping him the bird, turning away, or something dismissive??

I would like to thank the Academy for the prestigious award after my violent attack of another member on stage in front of millions of people. I knew Hollywood was color blind all these years because the only color that truly matters to you green.

Classic Scientology anger, and misdirected as usual. Also, what a dainty pussy for "slapping". If you are going to hit someone, hit them.

Chris Rock has said he won't press charges. Not surprised, but that's unfortunate. That Smith cunt needs to give his Oscar back.

Tacky, tacky, tacky and TRASHY. I don't care WHAT condition his wife has and since when does he really care?. She can speak up for herself, as we've all seen. This was fucking piss poor and I hope to see the last of this rat fucker clam.

I don't know about Twitterverse, but on Youtube Chris Rock is being celebrated for being such a man about it.

Isn't that ironic? the dude who thinks he's being a dude by hitting a dude looks like a pussy.

I'm just gonna leave this here... From 2002's Oscars: Will allegedly smacks Ethan Hawke.

Finally, a sensible take.

Riker made fun of my bald head too

Comic relief

Most black women have shitty hair. What's the big deal?

Tell me about it.

[quote] Most black women have shitty hair.

Compared to silkier hair African-American hair contains more lipids, or fats, but the lipids are less bonded which is why the hair loves oils so much.

Along with that, the follicle size is much thicker and it has a flattened elliptical cross section causing it to be curlier than other hair types

Well this is what you get when the Oscars are no longer white.

R399 Bill Nye

R399: who cares?

Lest anyone forget: Chris Rock did a whole documentary on Black women's hair. And the societal pressures and misunderstandings that come with it. He was WOKE before WOKE was even a thing.

Yet the Twitter mobs want to label him just as toxic as Smith. What in the ACTUAL fuck. Have people really gotten this irrational? I feel like I'm living in the fucking Twilight Zone.

[quote]the follicle size is much thicker and it has a flattened elliptical cross section causing it to be curlier than other hair types

Isn't that the same scientific description of pubic hair?

Cunts, the lot. Maybe not Chris Rock this one time.

I want to know Wanda Sykes take on this.

It's interesting that Wanda Sykes basically disappeared mid-show. Never to return. Even for a wrap up!

Maybe there's a story there?

OP, this is going fast, Get ready to launch Part 2, you know it is barreling that way. This story is going to have legs.

r406 Ooooh, I didn't know that. Let's dig for the story, bitches! She's not the shy type for sure. I'm intrigued as fuck now.

I am so tired of rich people getting away with everything. That's what this is really about.

[quote] One you let the HOOD in to the Oscars you get Black privilege?

Absolutely! Muted criticism, lots of rationalization/hypocrisy, little or no consequences for Smith's actions. Black privilege in action.

Jada slapped poor Wanda backstage and she fled the building.

R406 feel asleep before Brat Picture. All three hosts said a quick goodnight in their pajamas at the end. No story there

*Best Picture

the fact that this incident happened and then the show carried on with the assaulter winning an award later on shows what a joke all these award shows are and should never be taken seriously again

I only watch the music award shows for the live performances. The awarding of people for being entertainers has always seemed silly and pointless to me.

the 1 positive out of this is knocking down the prestige of the oscars altogether

Damn, now I wish Liza had hobbled up on stage and bitch slapped Ellen for calling her a drag queen.

Clearly, Will was out of line with his reaction. Also think he was on edge given that he was the front runner who was expected to win. It doesn't mean anything until they actually call your name. It's sad to think that he will always be remembered for this meltdown on live television after working so hard to get the award that meant so much to him.

OP here. Here is thread 2 as this is filling up fast.

How does Jada look like Tanya Robert’s now? What is going on here?

Was Jada supporting Jussie? She is our new moral center and yes I said it, royal queen of Hollywood.

This is why I stopped watching the show years ago. I woke up one day and realized what a wast of time to spend thinking about rich people patting themselves on the back over and over while acting like selfish idiots with the emotional maturity of a 12 year old. I only found out about this after coming here to the DL.

So I think in a too little too late shallow attempt to save face, the Academy will clamp down next year making it the most boring show ever. You cant top that Jerry Springer moment. They will continue to lose millions of viewers like they have the last few years.

Christ almighty, every nominee in that room is ON EDGE. And has been for every Oscar telecast since its inception. I've seen this justification on Twitter too and it's complete horseshit. Will summoned a level of rage that was borderline mental. Especially since he LAUGHED initially.

Inexcusable, TOXIC behavior.

Will went all Rick James on Chris' face. Didn't even bust a lip.

What did the five fingers say to the face?

This! [SLAP!]

(Also, I think Will was laughing at the series of jokes and was still laughing as CR said the GI Jane thing. He couldn't stop the second CR started with J, I don't think he actually laughed at that. So awkward all around.)

“To hell with black men who put black women down for the benefit of a mostly white audience. As if getting slapped on stage is worse than humiliating someone because they’re disabled”

WORLDSTAR OSCARS

I feel this way about this episode the same way I feel about Schmidt vs. Haberman. You're both assholes & I can't be bothered to pick sides.

The shitty thing about it is that for the people who won, this was an achievement of a lifetime, but all anyone will talk about was this hissy fit from an old, grouchy, get off my lawn old man. Since he's been in show biz for years, he ought to know that if he really wanted to hurt Rock, he could've told some teary eyed story about his wife's struggles and how the joke hit too close to home, rather than acting like asshole.

This Brooke Bonay is one stupid cunt. The epitome of an elite, white, virtual signaler. Plus all that 'ableist' talk that doesn't even factor the fuck in here.

Just a reminder……

Such rage over such an innocuous jibe - I’m thinking serious untreated mental illness

These 3 have a long history. Chris knows everything so he could have blown the walls out of the room with a clever response. He chose restraint instead or perhaps he's not as quick as he used to be.

[Quote]In a past monologue, he jibed: "Isn't she on a TV show? ... Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties. I wasn't invited." In that same run, he said that it was not fair that Smith had not received an award for his work on the movie Concussion, before joking it was, "also not fair Will was paid $20 million for Wild Wild West."

BOX OFFICE POISON!

I heard a little of Will's acceptance speech and he apologized to his colleagues and the academy, but I didn't hear that he apologized to Chris Rock. I have no respect for Will Smith after this outburst.

[quote] This Brooke Bonay is one stupid cunt.

Yes. She's loud, tedious and hangs around with hacks.

R105 Wahhh white men are constantly being treated UNFAIRLY Wahhh

The day white middle America realized Will Smith’s persona is fake..

I can't believe people STILL think this is a fake marriage.

"Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records" / "Well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too."

Guess that one needs an update.

Trashy.

Finally! Some drama at the Oscars! Wished had tuned in, or better yet had been there in person.

Two "brothers" going at it on national/worldwide television. You can take some people out of the hood, but..... Oh never mind.

This is fine. This is what black culture is. It's just violence. That's a wonderful message for everyone.

Bitch live with being bald, you thin skinned, thin skulled shithead. You precious piece of poop.

That macho display did not work for Will. What a maroon. What an oyster.

Did that dumb Brooke Boney cunt say Jada was DISABLED?? Because of alopecia??? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, the idiocy on Twitter.

Will smith dancing up a storm after the oscars….

No wonder Chris Rock just stood there and didn’t retaliate. If a lady slaps your face, no need to hit back.

Someone should have done this to that bastard Ellen after she humiliated Liza in front of millions, for a cheap laugh.

That Vanity Fair Oscar Party footage with the Smiths smiling and laughing and getting jiggy with it is BEYOND infuriating. And to see all those sycophants tow the line. A gisgusting level of enabling.

She doesn't have alopecia. Her eye brows and lashes tell the truth. She has common hair loss but she's counting on the ignorance of others to sell this lie.

Disgusting* (sorry it's late) I only hope some Hollywood heavyweights come out and eviscerate his behavior tomorrow.

So this is the joke : “Jada, I love you, G.I.Jane 2, can’t wait to see it”

that’s it??

He should have been dragged out by security. Anyone else would be. Why are celebrities free from responsibility for their actions? Heck, Alec Baldwin prove you can literally shoot someone and get away with it. This was assault, live on tv for all to see. What kind of example is that setting for kids? Or people in general.

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Lol Meryl's shocked horrified face is everything.

[quote] Meryl's shocked horrified face is everything.

Overacting as usual.

If anyone has been paying attention, the whole TONE of the show this year was intended to be different. Producer Will Packer (whose most illustrious credits include “Straight Outta Compton” and “Girls Trip”) promised a “respectful, upbeat” ceremony.

He also hired “Ghetto Gastro” to help cater the Governors Ball.

No wonder.

R452 Meryl’s all about showing her acting dominance by winning best reaction shot to a slap.

I take it Will Smith IS NOT having this morning after experience today?

The only way that thug should be allowed into the Oscar’s next year is if he’s dressed in this outfit.

R453 HAHAHAHA

I mean...OF COURSE, I wish Will Smith would've shown some restraint--at least until the afterparty. THIS will be his and Chris Rock's legacy for now. That's gonna be a wrap for the Smith family. So FUCKING dumb.

Was this a publicity stunt?

I'm imagining the SNL version: Enraged Will trips and falls over the endless folds of Jada's dress and gets lost in the seafoam. Liza rushes over to the rescue in her electric wheelchair but shifts into the wrong gear and rolls over Will's head, crushing it like a rotten cantaloupe.

R446 You could have amply made your point without the pejorative.

I just woke up to this news. My only thoughts are:

1. There is clearly longstanding bad blood between Smith and Rock.

2. Will Smith is from Philly and Jada is from Baltimore. Even though they’re intelligent and filthy rich, they’re ghetto as fuck. At the same time, Will’s inability to control his emotions has been on display for a while.

R461 We REALLY should just ignore trash like R446. Don't give him the pleasure.

R440 omfg.

[quote] Bitch live with being bald, you thin skinned, thin skulled shithead. You precious piece of poop.

🤣😂🤣😂🤣

R462 This is the SECOND time Rock said something about his wife at the Oscars. No excuse but there's your bad blood.

[quote]I'm stunned. Just stunned. How was he not dragged out of there and arrested?

Really R120? Are you Rip Van Winkle? Where have you been living for the last five years? No one can drag out and arrest a black man in the US? Even if it's 100% justified. They are untouchable.

Well I guess we can be happy Chris didn’t say anything mean about Meghan Markle, so Prince Harry didn’t have to defend her by assaulting him.

R463 "Never turn away from an injustice".

That's fine r351, and thank you for the information, but my point stands. Not that long ago, DL would be full of jokes about this, because Will Smith smacking Chris Rock on live TV is fucking hilarious.

No one on DL jokes anymore, though. There are no jokes. There's nothing but trolls trying to turn this into a crime of epic proportions ("he could have been killed! Chris Rock was as defenseless as someone in a wheelchair!") while also being as racist as possible ("black ghetto thug n*ggers are ruining the Oscars, we must make them all white again!").

Earlier in this thread someone joked "Even at a Dean Martin roast, people weren't getting slapped!" and he got scolded by people grimly informing him that THIS IS NOT A ROAST, which was just another way of saying THIS IS NOT FUNNY, HOW DARE YOU.

Then when Will Packer made a snide joke about it, it happened again. HOW DARE HE, THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE TO JOKE ABOUT.

It's not unacceptable to joke about, it's fucking hilarious, and because all of you grim, humorless, nasty trolls want us to be outraged, you won't let us laugh about it. You'll whine incessantly about SJWs not letting people make jokes anymore, but you're doing the exact same fucking thing.

I'm just gonna leave this here.....

I didn't watch the Oscars tonight, since they long ago ceased to hold any interest for me, but, passing through the living room this evening, I saw the clip of the assault playing on television, and thought to myself, 'well, that's a novel way to try to draw interest back to the Oscars.'

I think it was staged.

[quote]Interesting that he just slapped him and don’t punch him. Just like the little girl he is

Well, considering his bigger size, greater strength and the world class fight training he got to play Muhammad Ali, he could have landed a serious punch to knock Rock out cold. The bitch slap was done with intention to humiliate, not to hurt.

Say what you will, everyone knows Sidney Poitier would not be happy about this and is probably spinning in his grave.

No one believes super lezzie Jada has alopecia, she over did dying her hair blonde and ruined her hair. The way BLM needs to have blonde hair every time.

If it was a white guy punching Chris Rock his career would be over right now.

[quote]We REALLY should just ignore trash like [R 446].

I emailed Mediapolis this morning to ask why we can't type some random person's name that starts with an E, but we CAN have every single goddamned motherfucking Oscar thread peppered with people calling blacks "n*ggers."

If they can filter some dipshit nobody's name, they can filter the n-word, "f*ggot" and a few others while they're at it. They used to.

[quote] There's nothing but trolls trying to turn this into a crime of epic proportions

R469 steps right up to castigate EVERYFUCKINGBODY for criticizing violence and violent behavior with deplorable racist, hypocritical rationalization.

R470 That fucker wasn't a reporter. He is a well known Ukrainian prankster whose whole career is fucking with celebrities for hits.

[quote]At least Kanye West wasn’t there

LOL. At least Kanye would have said "Imma let you finish" before he bitch slapped him.

R476 DL is a cesspool of racism and bigotry. "White fags", "you faggots", "Jewboy" "slimy Jews", "crackers", are just some of the pejoratives regularly posted. Have you protested to Mediapolis about those as well?

Will Smith is going to get away with this for ONE single reason. The fact that Chris Rock did not return the slap. If he did, the situation would have been unsalvageable for Smith. But now this will be all swept under the rug.

It was a silly GI Jane joke, not something anybody should get the least bit upset over. It wasn't mean or hurtful or even in bad taste. Will Smith is thin skinned and childish. And this fucker won best actor and the proceeded equate his character Richard Williams protecting his family to justify that he was protecting his family. From what? A dumb joke?

People are now going to argue that Hollywood and the Academy Awards has twisted itself into a pretzel to make itself more inclusive over the last several years, and this is the behavior we have to expect from those getting nominated. Will Smith is trashy and having spent over 30 years in Hollywood hasn't changed his in any substantive ways. If he was armed would he have shot Chris Rock like a rap gangsta?

No one gives any fucks for the Oscars and haven't for years. The fake slap clearly was meant to bring interest to this long dead joke of a ceremony. After two days no one will care again.

My sister passed away from cancer last year. The joke was so terrible and distasteful. I’d be pissed too.

Will looks manic at the after party. Trying so hard to look like everything is okay.

Will smith and family posing at the after party.

First of all Jada is not ill, let alone with cancer. It was a benign joke about a shave head.

Why isn’t her scalp patchy. I had a coworker with alopecia and even if she shaved her head it would not be smooth like Jada’s.

Thank you r428. The news is now covering this from the perspective that Will was pissed about the GI Jane joke, no, its way more than that. This is years of built up resentment he has inside, totally exploding

Chris rock should threaten a lawsuit and make Smith pay millions.

That's what I would do. Emotional distress and all that....

You would think he would be more offended at Regina’s joke about his open marriage. He wouldn’t dare slap her in public.

R486 LOL. So their tranny son is wearing a black cape and gloves like fucking Darth Vader. What a sicko family.

Ironically one of Chris Rock’s routine is how some blacks ruin it for others. Will showed his ass last night and ruined the show for others. Quest Love won the next award but people were still reeling from the slap so he got overlooked.

I’m so over this racist, conservative forum. It’s irredeemable at this point.

That meme of the shocked faces was not from last night it was when Warren and Faye screwed up Best Picture.

The fact that people are attempting to normalize violence because a rich, black man perpetrated it for an audience of millions on live tv in America is revolting.

As someone else pointed out, the fact that the man who carried out the violence was immediately thereafter celebrated and acknowledged with a standing ovation, and he carried on partying! is no different than the violent outbursts exhibited at political rallies, egged and abetted by certain fascist political candidates in the USA’s recent history.

Following the #MeToo era, the Academy adopted a code of behaviour for its recipients. Will Smith’s violent behaviour at the VERY ceremony where he was promptly then awarded an Oscar violated that code.

Thus, his Oscar can be revoked. And it should be. If the Academy does not address this, then they are hypocritical liars, and they deserve to be completely debased.

As does Will Smith. His actions at the 2022 Oscars were appalling. He overshadowed other people at the event and made it all about HIM and his fragile masculinity.

The only thing missing is a 6’4” bald security guy jumping between them.

I know, those pictures of reactions are old, those people aren't even there

I didn't watch king Richard and won't pay to watch anything he's in from now on.

Will Smith is a cuck, and his bitch of a wife tried to destroy a Youtuber's life because he dared mock the humorless bitch for pimping out her then small children for fame.

Meanwhile Jada will continue to suck dicks and get fucked on the side. Probably a decent, respectable woman wouldn't be defended like that. Sad.

The Grammies have been a trash-fest for quite a while, so this was to be expected.

[quote] I’m so over this racist, conservative forum. It’s irredeemable at this point

I’m so over people using the amount of melanin in their skin as an excuse to perpetrate vile behaviour.

The pendulum has swung so far that under the threat of “racism”, people feel Jussie-fied to do all sorts of unacceptable things. They Will attempt to get away with violent, vicious actions and then point the finger at those who call them out.

Enough.

Keep my wife's name outya fucking mouth!

Oh, the red line has been crossed.

Hey Will, keep ya wife's bisexual pussy outa lesbians mouths.

I thought it was staged right up until the moment Will said “fucking”

What does Sally Fields think about this crazy debacle?

The way he yelled after he sat down again to me was more disturbing than the slap. He sounded unhinged. His actions were unacceptable for the place he was in.

Oh my, the way Denzel talks lol...the devil comes for you when you're at your highest or some such shit.

He did it to himself!!! Take some fucking responsibility. This is why the world is fucked up.

Jada was fucking Jaden’s friend. Will’s anger has a misdirected.

Will Smith has Denzel Disease.

He is the savior of black acting.

He needs MORE therapy.

Over on Facebook conservative America praised Will for defending his “property “….

Some people are so stupid and still think this was staged

Here’s why this is good

I read that will went to the jungle to get high when he was having problems with Jada. He took that plant that gives you that lsd effect.

#OscarsSoViolent

Defending Will Smith means you're 1) pandering to what you think is politically correct; 2) think that there's an honor code dictating that a bad joke about one's wife means you must resort to violence.

Chris isn't pressing charges....he should.

In slow motion it looks completely fake.

I wonder if Iron Dyke ordered him to do it?

Every one of the Smiths are fucking awful. If ever there needed to be a family who needed to be offed for the good of America, they is it.

[quote]If ever there needed to be a family who needed to be offed for the good of America, they is it.

Dude! How can you say that?

(when the Kardashians still exist!)

R520

You must be a Trump supporter.

The low IQ magats and trump supporters on SM have praised Will Smith…yikes

The Kardashians is only about 10% the annoying anal wart on America's ass that the Smiths are. I would choose the K's every time over the horrible Smiths. And fuck off with your Trump garbage, psychotic cunts. Every day until you cunts die, it will always be them. Fucking psychotic garbage.

People aren't bothered by Regina Hall's joke about LeBron James' hair, why are they bothered by Rock's joke about Jada's hair?

Lipstick Alley is thrilled with Will for defending black women.

Not to worry, I was just having a joke with you, my man (R524).

[quote] Well I guess we can be happy Chris didn’t say anything mean about Meghan Markle, so Prince Harry didn’t have to defend her by assaulting him.

Well, the Harkles weren’t there, so…

Too bad it wasn’t a white actor who slapped Chris Rock. Then we could have all been treated to an endless media frenzy about privilege.

Chris Rock could have made jokes about Sparkle's chicken legs. That would have brought down the house. Her legs are actual toothpicks.

Making fun of someone being bald because of an autoimmune disorder is not funny.

#OscarAngerManagementSoNeeded!

Well at least Demi Moore is waking up to a good morning, she hasn’t been this relevant in Hollywood in decades!

[quote]Making fun of someone being bald because of an autoimmune disorder is not funny.

I'm genuinely curious, do we know if it is due to an autoimmune disorder or is it traction alopecia?

R530, someone said they’d seen better legs dangling over the side of a nest. She’s so proud of them, too.

She doesn't have alopecia. Girl just died her hair too many times. She is 100% a fraud, which is redundant to say as she is also a Scientologist.

Why did some special people get cocktail seating at the Oscars?

The incident just illustrates Chris Rock's old "black people vs. niggers" routine.

R534, only her hairdresser know for sure.

r531, Rock was making fun of her butch appearance.

Am I the only one that saw the season premier of The Equalizer?

Will owes Dana an apology as well.

r537, without the Golden Globes dinner, it made the Oscars more intimate.

If it was so hard to deal with short hair, Jada could have worn a wig. Black women adore wigs.

Smith didn’t “knock the shit out of” Chris Rock. He slapped him.

Telling that his defenders have to big it up and make it seem more macho.

[quote]Girl just died her hair too many times.

Oh, dear.

I hope Will Smith slapped himself when he got home because he laughed at the joke also.

Seriously, read the comments on the Dailymail FB acct all these backward conservatives defending Will is atrocious, they really do love their violence,honor and guns.

R544 Oh, dear yo twat. Muthafucking tampon waste.

I hope Meryl Streep wins the Oscar next year for best reaction to Chris Rock being bitch slapped!

I didn't know Will Smith was in this thread. I know you've had a rough night, man, but pace yourself R536/R547.

Someone on Twitter (don’t remember who) was there and said that Denzel actually gave Will a pretty stern talking to during the commercial break and warned him about his behavior and language.

That was Kidman.'s reaction.

R549 Nice deflection on being an unfunny "oh, dear" troll. Drink some bleach, dear.

Smith showing up at after parties reinforces his belief that he can do whatever he wants. Not leaving the theater after showing his ass to the world meant he didn't think what he did was anything that needed to be addressed. Ditto returning to the stage to accept the award. Ditto attending parties. Hey, just another award winning night by an A lister.

It's this nonchalant attitude that is disturbing. I know I'm in a minority.

R548 that was the envelope fuck up year, not last night. The only audience reaction I’ve seen is Nicole’s.

R506...."They don't like each other. They REALLY don't like each other."

Well, I guess instead of the train station like last year, they should have held this year’s Oscars in a boxing ring.

An assault happened with millions of witnesses. Surely Chris Rock doesn't have to 'press charges' for something to happen?

I can’t decide what to think of this until I read Sarah Silverman’s opinion.

Right, shouldn’t someone be able to make a citizen’s arrest based in witnessing a crime.

The assault was beyond acceptable. And shouting obscenities from your seat at a public, internationally televised event that is not all about you is one of the worst examples of the decline of civilization.

The only pictures from the Oscars I wanted to wake up to this morning are Will Smith’s mug shot.

[quote]Oh my, the way Denzel talks lol...the devil comes for you when you're at your highest or some such shit.

The devil made me sleep with all those other women, Pauletta!

It was simply a slap, hardly an assault.

Shouldn’t Will be slapping the person actually screwing his wife ?

R555 Fields approves of that joke.

God made him do it. It was out of love for his family to fiercely protect them...yada, yada. It should have been resolved after the show, off screen.

The slap heard ‘round the world, well unless you’re in the United States that feels the need to extensively censor stuff like this because we are to puritanical to hear some “shits” and “fucks.”

r553, or it was staged. Maybe not the slap (although I think it's possible) but the confrontation.

So he won an Oscar for playing a wifebeater in a biopic Hollywood turned into a Woke black rags to riches story, & everyone's OK with that, but you're not OK with a probably staged slap between two adult men?

Shouldn’t he at least be fined by the FCC for swearing, didn’t Charlie Rocket get a huge fine when he said Fuck on SNL?

[quote]I know I shouldn't be, but I'm still kinda shocked the amount of people on social media praising Will Smith for assaulting a guy who made a tacky joke about his wife.

The same people who will rend their metaphorical garments on Twitter when young men kill for the crime of being "dissed."

[quote]Clearly, Will was out of line with his reaction. Also think he was on edge given that he was the front runner who was expected to win.

I can't imagine the hardship.

That language was no scripted.

Compared to how they act every fucking day! Will's bitch slap was nuthin'.

Hasn’t any of you been slapped before ? Such wimps

I wasn't a slap slap.

This certainly doesn't tarnish Will Smith's reputation as being an insufferable asshole.

It wasn't a slap slap.

It wasn’t even a punch . It didn’t hurt I bet

I say lean in to the slapfest and make the Real Housewives of New Jersey next year's co-hosts.

#OscarsSoViolent

slap my face and call me a communist!

Op, he didn’t ‘knock the shit out’ of anyone. T’was a mere slap.

I play rougher with my trades

Would have been more acceptable to y’all if Jada got on stage and kicked in Regina Hall’s cunt?

Go on, R582

Will is already being excused. He and Chris will probably be made to do a little public make-up, and then a cute routine at next year's Oscars.

Doesn't change the fact that it was a disgusting trash display and everyone saw it.

What if Wanda Sykes has been the one to say that joke?

And, I hope Jada realizes that she has to stay bald the rest of her life now even though she's lying about having alopecia.

I hope Chris Rock gets millions from this, he can say he's suffering from the emotional distress, the anxiety of potential future attacks from audience members whenever he has to do stand up etc. He's traumatized!

If he's smart, he's calling his lawyer now.

he reveals himself to be utter trash.

he makes his parents look bad, his race, his everything.

He won’t get millions from a mere slap. Don’t be silly. R587

R101 From the gal who held up the bloody severed head of the president, but Kathy does make a good point.

Of course he will! R589, it was the humiliation and attack seen all over the world! He's traumatized! He can't perform now! he's afraid now!

He will also make a statement where he "forgives" will in exchange.

Chris should make this asshole pay thru the nose.

Smith is loaded, a few million is chump change to him.

He gifted some actor 5 million dollars when that actor was going thru a hard time.

[quote]Shouldn’t he at least be fined by the FCC for swearing, didn’t Charlie Rocket get a huge fine when he said Fuck on SNL?

I think FCC might be a bit laxed these days compared to the time Rocket was on SNL. Jenny Slate dropped an F bomb on SNL and wasn't fined by FCC due to some kind of clause regarding TV shows that air after 10 pm having less strict rules to adhere to.

Several different things going on here.

First of all, to the racists who’ve infested this board, who’ve used this as an excuse to post their vile, disgusting (and usual) remarks: fuck off. Fuck right off. You’ve never been welcome here. You’re shit that’s learned to breathe and walk; but you’re still stinking of the shit you’re made from.

Secondly, what Will Smith did. Totally unacceptable, and what a bunch of craven sycophants were in the audience, not calling him out. It was a joke. If you don’t like the joke, heckle or walk out. Nobody has the right to walk up and physically assault the comedian. It’s set a truly nasty precedent, and the organisers should’ve sent in security to escort Will Smith and party out of the event, with no re-admittance. The audience should’ve turned on him: verbally and not physically, in case I need to say that. The organisers should’ve refused to present an award to him, even if it meant going on stage and saying ‘due to events this evening, we have cancelled the category’. And, yes, he should’ve been arrested for assault.

Thirdly, the utter hypocrisy of Will Smith. Hiding behind his god. A god whose message was ‘turn the other cheek’, not ‘slap the comedian’s face’. Claiming to stand up for his family and defend them, like some 50s White suburban heterosexual, putting the little lady firmly in the kitchen. His wife has agency, she’s capable of standing up for herself, she doesn’t need a man to do it for her. And let’s not forget that this makes Will Smith the bully: standing behind the ‘prestige’ he might have as a money spinner for White Hollywood, to get away with conduct that should be acknowledged as unforgivable. And bullying, and unmanly (if you like) to pick on someone who’s hardly going to start a fist fight anyway, and to give them a big girly slap before flouncing off, smirking.

What an appalling evening. Just shameful.

what the fuck was bradley cooper saying to will smith?

I want to know.

I hate that it's so hard not to see this through a racist lens

#staged is trending on Twitter. Everyone knows the slap was faked/staged.

R553 You're not alone. We live in a time when people are not being punished for bad behavior. Of course it's empowering.

Joy Reid is a racist cunt, R345. She'll blame White people. Like she always does.

Also, why do so many of you not understand that the purpose of a slap is to humiliate the target by making him look like a bitch?

R598's mother was a black whore and her father was her sibling and pimp. She knows this shit well.

END.

r595, it isn't hard at all.

If the Smiths really wanted to send a message Jada should have gone on stage herself and slapped Chris across the face with her giant cock.

Consumed by his Evil 👿 Thetans

Hollywood really did show themselves last night. Not that we didn't already know it...but it was a perfect example of the huge hypocrisy, with all their virtue signaling and sanctimonous bullshit. They are the fakest people.

[quote] I hope Meryl Streep wins the Oscar next year for best reaction to Chris Rock being bitch slapped!

I wasn’t even in attendance this year! I believe that was my reaction shot of poor Glennie doing “Da Butt”.

Big phonies!

I hope there was a coupon for unlimited psychiatric services in the Oscar gift bag. The self-loathing piece of shit that is Will Smith, seriously needs help asap.