Chris Rock’s joke that hosting next year’s Oscars again after being slapped by Will Smith would be like Nicole Brown Simpson going back to the restaurant where she ate before being brutally murdered didn’t sit well on social media.
The comedian, who was explaining why he turned down the offer to host the 2023 Oscars on a Sunday in Phoenix, Arizona, was criticized on Twitter Monday for the crude joke.
“Chris Rock spends way too much time beating up women. It’s not the first time he’s said nasty things about Jada Pinkett Smith, and it’s not the first time he’s made mean comments about Nicole Brown Simpson. (a murdered woman) I’m done with this position. Srsly,” he tweeted. cute coats.
Kaz Waida wrote“If you are surprised by this misogyny, welcome to the world that Chris Rock has been living in all this time. Here he is in 1996 doing a set where he sympathizes with OJ and argues that Nicole Brown Simpson deserved it.” She shared a clip of her Special “Bring the Pain”, where he says (around three minutes in), “I’m not saying I should have killed her. But I understand.”
Several people suggested that Will Smith “didn’t slap him hard enough,” with a person asks that the Academy suspend the comedian, as was Smith. “Can the academy suspend Chris Rock for his Nicole Brown Simpson comment? … I think I better understand where Will Smith was coming from.”
As we all know, at the ceremony in March, Smith objected to Rock’s dig at his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s lack of hair, which is due to alopecia and not a desire to look like Demi Moore on “GI Jane.” .
A Twitter user named Jen he argued that, with the reference to Nicole Brown Simpson, Rock had lost the sympathy he had gained by being the recipient of violence. “The same people who were legitimately provoked by Chris’s slap are also provoked by the Nicole Brown Simpson jokes. I hope the domestic abuse survivor and victims are doing well tonight.”
Others argued that Rock was “still very funny” and it is your right to make any joke you like.
Someone else said he didn’t know why someone was offended, tweeting, “How does this make sense? Nicole Brown Simpson was alive and presumably enjoying herself at the restaurant. They didn’t kill her there.
