he made a joke about will's wife being bald

america entering full goblin mode

thank you for the scrumptious morsel of spectacle, Demiurge

edit: he fuckin won lol

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    All those Podcasters predicting that will Smith wouldn't punch Chris Rock despite state department intel are going to be sooooo embarrassed

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      Fuckin Nate Silverman had it at a 0% chance but claims he called it because he gave a +/- 3% margin of error, and it did happen.

  • Spike [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    People saying its not cool but I enjoy wealthy people fighting each other

  • mr_world [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Goddamnit if Zelenksy was there this never would have happened!

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        And then decided Zelenskyy was too pathetic and harmless and felt sorry for him, so they leave him a tip and a note saying "Hang in there bud, we believe in you!"

    • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      fresh theory: Zelensky wasn't there so Sean Penn added the shitty joke to Chris Rock's teleprompter in order to ruin everyone's night, like he'd promised

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Oh, it's so terrible your country is being invaded! So we want to put your president in our local television awards, won't that nice?

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      homie G, homie Z,
      with his missiles he make it rain
      now he referees celebrities,
      so put a bullet in putin's brain!

      we really need an emote of that dude, it was a literal whitest-kids-u-know moment

  • CulturalDengist [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Also have to say, slapping a millionaire across the face on live television & then winning the award for Best Actor is such a gigachad moment. It really does hurt to see someone else living your dream.

  • buh [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I got in one little fight and my mom got scared,

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    walk up on stage and slap the presenter
    everybody laughs, thinks it's a bit
    yell "Keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth" on live TV
    host tries to play it off while everyone goes silent
    yell it again louder

    yeah, the hit kinda sucked, but still pretty rad

    • asaharyev [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Chris Rock making fun of Jada for alopecia was pretty fucked up, tho.

        • swampfox [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          you're not detecting any cultural differences between bald men and bald women?

          women are likely to be 100 times more insecure about that and men are even insecure about it to begin with

        • asaharyev [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          that's probably the exact same thing, definitely no difference between the two

        • nohaybanda [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I guess don't joke about bald men when their partner can slap the silly out of your mouth?

          :shrug-outta-hecks:

  • pppp1000 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Jada is suffering from an auto immune disease and that's why she lost hair. Will Smith is perfectly within his right to slap Chris Rock for that extremely tasteless joke. I would have punch him multiple times.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Oh, yeah, that's a good reason to be that upset then. If it was just a haircut choice then, it's tasteless and mean but not worth hitting someone about, that makes a big difference.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          im pretty sure id have a heart attack from how much i loved my SO if that happened

      • kristina [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I am fine with even the tiniest excuse to deck a rich person. They farted in your vicinity? That's a paddlin

      • Circra [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Difficult to tell really, I guess it depends on the motivation as it could equally be sticking up for a loved one which is a good thing to do - even if maybe clocking someone wasn't the best way to go about it.

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It’s literally this lol. I mean I don’t care either way cause it was just funny and none of them will ever give a shit about what any of us think. But this is literally no different than starting school fights because someone said your mom was fat. Hell, many of the kids I knew would try to fight you if you simply said “your [family member]” before you could finish your sentence

        • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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          3 years ago

          This was definitely a thing at my school! Just saying someone's parents first name was taken as an insult. I didn't understand this at all when I transferred there so it washed over me.

    • PlantsRstillCool [des/pair]
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      3 years ago

      You would punch someone for making a tasteless joke?

      You know you can just like walk away, right?

            • Shoegazer [he/him]
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              edit-2
              3 years ago

              Because he made a joke about her bald head? If anything it was Regina Hall’s joke that could be seen as ‘sexist’ because it implied Will’s wife had him on a leash lol

                • Shoegazer [he/him]
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                  edit-2
                  3 years ago

                  Was this at the beginning? Because all I’m seeing is him saying she looked like GI Jan. He made a joke about a different couple being nominated on the same night if that’s what you mean. I didn’t watch the whole thing so might’ve missed it. But even then he clearly didn’t slap him over jokes about her career

                    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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                      3 years ago

                      But that’s the relevant part. You’re justifying slapping a man because of something he said at the beginning of the show?

                        • Shoegazer [he/him]
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                          3 years ago

                          Yeah... he was saying that the other couple is wishing will smith wins so they don’t have to fight about the winner.

                          Are you saying Chris Rock was joking about her career because he said the couple wished Will won and not Jada? Even though she’s not the one being nominated?

      • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        "ironic" nazis making "dark humor" jokes deserve to be hit

        There are plenty of cases where it's good to hit people for their jokes

          • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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            edit-2
            3 years ago

            I replied before I really finished it. I just meant that sometimes people deserve to be hit for being shit heads with their "jokes"

            And yes I believe this is one. Making jokes about someone's appearance on live television without being their best friend is pretty damn rude

            • PlantsRstillCool [des/pair]
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              3 years ago

              I think that makes it really tasteless and rude but i don't see what slapping him accomplished. Chris Rock will probably be joking about this forever so it definitely won't stop the jokes

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        If it involved my partner's auto immune disease that might be enough. That's probably a pretty touchy subject

      • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        If someone goes up to me and says "haha your mother is dying from MS" I'd fucking stab them

    • Circra [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah I mean it's one of those cases where yeah, there might have been a better way to handle it but I also completely do not blame him in the least for punching him.

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    the virgin "Ricky Gervais whinges about trans kids" Golden Globes vs the chad "Will Smith fights Chris Rock on stage live on air" Oscars

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      This was infinitely better than Reddit Gervais’ lame ass Epstein jokes. People acted like he exposed everyone at the risk of his career but he’s still part of their circles lol

      • Mindfury [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        your post pre-edit

        praise geraldo

        also completely agree

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Lol it's funny that people on Twitter and reddit are pretending that never in history before the present have people hit other people over an insult to themselves or loved ones. Mfer, it used to be legal to duel people to the death over personal insults.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Few things that are within the realm of plausible (billionaires have easily wounded egos, so this doesn't seem that impossible) would make me happier than oligarchs killing each other in duels after heated Twitter moments. :sicko-beaming: :yes-hahaha-yes-l:

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They have a whole musical about one of the founding fathers who got shot to death over petty squabbles lol

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    The comments all like "OMG PC POLICE CAN'T TAKE A JOKE! ASSULT!" and "Will thought it was funny until his wife gave a look, it's her fault" remind me why I never go on twitter

    "Lol, your wife bald" isn't even a funny joke and would have gotten you more than a slap not long ago.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Zelensky called Putin to congratulate him on being casted as Walter White in the Russian remake of Breaking Bad

  • Parzivus [any]
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    3 years ago

    This is too funny to have a real opinion about lol

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Libs on Twitter are being really serious about it. Some Washington media ghoul is like trying to make a story out of a joke that Jamal Bowman's social media intern made on his account, lol. Of course they all also want you to know that a slap is assault and battery.

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Of course they all also want you to know that a slap is assault and battery.

        This is the funniest thing about USAmericans to me. They're all supposedly very rugged individuals who would totally definitely fuck you up in hand to hand combat, but they'll also call 911 on you for looking at them wrong.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          The single funniest Moogle moment in FFXIV is when an especially difficult Moogle can be slapped for being really annoying, and actually says that, followed by a "Kupo."

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        they all also want you to know that a slap is assault and battery

        the extent to which all of these people are bloodless nerds cannot be overstressed

  • wifom [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Hey babe look new Janet Jackson titty moment just dropped

    • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There's gonna be racism, but not nearly as much misogyny. Still though, it's gonna be ugly

      • RandyLahey [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        i made the mistake of looking on :reddit-logo: about this

        there is a shitload of misogyny

        • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          You warned us, and I still checked the thread.

          Why do I keep doing this to myself?

      • TeamRocketJames [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        People wanna like Chris rock and will Smith, ofc the takeaway will be misogyny

  • Asa_the_Red [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Im not here to comment on whether it was staged or not, I simply believe that more comedians should be slapped for the shit they say. This moment has filled me with hope for a brighter future

    • cilantrofellow [any]
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      3 years ago

      Chris rock is pretty shitty and should get called out more. Defending Louis CK, hosting the Oscar’s during the oscarssowhite boycott, consistently churning out some of the most anti-black comedy in the last 30 years.

      And what does :reddit-logo: say? They love Rock of course, mostly insulting Will Smith for being c*cked by his wife in what is ostensibly an open marriage.

      • Caitycat [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        The :reddit-logo: position also seems to be "Chris Rock was hit for just doing his job!" and "Jada is a bad person so its ok to make fun of her for being bald." Annoying ass website.