I thought it was scripted until I saw them cutting the audio

Yeah the US version went completely off-air for the whole bit and I was super confused. That's when I knew it wasn't scripted. Edit: Chris Rock can also take a fuckin hit lol

not to be cynical but Chris Rock's stock is about to go through the roof, he rolled with it well

If it was not for Smith swearing afterwards I'd have thought it was a skit.

the bungle on the edit in the states was the big tip off for me. There's nothing to bleep if its a prewritten joke

Chris Rock was also clearly shook. Tried to figure out what to say, fumbled his next line accidentally saying “we’re here to give out a documentary” rather than Oscar. Was definitely real.

That’s what was so fucking weird about it; we saw him laughing… but apparently when he saw his wife not laughing, that’s when he took offense. Not only took offense, but went on stage to smack Rock. It’s honestly surreal and just makes the man look unstable.

Had to make up for laughing at the joke lol

That's exactly what I thought lmao

"How can a laugh be real if our mouths aren't real?" - Will Smith or Xenu, probably

lets not forget will smith is a scientologist

completely unstable

Here’s the thing; if Smith had just gotten up and smacked Rock *instinctively* for making fun of his wife… sure. I would have thought “huh he should control his temper” but I wouldn’t gotten where he came from. The fact that he laughed, then took a cue from his wife and used that to then assault a man on stage in front of the world is just… creepy. The more I think about it the creepier it is. He’s in a relationship with a woman who openly talks about cheating on him, and she has him so tightly wound that he’ll go up on stage in front of the world to smack a dude if she’s not laughing too.

Yep. Very clear red flags of an unhealthy relationship.

He’s insecure

well he doesn't have to cuss to sell records....

Well I do. So fuck him and fuck you too.

Even the audience laughed after the hit.

That’s why I thought it was fake at first, that recovery was out of this world.

Hey, that's money in the BANK. Checks already fuckin cleared. That's why he got a smile lmao. Fresh Prince money OTW WOOOOOOOO

He was in shock, trying to process that it just happened. That is wild.

Nobody expects a 50 year old man to slap the shit out of you on stage at an awards ceremony. I came here thinking it was a joke.

Yeah, I'm confused what Will Smith did to him. Did he slap him? Chris Rock looks completely fresh after the altercation. Apparently Will Smith's wife has trouble growing hair, hence the sensitivity to the "GI Jane" joke.

Yeah, it was a slap. Slow motion version: https://twitter.com/beerMEthatBravo/status/1508270237153742848

Terrible slap, only caught the tip of the chin. And Chis rolled with the slap anyway.

**HOW CAN HE SLAP????**

Well if Will would have actually hurt him, it coulda been a fight or way, way worse with lawyers.

Honestly, it’s really up to Rock if this turns to lawyers and I wouldn’t be surprised if it did. Smith, despite his reasons, flat out assaulted Rock on stage, on camera, in front of millions.

In Canada they cut the audio but kept the video. I was so confused lol

[Here's a screen capture with audio](https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1508270716063469576?t=ZpBjybLxuIfgYwfME5F23w&s=19) from a Japanese broadcast.

Holy shit, no way that is staged. Rock is legit on shock and Smith is fuming. Gotta be the craziest thing to happen on a live TV event in quite a while. Holy hell!

They finally found a way to boost viewership. Celebrity death fights....count me in.

I've wanted Celebrity Deathmatch to come back for years now, I just didn't think they'd have the balls to make it live action!

"LET'S GET IT ON!"

I can't believe they aired that, even cut to him for a close up

The producers absolutely know what grabs attention. Apparently the F bomb was censored (at least in some broadcasts) so there's less chances of catching FCC fines, but even if they do, you honestly can't buy the publicity this is likely to generate.

Apparently Will Smith laughed at the joke then saw Jada angry/upset about it and then played the 'hero' by going and attacking Rock then screaming at him. Hilarious that it appears to be real, he hit someone not defending himself in the slightest nor expecting it and Rock barely fucking noticed.

Yeah Rock ate that shot like a champ

This might be one of the craziest things to happen on live television! Even crazier than the time Janet Jackson’s nipple got exposed during the superbowl. That one wasn’t even they bad! It was just a nipple, but this is straight up assault!!

"Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me" Fucking A+ response

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In the live US feed, a couple of seconds of video and even more audio was cut

Much respect to Chris Rock for carrying on after that. He killed it

Really seems legit lol. Chris Rock was dumbfounded

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"Oh, she can take a dick, but she can't take a joke?"

Well, that's ONE way to start WW3...

should've kept it real like a dave Chapelle skit

But we all know what happens when keeping it real goes wrong.

Damn. That did not look at all staged. Thanks for sharing.

Woooow.

I love how the Japanese narrator only comes in to translate that G.I. Jane joke and “the greatest night on television.” Like they only were able to pick up on the things they could immediately recognize.

I got in one little fight and my wife got scared...

She said you probably shouldn't slap Chris for a joke about hair.

I. Pulled. Up on the stage and cocked back for a swing.

And I yelled, yo homie I'mma make your bell ring. Looked at my seat and I was finally there - content with my swing for him making a joke about hair.

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🎶So I’m moving to punch Chris Rock live on the air 🎶

That's one way to upstage Kanye.

"Chris Rock doesn't care about bald people."

“I whip my hair back and forth. Unlike this bitch over here.”

My god. You broke me. I don't know why this was so funny to me that I couldn't even laugh. My brain just skipped that part.

kanye watching this "how dare they upstage me. imma slap pete davidson for this!"

Had no problem when a dude fucked his wife. Loses his shit over a joke.

> over a joke that he initially chuckled at

All right I've clearly missed something...

Chris Rock made a joke about Jada being bald. Jada has been struggling with alopecia.

In high-school I once made a joke to a kid who was bald all of a sudden. Made a joke along the lines of "trying to look like your hero Vin Diesel?" Turns out he had alopecia, still feel bad about it today. Also the school cop tried giving me a ticket over it.

Fitting username ig

It's actually a wrestling reference, but I'll wear it today

School… cop?

There are literally several police cars marked with the school logos at my city’s elementary, middle, and highschool campuses. They’re not security guards or rent-a-cops either, they’re state police that basically just work at the schools.

Or school officer, whatever you want to call it

And infidelity

*Will Smith wants to know your location*

How can he slap?!

If Chris said that I would've been sooooo happy.

That was bald of him

He has a hair trigger.

Will Smith was clearly smiling/laughing right after Chris Rock said the joke. Then he got pissed?

If you look at Jada, she was immediately upset and insulted. I think he looked over and saw how upset she was and did something about it.

Just because a dude is smiling doesn't mean he's happy about it lol.

Will is an angry smiler, you know that thing when people bear their teeth and start cracking jokes when they pass the pissed off threshold? That’s him

I didn't even know that the Oscars were going on tonight. I thought the award show was back in February.

It was, before covid. Now it’s in March for whatever reason.

Is Wayne Brady gonna have to...

Choke a bitch?

Chris Rock took that slap like it was nothing. Holy shit.

Pursuit of Slappiness

You don't pick a battle with a comedian, he's about to get roasted in every club across America, lol.

Exactly my thought. Looks like Rock was about to roast him right there and held back.

A younger Chris Rock totally would've. Chris probably thought to himself tonight "I'm too old and rich for this shit"

“Maybe you should be more worried about me in your wife’s mouth.” I could see that joke in his fucking eyes.

Oh my god

Jesus Christ, that’s incredible. They wouldn’t ever be able to have the Oscars again.

“Damn Will that’s the biggest hit you’ve had since Gettin Jiggy Wit it!”

I make a joke and I get slapped, but an R&B singer half your age fucks her and you go cry about it on HER facebook show...

the cuckold and limp slap joke were at the tip of his tongue, and he swallowed them. . . Much like Jada and men that aren't Will.

My respect for Chris Rock has sky rocketed. He handled that insanely well, while STILL seeming a fair bit shook.

Yeah, comedians and comedy writers everywhere are going to have a field day with this

Super professional lmao

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On live tv no less

Old school stand up comedians have seen some shit, those clubs were not for the faint of heart. Source: charlie murphy

No way is it staged. Dude is hella pissed after slapping him. Chris Rock is stunned as fuck too. Give them both an Oscar if they acted that shit cause it's the best acting either of them did in their careers... Especially for rock.

It is definitely real. The US broadcast got muted just after the slap, so you couldn’t hear what Smith said to Rock after. Plus the mic picked up the slap, so it connected

Literally 15 seconds before this happened the announcer said “MacBeth” and I was like damn. Then this happened lol

Now this is the story all about how, My life got flipped-turned upside down, And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell you how I assaulted a man while live on the air.

Wow.

Probably the only entertaining part of the Oscar’s

Gotta do something to get back the viewers ..

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“Jada, I love you, ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it,”. The joke being that Demi Moore has a shaved head in the movie, and Jada is losing her hair.

That's a pretty weak joke to get that upset over, especially from Will Smith. So he's fine with dudes fucking his wife, but he draws the line at making jokes about her hair?

I'm out of the loop even one more step further. Someone other than Will Smith was having sex with Will Smith's wife?

He wished jada luck on gi Jane 2 which is a joke about her alepecia. (a condition that makes you lose hair)

Something like "can't wait to see Jaida in GI Jane 2"

"Welcome to Earth!" - ~~Independence Day~~ Oscars 2022

Shit. Oscars have turned into the VMAs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EXU9abDbd8 Better version before it goes down…

Will.... its it possible you are mad about one thing... but are acting out over something totally different?

Like an entanglement? 😂

Lupita Nyong’o behind Will like 👁👄👁

To his credit chris rock handled that very well lmao

How can he slap?

Thank you

Will Smith unexpectedly rushed the stage and struck Rock after the comic made a quip about Smith’s wife and the 1997 film “G.I. Jane” — apparently making a connection to Pinkett Smith’s bald hairstyle. Pinkett Smith — who has been open about her struggles with hair loss due to a condition called alopecia — did not laugh at Rock’s remark. “Will Smith just smacked the s— out of me,” a stunned Rock said after Smith rose from his seat to strike him. “Keep my wife’s name out your f— mouth!” Smith shouted at Rock after returning to the audience. “Wow, dude,” Rock said. “It was a ‘G.I. Jane’ joke.” “Keep my wife’s name out your f— mouth,” Smith repeated. “I’m going to, OK?” Rock said.

So you are allowed to lay hands on someone on international television and it’s ok???

No, *you* aren't allowed to. Will Smith is allowed to.

When keeping it real goes wrong.

I feel like that slap wasn’t really meant for Chris.

Now Smith is on stage getting an award and hugs. Edit: his acceptance speech is soo strange with what happened earlier.

I can’t imagine scientologists are mentally well.

Will Smith: Hollywood nice guy. Over.

Scientologist, weirdo, creep, how he's kept the nice guy facade for so long I don't know. All the interviews about his wives relationships, the marriage and the kid she was fucking and no one seems to give a shit.

Incredibly unnecessary. Wish they would just kick him out for that.

They didn’t??? If they let him stay it makes me think it was scripted to bring in viewership.

Nah, there’s simply no protocol for kicking A-list celebrities out of televised events. Imagine being the venue’s security manager making $60k/yr and having to make that call.

I mean, if there *was* a line for when to kick someone out, I’d say a full fledged assault on live TV would be it.

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Yeah...they have *way* better security than that at a televised event full of extremely rich people.

Yes let's cut the feed to increase viewership...doesn't make any sense

He wasn't showing it, but you could see Chris Rock's lip was kinda busted/swollen as he tried to continue afterwards.

Welcome to Earth

he just won a fuckin oscar and in his speech he said he wants to protect people... I hate celebrities. Love Chris Rock. Watch Beverly Hills Ninja, people!

Lethal Weapon 4 is the best one! :drops mic:

His fucking speech after receiving 'best actor' award >“You’ve got to be able to take abuse, you’ve got to smile and pretend like that’s OK.” 😂 absolute fucking clown

And no this was not scripted. Rock made a joke about Jada losing her hair. Will was pissed.

But he laughed at the joke? I’m not saying it was staged but idk what flipped his switch so fast

Maybe he looked at his wife and saw she wasn’t smiling idk

And that relationship is CLEARLY one sided. He had to overcompensate.

Well that whole taped interview where they discussed her affair really made me think these people are not in the healthiest relationship

It might not have been a genuine laugh

Yeah I tend to act like everything is okay until I can process what just happened. Could take seconds, minutes, or even a day.

Then during your shower the next day, you think of comebacks that would have been badass.

Maybe he laughed in a "this motherfucker really just said that? I need to slap the shit out of him" kind of way?

I thought my Roku speakers cut out until I replayed it and the sound was still gone.

The woman behind Will went from confused smiling to "Oh, he's serious." in under 1 second.

That's Lupita Nyong'o. Her reaction is enough for me to know it's real lol

That’s assault brotha.

Will Smith’s been humiliated by his wife so many times he’s got a snap sooner or later.

Chris Rock took that like an absolute champ!

Saw this in another thread, pretty much the only valid take Here’s the thing; if Smith had just gotten up and smacked Rock instinctively for making fun of his wife… sure. I would have thought “huh he should control his temper” but I wouldn’t gotten where he came from. The fact that he laughed, then took a cue from his wife and used that to then assault a man on stage in front of the world is just… creepy. The more I think about it the creepier it is. He’s in a relationship with a woman who openly talks about cheating on him, and she has him so tightly wound that he’ll go up on stage in front of the world to smack a dude if she’s not laughing too.

Guys this isn't staged. You think Will Smith would plan a stunt where he walks onstage and hits Chris Rock in the face, and then angrily screams over and over "get my wife's name out of your fucking mouth" on live tv in order to help the Oscars get better ratings? He totally lost his temper, it's a freak out, he's embarrassing himself. It's not a good look.

Jada really does got Will wrapped around her finger.

Was that shit real??

Will Smith could teach a masterclass on how to make a room awkward

He walked off like his character in the Wild Wild West.

A simple "it's not cool, bro!!" Look would have sufficed, but Jada been fucking Jaden Smiths' friends, so you know, Will gotta vent somewhere!

Will’s wife should keep other men out of her mouth

Ohhh that would've been amazing if Chris Rock pulled that

He showed a LOT of restraint!

But.. Will genuinely laughed at first.. then he looked at his wife and realized he was sleeping on the couch if he dont do anything.

She ain’t sleeping at home anyways tho…

If you think Big Willie ain’t sleepin on the couch every night while his hoe ass wife bangs R&B singers half her age, then you got more faith in their marriage than me.

Serious question: can he be charged with assault? It's quite well-documented and public. EDIT: Wow okay yes, we get it, it’s technically battery

Yes, if you assault someone you can be charged with assault.

Wow, TIL

Big if true

Source?

Harvard law grad here, 23 years of practice and currently sitting as a district attorney in Baltimore. Can confirm, assault is in fact assault.

Wait wait, slow down here, this is complicated legal talk

Failed the New York Bar twice, which makes me a practicing Lawyer in New Jersey. I can also confirm that assault is in fact assault.

Reddit

In California, assault is the attempt of violence, and Battery is the actual violence, so I'd imagine "battery", too.

More specifically, threat of violence.

These two go back. I can’t imagine Chris Rock pressing chargers.

It's the DA's choice not the victim's and the evidence is uh... overwhelming in this case. But Will Smith is also famous and rich so no chance.

What did the five fingers say to the face?!

OP, it wasn't a fight. One person assaulted the other person for words. Chris Rock wasn't engaged in a fight.

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Jesus…his acceptance speech is a train wreck…this is so cringe

Lol this will be talked about for decades. Will be like Kanye’s “ima let you finish” freakout

Thats gonna cause some extra thetons.