Chris Rock's Comment About Jada Pinkett Smith, Which Prompted Will Smith To Smack Him, Was Ad-Libbed at Oscars 2022

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Chris Rock went off script. In a new report, it was revealed that the -year-old comedian ad-libbed his comment about Jada Pinkett Smith at the 2022 Academy Awards on Sunday (March 27), which caused Will Smith to hit him. Click inside to read more… In an interview with Variety, ABC’s Rob Mills opened up about the situation that went down inside the Dolby Theatre. “Chris Rock came on and he was doing, I think, material based on what happened that night as any comedian will do,” he explained. “He made the [‘G.I.

Jane’] joke. Obviously, you could see the joke did not land with Jada. And then you see Will start to get up and walk up.” Rob added that the joke was not part of the official script of The Oscars, either. “You started to realize this is real once Chris, who certainly knows the limits of broadcast standards, said, ‘Will Smith slapped the shit out of me,’” he added. “That’s when it became obvious that this was not a joke.” Rob also opened up about what went down in the control room as the incident happened. “There have certainly been unpredictable moments where people have gotten up and done things, so we thought this was one of those,” he said.

The decision was then made to keep the show going on. “We had heard that Denzel Washington and Tyler Perry had gone over to Will to kind of see what was going on and offer some counsel,” he said. “But you have to remember that you’re putting a live show on.

Had this been something that was being pre-taped, we would have stopped down. Things would have been addressed. We would have seen what to do next.