Category: Chris Rock

Ticket Sales for Chris Rock’s Stand-Up Show Surge After Will Smith Oscars Slap

Ticket sales for Chris Rock’s stand-up comedy tour have surged in the past two days after actor Will Smith smacked the presenter across the face during a live broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards ceremony, also referred to as the Oscars, on March 27. StubHub, an American ticket exchange and resale company, told The Hollywood Reporter that in each of the…


Screen Actors Guild Vows to Take Action Against Will Smith After Oscars Incident

The Screen Actors Guild suggested it would take action against Will Smith after he appeared to slap Chris Rock during Sunday night’s Academy Awards broadcast. Smith, who won Best Actor for “King Richard,” slapped Rock just minutes before after Rock made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. “As the union representing presenters and…


The Oscars: Weirdest Night in TV (Brought to You by Pfizer!)

The 2022 Oscars was a rare moment of brief inspiration by the deaf community that got overshadowed by Will Smith’s “punch seen round the world” on Chris Rock. Furthermore, Hollyweird puts its hypocrisy into full overdrive, showing a microcosm of the culture war in America. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, ​Parler, Gab, and Twitter Follow EpochTV on…


Jada Pinkett Smith Breaks Silence After Will Smith Slapping Incident

Jada Pinkett Smith broke her silence on Tuesday after her husband Will Smith appeared to slap Chris Rock during Sunday’s Academy Awards broadcast. “This is a season for healing and I’m here for it,” Pinkett Smith wrote on Instagram, without elaborating. Her husband on Monday issued an apology to Rock after he slapped the comedian…


Will Smith’s Oscars Slap Normalized by Audience, Will Have Consequences: NAACP President

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences condemned actor Will Smith the day after the actor slapped presenter Chris Rock onstage. The organization held an emergency meeting on March 28, saying they would start a formal review of the incident. “The Academy condemns the actions of Mr. Smith at last night’s show. We have…


Academy Condemns Will Smith’s Oscars Slap

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences condemned actor Will Smith the day after the actor slapped presenter Chris Rock onstage. The organization held an emergency meeting on March 28, saying they would start a formal review of the incident. “The Academy condemns the actions of Mr. Smith at last night’s show. We have…


Will Smith Apologizes to Chris Rock After Slapping Him at Oscars

Actor Will Smith has issued an apology to comedian Chris Rock after slapping him at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony, also referred to as the Oscars. In a statement posted on Instagram on March 28, Smith wrote: “Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive. My behavior at last night’s Academy Awards was…


2022 Oscars See Second-Lowest Ratings in History Despite Will Smith Incident

Sunday night’s 94th Academy Awards drew higher numbers of viewers than last year’s Oscars, but it still drew the second-lowest ratings in its history. The 2022 Oscars, which was aired on Disney-owned ABC, is estimated to have drawn 15.4 million viewers and had a rating of 2.9 among adults 18 to 49, according to Deadline…


Academy ‘Condemns’ Will Smith, Starts ‘Formal Review’ of Slapping Incident

The group that oversees the Academy Awards on Monday said it will carry out a “formal review” after actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock during Sunday night’s awards ceremony. “The Academy condemns the actions of Mr. Smith at last night’s show,” said the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a statement. “We…


Why This Academy Member Doesn’t Watch the Oscars and Missed Will Smith

Commentary Although a member of the Writers’ Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1983, I haven’t been watching the Oscars much in the past few years, so I missed the supposedly “grand event” of this year’s ceremony—Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, who told an insulting joke about Smith’s wife Jada….