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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe on Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock at The Oscars' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-29. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience. Chris Rock said one of the most mild
jokes ever. It was pretty mild. Jada Pinkett is bald. Apparently, I didn't know
this. I found out after the fact that it's she didn't shave her head
Voluntarily, she shaved her head because she's suffering from alopecia. I didn't
know this either. So I don't know if Chris knew this
But Chris says a joke around
G.I. Jane 2 looking forward to it very mild just laughed and even said come on
that was nice and then Will Smith
Initially laughs. Yes, but it looked like Jada was upset. Mm-hmm, and so will
changes his tune
Walks on stage and smacks Chris Rock in the face at the Oscars
And then says keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth
Yes, he does and then he goes come on and that was a G.I. Jane joke in these
screams it out
Like keep my knife's name out your fucking mouth. Yeah, it's like his lips were
quivering and he
first of all that is a that whole scene doing that in that manner in that place
is a great example of
what's wrong with the
the
Glorification of just being able to go up to someone and smack them in the face
because that is that that whole thing was so
Disagree with you here, please do. Well, what is your time? I want to let you
before my way to finish though
Well, no, you said you're gonna disagree with you. What do you think? Well, I
don't actually think that there's any glorification of violence in the sense of
free capability on on Will's part. What do you mean by that? Well, for one I
I
I don't think that there was any inherent given that you could just get away
with it
I think that whatever will did he did it and he was like whatever comes with it
that that you know
I'll have to own up to it. I don't think he was thinking that far ahead at all
Maybe he wasn't but I think he's like this emotionally fragile probably and he
acted on impulse sure
I think it's a foolish impulse that you you do when you know, there's no
consequences
I don't think I'm gonna say that I don't know that he thinks that there's now
in terms of hitting Chris and
In terms of them in their physical differences and capability of combat. Let's
say yes
There's no consequence, but I'm saying but well
But there's no consequences and getting out of your seat and striking somebody
on national television
Yeah, but I don't think he was thinking about that. I think he was acting impulsively
in terms of
Man to man and what who's capable and what's capable and you know what that may
be the case
in in in the microcosm of things
but if you hit anybody for any reason in public at this point you have the
very real fact of all of the powers of law that be especially depending on who
you were
Who you are and what the public and the Cathedral thinks of you
Smashing you to death until you have your penniless bankrupt and everyone
Stop that's not gonna happen here. Look probably that's never gonna happen. We
just smacked him, but smack you didn't beat the shit out of him
He didn't harm him. He smacked him in the face
We live in a society where violence is so
But there's no way would stop with there's no way will Smith's gonna become
penniless from smacking Chris Rock
That was never you would never know you wouldn't think he's
Extremely wealthy. It's not gonna happen and not only that Chris Rock instantly
didn't press charges
He wouldn't press charges and he just accepted it. I would say it should have
been handled and
In the back or he could have at least he could have stood up said something
right on the spot
But listen, no not done anything about or said it in the back
Fucking job. You don't go and sit in the front row. You're a star at the Oscars
There's a professional comedian whose job is to roast people. That's what he's
doing and what he did was not even insulting
It's not it was a mild joke. It's not about
What is it? It's not about giving?
Will Smith a pass or saying what he did was right, but what I am saying is that
from his perspective if it was that important
He could have he could have barring going up there and hitting Chris in front
of everyone and
He could have at least he could have he could have said something if he had to
do it right then and there
if he felt that it was that egregious of of a remark and I agree with you Chris
rocks a comedian the
Presenters at the Oscars are supposed to be entertainers
Often crack jokes that either a that they do themselves and Chris's perspective
or from Chris's situation or ones that are written for him
Chris is a comedian. I highly doubt that they don't know each other at this
point being in Hollywood for as long as they have and
In my opinion if you really want to settle things
Go do it personally speak to the person first give them an opportunity to
apologize for things
Especially if they didn't realize that what they were doing was I hear all the
things you're saying, but they're not applicable
That was not an insult. It was the most mild joke about her hairstyle
I fully get it to a movie where a lady shaked her head. I fully get it
I fully get it
any justification whatsoever of him getting up there and smacking him in the
face like he didn't he didn't need to go up there and smack him at all
no, but
regardless of what you and I think of how important or how
What what the what the weight of what Chris said was?
Just taking removing us out of the equation if it's really that important to Jada
and
Therefore then becomes important to will then he should deal with it on a
personal level and have a conversation with Chris before
Anything of course because you have to give someone the opportunity because one
you have to assume
Potentially that that Chris had malicious intent and what he had to say
Well, how do you have malicious intent in a mild joke?
Tell me about it. No, I'm saying I don't agree that he's telling you dude
This is all rational thinking about an irrational act
It's an irrational act
He was emotionally fragile and he acted on impulse in a staggeringly stupid way
I'll tell you something somebody a good dude who I know didn't mean any harm
Was kind of you know playfully
Verbally sparring with with my girlfriend
And she didn't actually it made her really uncomfortable and she didn't really
like it and so the next time we run into him and
My girlfriend's like I hope he doesn't you know come up and say xyz again. I'm
like
I don't I don't think that's gonna happen and
He does and I'm like
Okay, so I pull him to the side and I'm like hey look I know you don't mean
anything by it
But you know xyz and we just have a simple conversation and the guy's just like
Yeah, yeah, I don't want to have that's a rational response
To to human beings having some sort of a dispute but to assume people
Have malicious intent especially in that position
I think is an erroneous way of approaching it. So I don't think I don't think
it had anything to do with that
I think what he was doing so you don't think saving face you think so
He was doing some weird movie thing
It was like he was getting away with it as if he was living in a fictional
movie
Like the idea that you think it's smart while wearing a tuxedo to walk onto a
stage in front of the world
Like literally the world one of the biggest award shows on earth if not the
biggest and smack a comedian for the most mild joke
And then sit there quivering saying keep my wife's name out of your
Fucking mouth and everybody's just gonna sit there in the shit that you just
took on the table
You just pulled your pants down and took a shit on the dinner table and they
all have just sit there and look at that
That's what it's like
Full of peanuts and corn and everything
It stinks
It's just the whole idea behind it is completely irrational
But what i'm saying is like these people live in this fake world of you know
You're you're protected by guards you're driven by limos you're on the red
carpet
You know like all of it is crazy life
And he's so goddamn famous and so
So removed from regular discourse and interaction with regular people that he
for whatever reason in his head
Acted like he's a character in a movie
Maybe so and and I only am not speaking indefinites in regards to will because
I don't know the man
I never met him
All these things that you're saying could could absolutely be 100 plausible and
true
and especially a person like will who is in such an elevated position in
society at large and
You are 100 right in that these
Types of folks get removed from reality
For a variety of reasons
But it's often a catastrophic
Process to the person and how they approach the world
But here's what happened right afterwards
He won the academy award then goes up and does a speech
The whole thing was so bizarre
And it made me think like how many other human beings could be in a similar
situation and pull that off
Not many
Like if a man walked on stage and smacked a woman
No, that would not fly
Would not fly
Not fly
If a woman walked on stage and smacked another woman, I don't even think it
would fly
Probably not
Probably not
But but also
Man smacking a woman we already like it's
I feel like it's even an ingrained thing like you don't fucking do that
Number two, women smacking women
All the women are going to look back and be like
Women don't solve their issues with violence
You're supposed to tear them down in other ways
When women start feuding with one another and one of them finally says that's
it
And they go to violence
It's almost as if they've lost completely
Like all the other women are like
Nah, you broke
Sorry, you're out
Well, I don't know
I mean there's plenty of world-star hip-hop videos of women beating the fuck
out of each other
You can find a lot of videos online of, you know, women in Walmart parking lots
pulling each other's hair
Yes, there are exceptions, I will agree
Kicking the shit out of each other
I will agree there are some exceptions
I just think in terms of society standards
I don't think they would have accepted it the same way
No
It's like it was a rare instance where someone is so enormously famous and
successful like Will Smith
That they literally still allowed him to not just win the Academy Award
But also go up and accept it and give a speech after he assaulted a small
comedian
Yeah, they should have ejected him
They should have ejected him from the show
100%, 100%
I agree with that
You can't just go smack a man in the face in front of the world and then go
about business as usual
First of all, it sets a terrible precedent
Yes
In so many different ways
It sets a terrible precedent for comedy clubs
Yes
Like are people going to decide that they're going to go on stage and smack the
comedian now?
I hope they try to smack Brendan or you
I just want to see one Joe Rogan turning sidekick
Get chuggy
I don't I don't necessarily think people are going to change their behavior
But dumb people might
But also it's just like what are we saying as a society when the people that we
look up to
For whatever reason for good or for bad
We look up to actors
Yes
And the Academy Awards is supposed to be them in their most regal
Their most regal outfits
Their best behavior
Yeah
And to drop down to violence
For something so innocuous
As a G.I. Jane joke
It's
Look man, it's not the hill that I'm looking to necessarily die on either
In term whatever the in particular context
And and you know
I had you know having a conversation with somebody over something that
Was
Made my girlfriend uncomfortable
Was to me that was the way to approach it
But I guess if someone was you know wanted to tell me
Fuck you about it
Then it's like hmm okay
Well now that changes things
Right
Of course
Yeah
You don't care how it affects other people
And you're not actually have you
You're having consideration for me or my girlfriend or
I know what you're saying
But in this case we saw it
No
We see all the elements laid out
I get it
Chris Rock's joke was
Yes
So mild
I get it
And so
You know Jada's allowed to take offense
And Will's allowed to take offense
But to jump up
Run on stage
Slap him
And then throw the scene that he did
Is a completely different story
It was a meltdown
To at least to go
And give Chris an opportunity to talk to him
And maybe even Jada
And just be like look
One
You can see that he did not mean
To try and cause any actual harm to you
So you know what
Just tell him
If you didn't like it
Tell him face to face
And be like yo man
It really
You know
Hey Jada
It really bugged you
You're talking about two totally different things
I get it
We both agree with that
But to me
We both agree with that
Regardless of whether you're Will Smith
Or you're
The other Will Smith
The former like special forces guy
Who speaks Russian
Was in all tons of like 70s and 80s movies
He played Conan's dad
In Conan the Barbarian
Like that badass motherfucker
You could be that guy
This other super popular Will Smith
Or Will Smith
That nobody actually knows who that person is
The approach has to be the same
There is no exception for you
If you played Ali
Or if you played Conan's dad
Or if nobody's seen you play anything
Even with yourself
Well I think what we're looking at also
Is the culmination of a long period
Of like emotional distress
Like that family's been public
About all their issues
And you know there's a conversation
That they had to have
Like the two of them together
About infidelity
Or about open relationships
And they were openly mocked
Because of that
But I think there's a certain defensiveness
That comes along with that
Well then you know what
When you've been out in the public
Sit in that fucking time
When you've been out in the public
Getting mocked
Like
Sit in it then
Sit in it then
Because the public is mocking you
For the thing that you brought to them
Yeah listen I'm in agreement with you
So for me I'm like
Look if you think you're
If you're adding stress into your life
By publicizing and externalizing everything
Which again says something more about
The state of things
Like why are you externalizing this shit?
Right
You know what I mean?
Like even when I told this story about
Oh you know this fighter and I had beef
I ain't gonna say his name
Right
Because you know what
I'm not trying to create more beef
Right
Because I'm not trying to live my life
Even though I'm the war master
In some point of irrational
Unnecessary conflict
When conflict comes
Conflict if it has to get to that
Yes
Then it's destroy everything
You're a man of honor
And of like deep moral principles
And ethics
You have a very rigid way
You live your life with discipline
That's my whole point of this
Yes
This is a nonsense scene
You're right
Where you're allowed to just go smack someone
You're right
Thank you.

Joe on Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock at The Oscars

The Joe Rogan experience. Chris Rock said one of the most mild
jokes ever. It was pretty mild. Jada Pinkett is bald. Apparently, I didn't know
this. I found out after the fact that it's she didn't shave her head
Voluntarily, she shaved her head because she's suffering from alopecia. I didn't
know this either. So I don't know if Chris knew this
But Chris says a joke around
G.I. Jane 2 looking forward to it very mild just laughed and even said come on
that was nice and then Will Smith
Initially laughs. Yes, but it looked like Jada was upset. Mm-hmm, and so will
changes his tune
Walks on stage and smacks Chris Rock in the face at the Oscars
And then says keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth
Yes, he does and then he goes come on and that was a G.I. Jane joke in these
screams it out
Like keep my knife's name out your fucking mouth. Yeah, it's like his lips were
quivering and he
first of all that is a that whole scene doing that in that manner in that place
is a great example of
what's wrong with the
the
Glorification of just being able to go up to someone and smack them in the face
because that is that that whole thing was so
Disagree with you here, please do. Well, what is your time? I want to let you
before my way to finish though
Well, no, you said you're gonna disagree with you. What do you think? Well, I
don't actually think that there's any glorification of violence in the sense of
free capability on on Will's part. What do you mean by that? Well, for one I
I
I don't think that there was any inherent given that you could just get away
with it
I think that whatever will did he did it and he was like whatever comes with it
that that you know
I'll have to own up to it. I don't think he was thinking that far ahead at all
Maybe he wasn't but I think he's like this emotionally fragile probably and he
acted on impulse sure
I think it's a foolish impulse that you you do when you know, there's no
consequences
I don't think I'm gonna say that I don't know that he thinks that there's now
in terms of hitting Chris and
In terms of them in their physical differences and capability of combat. Let's
say yes
There's no consequence, but I'm saying but well
But there's no consequences and getting out of your seat and striking somebody
on national television
Yeah, but I don't think he was thinking about that. I think he was acting impulsively
in terms of
Man to man and what who's capable and what's capable and you know what that may
be the case
in in in the microcosm of things
but if you hit anybody for any reason in public at this point you have the
very real fact of all of the powers of law that be especially depending on who
you were
Who you are and what the public and the Cathedral thinks of you
Smashing you to death until you have your penniless bankrupt and everyone
Stop that's not gonna happen here. Look probably that's never gonna happen. We
just smacked him, but smack you didn't beat the shit out of him
He didn't harm him. He smacked him in the face
We live in a society where violence is so
But there's no way would stop with there's no way will Smith's gonna become
penniless from smacking Chris Rock
That was never you would never know you wouldn't think he's
Extremely wealthy. It's not gonna happen and not only that Chris Rock instantly
didn't press charges
He wouldn't press charges and he just accepted it. I would say it should have
been handled and
In the back or he could have at least he could have stood up said something
right on the spot
But listen, no not done anything about or said it in the back
Fucking job. You don't go and sit in the front row. You're a star at the Oscars
There's a professional comedian whose job is to roast people. That's what he's
doing and what he did was not even insulting
It's not it was a mild joke. It's not about
What is it? It's not about giving?
Will Smith a pass or saying what he did was right, but what I am saying is that
from his perspective if it was that important
He could have he could have barring going up there and hitting Chris in front
of everyone and
He could have at least he could have he could have said something if he had to
do it right then and there
if he felt that it was that egregious of of a remark and I agree with you Chris
rocks a comedian the
Presenters at the Oscars are supposed to be entertainers
Often crack jokes that either a that they do themselves and Chris's perspective
or from Chris's situation or ones that are written for him
Chris is a comedian. I highly doubt that they don't know each other at this
point being in Hollywood for as long as they have and
In my opinion if you really want to settle things
Go do it personally speak to the person first give them an opportunity to
apologize for things
Especially if they didn't realize that what they were doing was I hear all the
things you're saying, but they're not applicable
That was not an insult. It was the most mild joke about her hairstyle
I fully get it to a movie where a lady shaked her head. I fully get it
I fully get it
any justification whatsoever of him getting up there and smacking him in the
face like he didn't he didn't need to go up there and smack him at all
no, but
regardless of what you and I think of how important or how
What what the what the weight of what Chris said was?
Just taking removing us out of the equation if it's really that important to Jada
and
Therefore then becomes important to will then he should deal with it on a
personal level and have a conversation with Chris before
Anything of course because you have to give someone the opportunity because one
you have to assume
Potentially that that Chris had malicious intent and what he had to say
Well, how do you have malicious intent in a mild joke?
Tell me about it. No, I'm saying I don't agree that he's telling you dude
This is all rational thinking about an irrational act
It's an irrational act
He was emotionally fragile and he acted on impulse in a staggeringly stupid way
I'll tell you something somebody a good dude who I know didn't mean any harm
Was kind of you know playfully
Verbally sparring with with my girlfriend
And she didn't actually it made her really uncomfortable and she didn't really
like it and so the next time we run into him and
My girlfriend's like I hope he doesn't you know come up and say xyz again. I'm
like
I don't I don't think that's gonna happen and
He does and I'm like
Okay, so I pull him to the side and I'm like hey look I know you don't mean
anything by it
But you know xyz and we just have a simple conversation and the guy's just like
Yeah, yeah, I don't want to have that's a rational response
To to human beings having some sort of a dispute but to assume people
Have malicious intent especially in that position
I think is an erroneous way of approaching it. So I don't think I don't think
it had anything to do with that
I think what he was doing so you don't think saving face you think so
He was doing some weird movie thing
It was like he was getting away with it as if he was living in a fictional
movie
Like the idea that you think it's smart while wearing a tuxedo to walk onto a
stage in front of the world
Like literally the world one of the biggest award shows on earth if not the
biggest and smack a comedian for the most mild joke
And then sit there quivering saying keep my wife's name out of your
Fucking mouth and everybody's just gonna sit there in the shit that you just
took on the table
You just pulled your pants down and took a shit on the dinner table and they
all have just sit there and look at that
That's what it's like
Full of peanuts and corn and everything
It stinks
It's just the whole idea behind it is completely irrational
But what i'm saying is like these people live in this fake world of you know
You're you're protected by guards you're driven by limos you're on the red
carpet
You know like all of it is crazy life
And he's so goddamn famous and so
So removed from regular discourse and interaction with regular people that he
for whatever reason in his head
Acted like he's a character in a movie
Maybe so and and I only am not speaking indefinites in regards to will because
I don't know the man
I never met him
All these things that you're saying could could absolutely be 100 plausible and
true
and especially a person like will who is in such an elevated position in
society at large and
You are 100 right in that these
Types of folks get removed from reality
For a variety of reasons
But it's often a catastrophic
Process to the person and how they approach the world
But here's what happened right afterwards
He won the academy award then goes up and does a speech
The whole thing was so bizarre
And it made me think like how many other human beings could be in a similar
situation and pull that off
Not many
Like if a man walked on stage and smacked a woman
No, that would not fly
Would not fly
Not fly
If a woman walked on stage and smacked another woman, I don't even think it
would fly
Probably not
Probably not
But but also
Man smacking a woman we already like it's
I feel like it's even an ingrained thing like you don't fucking do that
Number two, women smacking women
All the women are going to look back and be like
Women don't solve their issues with violence
You're supposed to tear them down in other ways
When women start feuding with one another and one of them finally says that's
it
And they go to violence
It's almost as if they've lost completely
Like all the other women are like
Nah, you broke
Sorry, you're out
Well, I don't know
I mean there's plenty of world-star hip-hop videos of women beating the fuck
out of each other
You can find a lot of videos online of, you know, women in Walmart parking lots
pulling each other's hair
Yes, there are exceptions, I will agree
Kicking the shit out of each other
I will agree there are some exceptions
I just think in terms of society standards
I don't think they would have accepted it the same way
No
It's like it was a rare instance where someone is so enormously famous and
successful like Will Smith
That they literally still allowed him to not just win the Academy Award
But also go up and accept it and give a speech after he assaulted a small
comedian
Yeah, they should have ejected him
They should have ejected him from the show
100%, 100%
I agree with that
You can't just go smack a man in the face in front of the world and then go
about business as usual
First of all, it sets a terrible precedent
Yes
In so many different ways
It sets a terrible precedent for comedy clubs
Yes
Like are people going to decide that they're going to go on stage and smack the
comedian now?
I hope they try to smack Brendan or you
I just want to see one Joe Rogan turning sidekick
Get chuggy
I don't I don't necessarily think people are going to change their behavior
But dumb people might
But also it's just like what are we saying as a society when the people that we
look up to
For whatever reason for good or for bad
We look up to actors
Yes
And the Academy Awards is supposed to be them in their most regal
Their most regal outfits
Their best behavior
Yeah
And to drop down to violence
For something so innocuous
As a G.I. Jane joke
It's
Look man, it's not the hill that I'm looking to necessarily die on either
In term whatever the in particular context
And and you know
I had you know having a conversation with somebody over something that
Was
Made my girlfriend uncomfortable
Was to me that was the way to approach it
But I guess if someone was you know wanted to tell me
Fuck you about it
Then it's like hmm okay
Well now that changes things
Right
Of course
Yeah
You don't care how it affects other people
And you're not actually have you
You're having consideration for me or my girlfriend or
I know what you're saying
But in this case we saw it
No
We see all the elements laid out
I get it
Chris Rock's joke was
Yes
So mild
I get it
And so
You know Jada's allowed to take offense
And Will's allowed to take offense
But to jump up
Run on stage