Well I guess I’m going to have to point out what Michael is too kind to say: that Oscars sketch sucked. Chris Redd’s impression probably hindered it from the get-go (probably should’ve dragged Jay Pharoah back to do it), but from beginning-to-end, that sketch suuuuuucked.

Oh god thank you folks. Made my day

Great, well, until then, you can’t go around slapping people in the face. 

 Does anyone else feel like maybe we don’t need to reproduce that photo (and video) a trillion times?

Fighting in bars seems like that trope about shoving people in lockers. None of my schools ever had lockers big enough to fit a person in, and none of the dozens of bars I’ve frequented has ever had a fight break out while I was present. I don’t doubt that either has happened, but if it’s happening to you more than a…

I, for one, look forward to several years worth of variations:

Roach
Captain Cockroach
Moon Roach
Wolveroach
Secret Sacred Wars Roach
and
Punisheroach.

The standing ovation from the crowd is almost as befuddling as the slap itself. you’d figured at some point all the performative caring about social issues and justice would have actually sunk in. I guess because it was only a half hour the audience of movie stars didn’t have time to realize or have their PR team text…

... in front of one’s friends, collegues, and a global audience of millions. It’s exactly the same thing!

Even if this is true, there’s still (to me, at least) the rancid feeling that most of the people there were, at the very least, sympathetic to him. The producers of the show didn’t make them give him a standing ovation, party with him all night, and go miles out of their way to avoid criticizing him whenever they were…

You must hang out with a lot of dumb fucks if that’s your Friday night

He was most likely talking about his family night.

Oh, yeah, I’m sure your Friday nights are full of strangers slapping each other. Suuuure, tough guy.

Or a single good person. Or anyone with a brain.

I can’t imagine a single standup will say, “yeah, it was fine that Rock got physically assaulted over a joke.”

Steven’s mum is actually dead, right? Psycho style?

I don't find it odd for a Black woman to have no or very short hair, I've been seeing that my whole life, though whether it's been preference, a medical condition or simply being between wigs/weaves I can't say. Didn't ask. Now if I see a bald white woman I pretty much assume chemo since otherwise full baldness is…

It was a shitty joke.

Jada turned her hair loss into a marketing campaign. Call it what you want - “getting in front of the issue,” or “educating the public,” or etc. - but it was a specifically tailored publicity move.

As a fortunate male with a very good head of hair, I strongly, STRONGLY disagree. I have several female friends who are completely bald, two from alopecia. I do not know a single person in our circles who has mocked them or said anything other than supportive things about how beautiful they are. (I don’t even know…

According to Jada, the cause of her alopecia is unknown and she is not directly diagnosed with any medical condition. She has suggested that it may be traction alopecia from use of weaves. None of that matters except that there seems to be a concerted effort to paint her as frail and sick in order to score points.