the oscars was a big hit but for all the
wrong reasons the academy now
investigating will smith for smacking
chris rock across the face over a joke
rock made about his wife jada pinkett
smith watch here
i love you g.i jane 2 can't wait to see
it all right
[Applause]
it's javazone that was a nice one okay
i'm out here oh richard
oh wow
wow
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will smith just smacked out of me
nick's name
wow dude
yeah it was a gi jane jump keep my
wife's name out
i'm going to okay will smith apologizing
not to rock but to the academy for the
altercation while accepting the award
for best actor but offered no direct
apology to chris rock
i want to apologize to the academy i
want to apologize to my all my fellow
nominees love will make you do crazy
things
hoping academy invites me back thank you
so far chris rock declining to file a
police report after the assault and will
smith was unfazed seen dancing to
getting jiggy with it at or wit excuse
me it's natchez first party afterwards
tmz reporting that chris rock apparently
had no idea will's wife jada has
alopecia pierce morgan welcome to the
show welcome to the network great to
have you what did you make of all this
you saw it live well first of all lovely
to be here on this fabulous show i see
myself as the reincarnation of george
iii
i wish to be treated with the same
enthusiasm that you tweeted my royal uh
form there so good to be here no it was
the most stunning piece of television
wasn't it and it made the oscars
interesting it boosted their ratings in
all the things we've been sort of saying
the oscars has gone off the boil no one
cares anymore but
i thought about it a lot about what i
thought about this it's actually quite
complicated because i thought
if i was will smith and my wife had been
through four years of alopecia which is
a very serious condition particularly i
think for women where they lose their
hair in clumps and eventually last
summer she she shaved her head
and she talked about it being a
terrifying experience that she'd gone
through losing all her hair to then sit
there at the oscars and have a billion
people watching
as a guy
mocks you for that now it then comes
down to me to one or two things did
chris rock know that she'd had alopecia
in which case i felt
comedian or no comedian he crossed the
line and if i'd been will smith i'd have
been pretty tempted to do the same thing
don't condone the violence i'd have been
tempted to do the same thing to defend
my wife
but chris rockers made it clear
apparently through friends that he
didn't know that she'd had alopecia in
which case it just becomes a joke about
someone's aesthetic appearance he
probably thought she looked pretty cool
he compared to g.i jane then he doesn't
deserve any of the stuff that went down
and to me it goes to a wider point i
think about that marriage about will
smith's state of mind about i don't know
whatever's going on there we don't
really know but
it was a stunning moment
but i found myself gravitating unlike 99
of people i think to feeling slightly
defensive towards will smith a lot of
people in the room were uh defending
samantha likes consoling him making
trying to make him feel better but
nobody was doing that to chris rock
judge what do you think
what do i think yeah i think that the
oscars are
not the hood
i think it's not a bar
i don't think you march up on stage
because a guy makes a joke of your wife
which honestly i think is complimentary
she could do gi jane too she's good
jada smith is she's got a fabulous
body and she's beautiful as was to me
more in that film but aside from all
that in the middle of an event
where people are going to get awards in
their chosen profession
that this guy takes it upon himself to
disrupt the event to go up on stage to
commit violence on stage then come back
and curse out so we can't even put on
television what he says because he feels
slighted about a joke which most people
and by the way if that's a standard i
should go to saturday night live and
really go crazy over there
all right but he he doesn't have the
right and the public should not have to
be subjected to that i don't want if i
had little kids my kids seeing that kind
of thing and let me tell you something
else you talk about criminal privilege
you talk about celebrity crim privilege
that guy has it he wasn't walked out of
the oscars he could have been taken out
in cuffs that was a crime what he did
it's on tape and it doesn't matter if
chris rock doesn't want to file charges
it is the people of the state of
california versus uh will smith and
hollywood though proves that they don't
have to follow the rules if you're on
the right and you say something they
don't like then they can respond with
violence and i think by the way peers to
to follow up on what you said i think
the guy's an emotional wreck he goes
from cursing to fighting to crying to i
mean what is wrong with him and the
academy should not condone it and
honestly he shouldn't be allowed to come
to the academies again look kanye why
uh uh kanye west can't go to the grammy
yeah he was pre-banned yeah he was
pre-banded
if i may just come back with that i mean
every cowboy film i've ever watched
right they go in the bar and one cowboy
disses another cowboy's wife what
happens right the cowboy punches him or
shoots him and everyone cheers him
because they think he's a man of honor
right defending the honor of his wife
you know i asked my wife this morning i
said out of interest if you'd had
alopecia
and this was our situation and someone
did that and i went up and slapped him
what would you think she said i've just
had a conversation with our daughter's
tent
and she said you know i'm afraid dada
would have done the same thing but
violence is never the answer and i i
sort of think that i think i said jesse
i think we all agree it was wrong
when all this happened
we woke up and like here we go one thing
when a cowboy says it another thing when
a comedian says it you wouldn't have
done that because you have class or at
least you sound like you do because you
have a british accent
don't be misplaced by the accident the
first time i've ever seen the media
cover black on black crime so i'm
actually quite surprised by this if mel
gibson had done this
can you believe nancy pelosi would be
kneeling in the capitol right now he
would have been the only guy
not being allowed out on bail in la
county
come on he would have been allowed to go
up on stage later and accept an award
are you crazy the fact that the la
sheriff didn't haul this guy out of
there at the next commercial break
explains why
there's such a huge crime problem in
this country because you can just go up
as an audience member and just call
a comedian on live television and get
away with it
a slap is more humiliating than a fist
you know it is a man and i know it is a
man and i respect the fact that chris
rock didn't press charges it's not a
good look when other men charge other
men for hitting them not saying i
wouldn't do that but
chris rock does have a good chin and i
respect that but i think you were right
about one thing not a lot of the other
stuff but the one thing they have this
open marriage situation so this might
have been a deep
seated issue that had boiled up to the
surface which would explain why he came
out and did this but come on we don't
live in the middle ages you can't have
people just go up there and slap someone
that tells a joke and it explains why
liberals have no sense of humor ricky
gervais has to be thinking to himself oh
my god how did i not get sad well uh
chris
is not chris excuse me will smith does
laugh initially
and then i guess maybe something changed
or he looked at her and she was not
happy or something i don't know part of
me was just really grateful that
something interesting happened that was
probably the realest thing that has ever
happened on the oscars there was no
virtue signaling you knew it wasn't a
hoax because it didn't involve politics
right that was real i appreciated it i'm
with i have to say and also it's
interesting that in hollywood chivalry's
not dead because apparently hollywood
loves it right they were they
immediately supported him over chris
rock and this is an industry that has
been anti-masculine values for decades
and now suddenly they're like
to your point about the move about
westerns
there's an interesting contrast between
hollywood's real life and hollywood's
entertainment fantasy world in the
fantasy world that works right you can
shoot guns too in the hollywood you
shoot guns but you better not have a gun
in real life and you see what happens
with alec baldwin when he gets one so in
this case you saw hollywood the movie
blend into real life you finally saw oh
this is this is an act of chivalry based
on love and this is something that they
do in their movies to your point this is
exactly what happens in movies so i
think part of me but i have to say this
i have to say this
professionally this is wrong
you can't it's out of line you cannot go
after somebody telling jokes and punch
or slap them and i do believe that rock
probably had no idea if he had no if he
had an idea that there was alopecia he
would have had a better joke that was a
terrible joke but that's the
professional part of me the personal
part of me being a hothead
i'm like peers
i wouldn't know if i i don't know if i
could say i wouldn't do the same thing
if my wife had been sick
and in public and it was known
and i would i would i have to sorry
judge i would be a hypocrite i would be
ahead i agree with you that is not a bar
that is not a budget
judge you know me i act the same whether
i'm at a bar or at the same time
you would have gotten revenge that's
true you wouldn't have spotted out like
you would have waited calculated and
three months later you would have just
crushed rock right when you didn't see
it coming but also i got to defend rock
class act and all of this yeah totally
classic
it is it's such an interesting thing
because this there's a professional and
a personal element to this and i think
that you have to like you got to ask
yourself you know somebody says
something about your wife i've been
there i've been there how many times did
you want to reach into the laptop when
you see somebody insulting your spouse
and strangle them with your hand well
this might have been a culmination of
years of that stuff maybe but i still go
back to the fact that he laughed
initially yeah well he did that because
he probably was like
people laugh when they're nervous look
at kamala harris she laughs during a
thunderstorm so should we change the law
that allows you
to react with violence if someone says
words that you don't like is that where
we're headed did i say that judge if
they say words
no nobody said that judge no one at this
table said that
we said it was out of line but i
understand it you can something could be
wrong some behavior can be wrong but you
can understand why it was done that's
what i think about yeah okay agree on
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