Thatâs not a reaction, thatâs just her resting face after all the plastic surgeries.
Please donât slap me.
lol Will Smith. Laughing about it at first on camera and then when he realised his wife was mad about it, hitting someone to try to act like a tough guy. Doesnât get a lot more beta than that. Beclowned himself on what should have been his night of nights as well.
He should have said, âFor someone who played Muhammad Ali, I would have thought youâd be able to hit harder than that.â
Or⌠âWow, if you canât hit any harder than that, some other dudeâs going to have to play GI Joe.â
Not savage enough. Gotta call the nukes there if youâre gonna do it, and if you watch the Jomboy analysis, he definitely thinks about going for it after the âget my wifeâs name out of your fuckinâ mouth!â but shows amazing restraint and backs off. I imagine he was gonna tag the wife in someoneâs mouth part since thatâs an open (not even) secret that probably everyone in the room has crazy deetz on. Pretty sure thatâs what he meant by âthatâs a nice one.â And that would have been a chessmate because, like, whatâs Fresh Prince gonna do? He either has to sit and get cucked by the Mother of All Roasts after puffing his chest, or he has to escalate the violence which is even worse and probably an instant career ender.
Chris Rockâs entire career has been based on making tasteless jokes. This was the line?
Itâs a pretty tame joke really. No one would even remember it if not for Will losing his mind. The joke probably wasnât even written by Chris.
Hereâs his rambly acceptance speech. Will Smith wants to be a vessel for love.
Will himself was laughing at it, until he realized he shouldnât have been.
Also not hard to imagine Will Smith having seen his wife crying many times and struggling with her condition. Then he sees how she is mocked in front of millions and decides heâs not having that.
Iâm still glad I didnât watch the Oscars.
Ditto. Sounds like it was the expected garbage pile it is every single year.
Guess Will Smith has to move to Bel Air now, right? Right? Get it?
You think his mom got scared?
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Any analysis of this is incomplete without centering the fact that Will Smith was laughing uproariously at the joke.
This wasnât, âguy makes inappropriate joke about your wife so you slap himâ. Itâs âguy makes inappropriate joke about your life which you laugh at, and then your wife is like wtf, so you have to take it to another level to correct your own reactionâ.
How much money do you think that slap is worth to Chris Rock (in terms of material, extra publicity, premium for his next special, etc.)? 8 figures doesnât seem out of the question.
Weâre lucky Chris Rock remained calm and didnât retaliate. If there had been a brawl between two black men on stage at the Oscars weâd never hear the end of it about bLaCk CuLtUrE.
