Rob Schneider remains to be upset about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on the 2022 Oscars.
“Will Smith is a twat,” the conservative actor and comic stated on the “Kyle & Jackie O” morning present in Sydney.
“Will Smith has been hiding the fact of who he really is and it was exposed that night — that he’s really an asshole,” the actor continued.
Schneider argued the slap, which Smith doled out onstage after Rock made an alopecia joke about his spouse, was unacceptable, and doubled down when Jackie O stated Smith was very nice when she met him prior to now.
He claimed he hadn’t been in a position to say something concerning the slap on the time as a result of he was on the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences committee tasked with punishing Smith. Smith was in the end banned from the Oscars for 10 years.
“Will is a douchebag,” he stated. “The thing is, that’s how politically correct that Academy is, that they were so cowardly — because if I would’ve done that, they would’ve been hauled out to prison. They were so worried about being racist, they were like, ‘We can’t be.’”
“It’s violence, is what it is,” he went on. “The color of your skin, or your religion, doesn’t matter — if you commit a crime in front of other people, you get hauled out of there.”
Schneider and Rock co-starred within the Adam Sandler comedy, “Grown Ups,” and overlapped as “SNL” forged members for 3 seasons within the early Nineteen Nineties.
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The Oscars slap turned a cultural touchpoint and birthed wide-ranging conversations about Smith and his marriage, pent-up feelings in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the way even well-liked celebrities like Smith can see their personas collapse in moments of stress.
Rock used that second as an integral a part of his newest standup particular following Smith’s public apology. A minimum of some onlookers on social media have clearly gotten their fill of the discourse, nevertheless, they usually eviscerated Schneider for becoming a member of it.
“Rob Schneider is the a**hole,” wrote one person on X, previously Twitter. “He’s basing Will being a ‘douche’ simply on the Oscars situation? Get a grip old man. Oh and you would never be on an Oscar stage period, so don’t worry about being hauled out or not.”
