Jimmy Kimmel is considering retirement once again.
Kimmel hosted The Oscars for the third time in 2023
And he took many brutal swipes that have the internet in a spin.
So much so that he’s been branded a national disgrace by some.
“Thes jokes go way too far!” one viewer commented.
It’s safe to say he threw major shade at Will Smith!
And that wasn’t the only target of Kimmel’s cruel jokes.
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It was one of the craziest Oscars moments in history.
Rock pleaded that it was only a ‘GI Jane joke’, but Smith was having none of it, shouting back after slapping him: “Keep my wife’s name out your f****** mouth.”
Smith was subsequently banned from the Oscars.
In the aftermath of the slap Rock’s mom has hit back on the ban, saying that her son is doing well but still ‘processing’ the incident.
“I told someone, when Will slapped Chris, he slapped all of us, but he really slapped me. When you hurt my child, you hurt me,” Rose Rock told WIS.
When she was asked what she would say to Smith, she said: “I have no idea what I would say other than, ‘What in the world were you thinking?’ Because you did a slap, but so many things could have happened. Chris could have stepped back and fallen. You really could have gotten taken out in handcuffs. You didn’t think. You reacted to your wife giving you the side-eye, and you went up, and you made her day because she was bowled over laughing when it happened.”
However, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Rock spoke out about the incident…
Will Smith has eternally been slammed by others in the hip hop industry, and Rock only added to the fire with his apparent comment to Dave Chapelle.
Chapelle said to Rock: “At least you got smacked by someone of repute! I got smacked by a homeless guy with leaves in his hair.”
That’s when Rock replied with:
“I got smacked by the softest n**** that ever rapped.”
After Smith gave Rock a smack across the cheeks, Smith was subsequently banned from the Oscars for ten years.
And Rock has revealed that he won’t be returning to his hosting duties.
A video posted on Instagram by Smith addressed a series of questions about ‘slap gate’ on social media which had been left unanswered…
Smith was asked why he did not apologize to Rock in his acceptance speech, but it seemed like Smith was still in shock himself after his own actions.
“I was fogged out by that point. It’s all fuzzy. I have reached out to Chris, and the message that came back is that he is not ready to talk and when he is, he will reach out.
“So I will say to you, Chris, I apologize to you. My behavior was unacceptable, and I am here whenever you are ready to talk,” he said.
Rock wasn’t the only person Smith apologized to.
In the video, he mentioned his mother, father, and brother and apologized to them too, who witnessed the slap.
“I spent the last three months replaying and understanding the nuances and complexities of what happened in that moment.
“And I’m not going to try and unpack all of that right now, but I can say to all of you that there is no part of me that thinks that was the right way to behave in that moment,” he added.
“There is no part of me that thinks that’s the optimal way to handle feelings of disrespect or insults,” Smith said.
Many people speculated that his wife, Jada Smith, had some part in this.
However, Smith denied any claims that his wife had anything to do with him getting up on stage and slapping Rock.
“No, I made a choice on my own, from my own experience and my history with Chris.
“No, I made a choice on my own, from my own experience and my history with Chris. Jada had nothing to do with it,” he confessed.
After apologizing to Rock and his family, he took the time to apologize to his wife…
“I’m sorry babe, and I want to say sorry to my kids and my family for the heat that I brought on all of us,” he said.
Rock opened up about why he decided not to host The Oscars again next year…
During a show in Phoneix, Arizona, on August 28, the comedian said he was offered to host the show once again.
However, he turned down the offer.
Rock gave an analogy to explain why he would never go back to host the Oscars anymore.
He referenced the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, according to Arizona Republic, telling the crowd at Arizona Financial Theatre that going back to the Oscars would be like asking Nicole Brown Simpson “to go back to the restaurant” where she left her glasses before being killed.