Well, we never thought we’d be talking about the Oscars on The Roar but here we are.
In the most exciting thing to happen at the awards ceremony Will Smith decided to slap Chris Rock after a joke about his wife.
It was just one slap, not a series of Tommy Raudonikis ones but it got the whole world talking.
Dana White saw an idea flash before his eyes with a celebrity UFC…
And NRL Twitter had a field day.
We know Smith’s slap was a Grade 1 careless but what would he get in the NRL in 2022? An early guilty plea might get it downgraded. His good behaviour up until this point apart from his acting performance in Bad Boys II should be considered.
Add your comments below and after this let’s never talk about the Oscars again until the next person gets slapped on stage.
Mick Gold Coast QLD
Roar Guru
Good on yer mate! It's a cruel injury, that one. :silly:
Womblat
Guest
I'm glad you were. Reading that was a hoot. "spontaneously humourous as popped ribs" :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
Cam
Roar Rookie
Smith comes through the line and initiates contact with Chris Rock. There appears to be no mitigation and the contact is forceful and direct to the head. I'm happy with a card (of either colour), but I'm thinking it would be red if the Chris Rock takes a dive. Respect to the little man for taking it like a champ and getting straight back into the defensive line, that's a team man right there.
NostraSportus
Roar Rookie
Are you a Yank?
andrew
Roar Rookie
The woke crowd would be up in arms
Mick Gold Coast QLD
Roar Guru
Some odd looking little bloke, who I've never heard of, with a great big toothy, well practised, overdone smile babbles on incomprehensibly about something Americans find hilarious, evidently, and waves his arms about intoning them to "Laugh with me dammit, laugh, I'm ruly, ruly amusing. Laugh!!" Yanks, to me, are about as spontaneously humourous as popped ribs the morning after Sunday's game. Another bloke, who I saw in a pitchahh with Gene Hackman a quarter-century ago, laughs uproariously as does the wymminses next to him. Lots of other people do too (after checking the TV monitors to see how the in crowd is reacting, so they know whether to giggle or frown). But then frowns, stands and strides over to give little-big-toothy one of those awkward, self-conscious NRL player-like "my bro" shoulder to chest hugs. The crowd goes "OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG" (after checking the monitors again) and it is declared "a belting"! Little-big-toothy repeats "Okay, alright!" several times, indicating the true depth in American "comedy" repartee. It is truly bizarre. :silly: :silly: Big Hollywood later declares that it "despises and deplores violence in all its forms." The icing on the cake is the odd little thing Hollywood bimbos do as applause - little hand twinkles like 7-year-old schoolgirls, to indicate compassion for victims of r8cism I suppose, as directed by Miss at school. Miss has much to answer for in the "correct conditioning" of minors. Why I wasted my time being distracted by those two meaningless pointless twerps is a matter of personal shame. :unhappy:
Tony
Roar Guru
Australian dollars or US?
Andrew01
Roar Rookie
Deliberate forceful contact with the head. ...but Rock didn't fall to the ground. So MRC would have graded it careless and given him a $1,000 fine - which given he is probably worth about $300m would have really stung!!
Tony
Roar Guru
Now where would we be today if one of the participants to that little farce was white?
Damo
Guest
'In West Philadelphia born and raised...'
no one in particular
Roar Guru
Barrett must have said something about Nathan Browns wife at WIN that day
no one in particular
Roar Guru
His mum sent him to Bel Air so he wouldn't get involved in that sort of thing
Choppy Zezers
Roar Rookie
Will forgot all that training he did for “Ali”. Unless he’s got loading just a fine would be he, um, fine. The Rock took that right better than Barry Hall. Great for the Oscars. No one would be talking about it otherwise.
Bloke7
Roar Rookie
That awful joke certainly needed one.
Womblat
Guest
If he does this for a simple joke what would he have done to one of her partners during their "open marriage" phase? He would have gone full Hancock on his (their?) a**.
andrew
Roar Rookie
Lucky it wasn't Mike Tyson he made the joke at, could have lost an ear.
Glory Bound
Roar Rookie
Boom-tish! :laughing: . Only Smith didn’t punch him, he slapped him. Now, if you had said slapstick you would have gotten extra points, Pickett.
andrew
Roar Rookie
Yeah, just saw that EJ. Still, it's embarrassing watching it. 2 of the brothers having a disagreement :laughing:
Pickett
Roar Rookie
A punchline if ever I saw one..
eagleJack
Roar Guru
He did win an Oscar though, didn't he? And was expected to win. Making the whole thing even more cringeworthy.