Jimmy Kimmel will discuss Will Smith and Chris Rock slap at Oscars 2023: 'It's got to come up'

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Jimmy Kimmel will reprise his role as the Oscars host at the 2023 ceremony, and the comedian is letting it be known that the subject of Will Smith is certain to come up.The late night talk show host, 55, shared that the slapping incident between the King Richard actor, 54, and Chris Rock, 57, has to be discussed at some point, but that he doesn't want to 'make light' of it. 'It’s got to come up in some way,' Kimmel told Extra after he was announced as the emcee of the 95th annual Academy Awards.

Interesting: Jimmy Kimmel will reprise his role as the Oscars host at the 2023 ceremony, and the comedian is letting it be known that the subject of Will Smith is certain to come upDuring the 2022 Academy Awards, Smith bolted onstage and slapped Rock in the face, following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith's, 50, shaved head, yelling 'Keep my wife’s name out your f*****g mouth!'  Kimmel said of the incident: 'You know, I don’t want to really make light of it necessarily, because it wasn’t [light] to comedians.

You know, comedians are mad about it.' 'It’s like, it’s one of those things that for a group of people that find everything funny, it’s, like, not funny, you know?' the comedian went on. 'It’s got to come up in some way': Kimmel, 55, shared that the slapping incident between Smith, 54, and Chris Rock, 57, has to be discussed, but that he doesn't want to 'make light' of it Kimmel previously discussed the now infamous moment during a segment on his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, in March, calling it 'so shocking.' 'It’s now a part of our life forever, we will never stop talking about this.

It was so shocking. The only thing I can really compare it to is when Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ears.'He added that the.