Kimmel Says Will Smith’s Chris Rock Slap Means ‘I’ve Only Now Hosted the Second-Craziest Oscars’ (Video)

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  “Wow indeed. The old Hitch slap. It’s now a part of our lives forever. We will never stop talking about this,” Kimmel continued. “It was so shocking.

The only thing I can really compare it to is when Mike Tyson bit Holyfield’s ears. Even Kanye was like, ‘you went onstage and did what at an award show?”Kimmel noted that Smith at first appeared to laugh at the joke Rock told at the expense of Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. “But then he must have noticed that Jada was not amused.

And he was like ‘Ugh oh– I’d better do something.’ And boy did he do something. I mean. In one stunning moment, the night went from #OscarsSoWhat to #OscarsSoWHAAAAAAT?!”Kimmel said the situation “was the Hollywood version of your drunk Uncle starting a fight, ruining the wedding, and then standing up and giving a long toast to the bride and groom,” and noted he didn’t think it was real at first. “I was watching like, most people, and I said to my wife ‘they did a really good job with that punch it looked so real.’ And she’s like, ‘yeah, they did.’ And about three seconds later, we realized it was because it was real.

Which is a shame because we had already written about a page and a half of cleavage jokes. And those jokes won’t be used,” Kimmel joked.Kimmel praised Chris Rock for how he handled the moment. “He didn’t even flinch when Will Smith slapped him.