Thread: Will Smith breaks down and smacks Chris Rock on live TV
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This legit made me laugh like a barking seal. I had to slap my hand over my mouth before my wife could ask me what was so funny.
 

One notable new bit of information is the Academy stating they asked Will Smith to leave the Dolby Theatre but Smith refused to do so. One of the biggest bits of scrutiny regarding the handling of the moment was Smith not being removed from the auditorium. The Academy has offered clarification saying Smith was asked to leave but refused. "We also recognize we could have handled the situation differently," the Academy statement read

By differently they mean actually having Security get involved like they should have the moment Smith got off the stage and frogmarched the fucker and Baldielocks off the premises.
 



By differently they mean actually having Security get involved like they should have the moment Smith got off the stage and frogmarched the fucker and Baldielocks off the premises.
Fuck just kicking him off the Academy. They should take away his Oscar too if they want to regain any sort of credibility. Actors shouldn't be acting like thugs at Awards shows.
 
Maybe it was already mentioned deeper in the thread, but I read an interesting take on the slap: Pfizer.

Will Smith's slap made his wife's hair loss the topic of the entire event, a disease some people might not have heard of.
Pfizer is one of the top sponsors of the Oscars.
Pfizer just came out with the third stage of trials for Etrasimod, a pill that does a few different things including treating severe alopecia.
Ya know. A few short years ago I'd say that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen, and now...
 
They won't strip him, but he's certainly not going to be attending any Academy awards for a while I suspect.
Roland Polanski still has his Oscar and he's hiding to avoid Paedo charges. They won't do shit to Smith. He's the wrong color, for starters.
 
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Roland Polanski still has his Oscar and he's hiding to avoid Paedo charges. They won't do shit to Smith. He's the wrong color, for starters.

They called an emergency meeting the following day. This isn't getting swept under the rug. The fact that they're now saying they asked him to leave for conduct unbecoming and he refused means there will be consequences. Through his actions, he basically sucked up all the post-Oscars conversation, taking it away from all of the other winners. Sure on Twitter, you'll see random people defending him, but the Hollywood machine itself is pretty pissed with him for raining on their parade with his antics. I don't expect a lifetime ban but certainly, he will be suspended for a period and he is definitely going to be a persona-non-grata, for a while. Still, we won't know anything until after the 18th as He has a period in which to respond to the charges.
 
They called an emergency meeting the following day. This isn't getting swept under the rug. The fact that they're now saying they asked him to leave for conduct unbecoming and he refused means there will be consequences. Through his actions, he basically sucked up all the post-Oscars conversation, taking it away from all of the other winners. Sure on Twitter, you'll see random people defending him, but the Hollywood machine itself is pretty pissed with him for raining on their parade with his antics. I don't expect a lifetime ban but certainly, he will be suspended for a period and he is definitely going to be a persona-non-grata, for a while. Still, we won't know anything until after the 18th as He has a period in which to respond to the charges.
But the funny thing is, him slapping Rock is the only reason anyone cared about the Oscars. The Oscars have been on a complete downward spiral since 2014, and most of the nominated movies aren't movies the public cares about. The show had a viewership of roughly 45 million in 2014, and last year's didn't even break 10 million viewers. They're literally bleeding viewers.

 
But the funny thing is, him slapping Rock is the only reason anyone cared about the Oscars. The Oscars have been on a complete downward spiral since 2014, and most of the nominated movies aren't movies the public cares about. The show had a viewership of roughly 45 million in 2014, and last year's didn't even break 10 million viewers. They're literally bleeding viewers.

There was always a certain tendency for the Oscars to point to more 'serious' movies back in the day than was necessarily reflective of public taste, and that's not necessarily bad in itself as it often led people to interesting films, but these days it's a whole different mess. We've got the Oscars fetishising gay trans blackness while what actually sells is basically kids movies. So the public has regressed pretty badly while the Oscars have moved away from adult/serious space into a bizarre clownworld that does nothing to bring serious films to the public's attention.
 
But the funny thing is, him slapping Rock is the only reason anyone cared about the Oscars. The Oscars have been on a complete downward spiral since 2014, and most of the nominated movies aren't movies the public cares about. The show had a viewership of roughly 45 million in 2014, and last year's didn't even break 10 million viewers. They're literally bleeding viewers.


Perhaps, but none of that actually matters with regard to the incident. The Oscars is seen globally, and that incident (and the lack of any action at the time) reflects badly upon them.
 
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They called an emergency meeting the following day. This isn't getting swept under the rug. The fact that they're now saying they asked him to leave for conduct unbecoming and he refused means there will be consequences. Through his actions, he basically sucked up all the post-Oscars conversation, taking it away from all of the other winners. Sure on Twitter, you'll see random people defending him, but the Hollywood machine itself is pretty pissed with him for raining on their parade with his antics. I don't expect a lifetime ban but certainly, he will be suspended for a period and he is definitely going to be a persona-non-grata, for a while. Still, we won't know anything until after the 18th as He has a period in which to respond to the charges.
Still, he did more for the Oscars popularity than that shitty selfie that Ellen took and the stupid Rooney Mara photo eating a vegan burger lmao
 
They have been almost completely irrelevant to consumer interests for my entire life and it has only gotten worse with time. Why should I care what a group of anonymous leftist narcissists thinks is praiseworthy? The academy almost never recognizes things I actually enjoy as being worthwhile, do they even have a comedy award? They bend over backwards to award garbage like Crash and Brokeback Mountain, meanwhile Wedding Crashers was better than both of those movies and doesn't even get a mention.
 
Good for Jim Carrey

I like the dude when he isn't off his rocker babbling about eastern philosophy
I don't like Carreys political views but I can at least respect that they are HIS political views arrived at honestly through his own fucked up world view. Like that Politically Incorrect host guy and the old Daily Show dude, sometimes commons sense seeps through. These are the people we can rationalize with during and after the apocalypse
 
I don't like Carreys political views but I can at least respect that they are HIS political views arrived at honestly through his own fucked up world view. Like that Politically Incorrect host guy and the old Daily Show dude, sometimes commons sense seeps through. These are the people we can rationalize with during and after the apocalypse

lol nope

he's exactly the kind of person who would casually radio his guard to shoot you instead of letting you through the compound gate, even as you're pleading for a 'rational conversation'.

Celebs aren't your friends. I'd go as far to say that most celebs secretly (if not openly) despise their audience because it's only natural to despise people who worship and adore a fake version of you.
 
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How is it possible to know who is coming to their fucked up world views through rational self driven thought processes, and who is uncritically accepting and parroting popular political stances
 
lol nope

he's exactly the kind of person who would casually radio his guard to shoot you instead of letting you through the compound gate, even as you're pleading for a 'rational conversation'.

Celebs aren't your friends. I'd go as far to say that most celebs secretly (if not openly) despise their audience because it's only natural to despise people who worship and adore a fake version of you.
I have plenty of celebrity friends
 
I don't like Carreys political views but I can at least respect that they are HIS political views arrived at honestly through his own fucked up world view. Like that Politically Incorrect host guy and the old Daily Show dude, sometimes commons sense seeps through. These are the people we can rationalize with during and after the apocalypse

I dig Maher and Stewart quite a bit

I'm with ya on that one

Carrey legit lost his mind for a sec tho