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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Interviews Entertainment Journalist Roger Friedman

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3696 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Roger talk about the Will Smith / Chris Rock slap during the Oscar's. Roger thought the show overall was pretty good. Rogers says big stars like Tom Cruise and Will Smith have been so spoiled they think they can get away with that type of behavior.

Transcript

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Hey, there's an excellent website.

0:03.2

Showbiz 411.com.

0:05.3

Great entertainment news and coverage.

0:06.9

Showbiz 411.com.

0:08.8

There's new stuff every day, the top entertainment reporters in America.

0:12.8

Roger Friedman runs it.

0:14.0

Roger Friedman, how you doing?

0:16.2

You know, it's been quite a week between Bruce Willis and Willis and Will Smith and everything

0:20.1

else that's going on in

0:21.1

entertainment we've been busy well now you're the perfect guy to ask about this people think the

0:27.2

Oscars it didn't age well it's outdated it doesn't work in 2022 and then there's other people think

0:32.3

they're trying too hard to modernize it make it more cutting it and that's what's screwing it what

0:37.4

should they do to fix

0:38.4

the Oscars? Well, you know, I enjoyed, I was there on Sunday. Oh, you were there in the audience.

0:46.3

I was right there. And I was in the press room when Will Smith's thing happened. And I can tell you,

0:52.7

it was pandemonium. And the traffic on my website knocked it off.

0:56.7

It was so fast, the spike went up so fast that it knocked me off my server for about 20

1:01.4

minutes.

1:03.4

And everyone thought it was a joke, you know, at the beginning.

1:06.5

And then we realized it was real.

1:08.5

But the show was good.

1:10.4

You know, I have to give them credit.

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