“I saw the slap. “I liked the slap,” said Trump of Johnson. “I was very impressed by the slap.” Later, presenter Jerrod Carmichael also spoke about the slap in his opening monologue, saying he was not going to talk about it. Although he focused almost his entire monologue on the incident, he never directly mentioned the Oscars, the Academy, Smith or Rock. “I will not discuss it,” he began his monologue. “I have said enough. Keep talking about it. He kept thinking about it. I do not want to discuss it. “You can not make me talk about it.” He went on to ask the audience if they wanted to talk about it, if he was not sick and if they could believe it happened just six days ago. “Six days. That happened a week ago. Isn’t it like it happened years ago?” He added that Monday was exciting, and Tuesday was still exciting, but by Wednesday, “I wanted to kill myself,” he joked. The host also said that although he had no plans to speak for the time being in his monologue, SNL’s Honcho Lorne Michaels specifically asked him to discuss why “the nation needs to heal”. Carmichael went on to say that he would be gay in his new HBO special, Rothaniel. “This is nice, but it’s an expected response in New York,” he said, referring to the applause. “It simply came to our notice then. “If you say you’re gay in New York, you can take the bus for free and people just give you pizza. If you’re gay in New York, you can host Saturday Night Live. “This is the most gay thing you can do.” Jerrod Carmichael’s monologue! pic.twitter.com/lJGzY0R9zo – Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) April 3, 2022 He continued, “Basically we’re like Andy Warhol’s feverish dream right now. “Heal the nation,” brother? There are so many gay things I have to do before I can heal the nation. “I have so many homophobic cousins that I can not even cure my family.” The comedian concluded his opening monologue by asking former President Barack Obama, who “made us all fly in hope and change,” to come back and mention it. “The nation must listen,” he said. In a later sketch in the episode, Carmichael and Chris Redd reproduced the slap. Carmichael went to Redd’s Smith, told him he was a fan, and asked for a selfie. In the background, the voice of Rock’s funny GI Jane is heard about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who has a shaved head and has spoken openly about her fight with alopecia. “I do not want to sound bad, but you’re like my hero, man,” Carmichael told Redd’s Smith. “This is the coolest man in my life. I’m talking to Will Smith. “Chris Rock has just come on stage.” Redd’s Smith told Carmichael he would be back immediately and went up on stage to slap Rock, returning to his seat a little later as if nothing was going to happen. “I like your tuxedo, by the way,” Red told Carmichael. “Look good, feel good,” he continued before turning his attention to the stage and shouting, “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth,” as Smith shouted at Rock at the Oscars on Sunday. The slap shots you did not see pic.twitter.com/7Iiy0ws0a5 – Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) April 3, 2022 During the Weekend Update, Colin Jost and Michael Che spent several minutes of their weekly Smith section slapping Rock, with Jost joking that he set a “precedent for having to defend your wife in shows.” awards “. Che then punched in the acceptance speech of Smith’s best actor, in which he said that “love will make you do crazy things”. “Love will make you do crazy things,” Che said. “Do you know what also makes you do crazy things?” Crazy.” Che continued, “But I understand where Will comes from. I mean, you can not expect him to sit there and watch another man jump his wife – without NDA “. Jost said: “Yesterday, Will Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was not going to do it, but then Janta glanced at him. If Will Smith had been expelled, he would have joined a small group of people expelled from the Academy, including Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski and Harvey Weinstein. Or, as they are also known, bad boys for a lifetime. “ Colin and Che slap pic.twitter.com/TnSk7YOgW2 – Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) April 3, 2022 Che then asked if people could stop pretending they all knew Pinkett Smith had alopecia, joking that from all that has been heard about Pinkett Smith and Smith’s personal lives, not everyone is expected to keep everything . “Selfish, as a comedian,” he added. “I’m tired of people putting their own insecurities in our intentions for jokes. I mean, I can not joke that it’s cold outside without anyone shouting, “Stop making fun of my little penis.” Kenan Thompson joined the Weekend Update as OJ Simpson to give his opinion on how the slap split Hollywood. “In my humble opinion, Will Smith may have overreacted by slapping Chris Rock,” Thompson said. “I mean, Will, I do not mean that you have anger problems, but if the glove fits.” Love will make you do crazy things… pic.twitter.com/pH5eCk99uj – Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) April 3, 2022 The tracks come the day after Smith announced he was resigning from the Academy due to Rock’s slap in the face of the awards show. After the slap, Smith shouted at the comedian from his place in the front row, telling him to keep his wife’s name away from “his fucking mouth.” Towards the end of the award, Smith returned to the Oscars to receive the Best Actor Award for his performance in King Richard. During his speech, Smith apologized emotionally to the Academy and the candidates for his actions. But just Monday, Smith apologized to Rock in an Instagram post. Rock remained largely silent about what happened, telling the audience in his Boston comedy on Wednesday that “what was happening was still being worked out,” but that, at some point, he would talk about it. “And it will be serious and it will be funny.”
