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| Jada Pinkett Smith |
While Chris Rock more than acknowledged the
lack of diversity in Hollywood while hosting the Oscars this year, he also laid
into those who thought the best response would be to boycott the ceremony.
In particular, he singled out instigators Jada Pinkett Smith and
her husband Will, with these two jokes:
“Jada Pinkett Smith boycottingthe Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties. I wasn't invited.”
"It’s not fair that Will was
this good and didn’t get nominated. It’s also not fair that Will was paid $20
million for Wild Wild West!"
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| Chris Rock |
Attempting to palm off the quips this week,
“It comes with the territory, sweetheart," Pinkett Smith told X17.
"Hey look, it comes with the territory but we gotta keep it
moving. We gotta keep it moving. We gotta keep it moving. There’s a lot of
stuff we gotta handle, a lot of stuff in our world right now. We gotta keep it
moving."
It was a pretty vague response - not dissimilar from the equally
unclear purpose of boycotting the Oscars.
Will Smith previously said he wouldn’t be
attending the ceremony 0ut of
solidarity with his wife, as it would have been pretty "awkward" if
he’d shown up on his own.
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| Rock |
Rock didn't pull any punches during his opening monologue, in
which he also posited a theory as to why the diversity debate was only raging
now.
"We were too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won Best Cinematographer,” he said.“When your grandmother’s swinging from a tree, it’s
really hard to care about Best Documentary Foreign Short.”
He balanced his direct attacks with some
material on how quickly the world is to cry prejudice, however.
"Another big thing tonight is, you’re not allowed to ask
women what they’re wearing anymore," he said."It’s a whole thing,
'Ask her more.' You have to 'ask her more.' It’s like, 'you ask the men
more.'
"Everything is not sexism, everything is not racism. They
ask the men more because the men are wearing
the same outfits. Every guy is wearing the exact same thing.
"If George Clooney showed up with a lime green tux and a
swan coming out of his ass, someone would go, 'Hey, what you wearing
George?'"
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