LWC:
Former awards show host Ricky Gervais has chimed in on the 2022 Oscars. To recap, Will Smith’s wife has Alopecia. Chris Rock didn’t know this and made a bald joke. Will Smith laughed, caught a look from his wife, decided it wasn’t funny anymore, and assaulted Chris Rock on stage. Gervais is known for pissing people off. The idea of someone attacking him for it I’m sure gives him pause. While not addressing the incident directly, he did address the joke.
By sharing a clip from “The Office” that makes fun of Alopecia.
I don’t even know the context. While the US version of “The Office” is sacred to us here at the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website, I never got into the UK version. The punchline works on its own. read more
His MC work at some awards BS a couple years ago was fantastic. He slimed EVERYONE including the show itself. I’m so unplugged from all of this shit, I didn’t know he had a TV show.
Jada Pinkett Smith does not have alopecia. She shaves her head. People with alopecia don’t have that constant 5 o’clock shadow on their head. There is no hair growing through their scalp that is visible. Alopecia patients are like chemo patients…completely bald.
I once had a horrible boss whose every hair fell out. Nobody felt sorry for him. His doctor said it was due to stress.
I wouldn’t even catagorize what Chris Rock said as a “joke”, it was more like good-natured teasing among friends. I think the fact that Rock reportedly was one of Jada’s more prominent lovers may have played a part in the whole episode.
And Cheryl ^^^ is correct. Alopecia kills the hair follicle; there is no hair growth or visible stubble.
MM, I have seen the clip you are referring to, it’s on youtube. He didn’t pull any punches, from their over inflated egos to the rampant pedophilia in the industry. The celebs sat quietly in shame because they knew every gd word of was true.
I guess I don’t understand! If she, as an actress, was asked to shave her head in order to play GI Jane she undoubtedly would! The only difference now is she wouldn’t have too!
Cheryl, I absolutely agree and the most notable thing about people with alopecia (at least to me) is that they have no eyebrows or lashes. Now, I know she can draw them on and put false lashes on and I haven’t really seen her face to see if that is true.
I am not sure if it was mentioned here but as Will was approaching Chris, Chris said something “here comes Richard.” I am assuming he was thinking Will was playing off his role of King Richard (Venus and Serena’s Dad).
BTW, before I knew about any of this and I was looking through my computer on Monday morning I saw that whoever does it had put out the list of the worst dressed at the Oscars–Jada was on it!!
Love Gervais and his Idiot Abroad series featuring Karl Pilkington was the best low budget International Travel Show I’ve ever seen
Pfizer sponsors the Oscars and happens to have a drug for alopecia in the works. What a great PR campaign to make awareness for alopecia before rolling out the drug.
Much like a used condom, Will, Jada and their freakazoid kids have worn out their usefulness.
Anyone who marches their developing kids on the world stage touting their “uniqueness”, blabs about her sleeping with a teenaged friend of the fam, can’t be that offended over her nonexistent alopecia.
They must be fuming they didn’t receive the reaction they believed they deserved. I’ve no doubt they’re plotting Act Three of their attention glomming pathetic lives.
Just.
Go.
Away.
Couldn’t care less about some hairless skunk and their lib-lobe ‘open marriage’.