Why is this year’s winner for Best Actor slapping an Oscar presenter and megastar comedian newsworthy?

Father issues.

I kinda wish Rock had said “and that’s why you didn’t win the Oscar for Ali!”

After all Will Smith loved the joke until his wife told him otherwise

Rock’s joke wasn’t even a good one and punched down

“The Academy does not condone violence of any form, but God are we thankful that people are actually talking about the Oscars again!”

See, to me, it’s not about the alopecia joke at all. It’s about the open marriage joke earlier in the night from Regina Hall. And the even funnier open marriage joke Rebel Wilson made at the BAFTAs last week. And the dozens of open marriage jokes made over the last few years. But Will Smith can’t hit female comics, or…

“I’m gonna slap Chris Rock. That’ll show people just how masculine I am and totally stop those rumors about my sexuality!” ~Will Smith, probably

You slap truthers are absolutely fucking unhinged. Go back to your Qanon boards!

I don’t know why you guys are so sure that Chris Rock knew about her medical condition.  I only ever heard of it after this hit.  He might have had no idea.

or maybe just go after Smith and/or Rock as “thugs” LOL, that seems to be the most obvious choice--take down two “darlings” of the libtards with one stroke.

No, I live here on this earth, the one where big celebrities can get away with things that rando non-celebrities can’t.

The “punching down” rule is so elastic, it just amounts to saying that jokes you like and jokes at the expense of people you don’t like are OK, and other jokes are not.

“World famous Oscar-winning superstar got away with doing it, therefore random bozos will too” is not Earth logic.

A joke about a movie star sitting front row at the Oscars is not punching down.

Yeah, I really don’t think he would’ve been quite as shocked if he’d intended the joke to hit that hard. Seems a lot more likely that he just didn’t know about her medical condition.

He’s a comedian….just doing what he was hired to do. Could of said something a lot nastier.

It’s probably less about what Chris said and more about how she reacted to it, if that makes any sense.

I seriously doubt Chris Rock actually meant it in a mean-spirited way. A genuine apology in private later on should probably smooth things over. The fact that the main highlight is Rock getting slapped in the face instead of the GI Jane joke itself probably helps a bit too.

Punch him later, dude!