Is it okay to joke about punching Westbrook in the face on a Blazers message board. Yes. Any other well-thought out questions?
Hopefully you'll stick up for people being bullied for their medical conditions, race or disabilities. Instead of qualifying things as jokes.
The joke was pretty lame, and Will Smith certainly overreacted. But Damn, this wasn’t some sinister joke nor something that should harm smiths reputation and career. The Joke: it’s a comedians job to roast during times like this. It might be crude, but it wasn’t malicious. I remember an uncle telling me about a Fryers Roast in NY back in the 90’s. I can’t remember the names of the people involved but there was an old Jewish comedian in the audience who had been a holocaust surviver. The host went to roast comedian and said he should take cues from the guy he was sitting next to and get better tattoos (Jews were tattooed in concentration camps). The comedian laughed and responded “that’s just your wife’s phone number”. Anyways, everyone isn’t going to role with the punches like that, but the joke didn’t cross some heinous line. Chris Rock became famous for speaking outrageously on prety sensitive issues. On the other hand, I can totally identify with being over protective and hurt about how my wife or kids were spoken to. Will was wrong to get violent but I’ve done stuff in than flash of protective anger. Point being - this isn’t some catastrophic incident. There isn’t a devil and there isn’t an angel.
My literal thinking tells me, of course, he's a comedian. His job is to tell jokes. So you'd have to explain what you mean here.
I mean any time he gets stressed out or is in stressful situations he deals with it via humor. All comedians don't have the same personality. They don't all deal with stress that way.
Why? Not asking anymore, just wondering why the runaround. But, now I simply have no interest in caring anymore since you can't just simply... get to the point. Don't bother, we are clearly done here.
Did not think this issue was going to be this controversial? Bad joke yes. Should have been handled better absolutely. Cris Rock deserves a public apology (Check). The Academy needs to due an investigation and deal with this quickly and i would assume Firmly. Will Smith probably should get some sort of anger management class and at the very least should be held accountable. Who will be the next person to decide a joke was over the line? What a mess!
All I know is if The Rock had made that joke instead of Chris Rock, that slap never happens. Will Smith is a bully type. Also, what if Amy Schumer had made that joke? Well, it was a funny joke, so I guess Amy Schumer would not have made that joke, but you get my point
