Jada Pinkett Smith joke he would've told instead at the Oscars - and it didn't centre around her hair. Will Smith, who won Best Actor for his portrayal of Richard Williams in King Richard, walked up on stage and slapped Chris Rock across the face for making a joke about Pinkett Smith's hair.
Smith has since issued a statement apologising for his "out of line" behaviour. And with Gervais, a five-time Golden Globe host, having made some unforgiving digs at fellow stars when he hosted the 2020 awards ceremony, fans were curious to know what he would've done.
In an report from the Mirror, Gervais, who was testing new material at a show in London's Highgate said that he didn't have any "Will Smith material", and wanted to know why his name trended when he didn't attend the awards. Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletter"What has it got to do with me?
People were going, 'What would have happened if Ricky Gervais had been doing it (hosting Oscars)?'" he told the outlet before saying he wouldn't make a joke about Pinkett Smith's hair. "I would have made a joke about her boyfriend," he said.
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