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The Town with Matthew Belloni

Live From Inside the Oscars: The Will Smith-Chris Rock Slap

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Live from inside the Dolby Theater at the Academy Awards, Matt and The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg react to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock in the face onstage during the show. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Scott Feinberg Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme song: Devon Ronaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, so that happened.

0:03.0

I am standing outside the Governor's Ball at the 94th Academy Awards,

0:08.2

and we were all prepared to talk about Cota winning Best Picture

0:12.3

and everything that was going to go on at the Oscars that night.

0:15.9

Then Will Smith decided to drop a bomb on the entire thing.

0:19.2

So this is a special emergency podcast.

0:21.8

I've got Scott Feinberg of The Hollard Reporter.

0:23.5

He and I have been to many Oscars together over the years,

0:26.4

and he had a slightly better seat than I did for the infamous slap heard around the world.

0:32.0

We're going to talk about it all.

0:33.5

I'm Matt Bellany, and this is the town.

0:39.2

Okay, Scott Feinberg and I are here and I guess we should start with three words.

0:43.7

What the fuck?

0:46.0

Yeah, I mean, it definitely was not something that I can recall happening in previous Oscar.

0:51.9

No.

0:52.7

All right, so you and I were both in the room.

0:54.3

You had a slightly better seat than I did.

0:56.2

And for everyone who has not seen the clip from Japanese television or wherever it came

1:00.5

from that has been circulating everywhere.

1:02.7

So Will Smith was sitting with his wife, J.

1:05.7

to Pinkett Smith, and Chris Rock came out to do a little bit before awarding Best Documentary.

1:10.5

He started talking about various films. And then he made a joke about G.I. Jane 2 and Jada Pinkett's hair.

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