Mark Albrighton Posted March 29, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2022 1 hour ago, ml1dch said: Took me a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 Guess if you joked about someones wife like that in a pub you would deserve a slap. Anyway hes apoligised now and Rock wasn't hurt so end of story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 17 minutes ago, PaulC said: Guess if you joked about someones wife like that in a pub you would deserve a slap. Anyway hes apoligised now and Rock wasn't hurt so end of story. Probably won't be end of story for jobbing comedians though. They'll be wondering who is coming out of the audience to slap them if they don't like one of the jokes aimed at them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 15 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Probably won't be end of story for jobbing comedians though. They'll be wondering who is coming out of the audience to slap them if they don't like one of the jokes aimed at them. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 (edited) The actual slap looked staged but the expletive laden outburst from Smith made the whole thing look something totally different. I don't get how Smith initially laughed at the joke then within seconds becomes enraged. Fwiw, I've never really took to Jaden Pinkett. She comes across as a very cold kind of person, who is constantly seeking attention at the cost of other people's feelings, especially her own family's. When Smith said, "keep my wife's name out of your fecking mouth", I'm sure Rock was dying to come back with the response, "tell your wife to keep other men out of her mouth". Edited March 29, 2022 by sheepyvillian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizzzle Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 Actors gonna act, gives the Academy some much needed promotion... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 4 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Actors gonna act, gives the Academy some much needed promotion... Yeah that slap was staged. The aftermath I feel Smith went off script. Rock was leaning in to it and bracing himself. Smith delivered it like a stage punch but was a slap. I gives an otherwise bland awards show some much needed coverage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Actors gonna act, gives the Academy some much needed promotion... I think at that point Rock and the audience still thought it was banter. He (CR) anticipated a slap and moved to make it look real without it really connecting. Its the sweary shouting that made everyone think he might actually be really pissed off. Edited March 29, 2022 by Genie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chindie Posted March 29, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2022 Smith isn't going to agree to tanking his image, for no benefit to himself, on what was potentially going to be the biggest night of his career. And Rock was genuinely shaken afterwards, stumbling his lines and trying to to get himself back on course. It's not staged. Smith laughs because either he doesn't get the joke (and it's a crap joke to be honest) but goes along with the laughter because that's what you do, or he does get it but then sees that it has cut his wife more deeply than expected. He then reacts angrily - Rock isn't expecting him to actually be pissed off, and somewhat plays along, and IMO Smith isn't entirely sure of what he's actually going to do, so when he does hit Rock, it's a slightly fluffed slap - he's second guessing himself, and also he's obviously not intending to really hurt him, it's a disrespect move, so it comes out weirdly. Then he sits back down and makes it clear he's pissed off in a very aggressive way. It's possible there is also some personal problems there. Rock has poked at JPS before, cuttingly, and they have worked together, so it's possible there's some animosity behind closed doors. And Smith's obviously got personal troubles - him being cheated on by JPS coming out and being addressed very publicly, their relationship long being rumoured to be... left field... the relationship with his son being a bit weird, his career being all over the place in the last decade... 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 29, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2022 18 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Yeah that slap was staged. The aftermath I feel Smith went off script. Rock was leaning in to it and bracing himself. Smith delivered it like a stage punch but was a slap. I gives an otherwise bland awards show some much needed coverage. Nah no way. Makes zero sense 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Nah no way. Makes zero sense I don't know, the saunter up, the barely concealed smile as Smith walked away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LondonLax Posted March 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2022 I know everyone wants to feel like "no one's going to get anything past me!" and want's to be the first to call things out but at the same time not everything is fake. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 29, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2022 Just now, Seat68 said: I don't know, the saunter up, the barely concealed smile as Smith walked away. There's just no way it was staged. Apart from increasing publicity, nobody else stands to gain from it. A screenshot with a few incorrect words typed on it doesn't change things 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 1 minute ago, Stevo985 said: There's just no way it was staged. Apart from increasing publicity, nobody else stands to gain from it. A screenshot with a few incorrect words typed on it doesn't change things True, I think we need a ten part podcast series on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 6 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: There's just no way it was staged. Apart from increasing publicity, nobody else stands to gain from it. A screenshot with a few incorrect words typed on it doesn't change things I dunno. For Chris Rock this can only aid his career, I don’t know how successful he’s been of late but perhaps it’s been waning. Jada Pinkett may see it as raising awareness for her condition. The Oscar’s needed something to happen this year to boost steadily declining viewer numbers and interest. The one it doesn’t directly benefit is Smith himself but then perhaps JPS pulled the old ‘if you loved me you’d do it’ card…..all conjecture obviously but it just looked odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 The only reasonable explanation is that Rock and Smith are trying to cash in on baldies baldness and are actually trying to get GI Jane 2 made, staring the baldy, I'd watch it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 I'm already so sick of this story. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 13 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said: The only reasonable explanation is that Rock and Smith are trying to cash in on baldies baldness and are actually trying to get GI Jane 2 made, staring the baldy, I'd watch it. Come on, Phil, "follicle challenged " is the correct term. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 55 minutes ago, LondonLax said: I know everyone wants to feel like "no one's going to get anything past me!" and want's to be the first to call things out but at the same time not everything is fake. I’m always the first to call fake things fake. This ain’t it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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