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Will Smith Smacks the Taste Out of Chris Rock’s Mouth For Making a Joke About Jada’s Appearance.

Carmellita
4 min readMar 28, 2022

Will warned Chris Rock “Keep My Wife’s Name Out of Your F***ing Mouth.” But this isn’t the first time Chris Rock has dissed Jada Pinkett-Smith.

HOLLYWOOD, CA — March 27, 2022. Chris Rock and Will Smith were onstage during the show at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

“At your highest moment, be careful. That’s when the devil comes for you.” — Denzel Washington to Will Smith

A comedian tells jokes. Nowadays, at the Oscars roasting actors, directors, and filmmakers has become the thing to do. As Will Smith states in his acceptance speech for best actor during the Oscars 2022,

“I know to do what we do, you gotta be able to take abuse and have people talk people about you. In this business, you gotta have people disrespecting you. And you gotta smile and pretend that’s ok.”

But in this case, had comedian Chris Rock crossed the line?

Some comedians call this style of “roasting your audience” low-hanging fruit.

I remember around the time of the movie “The Nutty Professor,” Eddie Murphy says he never used the tactic of making fun or cracking jokes on his audience as a comedian. He…

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Carmellita
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Writer, Poet, Storyteller, & Scholar. BA in Speech Communication. Joyful Creator. Blogger with an old-school flavor. A former ghostwriter who came back to life.

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