The Woll Smoth punchin thread

We need to do "I got into one little fight and my mum got scared" joke first

No. A shaved head is a choice.

She has a disease that makes her hair fall out.

If her head was bald due to chemo would you also have the same reaction?

For me the amazing thing is everyone talking about how will Smith is some Saint and Americas dad etc.

I must be out of the loop, I haven't seen him in anything good in years and mostly know him as that guy who kept trying to make his son into an action star by bankrolling shirty vehicles for him.

I think generally now the dust has settled no one thinks it was justifiable. I think it was just weird (or at least out of the ordinary) seeing a high profile person fail to deal with his emotions in a very public way in real time, in that you don't see it every day.

I remember when Jerry Sadowitz got knocked out on stage in about 30 seconds flat in Montreal after saying ""Hello moosefuckers! I tell you why I hate Canada, half of you speak French, and the other half let them. Why don't you speak Indian? You might as well speak the language of the people you stole the country off of in the first place." Compared to that neither Chris Rock or Will Smith were really trying.

I think the whole incident can be distilled down to: They were both in the wrong and they are both cunts.

Comedians say things to shock the audience and create a reaction every single day (this was just a shit attempt at it from Rock). Deserving of an audience member to come up and assault him or any comedian doing the same thing? No - fuck that. If we are doing cunt level, then Will Smith cuntness is off the charts compared to a poor attempt at shock humour from Chris Rock.

Whoever wins, we lose.

Remember when Russell Crowe went backstage and bollocked the producer for playing him off during his speech? That was pretty cunty too.

It's a very English thing, but there's something to be said about seething about something and shitposting about it later. Or just do like Paddington Bear and give someone a good hard stare when someone forgets their manners.

While it may be that Rock had that in mind, I don't think Smith made the connection in that short amount of time. He laughed at the joke, saw that his wife was deeply hurt by it, and then acted on that.

He was asked back for the sequel, Idris Elba was going to take over the character but the door was left open for Smith to come back. Did you not notice that Elba's character was pretty much the same as Smith's?

Its absurd.

Even if he came on and said "Damn bitch, that alopecia is fucked up." It's doesn't justify being physically assaulted.

The argument that provocation validates assault is the kind of dumb shit that you hear from domestic abusers.

Trying to justify the "Chat shit get banged" school of thought with being an ally of Alopecia Association of America is pretty shaky ground.

I'm not sure if anyone has actually made that argument. People have suggested - separately - that they understand defending the honour of a partner and that the joke may have been in pretty poor taste, but I haven't seen anyone using a combination of these to justify violence.

You can put your torch away.

He’d have had a lot more impact by just calmly insisting he apologised immediately in front of everyone