Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at Oscars
 

Obviously everyone is talking about "should he have" or not. But.

This was a work, right? Kind of had to been, no?

The behind the scene fan cam stuff indicate Will was pretty broken up about it and had to be comforted

Will Smith looked like he was having a good time until his bitch wife clutched his nuts or something and made him fake cry like he did on the Fresh Prince.

Edit: Also, here's the full uncensored version.

Bruh, you need to get your “bullcrap radar” checked. This was def real.

I never watch the Oscars and just noticed this happened. Someone on BluRay is calling it a publicity stunt but I think it’s real.

Chris Rock’s joke was insensitive but not sure he knew she has a medical condition. I didn’t know until now and apparently he poked fun at her before. I’m just reading all this right now. I’m not a big Jada Pickett fan or anything.

No I would not have hit him. This is definitely gonna overshadow him winning for the first time. He should have just let it go. The audience groaning at his joke was enough.

I don’t have any problem with Chris Rock either. He’s certainly not the most “offensive” comic.

Heard of this earlier this morning. I never watch the Oscars because I don't care about an academy that gives Titanic a billion Oscars.

Anyway, I watched the video and Will Smith actually laughs at the joke at first... but then jumps out of his seat and you know the rest. So was he slow at processing the joke or did his wife tell him to do something about it? Either way, Will Smith ooked and sounded pissed at the end where he kept yelling at Chris Rock to keep his wife's name out of his mouth.

I don't think Chris Rock went that far really. You're expected to hear a comedian joke about you at such events when you're famous. Ricky Gervais said some worst things some years ago where he even joked about Mel Gibsons alcoholism and did you see anyone slapping him? No.

It's fine if you don't like someone joking about your wife, but that doesn't give you the right to climb on stage and assault them. How come security neither stopped Will Smith or escorted him out of the building?

As for being "fake", I'd believe that if all Will Smith did Was slap Chris Rock. But no, he yelled at him from his seat afterwards and looked visibly pissed off. Sounded very genuine. And Will Smith is nowhere near a good enough actor to pull such a public stunt off that naturally.

His anger towards Chris Rock is very manufactured. Dude was laughing and about to clap. Not saying this was staged, though who really knows. But he very clearly had no problem with the joke until Pinhead told him to and blew up on command at the expense of his career and reputation which is what probably made him even more emotional.

Most likely real.
I can understand why Smith did it, but I feel it was not place and time for that.

It became meme legend almost instantly.

Black on black violence, just another Sunday in LA.

I mean the issue isn't keeping Will's wife out of Chris Rock's mouth, it's him keeping other guys out of his wife's mouth.

The whole thing looked like a beta flex. Will never showed that much bravery against the guy boning his wife.

Weak b!tch slap from a weak @ss beta male... to make headlines.

That was 100% legit and not "ak-ting".

One thing is questioning their lifestyle (which I think is dumb, but whatever), another insulting his wife over sickness. This is really a low blow.

I don't know, though, guys. When I first saw this my immediately reaction was, "Oh this has to be fake." Then I watched more, saw the whole clip, watched faces closely and so on and then I was 100% "nope, it's totally real." But the more I look at it and think about it the more I find I've slipped back into, "Staged."

It seems like something that would come out of Rock's mind, and he'd know how it'd be received. Will signs on, Jada's like "whatever." Will comes out looking like an awesome husband, Rock becomes relevant for two minutes again (maybe can even play the victim card but I doubt he will), and the Oscars get some attention.

Now, were the Oscars people in on it, too? Eh. No, I don't think?

The one thing that makes me think it's staged (which I otherwise don't) is the fact that Rock, having just mocked the man's wife, stands there perfectly still on the stage without even the slightest hint of apprehension or taking a single step back while Smith gets up and goes all the way over to him with an intent that clearly didn't involve bringing him cotton candy and a friendly hug. I know I'd be sweating bullets if I were in his shoes, and yet he wasn't startled at all.

Honesty man, I worry about your critical thinking skills sometimes. You think this is fake, you think Nick planned for Rise of TMNT to fail, you were convinced Affleck was Reeve’s Batman.

I mean, I’m not trying to take you to task for your beliefs about a tmnt cartoon, but a lot of this **** seems so obvious and you are constantly posting those rage-clickbait articles that are meant to stir up controversy and conspiracies where there are none. It just seems like a pattern.

So just overall, idk man, I feel like you got question some of these things a little more. Not trying to be a dick, but idk how to say it any lighter. You seem more intelligent than all this stuff.

Oh, we're doing this again. No, once more you're putting words in my mouth. I said that it was conceivable that "Rise" was thrown out there as a cheap thing (because it was a cheap thing) that could fail or succeed in between "real" TMNT cartoons akin to the 2012 or 4Kids shows. Certainly the hope was that it would succeed. You don't exactly see them trying to save it.

We know he was because Reeves told us he was. "That's my guy." And even recently there's stuff about Damon talking Affleck into "hanging up the cape" (as in, not being shown the door by Reeves) and new concept art surfacing.

Staged
 

clearly it was staged. they are both actors, in a room full of actors. seems more like a ccp publicity stunt to give comedians the cancel culture treatment. their message “don’t make bigoted jokes or else we’re gonna walk up and slap you!” they just wanna scare comedians into not hurting people’s feelings, i guess?

weird they would make it black on black though. but the message is clear, you are not allowed to offend anybody, no more bigoted jokes or else the cancel culture mob will come for you. freedom of speech is dead.

Based on Will's crying their arrangement is something he wants no part in but is too chicken-**** to speak up on it. He's too much of a puss to leave her, if their marriage ends someday it'll be because she leaves him.

And here's conspiracy theory.

it’s just as staged as covid-19 scamdemic. they want to create the illusion that it was real, not scripted. the point was to warn other comedians not to make bigoted jokes and offend people, or else they will get beat down by cancel culture mob for being so mean and excercising freedom of speech. thats the way ccp commies likes it, uh-huh uh-huh

Eh, I don't know. Maybe that'd be a desirable side effect for a lot of people, but I don't imagine it would be a desirable side effect for Rock (Rock is very much not a part of comedians getting cancelled). And if this came from anybody, it came from him.

"But Will Smith crying!", etc.. Please. That man can cry on the drop of a dime. It's what he's good at.

Will Smith was all over the place during his acceptance speech. Felt like he was trying to cover every angle of his outburst from implying it was method acting ("king Richard was a defender of his family!" or whatever) to fishing for as many laughs as possible, in order to ensure the audience would be on his side.

It seemed like he left a little pause after saying "sometimes you do crazy things for love", in order to let some applause through, but none did, so he mentioned his mom knitting at home, for more laughs. Pretty bizarre night.

I dunno man, the first couple of lyrics from 'Black Suits Comin'' come across like predictive programming :P

IDK man, that interview when his wife was talking about her getting it from elsewhere, those tears looked real to me.

Too bad it was the Oscars and not like a roast or something. I woulda been like 'Will Smith ladies and gentlemen. You can **** his wife, just don't **** with his wife."

You got a link?

That happened forever ago. I found one that's a breakdown of everything and how it led to that event which reached meme-status.

Coola is right on point with this! Will is trapped in a crap marriage and he has no power or say in it. He had no intention of doing anything after that joke but then he likely saw his wife’s disappointment and disgust in him continuing to be a weak and pathetic man! So he got up and did what he did to either prove her wrong in a completely idiotic way, or embarrass her, or a little bit of both. I do not believe for a minute this was staged. It was more than likely a guy that just reached a bit of a breaking point on his bad marriage!

It could very well be that simple. I'm not saying it isn't.

The fact the topic is even called Will Smith SLAPS Chris Rock rather than PUNCHED Chris Rock shows how much of a little bitch Will was. Plus he was like 'take my wife's name out of your mouth' in his best 'trying hard not to cry' voice. Jada completely emasculated him during their marriage.

From what I understand, Will doesn't believe in divorce, so he probably never will, and if a divorce ever happens, Jada seems cold enough to take him for everything he's worth.... and still be heralded as stunning and brave.

That would be an understatement

I really don't care to take a side, but what stands out to me is I'm seeing a lot of opinions that essentially say it's never okay to hit someone, no matter what they say and I'm not sure I agree.

It's not that I condone violence - not at all, it's just that I am not of the belief that physical assault is always more harmful than verbal assault. So, while I don't condone violence, I also don't condone taunting and teasing people for things that are out of their control. I mean, you can call any insult a "joke", so "joke" at your own risk, I guess.

I think that Jada is probably a manipulative narccisist and Will is just a guy that wants to have his family so badly in life that he's getting his @$$ handed to him left and right.

Lots of smoke in the Smith household - enough that there is a family fire and he's trying to smile through it and be a family man.

He had no real choice. I mean Chris insulted August's woman, he had to do something.

And wasn't it Jada pushing the Theybies thing with the kids? What a mess.

I mean, I don't doubt there is trouble in paradise. But these are also actors who are in no way above doing some kind of performance art.

Was it staged? No. Did Will have any intention of doing it until Jada basically bitchslapped him with dagger gaze? Probably not. He seemed to be chuckling at the joke in the shot immediately prior.

I’m surprised more than a few people here commented they didn’t know she had the condition, I heard about it a couple of years ago. She’s stupidly overly sensitive about the condition though. Yes losing your hair is crap, but there’s worse things. There are two well known British athletes with alopecia, Duncan Goodhew and Joanna Rowsell, and both have been incredibly accepting of it, and in Goodhew’s case, completely self deprecating about it. It arguably added to his appeal and made him stand out. But maybe that’s the difference, bald men are more accepted than bald women. But Rowsell has been known to make jokes about her condition too, she did after she won gold at London 2012 (and the gold post box in her honour is literally a few hundred yards from where I live).

Rock’s joke was pretty light in the scheme of things but she’s proved she has no humour at all. If everyone took umbrage to jokes like that when Gervais was doing the GG, he’d been broken in several places.

Will slaps while August claps.

Yeah... I don't know how most men would accept it, but hair is quite tied to your identity as a woman, and I know esp for black women. I have a hard enough time accepting the color of mine fading with age, if I had a condition that caused it to just all fall out I'd be devastated and feel quite betrayed by it. Making a joke about that and in front of the nation/world is a rather personal low blow. Joking about it yourself is one thing, but someone else doing so is way, way too personal.

Whether Jada gave Will a death glare or it simply took him a moment for the "joke" to register, can't even guess (since I know next to nothing about her or what's up with them)... but can't blame him for trying to defend her, no matter the personal situation of their relationship, she's still the mother of his kids who don't need to see that left unanswered. Though a scathing public comment afterward might have been a better choice...?



I stopped giving a damn about award shows a long, long time ago.. is this stuff what I've been missing? lol