I am starting to think the Will Smith Chris Rock thing was fake the reasons are

You seem pretty desperate for it to be real when, this is hollywood, the likelihood is that it is fake

Especially since they have a long history of being friends

Since no one was hurt, and it looked very choreographed

Will Smith's reputation gets a boost as being a tough guy considering he's an action movie star

Chris Rock's reputation gets a boost as being an outrageous comedian who can mix it up with a Hollywood tough guy

This will only help their careers it's just more drama for people to soak up

Yeah I don't get why you think this is 100% real when if it was real there would be criminal charges

Just out of curiosity do you believe in other conspiracies like JFK, the Moon landing, 9/11

What's your take on those issues?

You do realize these are professional actors right, and they also have a long friendship

And Will Smith wasn't even asked to leave the event after hitting someone

It seems a little unbelievable that he can hit someone with zero consequences

It just seems hella weird that Chris Rock would step forward like he did with his hands behind his back... And then lean his face forward with a big grin on it... And then for there to be literally no consequences... No having to leave the event... No criminal charges... No having to give back his Oscar... So he can just commit a clear crime and have zero consequences

And meanwhile, immediately afterwards, Chris Rock totally makes light of the situation doesn't say hey man you need to leave...

I mean the guy just got smacked in the face and yet he seemingly becomes Jesus and has no need for any sort of consequences for the guy that just hit him

I mean try going up to a comedian at a club that says something you don't like and slapping them and see the reaction...

Chris Rock probably leaned forward, with a big grin, because he was hoping for Smith to merely get up in his face, maybe just whisper some threats in his ear or something.

"then for there to be literally no consequences... No having to leave
the event... No criminal charges... No having to give back his Oscar...
So he can just commit a clear crime and have zero consequences"

Rule of law has been dead in the USA a long time, if you hadn't noticed Democrats being allowed to shutdown roads, pull random people out of their cars, and murder them in broad daylight, etc, etc, etc, and walk.

The funny thing is why are you so certain they couldn't stage this

I mean the exact same bit with stage before and it actually helped both guys careers

It's just kind of funny that you think there's no way they can do it as part of a script to boost ratings

But you're 100% sure he could do it for real

That makes no sense!

And I'm pretty sure you're the guy who was going on and on about aliens being real so, your credibility is not strong

Anyway it's just kind of funny that you're 100% certain it couldn't be scripted when as of now there have been zero consequences

Why would Chris Rock immediately be all light-hearted about it if you really got hit in the face

And if you slow mow it he literally got hit with Will Smith's fingers... And he was leaning back already

It's just so obvious that there is a strong chance it was scripted... And it's also pretty clear that you tend to believe the most extreme version of things

Again they're both Hollywood actors in a setting which is ripe for publicity stunts

Hollywood had to do something to get the Oscars a front page headline, their actors of course it was staged, duh...

The weird thing is why would you believe in all these conspiracies, like aliens, 9/11, JFK

And then believe that something like this has to be real and couldn't be orchestrated

I mean how hard is it for Will Smith and Chris Rock who are already friends to say hey let's do something interesting and exciting to get some ratings and attention

I mean the Oscars are boring, their movies are boring, at least this was interesting.

If they would have planned it in advance, they would have had enough rational moments to call it off. It's a horrible look, way worse than Chris's joke.

You are a moron.

pretzel man is right again.

You are nuts. You probably think OJ Simpson was innocent too.

I love when people say, "he's got enough money already....."

Who are you to say how much money is enough? Should we go to straight communism and distribute it to everyone? If you can make it, make it.....no judgement.

+1,000,000

He is the only one here with so much anger and outright rage that he has to include insults and name-callling with every one of his posts

Spoken like the pathetic little man you are

Is there anything that happens anymore that doesn't have a conspiracy theory twist? The main reason that this is obviously not fake is that the slap seriously damages Will Smith's career and legacy. Up until now, he was America's hero... most people loved him and thought that he was a good person. Not anymore. At best people now think that he has an ego and anger management problem. At worst, people don't want to see him anymore. This is kind of like saying that Bill Cosby staged his crimes, or Matt Lauer staged an assault accusation to get more attention. Not all publicity is good publicity.

I'll add to these great points with a couple more...

If you had just made a joke about a man's wife and he gets up and slowly walks towards you with bad intentions, who would stand still in that moment? You are either going to change your stance preparing for a fight or realize you are in trouble, take some sort of defensive stance, or (he is mic'ed up) say something like, "settle down Will, you know that was just a joke"!

Second, I am sure the Oscars has security EVERYWHERE. You mean to tell me that if this is real security isn't meeting Will before he makes it on stage and walks him out of the room to calm down!!! I just can't buy that.