Jim Carrey says that celebrities are no longer the “cool club” after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock
The Sonic The Hedgehog 2 star was "sickened" by the standing ovation Will Smith got at the 2022 Oscars
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Has everyone lined up to present their hot take on the Will Smith/Chris Rock thing from The Oscars? No need to get into separate groups for who you think is right or wrong, we’ll just be going through the entire population of the planet alphabetically to ensure both that everyone gets to throw in their two cents and that this story remains in the public eye for as long as possible.
At least that’s what we assume is happening, because why else would Jim Carrey, someone who was not at the Oscars (as far as we know) and has no real stake in the drama, be getting headlines for talking about it? It must be that today we’re doing the people with C last names and he’s relatively early in that list, because otherwise it’s just a guy who inexplicably seems to know exactly what the three people involved were thinking at the time and what everyone in the room should’ve done in response to it.
Gayle King gave Carrey his chance to talk about the Oscars on CBS this morning (via Huff Post), with Carrey saying that he was “sickened” by the fact that the crowd at The Dolby Theater on Sunday gave Smith a standing ovation when he won Best Actor for King Richard, adding that he feels like “Hollywood is just spineless en masse” and that this is a “really clear indication that we’re not the cool club anymore.”
At this point, we would be remiss if we failed to bring up the standing ovation that Roman Polanski got at the 2003 Oscars, decades after he was convicted of rape and fled the country, but in Carrey’s defense, he’s not saying this is the thing that pushed Hollywood onto the wrong side of the “cool club” line. He’s just saying that it’s a clear indication of which side of the line they’re on.
Carrey’s insight into the minds of various famous people also helped him know for a fact that Chris Rock chose not to file charges against Smith because he “didn’t want the hassle,” as well as the fact that Smith “has something going on inside him that’s frustrated.” Carrey also said that, if he had been Rock in this situation, he would be “suing Will for $200 million because that video is going to be there forever” and “that insult is gonna last a very long time.” (The “insult” he’s referring to is the slap, not the joke Chris Rock made about Jada Pinkett Smith having alopecia.)
Of course, it was not Jim Carrey there in Chris Rock’s position, so his idea of what he would do doesn’t mean that much more than anyone else’s, but it was his turn so he’s allowed to say his piece. Also, it took an extra day, but Will Smith did publicly apologize to Chris Rock, if that counts for anything. Oh, we’re seeing here that it does not, and this story is just going to keep going. Alright, whose turn is next?
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First of all, let me say .. first.
exactly.
I’d love to do just a hard reboot to when we wished cancerfireaids on perpetrators of failed firstie attempts.
CancerAIDS and stealth firsties built this community. I’ll be damned if they don’t stick around while GMG dismantles it.
Could Grace Slick please come out of retirement to sing “We Built This Thread On Cancer AIDS”?
So, you’re saying “alopecia” should be the new version of “canceraids”?
Try fingers but hole Barsanti
Heh heh. You said but.
You know, it occurs to me that if you don’t think that a celebrity’s response to something is particularly noteworthy, then you have the option to simply NOT REPORT ON IT. This weird sort of unearned condescending snark may be Barsanti’s trademark, but I’ll be damned if I can understand why it’s something that the GMG overlords think any of us come here for.
He should change his name to Sam Barnasty.
Hell, I’d at least respect nastiness, rather than this lazy-as-fuck snark.
No, that actually sounds kinda cool.
Weird. Samba Nasty is the name of the villain in my Brazilian dance movie script.
It also occurs you can just not open the article… unless you’re being held by gunpoint and the comment is some code as a plea for help
Is Barsanti staying on after all his other AVC colleagues were forced out or quit in solidarity?
Just call him Scab Barsanti!
He’s got no place else to go.
Oh go tell it to Lou Gossett Jr.
He feigned disgust while looking for rooms in LA
Quiet, no one bothered to tell him they were leaving.
Right? If you are against everyone weighing in on this incident, then…don’t aggregate stories about it?
This one really rubbed me the wrong way. I can’t even stand Jim Carrey.
Jim Carrey? He’s still alive?
Didn’t he used to be a comedy actor? I remember my best friend really liked him a lot about twenty or so years ago.
Normally I’d agree with you (because Barsanti is a hack), but personally I fully support dunking on Jim Carrey, an fervent anti-vaxxer who drove an ex-girlfriend to suicide:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jim-carrey-catriona-white-suicide-cocaine-prostitutes-herpes-wrongful-death-lawsuit-std-a7975251.htmlHonestly, I’m still shocked he never saw any real pushback from that story
because why else would Jim Carrey, someone who was not at the Oscars (as far as we know) and has no real stake in the drama, be getting headlines for talking about it?Says Barsanti, who was not at the Oscars and has no real stake in the drama, literally making headlines about it.
Websites are obligated to report on it, because people are obligated to point out they don’t have the obligation to report it, and when people do that, the web page gets viewed and the business earns revenue. If you really object to this reporting, walk the walk and don’t comment.
I’ve no problem with pop culture sites milking as many clicks and views and dollars from the fact that one of the world’s most successful movie stars just slapped the shit out of a prominent and well-known stand-up comic in front of an audience of millions. This sort of thing is their bread and butter. I’d just prefer that they not act like martyrs who are only doing it because we’re putting a gun to their head and forcing them to in the process. They know what they’re doing, they know what they’re here for, and they’re benefiting from it way more than we are, they can drop the smug moral superiority.Barsanti wants to talk about something more meaningful and important, he can quit and try and become a writer somewhere else. If not, he can dial back the pious eye-rolling a bit.
I’d always read his tone as sarcastic. I don’t think he’s genuinely whining.
Neither do I, really, but that’s kind of my point; the sarcastic self-righteousness tone he tends to adopt is particularly grating because it’s ultimately hollow, self-satisfied and insincere. He’s a willing part of all this, he doesn’t get to act like he’s so aloof and above it all.
It clearly rubs some people the wrong way. I still think if they want less of it, their most effective course of action is not to comment./shrug
The irony there, of course, is that in order to tell people not to comment, you have to comment on their comments. The endless cycle just keeps going round and round. That said, at the end of it, a commenting system is (in theory) a way of enabling the site readers to communicate with the site writers and administrators, people are gonna use it to complain when they feel it’s necessary. Sure, more cynically, content providers use it to delude themselves into thinking they’re doing a great job by deciding that clicks are all, that all replies are good replies because they bring in money, and that the volume of response is equal to the nature of the response, but nevertheless, if people think there’s the potential for improvement they’re gonna use it. So yeah, maybe it’s pointless, but it’s just as pointless to wag your finger and scold people for using what is pretty much their only method of providing feedback to, well, provide feedback. At least they’re trying to affect some kind of change that they want to see instead of shrugging and passively accepting inferior product or mediocrity.
What’s ironic about it? I’m not objecting to the content. My desire is for less spiteful noise. I think the comments are at their best when it’s more full of fun discussion/snark about the article itself. If you want something or somebody gone, write them an email. And I’m not scolding. I’m not angry or emotional about it, unlike a lot of the anti-Barsanti brigade here. Frankly, I’m happy to help point them towards a more effective course of action, as it benefits us all.
You’re commenting in order to tell people not to comment. I dunno, it tickled me a little.As for the ‘less spiteful noise’, well, people aren’t complaining about Barsanti’s articles purely to be mean or because they want to deprive you of your preferred content. It’s a symptom of a problem they feel exists with the site, and they’re expressing it in one of the few avenues they have available to them. Email is also an option, granted, but your assertion that it is the more effective one is so far unproven and is a bit questionable; a public response can also be useful and effective in demonstrating that discontent is widespread and collective rather than purely individual, which can be easily dismissed. And, I’ll willingly take you at your word that you’re not angry about this, but to be honest engaging in what is by this point a fairly lengthy comment chain in which you’re essentially lecturing people about what are and aren’t appropriate ways for them to express their displeasure with how the site is currently operating is a kind of odd way of showing how unbothered you are by it. If ‘scold’ is not the right word, I’m struggling to think of a better one to be honest; it certainly seems a little high-handed at least. Especially since unless you’re a member of the site it’s really not affecting you that much at all; okay, it might not be fun for you to read, but the reverse of your argument is also true — you can just scroll past and ignore comments that are not of the nature you want to read, which by your own logic is apparently the best way of dealing with them.
But I’m not telling people not to comment. I’m telling them what to not comment about. Scrolling through dozens of comments is a lot more laborious than spotting a byline and skipping an entire page because you know you don’t like the author. This reminds me of the tolerating intolerance argument. A lot of the comments from people who don’t like Barsanti’s articles *are* mean. It wasn’t applicable to anything you you wrote, but I think it applies as a broad stroke if you scan through. Ah well, cheers.
Says the dude who dismisses comments that make him look bad.
I’m not sure what it says about the state of A.V. Club, to be frank, but after the first paragraph I guessed that this one was a Barsanti joint, and was not surprised at all when I read the byline when I was done.
I don’t think Barsanti is ever genuinely anything.
… “why else would Sam Barsanti, someone who was not at the Oscars (as far as we know) and has no real stake in the drama, be creating headlines for talking about it?”
It’s hard to tell sometimes exactly what SB is so fired up about. It would be like if Will Smith was so angry he slapped Chris Rock, Denzel Washington, Kenneth Branagh, Andrew Garfield, the Encanto cast, and that goddamn Judi Dench because he’s so ANNOYED WITH EVERYTHING.
Every pop culture site’s take on this bullshit:“It’s so sad that EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT HOW WILL SMITH SLAPPED CHRIS ROCK AT THE OSCARS. Despite have the first streaming film win – think it had some blind people in it or whatever – CHRIS ROCK GETTING SLAPPED BY WILL SMITH is all everyone is, unfortunately, talking about. We can’t condone the fact that WILL SMITH CHOSE TO PHYSICALLY ASSAULT CHRIS ROCK and find the fact that this single incident OF CHRIS ROCK GETTING SLAPPED BY WILL SMITH – YOU KNOW, THAT CHRIS ROCK OF FRIDAY FAME AND THAT WILL SMITH OF WILD WILD WEST FAME – on what should’ve been a night of celebrating the finest cinematic events of the past year, none of which we could be arsed looking up and reporting on here. I guess Disney won Best Animated or whatever? Frankly, it’s is utterly sad that so much virtual ink is being spilt over CHRIS ROCK GETTING SLAPPED LIVE, ON INTERNATIONAL TV, OH MY GOD, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, HOW SCANDALOUS, HERE’S THREE VIDEOS, A GIF, AND A BUNCH OF TWITTER REACTIONS AND MEMES RIGHT HERE IN THE BODY OF OUR ARTICLE, BY WILL “BIG WILLY STYLE” SMITH. We are, of course, saddened disgusted by WILL SMITH SLAPPING CHRIS ROCK AT THE OSCARS and are disgusted by people who exploit this for cheap clicks.”
But then how would be insinuate it’s okay to slap someone while they’re working if they say something you don’t like? Will is lucky Chris didn’t smash him for being a pathetic cuckold and letting his harpy wife walk all over him. A G.I. Jane joke isn’t even half as offensive as what JK Simmons got earlier in the night.
You could also not click on and comment on the articles you aren’t interested in. You’re not even getting paid to do this, unlike Sam.
To be part of the problem, I suppose?
It would also help if every reporter stopped asking every celebrity what they thought about (insert outrageous event here). That might cut down on the time these topics are spent in the news cycle.
I agree, Ben. I can’t for the life of me figure out what the editorial POV of this piece even is. It’s like a parody of snarky commentary in which the point is to simply throw around caustic, cynical-sounding phrases to signify caustic, cynical detachment from whatever the idiots are doing out there today. It’s as if the author doesn’t quite know what the real issue is or ought to be, so, to maintain his pose of world-weary bitterness, he’s just going to sit over here on this park bench, mumbling to himself.
Do the writers here have a say in what they wrote? I honestly have no idea. Maybe Barsanti has no say and that’s why his articles seem to hold the subject, us and life itself in contempt.
I’d say an actual filmed apology would’ve helped to squash further discussion, but a typed out PR piece doesn’t do much for the everyday viewer who saw it happen.
There’s no such word as “alright”
All righty then!
This guy gets it
That took a left turn.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do.
Take your star ya bastard
Unclear.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alright
Seems pretty clear to me
Been around since Civil War days. More than fifteen decades of use. I think it’s firmly in the “relax, who gives a fuck” category by now.
EDIT: Bah, didn’t get it.
Yeah, “alright” used to bug me too, then I dug a little and…yeah. It’s fine.
Unreguardless, I youz it anywayz.
Oscar award winner Matthew McConaughey disagrees with you.
Jim Carrey weighed in because he was asked about it. 99.9 % of these stories about celebs weighing in on things (are Marvel movies cinema/Oscars slap, whatever) is because they’re asked about it on press junkets to generate headlines…like the one Carrey’s doing for Sonic 2. But you know this.
Seriously. If I was famous, I hope I would be savvy enough to give a generic non-response. But I’m not I’m not going to criticize any celebrity for giving an actual answer to the question they’ve been asked 100 times in the last 2 days.
Also, Carrey is (or was) a standup comic, so he might have a firm opinion about a standup getting physically assaulted onstage after a joke.
The real question is: Should this change my opinion of Miles Davis’ “Birth of the Cool”?
The real question is: Should this change my opinion of Miles Davis’ “Birth of the Cool”?No, but we should acknowledge that the Jack Johnson soundtrack was way ahead of its time and under rated.
No, but if it encourages a good, solid listen to Porgy and Bess, that’s a good thing. If THAT subsequently inspires exploration of Gil Evans 50s and 60s work, even better.
OK, but it’s not something I can listen to whenever. Porgy and Bess is a sometime thing.
Jim Carrey: Afterbirth of the cool.
The tone of this post sucks. Fuck off, man.
You could pin this comment at the top of every Barsanti article and it would apply.
Y’know, at first blush I was totally disgusted with Will Smith’s violent display of toxic masculinity. But then I thought: What if the only thing standing between the world and another Barsanti article was a strong slap to the face?And just like that, my position softened.
“Kang, here’s a hypothetical ethical question: would you slap Sam Barsanti if-”“Yes.”“You didn’t let me finish the question.“Didn’t have to.”
I, Kang, feel seen!
“…why else would Jim Carrey, someone who was not at the Oscars (as far as we know) and has no real stake in the drama, be getting headlines for talking about it?”Well:“Gayle King gave Carrey his chance to talk about the Oscars on CBS this morning…”
There ya go.
“As far as we know”? What was he in there in disguise? Did I see Fire Marshall Bill in the back row?
Right… everyone gets all freaked out when someone says something… after they were specifically asked to. Does Barsanti clam the F up when asked about shit at parties? Can we not answer questions people ask?
Well, there is some difficult extrapolation necessary to understand that. Well, difficult at least if your sole interest is being passively channeled through the well-worn grooves in your rudimentary flow chart, grooves which lead invariably to your bread-and-butter of langorous snark.Carey has a movie coming out. Shockingly, he’s out promoting it. Shockingly, interviewers are going take the opportunity to ask celebrities what they think about a celebrity assaulting a celebrity at the big celebrity event of the year. Jim Carey is a celebrity.
And “gave Carrey his chance” is a flat out fucking bullshit way of framing what happened. The audio is there to be heard. Gayle ASKED him to give his thoughts.
Has everyone lined up to present their hot take on the Will Smith/Chris Rock thing from The Oscars? No need to get into separate groups for who you think is right or wrong, we’ll just be going through the entire population of the planet alphabetically to ensure both that everyone gets to throw in their two cents and that this story remains in the public eye for as long as possible. This coming from Barsanti and AV Club is now the dictionary definition of pot calling the kettle(s) black.
Even within the article Barsanti engages in the same behavior.
to ensure both that everyone gets to throw in their two cents and that
this story remains in the public eye for as long as possible.
We’re talking about the thing that happened two days ago, right? What exactly is the expected shelf life for a story about one celebrity attacking another live during the Oscar telecast, shortly before winning the award for Best Actor. Does the guy who works for AV Club, purportedly a pop culture website, think that should just blow over in a few hours? Tweet an apology, and done?
This also from the site that also has at least five articles covering this slap and its fallout on its homepage as I type.
Its also the same website that spends 5 posts discussing every SNL episode every Sunday, like it’s fucking news or something.
Jesus Christ. Rock didn’t make a joke about alopecia. He compared her to Demi Moore. Stop pushing this false narrative.
When we’re talking about an alopecia joke and someone unironically says “narrative”? That’s an awkward one.
Hands up if you think Rock knew she was sporting the clean look due to a medical condition.(looks around)
Didn’t think so. Or else he WOULDN’T HAVE MADE THE JOKE.
It was a lazy, hacky joke referencing a movie from 1/4 century ago. He deserves the slap for that alone.
Now there’s some violence I can get behind. A Wakanda joke would have landed better (although possibly with the same slapping outcome).
“Keep dated, lazy jokes OUT of your FUCKING mouth!!!”
How was the (ad-libbed) joke “lazy” if so many people had to be supplied the reference? IMO a lazy joke would be obvious and top-of-the-mind.
You can argue whether it was a good joke. And if he hadn’t actually been slapped you could joke about slapping him for it.But in reality… no deserves to slapped for a bad joke. I can’t believe how many people need to be told this.
Hey, you make fun of a woman’s appearance at your peril. No matter the circumstances.
So many close personal friends of celebrities in comment sections!!
😀 😀 😀
Extremely public knowledge, so yeah he fucking knew.
I didn’t know until the Oscars fiasco. I thought she was rocking the shaved look as a fashion statement like her daughter.
He knew that she had an extremely common condition that affects countless people and that is in no way debilitating, which dumbasses are now trying to treat like some sort of crippling disability? Okay. Still dont care, still not offensive.
Well, I didn’t, so mildly public knowledge!
How do you quantify “extremely public”? Because what would be the percentage of the general public aware of that? Less than 1%. True, perhaps it would be higher amongst celebrities, so let’s bump that up a bit. Maybe we could get it into double digits.
Not a single person I know knew about it. So yeah, he probably didn’t.
I dunno, do you think celebrities follow each other in the media? I’m not that familiar with Rock’s act, but does he typically base his comedy on celebrity gossip?
He is a stand up comedian doing a joke about another celebrity. Of course he knows what’s up.
this is a great point. I did not know she had alopecia, I assumed her baldness was a fashion choice (honestly I think it suits her and looks good), but I just don’t see Rock going after her if he had known she had a medical condition. I could be dead wrong but I doubt it.
I’d like to believe that, but Chris Rock has been dogging Jada for a while
Chris Rock should have known better. I don’t even care about this family, but by merely existing in this society I was aware that Jada had alopecia.
Chris Rock made a whole movie about black women and their hair and the bullshit they go through. It was a bad look, and I don’t believe he didn’t know about her condition.
That said, he did not deserve the reaction he got from Will Smith.
After people found out Chadwick had cancer, they felt bad for the jokes they made about him looking gaunt and folks insinuating it was drugs. Maybe it is past time making fun of someone because of the way they look. If that is the only way you know how to “craft” jokes then maybe you’re not good at it
I guess you could argue that. Though alopecia is just baldness, and Rock didn’t compare Jada to GI Jane because of what she was wearing.
Actually alopecia is specifically an autoimmune disease that causes baldness but can have other symptoms and/or a sign of a more serious medical conditions.
Actually alopecia areata is specifically an autoimmune disease that causes
baldness but can have other symptoms and/or a sign of a more serious
medical conditions. Actually Alopecia is specifically an autoimmune disease that causes
baldness but can have other symptoms and/or a sign of a more serious
medical conditions. You’re conflating two things. Franky was right, alopecia is just baldness. Any kind of baldness.
The more specific autoimmune kind of alopecia you’re thinking of, which Jada has, is pretty much only hair loss with no other major symptoms.
That’s not quite true. Aplopecia is simply the medical term for hair loss. Alopecia areata is the term for alopecia caused by an autoimmune response. Other types of alopecia such as traction alopecia or CCCA (central cicatricial centrifugal alopecia) are induced and caused simply by physical and chemical stress on hair follicles that cause them to scar and stop producing hair. The latter two types are predominate in African American women due to how prevalent tightly braided hairstyles and the use of weaves are. CCCA, which causes significant hair loss, almost only occurs in the African American women population. It’s basically traction alopecia compounded by chemical scarring, usually from the use of harsh relaxers and dyes.
It’s tension alopecia, bud. Lots of African-American and Latina women get it from a lifetime of hair choices that damage the scalp. It’s not an autoimmune disease, it’s trauma.
“He compared her to Demi Moore. Stop pushing this false narrative.” Physicians-and-healing, bullshitter. 😀 😀
Came here to say exactly this!
He made a joke about her being bald.
“Rock didn’t make a joke about alopecia. He compared her to Demi Moore.”
For an extremely specific reason, which was baldness, which in Smith’s case is due to alopecia.
Website posting near-constant stream of articles about Will Smith slap gets on high horse when celebrity answered question when asked about Will Smith slap.
What celebrity?
I’ll do you one better: WHY celebrity?
Easy. BECAUSE celebrity.Cheers
It’s a travesty that Katie is gone and this piece of shit Barsanti is still here.
Yikes. If pining for the glory days of Katie Rife doesn’t prove that the AVClub is dead, then nothing will.
Looks like she picked up at a gig at Polygon. https://www.polygon.com/users/Katie_Rife
The Polanski standing O, though? Total cool-beans.
“oh but what about”fuck off with this bullshit. They can both be wrong (both ARE wrong), no one is saying otherwise, and you aren’t clever for pointing it out.
I know bothsides is cruise control for cool, but there is no Universal-Be here. Jim Carrey says Hollywood Cool Kids Club is OVER because Chris Rock got the taste slapped out of his mouth, therefore, ergo, Jim Carrey does not think Hollywood Cool Kids Club was OVER from the Roman Polanski standing O.
It’s pretty clear that the salt here is coming from the fact Carrey was so flatly critical of Smith and the Hollywood elite instead of finding reasons to excuse his behaviour or somehow damn Rock for one of the tamest jokes he’s ever made. Entertainment media has been pretty sickening in its justification for Smith’s conduct and, no, nobody with an ounce of sense thinks his newest apology is worth anything, because it is so very obviously utterly insincere. The man assaulted someone for a joke, explained himself as a protector and vessel of love, then danced the night away basking in the adulation of every sycophant around him.
We have all of your colleagues’ takes on the situation. And they probably weren’t there either so…..
I mean, I don’t think anyone was expecting a dozen security and staff to rush onstage during a live event and drag Will Smith out of the building since he immediately turned around and went back to his seat. However, after Chris Rock finished his segment, someone should’ve tapped Will Smith on the shoulder and escorted him and Jada out of the building and be informed that someone from the production crew of ‘King Richard’ would be accepting his award in his absence.
https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2022/03/29/academy-awards-1973-john-wayne-had-to-be-restrained-from-confronting-native-american-woman-sacheen-littlefeather-on-stage/
Good find. Although John Wayne was pretty much known by everyone in Hollywood to be a categorical asshole and staff were probably at the ready to drag his drunk, jingoistic ass out of there at a moment’s notice.From Will Smith, this literally just came out of nowhere.
He was on an episode of Maude. It was great.
Bizarre coincidence/synchronicity from Sacheen Littelfeather’s wikipedia page, regarding her Oscars appearance:“The speech was credited with bringing attention back to the Wounded Knee standoff, on which a media blackout had been imposed. Coretta Scott King called Littlefeather to thank her for the speech. In 2014, the 87th ceremony of the Academy Awards drew criticism for lack of diversity in nominations; actress Jada Pinkett Smith, who boycotted the ceremony, cited Littlefeather as inspiration to do so.”
Look, was is a little strange to have a Sacheen Littlefeather give a speech about Native American mistreatment? Sure. But you have to remember that the alternative was a speech by Marlon Brando.
There was never any danger of Brando giving a speech. There’s was no one holding cue cards anywhere within his sightline.
From the various reports coming out now, it seems like the showrunners were more concerned that trying to get Smith to leave could blow up into a bigger scene if he refused, and how bad the optics of such a scene could be.
The have commercial breaks don’t they? Take them out during one of those. Just cancel the presentation of that award. The solutions are numerous and easy.
Oh, I could definitely see how the optics might turn out. #Oscarsocivil
So, don’t give him a headline, Exhibit A in how much the AV Club has gone downhill. Seriously, what are you good at that caused you to get a job writing?
Oral sex?
Well, alrighty then.
Can we just stop with the Jada Pinkett is “sick” with Alopecia. She isn’t sick with anything. She was losing some of her hair and she decided to shave it off because she liked it better like that. She’s stated as much. Trying to defend Smith’s actions with “he was defending his wife” from a joke that he was clearly laughing is ludicrous.
Jim Carrey has a right to comment on it the same as you have a right to ahem “write” about it.
“Carrey also said that, if he had been Rock in this situation…”He probably would have cause to sue for $200 million because it would have snapped his head off his neck.
He would’ve bent over and talked out his ass?
That actually would have been the perfect response to this bullshit.Ass: “Is that all you got, pussy? Guess you’re just tough in movies…”
I’d rather hear what would have happened if he had been THE Rock.
WTF is she talking about “it escalated”? I’m glad he calls her out on that.
“why else would Jim Carrey, someone who was not at the Oscars (as far as
we know) and has no real stake in the drama, be getting headlines for
talking about it?”you say as you give him a headline for it.
Its pretty clear that Will Smith was just trying to recapture a shred of manhood after his wife outed him as a cuck.
All the cool people are in the Burger King Kids Club.
My fav part is a comment section full of people dunking on Scab Barsanti
Based on every interview and/or story ive seen on the dude, Jim Carrey kinda seems like one of the most exhausting, least “cool” guys on earth. Not a bad guy necessarily, just miles away from cool.
Like Robin Williams exhausting?
Nah. Williams was a great hang. Apparently when Spielberg was making “Schindler’s List” he’s call Williams at night and Robin would just do an hour of improv comedy to cheer him up after dealing with all that darkness of the movie.
I think worse…unless Williams also went method during filming and put people through a bunch of dumb bullshit so he could really crush his role in Toys.
Something tells me Sam Barsanti was always considered ‘the clever one’ amongst a small group of very stupid friends.
Sadly only by himself. :DCheers
Imaginary friends perhaps.
This is it, people. For the first time in history, people will begin to dislike celebrities. You can take it from Jim Carrey, a man who no one has ever gotten tired of.
I eagerly await the King’s take on this. By which I mean Jerry Lawler.
I see you did there!
Also appropriate, since I’ve not seen a Work worked harder since Lawler and Andy went at it.
To be clearer, I was calling out Jim Carrey for being full of it(‘it’ being hypocrisy or paint fumes that messed with his memory to the point he forgot that he slapped and spit on a co-star on the set of a movie that at the time was pushed as Oscar-worthy. Other than the tote, I’m not sure Will Smith gets paid for this).If people want to speculate this whole thing was a work and not a shoot then I’d say they’re basing it on two things; That the Academy is desparate for eyes on the gilded lily that is their show, and that Wiki-Wah-Wah Willy did something that shattered their illusions so hard.But I can’t hate these jifs.
It’s your turn, Sam Barsanti. Every time.
…not the joke Chris Rock made about Jada Pinkett Smith having alopecia.The joke was about her having a shaved head, not about her having alopecia. come on. Let’s not conflate things.
Fuck, this is tedious.
It’s interesting that the star of the intensely transphobic Ace Ventura: Pet Detective who then went on to spread debunked anti-vax BS while pathologizing autistic people thought he was ever in the “cool club”.
Please stop pretending like hos lame but harmless joke about an exceedingly common condition is somehow as bad as the assault itself. It is extremely stupid and embarrassing.*checks author*Ah, I see. Stupid and embarrassing makes psense.
It is impossible to overstate just how amazingly goddamn stupid it is to write an article about Jim Carrey’s comments, wherein you bitch and whine about websites giving coverage to Jim Carrey’s comments. You have absolutely zero self-awareness, and continue to be an embarrassment to your profession.
It’s so great that Will Smith is actually laughing along until he sees Jada is a bit miffed. Then he’s all “man defend woman!”.Nobody looks great, making fun of people’s illnesses is pretty weak but… sheesh.I also love that it was a slap.
Dude we lost all of the cool AV Club writers but we’re left with this cunt. What the heck man, do they not care about having people visit this site or something?
Oh look, another hot shit take from Barsanti. Well at least it’s gonna be fun reading the comments bashing you. So how does it feel being probably the least liked “writer” here?
Barsanti actually has a lot in common with Jim Carrey. Both are known for talking out of their ass!
Reportedly, Chris Rock didn’t know JPS had alopecia and didn’t allude that she might have it in his joke. It was a lame GI Jane callback and any attempt to try to turn his joke into something more sinister is silly and revisionist tripe.Having said that, it seems pretty clear to me that the thin-skinned Hollywood elite were applauding Will slapping a comic making jokes at their expense.Carrey, unstable as he is, hits the mark here perfectly: Rock should sue Smith and press charges. This slap will be remembered forever and has put a target on every comedian’s head.
Jim Carrey has supported anti-vax crap long before it became fashionable for the neo-nazi types. That crap killed people. Lots of them. At least Will Smith apologized for his major public mistake. When is Carrey going to do the same?
Oh does the anti-vaxxer have some opinions on toxic celebrity culture?
Two things: (1) Carrey didn’t volunteer his opinion, Gayle King DIRECTLY ASKED HIM; and (2) in MY opinion I thought his sentiments were spot on. I mean Jesus Christ security didn’t even come to the stage! WTF world are we living in that this is ok?!
Irrelevant person writes article about “irrelevant actor”…
Every time I accidentally invest mental energy in a Barsanti whingefest, I feel like I should sue for $200 million because that link will be there forever.
He’s not wrong.Will Smith is Hollywood royalty because he brings the studios money. So he is cool and “untouchable” as long as he is not engaged in something absolutely vile (e.g. rape, pedophilia, beastiality). “The Slap” will be something akin to R. Kelly’s “Pee tape” in the 2000s (his 2019-2021 conviction is a separate story for purposes of this analogy), in that it will always be synonymous with Will Smith and be a scar on his reputation (please, God, Will, don’t tell us you have more skeletons than R. Kelly!), but won’t affect his moneymaking. Let’s not forget that this same academy gave a standing ovation to Woody “Pedo” Allen, even after he was caught screwing his stepdaughter (ick), as well as Charlie Chaplin, who was notorious for being in the “barely legal” camp, but had several sit down for Elian Kazan’s Oscar because of his HUAC testimony, which may have had the cloud of government arm twisting behind it. If this is not the makings of a “cool club” click, I don’t know what is. That is why I can’t stand watching Oscars anymore.
Was Carrey in the audience when they gave Roman a standing ovation in 2009? I guessing he wasn’t because Jim has come across as a good guy.I will say the comments on AV Club have seen to taken a turn and sound like very few POC (I’m one) are on this site now at days.I’m already sick of all of the slap coverage. As Mark Hamil said it was awful but not even close to the worst Oscar’s moment. Sadly I bet Smith comes out to another standing O next year and more stand up acts make this about themselves and not the dude who got smacked and like a G took it and made Smith look a punk.
Carrey has a point about the spinelessness of today’s Hollywood. It wasn’t that many years ago that Holly Hunter et al refused to participate in honoring Elia Kazan along with the other attendees of that year’s events. But today’s crowd of A-listers gets “traumatized”, looks around to see what everyone else is doing and then gives the assaulter a standing ovation.
I’ve got a pretty dark sense of humour. Did Ifind the joke that funny? Not really? Did i know JPS had alopecia? I genuinely didn’t and thought her cropped hair suited her. If Rock or the writers knew she an illness it would have made the joke a lot more distasteful for sure. Does it excuse Smiths assault? Nope. As someone with mental health issues, I don’t wish to diagnose from a distance but that is not the response of someone who is well mentally or thinking rationally. I hope he gets the help he needs.Carrey is right in many respects, the applause he got shortly after hitting someone for a bad joke is cringeworthy at best and shameful at worst.