If the slap hadn’t happened and everything had ended after Jada’s eyeroll, it would have just been Chris Rock telling a dud joke, the end. Thanks to the slap, her hair loss is all over the news and her husband is going to do an apology tour.

Could you imagine the racism blowblack for having a black actor arrested at the Oscars?

You’d be wrong, on Cosby and Gibson, at least. I bet this hasn’t even reached a .5 on the Snyder scale, yet.

I can’t believe they haven’t thought up a better excuse other than ... well it was live and we had a show to do so we just kept going. Someone came up on the stage and assaulted someone else. Case closed. Smith should have been thrown out and probably arrested. (Although I guess that part is up to Chris Rock.)

Well um yeah because those assholes didn't do what they did live on tv.

Considering what else is going on in the world, it’s like AV Club is giving every writer the chance to distract us.

I could be wrong but I think he wouldn’t be able to vote in his category. He would still be eligible to receive the award. You don’t have to be am academy member to get nominated or recieve an award.

I agree with this, from what I remember reading the book a long time ago. He was quick to remind people that one of the reasons we find LDS and it’s history so strange is because it’s very new and we have a more extensive record of it happening, as opposed to older more establishes religions. He also describes the…

I feel like at this point there’s more Will Smith slaps Chris Rock articles than there ever were about Bill Cosby or Mel Gibson or Kevin Spacey.

Especially when Mad Max: Furisoa was RIGHT THERE! “I didn’t know Jada had replace Charlize on Mad Max.”

Whether Rock will face Academy-backed repercussions for going off script isn’t clear.

I agree. I recall the book being pretty insightful about the way the crimes were linked to Mormon doctrine, and how both more extreme elements of Mormonism and more mainstream Mormons deal with certain elements of their faith that can be challenging. Certainly, if you’re a mainstream Mormon, Krakauer raises some…

I’m rereading the book now (research for a novel) and I have to hardily disagree. I think the book’s mix of religious history with modern true crime works extremely well, and is vital to understanding the motivations of the Laffertys and the other modern FLDS. Krakauer does a good job of differentiating between the…

I’m laughing just reading about it. I hope Paul Rudd does this at Conan’s funeral.

“Love makes you do crazy things” - every man who’s ever physically abused a woman.

The normalization of this is twisted and insane.

Growing up I had this weird seizure-type disorder. It has a long name and it’s hard to describe the physical effects but essentially when I stood, I’d seize up and if I tried to move my face would contort and I’d drag my leg and I couldn’t speak. Sometimes in a really bad one, I fell down. This started in puberty and…

“did Will Smith slapping Chris Rock actually make Jada’s life any easier? After all, that’s who this was for, right?”

Exactly.  Rather than her giving an eyeroll and moving on, having the spotlight shift from something she may not want discussed she now can’t turn anywhere with out it being a topic of discussion.  How…

It’s based on R&J but it’s NOT a remake of R&J.  There’s a difference.

Why not “Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark” or “Escape to Margaritaville” for a real challenge?