I thought I'd talk about a topic aside from the current conflict. Mainly because with the way things are going I fear this little thing may overshadow it, due to humanity's urge to gawk at celebs at their perceived lowest.

First a little context. One of my favourite events to watch even if I miss episodes sometimes, is the Oscars. Not just to see who won, nor just because of their unique openings per host. But mainly due to the surprise events that often throw people off guard. My personal faves being the following:

Sacheen Littlefeather, a native american actress, who got infamy for attending the 1973 Oscars. Godfather won Best Actor with Marlon Brando's role as the iconic Don Vito "Vito Corleone" Andolini. She went in Brando's place to reject the Oscar, because at the time Brando was protesting against the way Natives were portrayed in Hollywood movies:

The Academy, the same one that claims to be tolerant now, booed her off stage.

The next is Hugh Jackman's 2009 Oscar Opening. In it he pokes fun at himself, the movies at the time, but more spectacularly how expensive Oscar Openings can be. So in one of the few times you see a rich actor go cheap, he created an opening made of Cardboard, other junk and dancers he hired from Craigslist:

Needless to say, it was considered one of the best Oscar Openings of all time.

The third fave is the 2013 Oscar Opening hosted by Seth MacFarlane. Now this one took a lot of flack, for the wrong damn reasons. People seem to forget that regardless of how in poor taste the jokes are, the Oscar Openings are always staged. Meaning if anyone was reacting badly during a skit, it was because they were in on the joke. None so blatant however is this opening. In it, the premise is that Seth is about to do an opening number, based around his usual humour and love of musical numbers ala Family Guy. William Shatner as Captain Kirk travels back in time and tells him exactly how he's gonna screw it up, so he changes his tune for each time. My personal favourite of the opening being the "We saw your boobs." number. As it was meant to be an affectionate "Take That" to every Oscar Winning Actress whom has shown frontal nudity in their films. This was before the Weinstein thing happened, so needless to say nude jokes were still funny then:

Needless to say, it was considered so bad that the Oscars don't even have it on their Youtube Channel.

However my new personal favourite moment right now is the incident that happened recently in the 2022 Oscars. Two events stuck out for me.

The first was that then host Amy Schumer was planning on getting the Prime Minister of Ukraine to attend the Oscars via sattelite in an effort to get Hollywood on the ball in showing their support. Now this is a good idea on paper, however I'm glad it fell through and I'll tell you why. Holllywood has made a lot of great work for over the past 2 centuries. However, what many try to deny even to this day is that it's a Soulless Industry that doesn't care who they capitalized on. As good as Schumer's intentions were for it and as passionate as Sean Penn is in vowing to smelt his Oscars over it, you two would have been very guilty of Glamourizing the war for nothing more than money, fame and an increase on your social points and you should be ashamed of yourselves for doing that. This isn't a fucking spectacle where you choose who wins in a category, it's a fucking real war, with real people all fucking dying and I'm sorry, but you all would have blown it and Ukraine would have suffered endlessly for it because you'd be sending the message to America and the world, that the conflict shouldn't be taken so seriously. So fuck you for trying.

The second as I said before is less important compared to this, but due to the human race valuing gawking at celebs than paying attention to the what's really happening to the human race and this eventually going to overshadow said conflict if we're not careful enough, I am gonna put my two cents on this in hopes it puts this to bed.

Chris Rock, whom hosted the Oscars in 2016, once again is invited, but this time to present the award for Best Documentary Feature. Like many comedians that are tasked with presenting, Rock can't help but tell a joke or two. In this case it was at the expense of the baldness of Jada Pinkett Smith. Nicknaming her "G.I. Jane 2" to boot. Jada suffers from a condition called alopecia. In layman's terms it's a condition that involves hair loss. So needless to say the joke was in poor taste. So when I saw Will Smith walk up there and slap Rock square in the face telling him "Leave my wife's name out of your fucking mouth." I cheered. The rest of the world doesn't seem to think so. The Academy, fellow attendees and previous as well as many many net bots out here, condemned Smith's actions. Claiming he should be able to take a joke. The Academy even stated that they will start an internal review on the matter. Will just around that time, won Best Actor for his performance as Richard Williams in King Richard. Famed Tennis star and father of Venus and Serena Williams. This was his first ever Oscar, something he literally spent his whole life trying to do. Needless to say I think he's earned it, but if the Academy can see fit to it, they can take that Oscar right out of his hands if they wanted to should the review be against him.

Most of you may go against me for this, but I think Smith had every right to slap the ever loving shit out of Chris Rock.

First of all let me go on record and say I have nothing against Chris Rock as a comedian or an actor. And this guy has told his fair share of politically incorrect jokes from the 90s to now. Including but not limited to Transphobia, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism. You name it he's covered them all. That is not the issue here.

Second of all, before anyone says it. I am well aware of the alleged marital problems between Will and Jada. That too is also irrelevant and I'll tell you why. Unless criminal behaviour and domestic abuse is at play to the point where the cops are called, a person's marriage and marital problems are their own business. I don't give a fuck if you're a celeb or some average Joe. It's not anyone's business and nor should it be used to condemn Will for his actions for it has nothing and I mean NOTHING to do with it. That it not the issue here.

The main issue here is why Will did what he did and why anyone that's condeming him even on this site, should owe him a fucking apology.

The first thing people are gonna point out is that before Will slapped Chris, he laughed at the joke too. However if you look closely, you'd see Jada's hurt expression. Needless to say until he walked up, he didn't see her face until after his laugh, realized the joke may have really hurt her and did what he had to do to make her feel better. One of the main issues of marriage is the big question "Does he/she still love me?" Which is often the key to a lasting love or a messy divorce. If this event doesn't show that in spite of what they went through together, that Will loves his wife, then I don't know what is.

Then you have Chris Rock's side of things. People don't think he did anything wrong. Now if this was the first time he went after Jada I would have agreed. When he was hosting the 2016 Oscars, he started cracking jokes about Jada skipping the ceremony among most things. This was around the time Jada boycotted the Oscars for not having enough POC actors, actresses and filmmakers getting as much a chance of winning as white filmmakers. I'm not gonna open that can of worms, but the point of the matter is, Rock made fun of her more than once. I always thought between those moments, be it by Jada or Will or god forbid even Jaden Smith, Rock was warned not to do it again. It wasn't until I stumbled upon People Magizine's Online Article recapping the events that I was right:

https://people.com/movies/oscars-2022-will-smith-still-mad-about-chris-rock-2016-joke-jada-before-smack-source/

There are three Golden Rules of Comedy.

1. Timing. The right timing of Jokes, is often the key to a laugh or getting booed off the stage.
2. Good Spirits. Even in your darkest jokes as long as their in good fun everyone should laugh.
3. Most importantly. It's all fun and games unless someone gets hurt.

Chris Rock broke all three of those rules. The Joke he told was improperly timed, due to Jada recently talking about her condition. The joke was not in good spirits, because Rock told it in resentment of her boycotting the Oscars one moment and showing up in this moment. Many comedians like to point out what they view as hypocrisy. In this case he's basically low-keyed called her a hypocrite for not showing up when he was hosting, yet showing up when Will may win. Lastly, she probably was still very raw when she found out about her condition so needless to say, had she had some time to mentally and emotionally recover from it, she'd probably take the joke in good humour. However, needless to say, Chris should have known better than to cross that line especially considering that he's basically insulting the wife of a guy whom he worked with on Fresh Prince. Up until then I thought those two were friends. It was at that moment in my eyes he stopped being a comedian and started being a bully and well deserving of that slap.

To make things worse, Will was forced to apologize for the event. Will? Don't apologize. Unlike most of the times you get blamed for everything in Bel Air, for once, this was not your fault. You did the right thing. The only wrong thing about this, is that, like many celeb controvery it forces real world problems to take a back seat? Don't believe me?

Look at all the youtube comments of people condemning Will, be it on the slap or on his other videos. Especially the ones that are on Smith's personal Youtube Channel. Some of them claim he ruined their childhoods, by doing that. Dude, my childhood image of him got shattered when I heard him dropping F-bombs in the first Bad Boy's movie. Big fucking deal. Others have claimed he needs to take psycho-therapy. For slapping a guy? Jesus Christ, if it were that easy I'd slap everyone I know just to get on psycho pension if it ever existed in Canada that is. Then there are others that boast that they would have taken it better than he and Jada. Bullfuckingshit. The only reason you take that joke well is that it's not directed at you. Contrary to popular belief, I can take a joke even if it's personally directed at me, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna ignore it if it hurts me or ignore the fact that said joke could hurt someone else. If Chris Rock started insulting your own vulnerabilities and shortcomings, you'd all be up and arms lynching him like fucking Klan members. Ya that's right I said it. As opposed to your digital lynch mob of Smith. Fucking Chicken hawks. Let's see someone insult you, your loved ones and see how long you last without wanting to slap someone. Spoilers. Less than a second.

However the worst one was these comments I've stumbled upon:

I didn't blur out their names because I want people to know who theses scumbags are. These are two of many comments plastered on Will's page right now. Comparing him to Vladimir Putin. No even, more fucked up. Saying he's worse than Putin.

If there was another example of how fucked up, stupid and deserving of death the human race has as a whole, look no further than these comments, because the new hip thing on the internet now is to condemn people for crimes that are grossly minor compared to the real crimes happening out in the world. And you think I'm bullshitting when I said this will overshadow the conflict. These two here are already laying the ground work for that by saying Putin's crimes, including ordering the slaughtering of civilians, men women and FUCKING CHILDREN!!!!, is not as bad as Will Smith slapping a guy for insulting his wife. To them and anyone that agrees with that bullshit, FUCK ALL OF YOU!!!

It's literally been two days since this happened and people are still using it to take priority over what's important. I'm here to say, don't. Celebrity drama of any kind, regardless of my two cents of the matter should never take priority over the suffering and dying of actual people. Turn the TV off, swipe the page away and get some fucking work done to improve your lives and the lives of others.

Stay safe and in good health.