Clay Travis & Buck Sexton pan Will Smith striking Chris Rock: He ‘wouldn’t do that to The Rock’

After actor Will Smith slapped comic Chris Rock within the face throughout Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton advised that if Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson advised the joke, Smith’s actions would’ve gone over a lot otherwise.

Whereas on stage, Rock made a number of jokes on the expense of viewers members whereas making ready to current a ‘finest documentary’ class. One of many jokes was about Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith’s spouse. Rock joked that he’s ready for Pinkett Smith — who suffers from Alopecia – to star in a “G.I. Jane” sequel; referencing Demi Moore’s baldheaded character within the 1997 film.

After initially laughing on the comment, Will Smith abruptly walked onstage and slapped an unsuspecting Rock, earlier than loudly swearing at him twice for joking about his spouse, after returning to his seat.

“Hold my spouse’s title out [of] your f—ing mouth,” Smith hollered, because the digicam confirmed an enraged Smith. 

On his radio present, Sexton mentioned Smith was inside his rights to verbally admonish Rock, however that placing the comedian was out of bounds and will’ve ended even worse if he had closed-fist punched him inflicting bodily damage.

“Smith was about to get the very best actor award on the Oscars. I don’t assume that he deliberate out some publicity stunt,” he mentioned. “I believe the man had a little bit of a meltdown. I believe that’s fairly obvious – and I believe that Chris Rock … responded like he was in shock like that. That was that didn’t seem like performing.”

He continued, “Will Smith is a giant man. What if he’d gone up there and brought a full-on swing … with a closed fist, he might’ve damaged [Rock’s] nostril proper there on stage.” 

Travis agreed including that if it had been former WWE famous person “The Rock” and never Chris Rock who made a joke about his spouse, Smith would’ve acted otherwise.

Skilled wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

“If The Rock had come out and made that joke, [Smith] ain’t strolling up on the stage and open-hand-slapping The Rock,” Travis mentioned.

Showing to reference his earlier profession in packages such because the “Contemporary Prince of Bel Air”, Travis added that Smith too has considerably of a comedic background and will have understood what Chris Rock was doing when he was taking verbal pictures at viewers members. 

“Smith is a comic, proper, so he ought to perceive greater than a few of these extra critical actors – he understands or ought to perceive comedy in a approach others could not,” he mentioned.

Travis added that Smith “seemed psychologically unstable” and that as a married man himself, he would not “normalize” such actions in the way in which Smith had towards Rock.

Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, Will Smith, Jaden Smith and Trey Smith attend the 2022 Self-importance Truthful Oscar Social gathering

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He identified that British comic Ricky Gervais famously precipitated a stir by poking enjoyable at a number of celebrities in an uproarious speech on the Golden Globes.

In 2020, Gervais began off by evaluating Joe Pesci to “Child Yoda”, after which requested that the oft-tough-guy actor not “have me whacked” — earlier than making related jokes about different actors and concluding his speech by admonishing the room for injecting politics into their work.

“I believe [Gervais] ought to be the host for each single award present as a result of he’s truly prepared to puncture the narcissism that’s so readily obvious in these rooms,” Travis mentioned.

He added that Smith assaulting Rock is “the logical extension of the world we have created the place we deal with speech like violence, and so we enable folks to reply violently to individuals who say one thing imply to you – and it wasn’t even [directed] to him.”

Rock declined to press costs towards Smith with the Los Angeles Police Division.