How late-night hosts reacted to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock: ‘Nobody lifted a finger!’

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most controversial night in Oscars history. The 94th Academy Awards were, of course, marred by Will Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock in the face after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head.

Kimmel, whose show runs on ABC, the same network that carries the Oscars, began by showing the clip of Smith walking up on stage and striking Rock in front of the audience. “It’s now a part of our lives forever.

We will never stop talking about this,” Kimmel said. “Even Kanye [West] was like, ‘You went on stage and did what at an awards show?’”Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West) famously intervened at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards when Taylor Swift won Best Female Video, taking the microphone and shouting, “I’mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!”Kimmel continued: “No one could have predicted the most controversial movie of 2022 would be GI Jane but it was!”Rock had said to Pinkett Smith while presenting the award for Best Documentary: “Jada, I love you.

GI Jane 2, can’t wait to see you. ” Pinkett Smith suffers from alopecia, an autoimmune disorder that causes your hair to come out, and has spoken about it on multiple occasions in the past.