Podcaster Joe Rogan blasted actor Will Smith for being so far removed from “regular discourse” that he “acted like he’s a character in a movie.”
During his Joe Rogan Experience podcast Tuesday, Rogan discussed Smith’s slap to the face of comedian Chris Rock while he was presenting the nominees for best documentary during the Oscars Sunday night.
Rock took aim at Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, for sporting a bald head caused by alopecia, a condition that causes hair loss. Smith did not approve and walked to the stage to slap Rock.
“Listen, Chris Rock’s doing his f***ing job,” Rogan said. “You don’t go and sit in the front row — you’re a star at the Oscars. There’s a professional comedian whose job is to roast people. And what he [Rock] did is not even insult him.”
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“It was like he was getting away with it like he was living in a fictional movie,” Rogan said. “Like the idea that you think it’s smart while wearing a tuxedo, to walk onto a stage in front of the world … and smack a comedian for the most mild joke and then sit there quivering saying, ‘Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth.'”
MMA fighter Josh Barnett joined Rogan on the episode and said Smith should have been asked to leave the show.
“You can’t just go smack a man in the face in front of the world then go about business as usual,” Rogan said. “It sets a terrible precedent in so many different ways.”
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He suggested that Smith’s behavior stemmed from “the culmination of a long period of like emotional distress,” pointing to the couple’s public marital troubles and a “certain defensiveness that comes with that.”
