# So Will Smith punched Chris Rock at the Oscars last night **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comedian-jokes, talk-variety-show\ **Created:** [March 28, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826 "2022-03-28T08:32:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/1 "2022-03-28T08:32:37Z")
Basically, Chris made some jokes about Jada. Very tame ones if you ask me. Will appears to laugh at first. But then he walks right up on stage and smacks Chris right in the mouth. Will was a total fucking ass in my opinion. Thoughts? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/myjEoDypUD8/maxresdefault.jpg "Watch the uncensored moment Will Smith smacks Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars, drops F-bomb") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myjEoDypUD8) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/2 "2022-03-28T08:45:54Z")
wow and he wasnt kicked out? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/3 "2022-03-28T08:50:04Z")
There’s a long blow-by-blow commentary in the Oscars thread, starting about here (post 70-ish): > [@94th Academy Awards Nominees are out. Let's discuss](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/94th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out-lets-discuss/959575/62): > > Does anyone know the backstory behind the G.I. Jane 2 joke and Will Smith punching Chris Rock? I thought it was a bit, but the longer it went one the less it seemed like one. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/4 "2022-03-28T08:50:44Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > There’s a blow-by-blow commentary 🤣   ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/5 "2022-03-28T08:51:48Z")
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**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/6 "2022-03-28T09:01:06Z")
I guess I’ll repeat what I said in the Oscar thread. Rock. You were done worst then hit. You were upstaged. Smith has just made you take the brunt of all the public’s jokes about him and his wife. Hell, he just gave you a free ticket to go hard on him. Wear the hit, smile, and just continue making jokes about him. Must have been the shock. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/7 "2022-03-28T09:33:08Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > Rock. You were done worst then hit. You were upstaged. Smith has just made you take the brunt of all the public’s jokes about him and his wife. Hell, he just gave you a free ticket to go hard on him. Wear the hit, smile, and just continue making jokes about him. Nah. It’s better in the moment to say whatever it takes to get the violent, angry man to deescalate. ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/8 "2022-03-28T09:37:00Z")
In other news, Jussie Smollett has just filed assault charges against Will Smith. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/9 "2022-03-28T09:42:50Z")
I 100% agree. I’m a deescalator in life. But when you are a comedian on stage at the Oscars who was threatened or beat for your joke… maybe it’d be a better move to just allow the violent, angry man show how ugly he’ll take his violent, angriness. Just let Smith be violent and angry at you. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/10 "2022-03-28T10:19:29Z")
Assuming this wasn’t all staged, they both appear to have been assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/11 "2022-03-28T10:25:19Z")
I disagree. They’re both comedians. Roasting each other is part of the job description. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/12 "2022-03-28T10:26:35Z")
Rock shouldn’t have made the joke and Will shouldn’t have hit him. Two wrongs. ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/13 "2022-03-28T10:28:28Z")
Good thing Alec Baldwin’s wife doesn’t have alopecia. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/14 "2022-03-28T10:28:30Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I disagree. They’re both comedians. Roasting each other is part of the job description. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are different people. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/15 "2022-03-28T10:32:04Z")
They’re in the business they are in the public eye. It’s a part of the job. If you’re so thin skinned, maybe this gig ain’t for you. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/16 "2022-03-28T11:13:29Z")
Will Smith was wrong, wrong, wrong to do what he did. Hollywood, as a whole, got this wrong too. They shouldn’t have been comforting Will afterwards either. They should have condemned the violence. Really just grossed out by the whole lot of them at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/17 "2022-03-28T11:18:50Z")
Huh? It was basically Chris Rock’s job to make make jokes about the attendees. It’s a damn joke. Rock was in no way in the wrong, and this is all on Smith. I’m amazed that Rock kept his cool as much as he did. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/18 "2022-03-28T11:25:59Z")
Chris Rock is going to help himself to some Will Smith money now. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/19 "2022-03-28T11:27:53Z")
They’re both to blame, but Rock was joking about a physical infirmity. He should have known better. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826/20 "2022-03-28T11:34:05Z")
This. If Will had just come up and made an angry statement-that would have been fine. But smacking him was over the line. It came across as overbearing alpha male crap. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-smith-punched-chris-rock-at-the-oscars-last-night/961826.md?page=2)