Comedian and Oscars co-host Amy Schumer reacted to actor Will Smith smacking comedian Chris Rock across the face at this year’s Oscars, saying “the whole thing was so disturbing,” and that she is “still triggered and traumatized” by the incident.
New York Times contributor Roxane Gay has penned a column in defense of humorlessness in which she argues that black women like actress Jada Pinkett Smith shouldn’t have to tolerate jokes made at their expense like the one Chris Rock told at the Oscars on Sunday, which prompted Will Smith to charge the stage and smack the comedian in the face.
Joe Rogan reacted to actor Will Smith attacking comedian Chris Rock at this year’s Oscars, stating, “It sets a terrible precedent” for comedians on stage.
Oscars co-host Wanda Sykes reacted to actor Will Smith smacking comedian Chris Rock across the face at this year’s Oscars, calling the moment “sickening,” adding, “You assault somebody, you get escorted out of the building and that’s it. For them to let him continue, I thought it was gross.”
“The Batman” star Zoë Kravitz tacitly shredded movie star Will Smith on social media for assaulting comedian Chris Rock during the Oscars telecast this past Sunday.
Actor Matthew Modine reacted to actor Will Smith attacking comedian Chris Rock at this year’s Oscars, stating, “we certainly should not applaud nor give a standing ovation” to abusers.
Filmmaker Ron Howard reacted to actor Will Smith attacking comedian Chris Rock at this year’s Oscars, saying he found the incident “very upsetting,” adding, “I wouldn’t have expected this kind of behavior.”
Comedian Chris Rock did nothing to justify being assaulted by Will Smith, and ever since, he’s done everything right.
What is this, the Lindbergh kidnapping? Some big mystery?
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) said the investigation into Will Smith’s assault against comedian Chris Rock will “take a few weeks.”
Meet actor Carmine Caridi. You may not know him but he’s in an exclusive group with Harvey Weinstein, Roman Polanski, and Bill Cosby: All four men hold the dishonorable distinction of having been expelled from the Academy.
Actor Adam Goldberg has expressed disgust at Will Smith’s physical assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars while also slamming the Hollywood industry at large for the way it protected Smith that night.
“He gotta wax his head every morning,” Will Smith said in footage from a 1991 appearance on “The Arsenio Hall Show,” pointing to bald bassist John Williams.
Actor Ricky Gervais mocked actor Will Smith’s Oscars meltdown on Monday by sharing an old video from the BBC sitcom, The Office, in which his character David Brent mentions alopecia.
So Will Smith sucker-slaps a guy 40 pounds lighter, the guy doesn’t even take a step back, and now a Slapping Champion is LOL’n at how Big Willie slaps “like a girl.”
The Academy’s Board of Governors is expected to meet Wednesday to discuss Will Smith’s physical assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars. Smith could face disciplinary measures, and possibly expulsion, and the forfeiture of the Oscar he won on Sunday for his performance in King Richard.
Whoopi Goldberg predicted to her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will make actor Will Smith pay “big consequences” after he slapped comedian Chris Rock during the Oscars.
Actor Jim Carrey said Monday on “CBS Mornings” the standing ovation actor Will Smith received for his win for best actor, which came after he slapped comedian Chris Rock, was evidence of how “spineless” Hollywood is.
Actor-comedian David Spade pushed back on a Twitter user, who said Chris Rock shouldn’t have joked about Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head at the Oscars because she suffers from a hair loss disease. “Comedians don’t have a medical chart for everyone in the audience” Spade said.
Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did not want to explain “taking a black man out.”
For those of you still confused over why Will Smith melted down during Sunday night’s basement-rated Oscar telecast, I would like to offer up the following…
Oscars producer Will Packer proclaimed on Monday — after actor Will Smith marched onto the stage and attacked comedian Chris Rock over a joke about his wife — that he is “so damn proud of this show,” adding, “I think we
Many Hollywood celebrities who aren’t normally shy about voicing their left-wing political opinions on social media are remaining conspicuously silent about actor Will Smith’s physical assault on Chris Rock during Sunday’s Oscars ceremony.
Doug Ellin, creator of the hit HBO show Entourage, did not mince words in his condemnation of actor Will Smith.
A YouGov poll shows a vast majority of Americans do not support actor Will Smith violently assaulting comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars on Sunday night.
A new poll suggests that young, working-class, conservative women and minorities are more likely to side with Will Smith over Chris Rock in the debate over whether Smith was right to slap Rock during the Oscars after Rock made fun of Smith’s wife, Jada.
Days before the Academy Awards, in which Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock over a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith declared in a TikTok video, “I don’t give two craps what people feel of this bald head of mine, because guess what, I love it.”
Will Smith has spent 30 years building his persona into a multi-billion dollar brand and now it’s shattered and still shattering. Believe me, this story is far from over…
Actor Will Smith took to Instagram on Monday evening to apologize to comedian Chris Rock for violently assaulting him on stage in front of everyone at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. Smith, who is being slammed for attacking Rock, also disabled the comments to his Instagram apology post.
Oscars producer Will Packer, a Hollywood mega-producer with dozens of blockbuster credits, called Will Smith’s assault against Chris Rock live on stage a “very painful moment” after initially appearing to downplay the attack.
CNN+ host Jemele Hill said Monday on CNN’s “The Lead” that black women were “encouraged” by actor Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock at Sunday’s Oscars because Smith was protecting his wife after they just saw Biden SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson “lambasted in the public eye” during her confirmation hearings.
Will Smith has publicly apologized to comedian Chris Rock for violently assaulting him during the Oscars telecast on Sunday night, denouncing his own behavior as “unacceptable and inexcusable.”
Comedian Chris Rock’s comedy tour saw a surge in ticket sales after actor Will Smith slapped him across the face at the Academy Awards on Sunday night after Rock told a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would not strip actor Will Smith of his best actor win because he slapped comedian Chris Rock during the Oscars.
The 94th Academy Awards were anything but a bore this year, and neither was the red carpet. In this Fashion Notes, I break down my best and worst dressed for the evening.
Hollywood turned on actor Will Smith after he slapped Oscars presenter Chris Rock over a joke the comedian made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Radio personality Howard Stern said Monday on his Sirius XM show “The Howard Stern Show” that actor Will Smith got away with slapping comedian Chris Rock at Sunday’s Oscars because Smith was like former President Donald Trump.
Here’s what I think happened between Will Smith and Chris Rock during last night’s Oscars…
On Sunday night’s Oscar telecast, we witnessed a classless and depraved Hollywood endorse violence and the sexual grooming of prepubescent children.
A paltry 15.4 million viewers tuned into Sunday night’s debacle of an Oscar telecast, the second-worst in the history of a telecast that just a few years ago was attracting 30 to 40 million viewers without breaking a sweat.
