OJ did a television reality prank special after his murder trial. It was called Juiced, and featured pranks like OJ trying to sell a bullet-ridden white Bronco to people.
I despair of humanity.
Yeah, I find it really difficult to argue otherwise.
Even with the most rose-colored glasses, I see a room full of bullies and their enablers.
He got a standing ovation! 30 mins later.
If that is keeping your head down, then you and I will have to disagree.
I remember it. Who financed it? Did it air on TV and if so, what network?
Yes, it was that invitation to speculate with some thought to who this country consists of outside our own circles. Informed perhaps by not too many in my circles who watch stand up specials. Much of my circle certainly knows who he is but their experience of his work is remembering SNL, his last hosting SNL, and this. One who watched him on Fargo and said he wasn’t very good.
Still I very much hope my take is wrong.
OTOH I. also think that this year anyway Mr Smith is more thought of in connection to his Academy Awards performance than his Academy Award winning performance. Many more saw it.
I could see all these same arguments being made at the time about how Justin Timberlake’s obituary will start off with the Superbowl halftime show. Now in retrospect, it may not even be mentioned.
Could be the same deal here with Chris Rock. Will Smith and Janet Jackson, however, a different story. I don’t know how much this kind of thing sticks to the secondary figure in the controversy.
(And now I’m chuckling to myself remembering Chris Rock’s take on Janet Jackson’s boob’s perspective. Something along the lines of ‘20-year-old titty expects to be flashed: Woohoo! 40-year-old titty is like wait, what’s going on? what’s happening?! Aaaaaaa!!!’
Forgive the butchered retelling.)
It aired on Pay-Per-View and eventually sold (very poorly) as a DVD
Given the obvious evidence, why do the police seem to require a complaint from the victim to charge him with battery? Is that a matter of law, policy, or what exactly? Who decides?
What happens in normal life if a cop is standing right there, and some random dude walks up and slaps another random dude pretty hard, takes a few steps back, and yells angrily ‘Keep my wife’s name out of your mouth.’
Let’s say a cop was standing 10 ft away, in uniform, on duty patrolling that particular area. Watches the entire thing.
I see the cop 100% stepping in and intervening, not giving a standing ovation. But I’m not sure he’s putting handcuffs on the slapper. I feel like there’s a good chance the cop would ask the guy who got slapped if he wants to press charges first, and only if he says yes would the cuffs come out.
I really don’t understand the argument that Chris Rock isn’t well known beyond stand up comedy audiences. He’s been in movies since he was 20 years old playing a memorable small role in Beverly Hills Cop 2. He’s hosted the Oscars. He had a 4 season TV show about his childhood. He started in a season of Fargo. He’s stared in cartoon movies (Madagascar). He’s been in multiple Adam Sandler movies which you might not like but it certainly gives him a lot of exposure. He was a SNL cast member. And in standup he’s still at the level where he is selling out large theaters/small arenas. The only one who surpasses him as an active comic to American audiences is Kevin Hart.
Depends on the jurisdiction. Leaving out domestic violence which is under a different set of rules, in my jurisdiction it has to do with different procedures between dealing with felonies and misdemeanors. We don’t call them that but it’s the common terms most people understand.
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Chris Rock was a presenter at two Academy Awards shows, one of dozens at each production. His role was to walk out, make a couple of remarks, read the nominees, and announce the winner. Let’s not inflate that into the title of “host.”
I have no idea if it’s accurate, but this list of Oscar Hosts lists Rock twice, once in 2005, and once in 2016.
Yeah, as I recall, one year, because of the lack of minority nominees, there were calls for Rock to refuse to host, but he went forward with it.
Checking Rock’s Wiki page, it was in 2016 (and in 2005, Sean Penn took umbrage with Rock’s jokes, so this year is not an anomaly).
Okay, your cites seem to be more clear than my cites, so objection withdrawn.
I don’t see anywhere that you presented cites.
Those would be the sources I looked up that made me question the original statement.
I think you don’t understand just how many DIFFERENT things there are that people can use their (generally limited) free time on. Different types of movies, different types of tv shows, different sports, different hobbies, different pleasures…
I personally have NEVER attended a standup comic’s show. Nor a bagpipe concert. Nor an automobile race. Nor a lecture on a physics break through. I know people who do each of those things at least semi-regularly, but my interests like elsewhere.
Before this incident, I would have been unable to tell you who Chris Rock was. I might have though his name was slightly familiar, but was he a rock musician? Or a basketball player? Beats me.
It’s all a matter of perspective but Chris Rock has thumbs in multiple pies (TV, films, stand-up, animation, award shows…). Will Smith is pretty much just feature films now. I know there’s a pecking order of prestige in Entertainment and Smith is at the top of the top format (film) but from where I sit, most people are more likely to be exposed to Rock’s work than Smith’s.