Will Smith assaults Chris Rock at the Oscars

[SG854]

It was just a joke about her being bald now. As in "she could star in G.I. Jane 2".

Obviously made to make fun of her

If theres one thing about Women it's hair.

 

[XDel]

That made that joke even funnier!

 

[sarkwalvein]

It was a one time slap. There was no serious injury. Will Smith is not a constant threat to Chris Rock. Common wealth does not need to get involved.

Obviously made to make fun of her

If theres one thing about Women it's hair.

I don't think this deserves any charges to be pressed.
Probably a sanction from the academy to Will Smith, as in e.g. getting him banned from assisting an event for X years. I mean you can't just get up and show violence in an international live academy show, this is a bad look, there are conduct codes.

PS: and yes, though the joke was bad, it is not something that justifies violence (nothing does in a live show, short of something that endangers your life); this could have been handled in an adult way, address it during your speech, etc. This looks very bad for international credibility of the Oscars as a serious event (well, it was decadent already anyway).

 

[Imbecilesdisagreewithme]

 

[jos010]

good example for his kids gj its a hard world

 

[p1ngpong]

I doubt this was staged, if it was I think they seriously need to admit to it as Will Smith comes off looking horrible in my opinion. Anyway this has pretty much tarnished his first Oscar win, maybe it will be revoked too and maybe even he will get banned from the academy. Imagine the impact it would have had if he walked up to Chris and acted like an adult and instead of slapping him he just said "that was not very funny Chris, she has a condition." This would be a completely different story now.

The bottom line is this, Will Smith is a 50 year old man that has been in the business for over 30 years, he should be able to control himself in this very public and very mild situation. Yes Chris Rocks joke on reflection might be a bit insensitive but what everyone forgets is that Will Smith made his career from Fat and Bald uncle Phil jokes. He should be way more thick skinned.

Will has just become a cringe lord these days and seems to have some sort of mental health issues. Maybe that is why his wife is sleeping around and Jayden is an equally massive cringe lord. He needs to fucking just pull himself together. Anyway the South Park take on this will probably be pretty funny.

 

[AsPika2219]

Will Smith used DOUBLE SLAP on Chris Rock.... Is was SUPER EFFECTIVE!!!!

 

[cracker]

It was pretty scary how quickly he went from laughing at the joke to being physically violent. Having seen this firsthand in the past, I'd say he has some bad mental problems.

 

[Viri]

Spoiler

 

[Dr_Faustus]

It was pretty scary how quickly he went from laughing at the joke to being physically violent. Having seen this firsthand in the past, I'd say he has some bad mental problems.

I would not say its as straight forward as that and the possibility of his change in reaction is due to Jada's response is a more likely scenario.

There is a lot of dirty laundry out there in regards to Smith's family (a lot of which the wife herself has let out to open in the world) I will not touch on it too much since most people probably know the short of it, but between her infidelity instances and her constant bringing up her previous loves before Smith, he is not in an enviable position. Why does he not just leave her? He does not want to be like his father and abandon his family. This mentality has basically locked him into a toxic relationship that has plagued his life and he cannot bring himself to walk away from because he wants to be there for his kids and to be a proper father for them.

Unfortunately his kids do not seem to respect him much either. He is essentially in a hell of his own personal making, and I am sure what we saw tonight was just the conflict between them act out in real time in a classic way of trying to defend her in a way that she would respect him more, which she probably doesn't at all.


There are no good parties here, Will should have just done nothing at all, Chris' Jokes would have gone over most people's heads without much long term memory and Jada should have just taken the damn joke. Yeah it sucks being made fun of something that you did because you are losing your hair but again, it would have been a forgotten moment of the night like everything else that went down there. This act only solidifies the moment and the entirety of the night into memory for everyone. It could have been forgettable and ignored in the long run in the history of long, drawn out and boring award nights. This will not be the case now, Will Smith's life will now be put under a microscope from this and all I can say is I hope that he gets the help he needs, not for mental sake but for the life he is trapped in because he cannot bring himself to leave. I hope he can find the means to make the right choice and improve his life from that point forward.

 

[AncientBoi]

I would have done the same. Insult my wife indeed. On national TV no less. Shame on Chris!

 

[AleronIves]

Making fun of someone else's illness is disgusting.

Will Smith was free to voice his displeasure with the joke (which apparently was fake, since he initially laughed along with everybody else), but just because a joke was in poor taste does not give him the right to assault the comedian.

 

[AmandaRose]

Will Smith was free to voice his displeasure with the joke (which apparently was fake, since he initially laughed along with everybody else), but just because a joke was in poor taste does not give him the right to assault the comedian.

Did you miss my post on page 1?? Where I said violence is never the answer.

 

[cracker]

I would not say its as straight forward as that and the possibility of his change in reaction is due to Jada's response is a more likely scenario.

There is a lot of dirty laundry out there in regards to Smith's family (a lot of which the wife herself has let out to open in the world) I will not touch on it too much since most people probably know the short of it, but between her infidelity instances and her constant bringing up her previous loves before Smith, he is not in an enviable position. Why does he not just leave her? He does not want to be like his father and abandon his family. This mentality has basically locked him into a toxic relationship that has plagued his life and he cannot bring himself to walk away from because he wants to be there for his kids and to be a proper father for them.

Unfortunately his kids do not seem to respect him much either. He is essentially in a hell of his own personal making, and I am sure what we saw tonight was just the conflict between them act out in real time in a classic way of trying to defend her in a way that she would respect him more, which she probably doesn't at all.


There are no good parties here, Will should have just done nothing at all, Chris' Jokes would have gone over most people's heads without much long term memory and Jada should have just taken the damn joke. Yeah it sucks being made fun of something that you did because you are losing your hair but again, it would have been a forgotten moment of the night like everything else that went down there. This act only solidifies the moment and the entirety of the night into memory for everyone. It could have been forgettable and ignored in the long run in the history of long, drawn out and boring award nights. This will not be the case now, Will Smith's life will now be put under a microscope from this and all I can say is I hope that he gets the help he needs, not for mental sake but for the life he is trapped in because he cannot bring himself to leave. I hope he can find the means to make the right choice and improve his life from that point forward.

I get that. His actions show that there is more feeding his rage than a simple joke. That is why it is so scary.

 

[Alexander1970]

I am pretty sure (after Smith excused himself to Rock) they have to make a Movie together ("Recommendation" from their Managers and their Studiobosses...) and everything is "good"........THE END.

 

[SG854]

 

[the_randomizer]

I can see a new MCU character, The Slap

 

[Valwinz]

some people decided to send will so nice messages so nice

 

[Tsukiru]

Will Smith was free to voice his displeasure with the joke (which apparently was fake, since he initially laughed along with everybody else), but just because a joke was in poor taste does not give him the right to assault the comedian.

We can't ever know what's in these people's heads, maybe the joke sunk in or he thought oh that's kind of mean actually. We can only make guesses from real far.

Its a way to start censoring comedians.

Ah yes, comedians. Known for being censored with how much they cry, outloud, about being censored. The nonissue rears its head in the non-important story. Comedians are fine, they're not champions of free-speech either. Even without the slap, it was a shit joke. God forbid comedians know a little more about their subject before joking about them. Live. In front of them.

The slap was a bit much but it's very easy to say "I'd do differently" being so afar. And Chris really doubles down on it, which doesn't make anything better. No reason to be an asshole and bark back about it. You shouldn't have to explain why it's funny actually because "well I intended for this," because whether or not it lands is out of your control.

It shouldn't even matter now, Chris at the moment hasn't pressed charges and there's been a public apology. It's between those people and them alone. They're celebrities, so of course we'll hear details regardless, but all these takes are so bad. So much about "adult ways" like this isn't just a human response or whatever about "violence." A great platitude, but words will not always land if you want to draw the point (or slap mark) across.

And it's just weird to take this as a chance to go "their whole family is dysfunctional" like the realm of a celebrity family or child stars isn't fucked from the start. Like I haven't heard of Jaden or Willow in years and they just seem to be doing whatever. Unless you're really tied to really old stories and tweets, this isn't fucking about them.

 

[tabzer]

A couple things I noticed. First, Chris Rock didn't make fun of an illness. He made fun of her appearance, apparently unaware of an illness. Making it out like illness is the crux of the joke seems a little fake to me.

Second, in various places I see people refer to Will's incident as being similar to Kanye's. It makes me wonder how everyone would have reacted if Kanye slapped Taylor Swift across the face.