People are going to be Monday-morning-quarterbacking this thing until the next presidential debates. So many unanswered questions.
Why didn't Jada wear a wig? She has supposedly been "vocal" about her condition. Maybe going "bare" was a way of proclaiming to the world, "I GOT THIS!" Which if she's going with that style, it invites comments. Maybe this is what went thru Rock's head. I don't know, I'm just spit-balling here.
My big question about the whole thing is Will Smith's "mental process," for lack of a better word. He had to stand up, knowing he was on live television in front of a global audience, walk 15 or so steps to the stage, smack Rock, then walk the same steps back to his seat and THEN he started yelling his rant, TWICE. Did he go temporarily insane? It's not like he was some 20-year-old who just had his first hit movie and didn't know how to behave in that kind of a moment. This is a guy who has been around the block. How did he not KNOW that he was about to start a gigantic dumpster fire before even getting to the stage? Why didn't he come to his senses, turn around and sit back down? And assuming he couldn't stop himself from the slap, you would think he'd've had a bit of an epiphany on the way back to his seat, and just continued walking out the back of the building... or at least just sat there quietly and not thrown gas into the dumpster TWICE. I wonder if anyone knows how many cocktails he had before the ceremony?
It reminded me of a situation we had near here a few years ago, where two guys got into an argument in a bar. One of the guys left the bar, walked several blocks to his house, picked up a gun, walked back to the bar and shot the other guy. Didn't he think, somewhere in the minutes he was walking, that he was about to ruin his own life along with the other guy's?
It would be tough to be a comedian these days. Even Jerry Seinfeld, who is about the cleanest, least-offensive comedian working today, said he won't do college shows anymore because he doesn't want to take the chance of offending somebody and getting "canceled" for it.
Why didn't Jada wear a wig? She has supposedly been "vocal" about her condition. Maybe going "bare" was a way of proclaiming to the world, "I GOT THIS!" Which if she's going with that style, it invites comments. Maybe this is what went thru Rock's head. I don't know, I'm just spit-balling here.
My big question about the whole thing is Will Smith's "mental process," for lack of a better word. He had to stand up, knowing he was on live television in front of a global audience, walk 15 or so steps to the stage, smack Rock, then walk the same steps back to his seat and THEN he started yelling his rant, TWICE. Did he go temporarily insane? It's not like he was some 20-year-old who just had his first hit movie and didn't know how to behave in that kind of a moment. This is a guy who has been around the block. How did he not KNOW that he was about to start a gigantic dumpster fire before even getting to the stage? Why didn't he come to his senses, turn around and sit back down? And assuming he couldn't stop himself from the slap, you would think he'd've had a bit of an epiphany on the way back to his seat, and just continued walking out the back of the building... or at least just sat there quietly and not thrown gas into the dumpster TWICE. I wonder if anyone knows how many cocktails he had before the ceremony?
It reminded me of a situation we had near here a few years ago, where two guys got into an argument in a bar. One of the guys left the bar, walked several blocks to his house, picked up a gun, walked back to the bar and shot the other guy. Didn't he think, somewhere in the minutes he was walking, that he was about to ruin his own life along with the other guy's?
It would be tough to be a comedian these days. Even Jerry Seinfeld, who is about the cleanest, least-offensive comedian working today, said he won't do college shows anymore because he doesn't want to take the chance of offending somebody and getting "canceled" for it.
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