Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis on Will Smith Oscars slap: “I love being offended”
nme.comRed Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis has become the latest star to respond to Will Smith’s viral slap of Chris Rock at last month’s Oscars.Last month, Smith struck the comedian on-stage during the Academy Awards ceremony following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head.
Following numerous apologies over the incident, Smith resigned from the Academy and described his actions as “shocking, painful, and inexcusable”.Asked by Howard Stern what he thought of the incident, Kiedis originally replied that “too much has been said already.”The band’s guitarist John Frusciante then stepped in, saying: “We love Chris Rock and I’ll stand forward and say he should not have been slapped.” Rock inducted the band into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.Kiedis then did give his take though, telling the host: “I love comedy.
I love comedians and I love being offended.“Even though he wasn’t necessarily offensive in that moment … I hope at another moment he will offend me.
Because I think that’s healthy, to be offended, and to be thoughtful. Comedy has a right to exist without too much violence.”Check out the interview below.Other musicians to weigh in on the Smith vs.
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