‘SNL’ roasts Will Smith over Oscars slap
nme.comSaturday Night Live took on the Will Smith Oscars slap in a number of sketches across the show.Before winning the Best Actor award for his role in King Richard, Smith took to the stage to slap Chris Rock over a joke the latter made about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head.
In 2018, Pinkett Smith revealed she has alopecia.Host Jerrod Carmichael dissected the incident in his cold open on Saturday Night Live without directly mentioning Smith, Rock or the word “slap”.“I’m not going to talk about it,” Carmichael said. “I want to be clear up top.
I talked about it enough. Kept talking about it. Kept thinking about it. I don’t want to talk about it. And you can’t make me talk about it.”The comedian added that while he initially decided not to talk about it, SNL boss Lorne Michaels asked him to discuss the subject as “the nation needs to heal”.
He then addressed former president Barack Obama, asking for his help to complete this task.“Hey B, what’s going on man? You don’t know me; I’m Jerrod.
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