Chris Rock: ‘Ugly’ Will Smith impersonated ‘a perfect person for 30 years’

So strange that he let the mask slip on the biggest night of his life. Such destructive behavior.

Umm, speak for yourself Chris.

I’m not ugly, as I’ve never once in my life slapped another human being across the face, publicly or privately.

R2... honey, you're here. Get real.

Will trying to be a hero for his wife that night. What was he thinking— oh wait he didn’t think about it

Have to say I have always thought Rock was very unattractive. Smith isn’t much better. Team neither.

Hahaha, GOOOOOOOOOOO Chris!!!

I want to see him bring Will Smith DOWN.

No, Chris, Will and Jada are far uglier than most of us ☹️

But ya ARE ugly, R2!

Ya ARE!!!

I thought it was disgusting and poorly handled afterwards...

I've lost respect and am no longer a fan. However, I am interested to see how quickly Hollywood welcomes him back and forgets....as well as his so called fans.

I loathe Dr. Phil but as his punishment, he should have to sit for a public viewing as discuss why he is such a angered person.

I blame August Alsina.

[Quote] I am interested to see how quickly Hollywood welcomes him back and forgets....as well as his so called fans.

A black man slapped another black man. Both will be fine. If Chris Rock were white, though...

^ That's dumb ☹️

I don't think that Will Smith actually has any fans.

Everyone knows he's a cunt.

R11 maybe but it was so public and seen by everyone around the world. It will definitely help Rock which, as a result, is good.

Will Smith has long been past his prime as a movie star. He can do a black On Golden Pond soon, and the slap won't stop that.

Chris Rock hit on exactly the reason I always disliked Will Smith.

Smith really has been impersonating the perfect person for decades, impersonating so hard you can see the hurt behind it. It's sad that that's what it takes to be the perfect Black man White men like, and I can't imagine what keeping up that charade of goofy, grinning, get-along good guy costs. Still, if that's his bread and butter and has made him and a narrowly talented wife some $400M, and a license to print more, and a shield against all criticism, he might keep in mind his 30 years of practice and bite his tongue and keep his hand in his pocket before attacking a black comedian whose nothing joke made him snap.

^ wow...says a lot!

^ For $400 million I'll pretend to be anything you want me to be

Have to say Chris was very professional. Kept his cool and carried on with the show. If someone had hit me live on TV, I'd have reacted like this DL icon here:

[Quote] It's sad that that's what it takes to be the perfect Black man White men lik

Is Will Smith's MO a million miles away from Tom Cruise's?

“Both men”

?

@r19, You mean you'd act like a Republican who lost an election?

These comments by Chris Rock are actually pretty kind and empathetic.

^ Yeah, he's even a better guy then I had previously thought

Funny that the slap happened at a glitzy celeb event...in the heart of Liverpool.

Clearly didn't know where they were or what their host city was like, did they, the soft gobshites.

I hope Will and Jada drop dead.

Then I hope Jaden and Willow take the money and overdose, and drop dead.

Good riddance to all of them!!!

He needs to address his anger issues privately and eventually, privately apologize to Rock, SINCERELY.

But if he’s anything like other men I’ve met with rage issues, that’s never gonna happen.

People like this never believe they did anything wrong, when they freak out and physically go after other people.

As a matter of fact, most of them forget it even ever happened, and expect everyone else around them to do exactly the same.

The ONLY reason this is different, is because a camera was pointed on stage, on a live broadcast, while millions around the globe were watching.

I can almost guarantee you he is a fucking nightmare behind closed doors.

You're absolutely right, R27.

It's funny, but even months later, this incident still pisses me off.

He ruined the show, he ruined a very special night for the other award nominees, and most of all he assaulted someone on stage in front of a world wide audience.

This guy should fucking be in jail right now.

ASSHOLE!

I love Chris Rock because he's got these types of insights. Being a movie star is an unnatural state. Being a moviestar is an enormous amount of pressure for 3 decades and it fascinates Smith cracked at the zenith of his career so publicly.

PS. There is good reason why Jada Smith is not a moviestar and is only hired because of her marriage to Will Smith.

JADA IS POWERFUL!

The worst thing Will Smith can do is open up on a DrPhil talk show.

Bad idea.

This was the slap literally seen and heard around the world. It caused Rock huge embarrassment, pain and suffering with emotional distress.

He's working on a settlement, right?

R31 as punishment and to embarrass. Why do you think it would be a bad ideal (for sympathy)?

Smith has received bad counsel from his family and peers during and after this incident.

Smith is responsible for his own behavior but he is surrounded by people who are advising him in bad faith.

Fucking haters, including Denzel Washington. WTF.

[quote]So strange that he let the mask slip on the biggest night of his life. Such destructive behavior.

Such well calculated behavior to place himself back in the public's eye.

I hadn't thought about him in years.

The first thing Smith should apologize for is his cunt of a wife.

The DrPhil show is a bad idea because although Smiths bad behavior has damaged his career, DrPhil is a sideshow carnival barker and his tacky show is beneath Will Smith and Chris R.

I've always admired Chris Rock for the thought and careful consideration of his work. Some big profiles of him have made much if his long process if refining jokes and narrative and performance, a relentless going back and reworking and reworking again. It's not altogether uncommon among comedians but his colleagues have been more than a little impressed at the same, not relying on past laurels but more as a process of starting over each time we each tour, eqch new set of material.

I think his response to the Smith slap, unfolding as it has reflects the same quite serious approach to his comedy. If there's a comedian who understands that comedy turns on unveiling a truth it's Rock. And see the same it seems when he's not being so funny.

Will Smith does not need to be publicly embarrassed further. He took care of that all by himself.

[quote]DrPhil is a sideshow carnival barker and his tacky show is beneath Will Smith and Chris R.

Well, Dr. Oz is kinda busy right now.

R37, I know and that's what makes it even better! But, only to wish...

R37, I love the use of sideshow carnival barker....super good!

R37, that made me day....

Talk about the six degrees of slaparation.

Good response. Chris Rock is smart. Will is ambitious. Agree with the above that the act always seemed to be barely concealing the misery underneath. Closeted gay man pretending his life is ok - it all fell apart when the conflicting demons (loyal, straight husband vs. closeted gay man) broke and he didn’t know what two do logically. The confusion over what role he should play could be seen in his actions - he decided he needed to “act” like the loyal, butch husband and instead overreacted and ruined his career.

It’s a sick life - no sane, happy person would want it.

[quote] Talk about the six degrees of slaparation.

Speaking of, I demand REPARATIONS!

He thought slapping somebody was how heterosexual husbands usually react to jokes about his wife.

Right, R47. I was surprised by how little attention his choice of a slap received. What man slaps another man? A pillow fight gone nasty at a drag queen sleepover? A Looney Tunes glove slap - extra points for French accent and a white gñove?

It's not exactly among the first 5 or 10 acts of aggression I imagine from a threatened/challenged straight man.

A sissy slap is an act of unprovoked violence just as a knockout punch is. This physical act of violence was immediately followed with threats screamed at full volume.

Someone explained in another thread that this incident is an example of workplace violence, and typically, management didn't correct it.

This was not just a water cooler unscripted moment, it was an act of career suicide from a high profile entertainer.

Smith charges the stage? Assaults a peer? That should be the end of it.

The stage curtain comes down, the broadcast goes to commercials and the Smiths get removed.

Cancellation or postponement of the ceremony is an option.

Suppose Chris Rock was not a level headed person and decided to choke Smith out...would that satisfy everyone's curiosity?

But now you know, no one is permitted onstage unless accepting an award or giving one out.

There can be no exception made for anyone.

You know what else is ugly? The standing ovation the entire room full of idiot kowtowers gave him.

R50 Exactly, The standing ovation is what annoys me the most, more than the slap itself. It was like a second worse slap than the first.

R19....Ohhh...I felt so bad for that little guy. The other one growled like a lion!

Will Smith has built up a lot of good will from the three decades he's worked in the entertainment industry. He's made a lot of money for the entertainment industry and his colleagues wanted to support him.

He used up all his good will in that one moment. His wife, has no good will. She's got a reputation for bad and entitled behavior. She's hired because her husband is or was a high profile movie star.

Not quite true. Jada has pivoted to talk show host pretty deftly.

What happens if someone has a medical emergency? Does the show just go on? There are contingencies for unscripted moments.

Allowing Rock to be assaulted then threatened and the show to just continue was the incorrect choice.

r5 its totally unfair to everyone who has worked their entire careers for that night to stop the show, no matter how you cut it. The show is not just for the people at home.

I don't know I think tom cruise has will smith beat on the fake public persona contest!

since you know he IS the public face of a evil organization, is a dead beat father and 3 wives come and gone you know the ones who had to LIVE with the man tells quite a different story than his public persona...

I think Rock is right, I've always thought Will Smith was a nasty arrogant cunt parading as a jokey fun friendly guy

I suspect he did it because he’s seen as a touchy feely menschy weepy got cheated on type.

I think he did it to bolster his masc cred. A cynical calculated move. But he’s in such a bubble of fame and celebrity he didn’t realize what the consequences would be.

What was the role of Scientology in this?

In the words of Oprah, "He's gone. He's gone. The boy is gone."

As said above the ironic part is most heterosexual men would punch, the slap made Will look even more ridiculous and like his wife wears the pants.

No r62, hetero men mean a slap as an insult. You punch another “real man.” You slap a womanly man, like you would a woman.

It’s called a “bitch slap.”

Boy once the mask falls it really makes a thud.

r63 I have heard the term but in my years of seeing hetero men fight and a lot of bar fights I have never seen one slap another man.

Will Smith is just an uncle Tom who belted Chris so whites could enjoy it vicariously. Whites have always hired blacks to whip other blacks.

With the revelations that had already come out about Mr and Mrs Smith and their extra-curricular activities over the course of last year, Mr Smith probably thought he had to DO something. Mrs Smith never lifted a finger to stop him. They're both CUNTS.

With Chris Rock in the ascendancy now and with Chappelle and everyone standing with him we'll see how it goes for Mr and Mrs Smith in the future. They probably have enough money to dick around doing nothing for the rest of their lives and buy the kids way out of jail and into rehab when it comes to that (because it will).

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is still hoping and praying that Rock doesn't SUE THEIR DICKS OFF, because he'll get them.

Will Smith needs to be publicly humiliated. I want to put him on a sissy panties then shove a pink dildo up his ass. And record a video of his moaning while a pink dildo have been going in and out of his pussy.

Will Smith will end up making another Bad Boys movie because Martin Lawrence could use the money.

[QUOTE]As said above the ironic part is most heterosexual men would punch, the slap made Will look even more ridiculous and like his wife wears the pants.

I suspect Smith had some calculus going on in his mind. He trained to be Muhammad Ali, the GOAT boxer and he KNEW how to deliver damaging, high velocity punches to opponents, never mind "sucker slapping" a much smaller man, a comic. Somewhere between his laughter at the joke and Jada's scowl, Smith got propelled. Here he was going up there to knock Rock's block off and teach him a lesson when he probably realized his trained punch could land Rock in the hospital with grievous injuries or worse. Hence the open slap.

Smith is just a self-regarding, useless MOFO with an even more useless and highly embarrassing family.

Story is wrong. Quote attributed to Rock was by Chappelle.

Ah, R71, the quotes seemed confused in OP's link. Thanks.

These people disgust me.

Yeah, I would be surprised if Rock responds at all. He's probably working on a HUGE settlement in exchange for a phony, Hollywood patch up/mea culpa from Smith. It will be televised, of course......and Netflix will give them both millions for the rights.

"Ugly as the rest of us" is an existential statement and Chapelle is a genius for saying it . Those ideologically driven morons who claim to speak for the gay community tried to cancel him. They are harmful as any totalitarian goons.

^ You men the "totalitarian goons" you worship?

Chris is right.

^ Chris didn't say it, Dave did

R78 Well, then the way the pagesix article writes it out, it doesn't make that clear. Makes it seem like Chris said it. The original DM article says it's Dave. Ok then. Dave is right. (And so is Chris).

Hah! I was hoping that Rock would be asked to host the AAs and he'd turn them down.

The fucking nerve of the AMPAS. The very institution and audience that was party to a crime asked the victim/survivor to rescue them. It would absolve them if Rock agreed to host or appear in any capacity.

Rock knew that and he told them to go to hell.

Good.

Yeah, I know the AMPAS asked Rock to host knowing he probably would turn them down; that they had to be on record as making the gesture. But that they put themselves in that position in the first place and had to give Rock the opportunity to tell them to fuck-off, tickles me.

Rock's observations during his act haven't always landed with me, but most of them have, and it was always obvious to me, throughout his career, that he is very smart.

Thuggish behavior on what would have been the biggest night of his career ruined in an instant. Should have stayed home

[quote]He's probably working on a HUGE settlement in exchange for a phony, Hollywood patch up/mea culpa from Smith.

He isn't working on a settlement. He's going to whine about what happened that night for the next 30 years, and it's going to backfire on him sooner rather than later. He'll be like Jackie Mason, who wouldn't shut up about the "finger" incident on Ed Sullivan.

The people who got overly worked up about the slap at the time are already starting to forget why they cared so much, and after next year's Oscars go off without another incident, even more people will start to forget and move on. It helps that a lot of the people online who pretended to be traumatized and enraged were trolls trying to use the event to push a certain agenda, or just rile people up. (Just as I typed that, r81 shows up to prove my point.)

People forget that Chris Rock has a history of going after others for no reason other than what appears to be a massive, well-preserved chip on his shoulder. Even after he got slapped, he made some crack about the winners he announced, calling one of them "some white guy" instead of saying his name, and the guy wasn't even white. He's not sympathetic in the industry.

He's probably hailed as a hero among comedians these days, many of whom were absolutely certain that they were going to get assaulted 24/7 because of what Will Smith did, because no one can see an event like this without internalizing it and making it all about themselves anymore, and indulging in their own personal persecution fantasies.

^ Talk about an agenda, you're a mess

I doubt it will ever be forgotten. That’s an assault captured live views worldwide

I recently chatted at a party with someone involved with that king movie. Strong sense of feeling devastated by what Will did, ruining it for everyone who worked on the film.

[quote]He'll be like Jackie Mason, who wouldn't shut up about the "finger" incident on Ed Sullivan.

Yeah, because a mis-read of someone giving the finger on a weekly variety show is JUST LIKE getting assaulted at an Academy award ceremony, viewed by millions world wide. It's exactly the same as hijacking a the experience of lifetime from all of your peers.

You live in a world of delusion, R82. Smith will never live it down. He'll be asked about it until he dies. So will the she-beast wife and messed up kids.

[quote]a phony, Hollywood patch up/mea culpa from Smith

Some people here post as if there's some need for Smith to have a redemption of sorts. That implies that he's needed for the universe to function, when it's clear that he's not. His entire family is a waste of oxygen.

[quote] it was always obvious to me, throughout his career, that he is very smart.

Agreed. Cute, too. I’ve had a crush on him since he fell out of the sky naked.

Chris needs to let this go. Everyone’s moved on. Will apologize, Chris chickened out on pressing charges. Chris has been talking shit for years. If Hollywood must choose they will choose AA winner Smith (whose brought them billions in revenue) over Chris Rock.

[quote]If Hollywood must choose they will choose AA winner Smith (whose brought them billions in revenue) over Chris Rock.

Right R91. Who has a career now? And who gets to attend the Oscars whenever he wants?

This whole thing was a stunt.

Slapping is a Scientology tactic. Google "Max Burns Will Smith". Muriel wouldn't let me post a link for some reason...

I didn't equate the two events, fuckwit r87. What I said was that Mason wouldn't shut up about how he was wronged, and Rock won't, either.

Since when has Datalounge been home to people who loved playing victim for ever and ever?

Poor Will

R92 that doesn’t really matter since Will was still getting move deals after the slap. His career is fine because he remains an international star. I was in Eastern Europe (not Russia). They said they watched American movies in the late 90s-2000s. That’s Will’s golden era. International market is too important to back Chris over Will. Hardly anyone in Asia or Europe will know Chris Rock. This is why Will Smith will be fine.

And it was just a slap. Not a big deal. Some of you in here also need to move the heck on.

With all this talk about Will, nobody remembers my dress, damnit!

I mean, if anyone was ever going to be slapped for calling celebrities out....

R25, who the fuck are these two cretins?

[quote] but in my years of seeing hetero men fight and a lot of bar fights

You answered your own question right there.

Gonna burn my DVD collection with Will Smith

I think a black woman from LSA started posting in this thread. Black women are the strongest supporters of Will Smith. They bash and trash Chris Rock (who was assaulted by Will on national TV ) so harshly. For Black women, Will Smith is a hero who defended his wife's honor!!

[quote]Hardly anyone in Asia or Europe will know Chris Rock.

You say that but look at that Ticketmaster link above, Rock is touring Europe right now.

R49, I still loathe him for that....and what happened to him, nothing!

R105, rude and drunk but not violent

The real tragedy is that Jada will probably never get an oscar, even though she has given some truly worthy performances in movies like Jason's Lyric and Set it off.

Yet she hasn't been nominated and probably never will.

But Jada can take solace in the fact that she has a knockout figure and is one of the sexiest women in Hollywood bar none.

Whites are over Will Smith.

Will is dead to anyone older than him.

Mrs Smith is too hostile to be attractive, radiates hostility even with a million dollar smile on her face.

This streamed for free a few months ago. This film was a flop when it was released but it is not worse than BAPS. BAPS flopped and is dreadful but Halle Berry went on to stardom.

Jada played the lead character and maybe featured all of ten minutes in it.

Reason being? She pissed off the movie producers so completely her screen time was whittled down to nothing.

Side note, Will Smiths alleged boyfriend is also in this film

[quote]and is one of the sexiest women in Hollywood bar none.

Well that's a fucking lie, R107. Put down the eclairs.

Tiffany Haddish is making Jada look better by comparison.

I liked Jada in Gotham and thought she was perfect for the role and lit up the screen when she was on it.

Sue me.

Chapelle said the comment about Will being a perfect person. Not Rock.

Smith has seen other black people behave violently and boorishly, so he thought he'd cosplay as the "authentic black man" he likes to pretend to be, but it all backfired.

Smith is a narcissistic loon who overplayed his hand. It is shocking to me they didn't have him escorted out that very moment.

I can assure you there will be far fewer black faces on next year's show, although fewer and fewer people tune in to this nonsense. Sad. It used to be fun and glamorous.

Does Will have any job offers, or has everything dried up?

All his projects are shelved

I liked Jada in that Michael Mann film with Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise.

But otherwise she seems like a real monstrella!

I liked her in The Matrix films

Can not stand her in the Matrix, bad acting.

The Matrix was a gift.

Will Smith turned down Neo, (bad move) and wifey was gifted a role in the sequels.

I didn’t know he was considered for Neo role. I’m glad he turned it down or may never watch the films again

He was the filmmakers first choice, strange to learn this in hindsight.

Never really liked Will Smith or his insufferable family…here’s hoping that his career never gets back on track.

The family’s career will suffer too…good.

^Unlike you I wish Willow continued success in music. Caught Willlow’s set at Lollapalooza this year and had a blast