you are delusional. That slap was never right you clown

Forgot entitled rich asshole rage.  Kind of a major oversight.  

I know this is your job

Regardless of what she is, what a shitty take.

if somebody comments on my hair I get to have my husband commit felony assault on live tv also with no consequences.

I don’t think he’s being judged as the bad guy in “all of this;” he’s being judged on the merits of this special itself. I watched it myself, and while I laughed at a few things, it was pretty hacky overall.

how are there so many errors in such a short post? just for one example: the joke was that Chris Rock would keep his shirt on even if his character was getting open heart surgery, not that he does movies where he gets open heart surgery! Then you post random Tweets like this is fucking HuffPo and the first one you…

Selective Outrage doesn’t completely fall into Old Man Yells At Clouds/grievance-wallowing territory until the last ten minutes or so, and there’s still enough of Chris’ comedian-instinct to execute a few rhetorical swerves…which is about as much as I can give the special, because most of the material itself just…

Sucker slapping someone in front of everyone in American because you’re mad is in fact bad

Even if he had gone up on stage but not hit Rock, i.e. had some words with him, it wouldn’t have been nearly as bad as hitting him. Will Smith is a criminal, plain and simple. He literally committed a crime.

Um, no. Physical violence is wrong, period. It’s kind of the basis of civilization.

JADA MADE IT EVERYONE’S BUSINESS BY PUTTING IT ON THAT STUPID SHOW AND AIRING WILL’S PAIN FOR THE WORLD TO SEE.  

Or he could have done a sensitive interview about how upsetting the joke was. Or had his agent put out a press release saying that he was offended.

Saw him live in Vegas. Was ok but pretty uninspired material. Very tame I thought. No real desire to see this, but it’s so weird how comedy routines from certain folks have become socio-political sounding boards for the Very Online and no one actually judges to see if they succeed as comedy!

No one in the world would even remember that joke, positively or negatively, if Will Smith hadn’t reacted in an insane way. It’s the silliest throwaway joke in the world, but it gave us a the world’s worst insight into an insane relationship dynamic.

Since this whole situation arose from a joke that would’ve made more sense in 1997, I submit that Will and Chris resolve their differences the way everyone did that year: GoldenEye 007 multiplayer.

Facility, 2 minutes, Slappers Only

Presumably a less misogynistic one.

The slap is all on Will Smith. He could have done the sensible thing and have a chat with Rock afterwards that he would like him to apologize for what he said to his wife. 

So I did some jokes about him. That’s how it is. She starts it, I finish it. OK? That’s what happened. Nobody’s picking on this bitch. She started this shit. Nobody was picking on her. She said me, a grown-ass man, should quit his job because her husband didn’t get nominated. And then [he] gives me a concussion.…

I saw him live a few weeks ago. A massive detail the AVClub is selectively leaving out, to maximize the outrage you’re supposed to feel, is that he’s pointing out that she cheated on him by sleeping with their teenage son’s friend, and then they took interviews about it as a family. The joke is Will Smith had to sit…