Making fun of someone's illness is distasteful - no matter who they're married to

Depends if he knew she had a medical issue. I, like many others, thought she was rocking a bold fashion choice and she looked good too. I don't like her but I thought the joke was actually flattering. I'd like to be compared to GI Jane!

Get a grip, that's literally what he was hired to do, poke fun at celebrities

He compared her to young Demi Moore. What a monster. He may not have even known she had alopecia, i didn't. I have it myself but I didn't know she did.

I mean isn't that what people doing comedian work do?

In the United States at this time in history, everyone has the right to make fun of whomever they want.

I agree. Making fun of lifelong didease, what strongly affects self esteem (alopecia) was totally senseless

He won the Oscar for best actor and slapped Chris Rock on the same night. Guess which he'll be remembered for?

The difference being, those were characters he played, while the slap was the real Will Smith.

Bill Cosby won 5 primetime Emmy awards, but assaulting dozens of women will always be his legacy? For shame. (See how dumb that sounds?)

Yup

depends on both country and state. In my state in the US, this would have been considered "simple assault" and is a Class 2 misdemeanor...no jail time. They may have been arrested, yes...but that does not mean they will have any jail time for it.

But you and I wouldn't be on TV in the first place because we're nobodies. If we were famous enough to appear on the Oscar's, we'd be celebrities, and the celebrity rules would apply to us just as much as they did to Will Smith.

Doubt that

He could have done a million different things. He could have called out Chris Rock's behavior there and then, he could have talked to him in private later, he could have a newspaper print a statement or talked about it in an interview. He could have done a million different things. But he chose to escalate to physical violence, which is never ok.

and then you would have gotten charged with assault, like he should have been. What Chris Rock deserved was to be verbally torn apart and publicly shamed for saying what he did, not assaulted. We have laws for a reason.

So you're part of the problem: àssholes thinking they get to lay their hands on someone because they didn't like ...words. Can you have more of a caveman brain?! "Me no like. Me hit."

Sure ye would. Big talk through a keyboard

She f****d her son's friend!!! Will Smith is a b***h...you think if The Rock had said that smith would've slapped him? F**k no! He only did it because it was little Chris Rock...Will Smith is a coward and his wife is a s**t! The worst family in Hollywood!

I would have done much worse. His nuts would now be hanging from his ears.

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"medical" issue... sure! (wink)

Yep. Moving on

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Women too I presume?

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Congratulations, you're a child

No. I agree with a lot of your posts, but we've all been to preschool: you can't hit someone in the face just because you don't like a joke that they made.

Fight words with words. A slap for a stupid joke? Maybe if you're a toddler who doesn't know any better but a grown "man" should have some self-control

Got it! According to you, anytime someone doesn't like what someone else says, you can hit that person. Too bad nobody has ever used your own logic on you, maybe you'd have a different opinion on violence.

Many, many bad courses of action can rightly claim to be 100% deserved and justified. What they lack is being smart and effective. Smith's slap of Rock turned the villain into the victim, which was the exact opposite of what Will Smith was trying to do.

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AWWWW... did you get your feelings hurt? LOL

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I agree with you Corvus, didn't Chris Rock make fun of his wife? At a prestigious event, in front of so many famous figures with millions of people watching? If he didn't do anything then people would cancel him for not standing up for his wife.