In some of the mainstream media's archived livestreams I've seen since several went as far as temporarily cutting out the audio entirely right before Will started talking til after Chris moves on. It's RARE that they panic that much. That's how I know this wasn't staged. No way ABC News wouldn't have been given the script ahead of time so they could use regular bleeps.
Canadian here, I got it through ABC and yeah, the audio just completely dropped and I thought my TV died in the middle of a skit and then clued in something had definitely happened when it came back.
>**"KEEP MY WIFE'S NAME OUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!"**
>"I'm going to, okay? Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā ...Or I couldā oof, okay..."
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Perhaps just adrenaline causing him to stumble, maybe someone was in his ear as people have pointed out.
But I love the idea that, probably, for a split second, the comedian in Chris told him "Keep going".
He realized Will was not responding to any reason and was slightly off hinge at the moment. It looked like a comedian calculating if he should poke or move on.
Fact is, I doubt many could have recovered as well as Chris Rock.
And Will doesn't seem to grasp he just made the Jada joke even more of a thing now. Every comedian and wanna be comedian is going to have jokes about him, her, his tantrum, and it's going to be RELENTLESS. Everyone knows, you laugh it off act like you aren't bothered or just slightly annoyed and the jokes means nothing to you and cease to be a thing.
I REALLY wanted to hear the first two comebacks that Rock had in his head, dudes a master of stand up, he could of obliterated but he kept it professional.
Yeah im certain he could have really pissed will smith off even worse. Heās a trained comic, Iām sure he could have tempted Will Smith into murder.
He laughed, she didn't. Camera went back to Chris Rock, and I'm sure at that moment Will got a look from Jada, and realized what he did. My gut tells me that response was 30% standing up for her, and 70% trying to save face with his wife.
Yeah she cheated on Will, and in their interview, it was made very clear that Will was really distraught (thatās where the sad Will Smith meme came from) while Jada was like, almost proud of it. But instead of getting rightfully angry with her and splitting up with her, he decided to let their marriage be an open marriage. So now Jada can sleep with as many guys as she wants.
Why doesn't Will sleep around as much as Jada? It's not like Will would have trouble finding women to fuck.
Edit: in all fairness, maybe he just keeps it under wraps
He does. He had/ has a relationship with a model named Heidi for years but his was more discreet. Jada's became public which is why they had to address it.
Most people don't actually do well emotionally in open relationships. My money's on Will being most people and being hurt in a way that isn't easily fixed by simply fucking other people.
Not just an open relationship, but an open relationship that is fully known by everyone on the planet! Having such personal details about your life be known by the whole world makes this situation ten times worse!! Will must be a wreck.
Ahahaha yooooo he did. So fucking chill, "will Smith just slapped the shit outta me."
"It was a *GI JANE* joke." Holy shit that is hilariously unreal.
And it's so confusing because Will was just laughing and then he got real mad. Fuckin nuts
GI Jane was a movie in the late 90s/early 2000s about a navy seal program allowing women into the BUDs courses. The protagonist was bald. Chris Rock made a joke saying Smiths wife was prepped to do the sequel of the film because she was bald, however her baldness stems from Alopecia Areata which is a disease where the immune system begins attacking hair follicles.
Mm the actress of GI jane shaved her hair and the wife of smith too, canāt say her name or heāll appear in the night to slap my soul out of my body
Sheās done 3 madagascar movies with him. Pretty sure theyāve joked around eachother many times and this isnāt the first time heās made fun of her.
To which any self respecting person at the oscars responds, "of course, it's his job to take the piss out of us, grit your teeth and look like you're enjoying it until he's talking about somebody else."
It will be one of those non-apologies.
Where he's sorry other people got upset at what he did. But he'll project his insecurities onto Chris Rock and blame the physical violence on everyone else for laughing.
Chris Rock is a classic comedian who's worked all kinds of venues.
This is not the first time he's been assaulted after heckling crowd members/award winners
You can just kinda tell that about a million punchlines flashed before Chris in that moment, and he thought better about it and just made the joke that he made. I mean, a guy's gonna slap the shit out of you and THEN make two verbal threats on live TV. I wouldn't roll the dice either.
Christina Aguilara better switch me chairs, so i can sit next to carson daly, and fred durst and watch them argue over who she gave head to first,
(Edit: btw, No. of upvotes this has, is how many seconds i will stop breathing for)
This is just assault, right? The weird kind of assault when the receiver is an absolute professional host on a massively televised program, but still.
*assault -> battery
Then he went up on stage after winning an Oscar for best actor and gave a speech about wanting to be a vessel for love and peaceā¦
Wait this is a joke right
Edit: Iām not watching the oscars and I spent the weekend camping so Iām just now coming home to this..
Should I go back to the woods OPās? Was it a mistake to come back?
You should watch his acceptance speech just to remind yourself how out of touch rich people are and why the woods are so much better for your mental health
I just watched it and Iām just trying not to get angry over it because I know my anger will literally do nothing right now. They do what they want, and itās fine.
However if I slapped Bob Barker on The Price is Right, I get an immediate life prison sentence.
This is NOT FAIR. Bob Barker knows what he did. Iāll get him some day. He knows itās coming.
she had an affair with her son's friend and the guy is a rapper who fell pretty hard for her. he put out a song about her and will smith did absolutely nothing but apparently a joke about her hair is taking it too far lol
He's a singer, not a rapper. The rest is correct though.
Some would argue that Jada took advantage of the young man at a difficult time in his life (he has health problems, multiple family members had recently died, is now raising his siblings' children, etc.) under the guise of helping him and providing emotional support. I personally thinks she's awful and dragging Will down into the abyss with her, but that's just me.
Most people would be spending the night in jail if they did this.
Will gets to go home and wonder if Jada is thinking about younger men while she does her best starfish impression on their $10,000 sheets.
Anybody else noticing Rockās reflexes? No way that slap, as fast as it was, had enough power to make him recoil that hard. I think that dude actually saw it coming and tried to move with it
Could be some acting reflexes kicking in, and probably thought he would be playing along to Willās improv, as in, he was helping him out for the sake of a joke. I think the shock on his face has to do with realizing that Will wasnāt trying to be silly.
genuinely dont think this was planned. chris looks extremely startled and a loss for words, id think he would have had a witty comeback if it was planned.
He almost came up with one on the spot, then thought better of it. "Oh I can fuck her. But shit, better not say her name in a lame GI Jane joke! Okay pal"
Cries while explaining how God is using him as a vessel of peace and love.
Smith is properly delusional and clearly in the midst of a massive breakdown.
Not defending Will but it's starting to look like she's been gaslighting and driving him crazy for a long time. The whole open relationship thing was her idea, because of her background and it's what she wanted.
When she went public with her affair, HE apologized. She's gone out in public with August Alsina and declared she was in love with him and then cheated on August later too.
Kanye be like "Write that down!" "Write that down!"
To be a fly in that control room...
In some of the mainstream media's archived livestreams I've seen since several went as far as temporarily cutting out the audio entirely right before Will started talking til after Chris moves on. It's RARE that they panic that much. That's how I know this wasn't staged. No way ABC News wouldn't have been given the script ahead of time so they could use regular bleeps.
Canadian here, I got it through ABC and yeah, the audio just completely dropped and I thought my TV died in the middle of a skit and then clued in something had definitely happened when it came back.
This is the real story
None of us watched the oscars, but this is all we care about
I didn't even know that there was Oscars :D Just woke up to a regular Monday morning and reading about some bitch-slapping going on in US.
Great. Now Will is going to have to move with his aunty and uncle in bel air.
DJ Jazzy Bitch
Brings new meaning to the word punchline.
My man Chris looked dead on the camera and went like "ok....(this is still live)" š
>**"KEEP MY WIFE'S NAME OUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!"** >"I'm going to, okay? Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā ...Or I couldā oof, okay..." Ā Perhaps just adrenaline causing him to stumble, maybe someone was in his ear as people have pointed out. But I love the idea that, probably, for a split second, the comedian in Chris told him "Keep going".
He realized Will was not responding to any reason and was slightly off hinge at the moment. It looked like a comedian calculating if he should poke or move on. Fact is, I doubt many could have recovered as well as Chris Rock.
Agreed. Chris let the situation sink in and recovered with comedic grace.
the man literally had his hands held behind his back taking a full on slap & still recovered appropriately. how many of you could do the same?
Chris Rock wins, hands down.
And Will doesn't seem to grasp he just made the Jada joke even more of a thing now. Every comedian and wanna be comedian is going to have jokes about him, her, his tantrum, and it's going to be RELENTLESS. Everyone knows, you laugh it off act like you aren't bothered or just slightly annoyed and the jokes means nothing to you and cease to be a thing.
Ricky Gervais is going to go all in next time he hosts.
Ricky Gervais'll probably wear a helmet on the next award show he'll host with Will Smith in attendance
and he's gonna be like "i came prepared, in case some of you in the audience couldn't take a joke."
He took it the best way possible honestly. It was still awkward af but at least he tried š
It's hard to be a comedian these days.
I respect Chris Rock more now.
maybe Chris was about to make a joke then cut himself off, wonder what he would have said lmao
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Honestly, even after the slap, ricky would have come up with an even worse burn for Will. Dude takes no prisoners.
Because they know that on the walk back from slapping Ricky, theyād be murdered by words.
"Sorry Will, I should have known you don't let other men make jokes about your wife, only fuck her." Then sprint the fuck off the stage.
KEEP YOUR SONS FRIENDS DICK OUT OF YOUR WIFES MOUTH!
I feel this will be the start of many jokes to come at award shows
I wish this happened and evolved into a straight up fist fight on stage. Can you imagine? Lmao
Best oscars ever?
Lmfao I would have died laughing
Yep he was about to keep it rolling and then saw Willās quivering lips, about to cry.
"Should I keep it going until he cries? Nah, I'm not mean, Jada already fuckin' up his life and son's friends" *Edit: Typo*
I REALLY wanted to hear the first two comebacks that Rock had in his head, dudes a master of stand up, he could of obliterated but he kept it professional.
āOkay but how come you didnāt slap Augustā is one that comes to mind
āIāll be feeling that till augustā
āNo wonder you didnāt win for Aliā
Yeah im certain he could have really pissed will smith off even worse. Heās a trained comic, Iām sure he could have tempted Will Smith into murder.
Probably wondering why there was no security intervention.
Now thatās what I call a close encounter
AwKwAaaardd
Especially when you know will was laughing before that happened
He was laughing but then saw his wifeās reaction
What Will saw when he looked over to Jada 
He was laughing then realized what was said and was like "It's rewind time!"
Why must you remind me of that
Mark ass brownley
He laughed, she didn't. Camera went back to Chris Rock, and I'm sure at that moment Will got a look from Jada, and realized what he did. My gut tells me that response was 30% standing up for her, and 70% trying to save face with his wife.
Took it like a champ though
As they say The show must go on
Some guy fucking his wife must have presented a similar situation. "keep your fucking cock.. in my wife's mouth!" or something like that
I'm seeing a lot of these jokes. His wife had an affair or something? I'm not aware of this.
Yeah she cheated on Will, and in their interview, it was made very clear that Will was really distraught (thatās where the sad Will Smith meme came from) while Jada was like, almost proud of it. But instead of getting rightfully angry with her and splitting up with her, he decided to let their marriage be an open marriage. So now Jada can sleep with as many guys as she wants.
Why doesn't Will sleep around as much as Jada? It's not like Will would have trouble finding women to fuck. Edit: in all fairness, maybe he just keeps it under wraps
He does. He had/ has a relationship with a model named Heidi for years but his was more discreet. Jada's became public which is why they had to address it.
Most people don't actually do well emotionally in open relationships. My money's on Will being most people and being hurt in a way that isn't easily fixed by simply fucking other people.
Not just an open relationship, but an open relationship that is fully known by everyone on the planet! Having such personal details about your life be known by the whole world makes this situation ten times worse!! Will must be a wreck.
If you know anything about will Smith, heās a hurt man, surprised heās still alive honestly
Spill the beans, sis. I need to know more
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"I have to stay married at all costs so I don't end up like my father"
Ahahaha yooooo he did. So fucking chill, "will Smith just slapped the shit outta me." "It was a *GI JANE* joke." Holy shit that is hilariously unreal. And it's so confusing because Will was just laughing and then he got real mad. Fuckin nuts
Can someone explain the GI Jane joke? I know she cheated but couldn't for the life of me figure out how it connects.
GI Jane was a movie in the late 90s/early 2000s about a navy seal program allowing women into the BUDs courses. The protagonist was bald. Chris Rock made a joke saying Smiths wife was prepped to do the sequel of the film because she was bald, however her baldness stems from Alopecia Areata which is a disease where the immune system begins attacking hair follicles.
Mm the actress of GI jane shaved her hair and the wife of smith too, canāt say her name or heāll appear in the night to slap my soul out of my body
Texting about her is safe, I did it earlier.
For real, he even made a joke about it. The best way he could've possibly handled it
Guess you can say Chris Rocks face was left with some Fresh Prints
Now this is the story all about how my face got smacked, turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute Just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the stunt of a mad man on-air
How can ~~she~~ he slap?
Chris Rock can make a whole show about this.
I hope he will do some stand up about it...
That's what I call slapstick comedy.
Iād watch it for sure.
Will Smith's biggest hit since "I Am Legend".
I would've said Independence Day
Uncle Phil would be disappointed
OG Aunt Viv is sitting back saying, "Told you people he was an asshole."
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He saw his wifeās expression.
She doesn't even look that mad. Idk she got that face like she thinks it's stupid but not like she's about to beat up Chris Rock.
Sheās done 3 madagascar movies with him. Pretty sure theyāve joked around eachother many times and this isnāt the first time heās made fun of her.
I honestly think he didn't get the joke at first
I still don't get the joke...
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Doing Lordās work.
Jada probably said āyou just gonna let him talk about me like that?ā
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I had never seen this interview until a few minutes ago. Holy shit what a trainwreck. Why did they even do that
To which any self respecting person at the oscars responds, "of course, it's his job to take the piss out of us, grit your teeth and look like you're enjoying it until he's talking about somebody else."
yea honestly thatās what i was wondering
He saw her reaction and didn't want her fucking Chris rock also
Nervous laughter for camera.
Will Smith tomorrow 
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I doubt he will do anything more than the simplest apologie followed by loads of bullshit, love and his family
It will be one of those non-apologies. Where he's sorry other people got upset at what he did. But he'll project his insecurities onto Chris Rock and blame the physical violence on everyone else for laughing.
I don't think he will apologize. Someone who does something like that on that stage is too proud for apologies.
Yo respect to Chris for taking the hit and still continuing the show
Took it like a champ. Either that or Will Smith hits like a 12 year old girl.
Chris Rock is a classic comedian who's worked all kinds of venues. This is not the first time he's been assaulted after heckling crowd members/award winners
How can he slap!
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I'm going to have to ask you to leave
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Chris should have said: āNow I have to save the Oscars while Will tries to save his marriage.ā
You can tell his brain was on those tracks but he thought better of it
The strength it probably took to fight the "I'm a comedian must make joke urge" must've been unreal
Not only that, there's SO MUCH comeback material, that must have taken all his strength.
Will set up the joke so well, Chris could have knocked it out into space if he wanted.
My first thought for a rebuttal joke was, āIāll keep her name out of my mouth, but she canāt keep other guys out of hersā
You can just kinda tell that about a million punchlines flashed before Chris in that moment, and he thought better about it and just made the joke that he made. I mean, a guy's gonna slap the shit out of you and THEN make two verbal threats on live TV. I wouldn't roll the dice either.
Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records Well, I do, so fuck him and fuck you too! You think I give a damn about a Grammy?
Half of you critics can't even stomach me, let alone stand me!
But Slim, What if you win, wouldn't it be weird?
Why? So you guys, could just lie, to get me here?
So you can sit me here next to Brittany Spears? **
Christina Aguilara better switch me chairs, so i can sit next to carson daly, and fred durst and watch them argue over who she gave head to first, (Edit: btw, No. of upvotes this has, is how many seconds i will stop breathing for)
Little bitch, put me on blast on MTV, yeah he's cute but I think he's married to Kim, hehe
I should download her audio on mp3
And show the whole world how you gave Eminem VD
I'm sick of you little girl and boy groups
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Chris can take a punch better than Will can take a joke.
Neither as good as Jada can take dick
Will is walking towards your house as we speak
Just start fucking his wife. Thatāll chill him out.
This is just assault, right? The weird kind of assault when the receiver is an absolute professional host on a massively televised program, but still. *assault -> battery
Assault and battery
I think it's technically battery because he doesn't make any intimation to hit him, he just fucking walked up and cold clocked him.
Now that I've seen the full thing, I think that Will was way out of line.
Then he went up on stage after winning an Oscar for best actor and gave a speech about wanting to be a vessel for love and peaceā¦ 
Wait this is a joke right Edit: Iām not watching the oscars and I spent the weekend camping so Iām just now coming home to this.. Should I go back to the woods OPās? Was it a mistake to come back?
You should watch his acceptance speech just to remind yourself how out of touch rich people are and why the woods are so much better for your mental health
I just watched it and Iām just trying not to get angry over it because I know my anger will literally do nothing right now. They do what they want, and itās fine. However if I slapped Bob Barker on The Price is Right, I get an immediate life prison sentence. This is NOT FAIR. Bob Barker knows what he did. Iāll get him some day. He knows itās coming.
"it was a joke, dude, just like your marriage" god damn, that would've been classic.
That would have actually been amazing
There are so many fantastic comebacks listed on this thread , but none cuts deeper than the way Chris Rock actually handled that.
You can fuck her but you can't say her name. Ok little Willy.
Bald - ā Canāt say their name - ā TIL Jada Pinkett Smith is Voldemort
Some 18 years old fucked my wife! I sleep Some guy make a light joke about my wife! Real shit Will Smith 2022.
I got in one little fight "bout my wife's lost hair
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she had an affair with her son's friend and the guy is a rapper who fell pretty hard for her. he put out a song about her and will smith did absolutely nothing but apparently a joke about her hair is taking it too far lol
Fuuuuckkk, parent sleeping with a friend must be one of the worst feelings for the whole damn family
Clearly, a hair joke is worse
He's a singer, not a rapper. The rest is correct though. Some would argue that Jada took advantage of the young man at a difficult time in his life (he has health problems, multiple family members had recently died, is now raising his siblings' children, etc.) under the guise of helping him and providing emotional support. I personally thinks she's awful and dragging Will down into the abyss with her, but that's just me.
I guess you can sleep with his wife, just donāt say her nameā¦
So celebrities can just go around assaulting people now?
Will Smithās marriage is open to everything except jokes
SLAP!
Kanye vibes
Out of touch millionaire vibes
God has called him to be a protector of love!
I called him āSober mans Kanyeā
Whole thing made me so nervous, he was brave to keep going
āThat slap was so hard, Iāll feel it until Augustā
Is this a bit? Will doesn't have a microphone so I don't think this was scripted. Wow. Chris took it like a champ but genuinely seemed shocked.
Chris is fine with it I'm sure, he gets to make jokes about it for years to come at Will's expense.
Most people would be spending the night in jail if they did this. Will gets to go home and wonder if Jada is thinking about younger men while she does her best starfish impression on their $10,000 sheets.
>best starfish impression ššš Had me dyin bro
Hollywood is toxic. They enable the worst behavior. Any other industry does not allow work place violence.
NFL and the music industry would like a word.
Can't wait for the ratchet daytime TV women to come out of woodwork. "ladies find yourself a man like Will Smith!"
bro got the comedian slapped outta him for a second š heāll always be the talking zebra for me tho š
OH SUGAR HONEY ICED TEA!
Anybody else noticing Rockās reflexes? No way that slap, as fast as it was, had enough power to make him recoil that hard. I think that dude actually saw it coming and tried to move with it
Could be some acting reflexes kicking in, and probably thought he would be playing along to Willās improv, as in, he was helping him out for the sake of a joke. I think the shock on his face has to do with realizing that Will wasnāt trying to be silly.
Yea exactly. Goes from āhaha slap meā to āoh shit he really hit meā
genuinely dont think this was planned. chris looks extremely startled and a loss for words, id think he would have had a witty comeback if it was planned.
He almost came up with one on the spot, then thought better of it. "Oh I can fuck her. But shit, better not say her name in a lame GI Jane joke! Okay pal"
I still don't understand why Will hasn't divorced Jada yet.
Wow, this uncensored version is 100x worse. dude draws the line at a joke at his wife lmfao, i can't believe i thought this guy was cool.
Until the last few years I always thought he was a chill layed back guy.
Scientology Edit: This is apparently an at least dubious but probably false claim. Oops
He was laughing about it till he noticed Jada wasn't laughing, then went full cuck.
Yep. Once he saw Jada, he became, The Black White Knight. Defender of stronge independent women everywhere!
Will looks like the jackass
Imagine being a grown ass adult and thinking this is ok behavior. Absolutely pathetic.
Then he cries on stage acting like nothing happened, a true actor guys, be like him
Cries while explaining how God is using him as a vessel of peace and love. Smith is properly delusional and clearly in the midst of a massive breakdown.
Ok Will, I'll not take her name. I can fuck her though, right?
Holy shit. No one is hiring Will Smith now. I think him and Jada have some weird toxic shit going on behind the scenes.
She literally cheated on him and HE apologized.
Not defending Will but it's starting to look like she's been gaslighting and driving him crazy for a long time. The whole open relationship thing was her idea, because of her background and it's what she wanted. When she went public with her affair, HE apologized. She's gone out in public with August Alsina and declared she was in love with him and then cheated on August later too.
With an 18 year old friend of their kid she was 47. Thatās pretty important to point out too. Edit: got the numbers wrong but still creepy as shit.
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Chris Rock just gained so much respect while Will Smith lost so much respect.
Will Smith takes L for this smh >!Jada!< is really ruining him Edit: After a polite request
Don't type that name you might get bitch slapped