John Oliver is holding nothing back as he takes on Dr. Oz.
04.04.2022 - 07:29 / deadline.com
Since the Oscars last week, the slap heard ’round the world has generated both an immense amount of media reaction and an unprecedented division of public opinion. Even today it seems impossible to avoid a conversation involving Will Smith or another hot take on the internet.
Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver acknowledged there is indeed one person’s perspective the world can live without hearing.
Enter: A sunglass-donning O.J. Simpson dishing his viewpoint into a selfie camera.
“It was unfortunate. I think Will [Smith] was wrong. Look, I understood the feeling,” the widower to Nicole Brown Simpson and ex-convict announced.
The irony was not lost on Oliver. The exuberant, Emmy Award-winning host wasted no time summarizing how viewers might feel about O.J’s thoughts.
“Nope. Not you O.J.,” Oliver said, shaking his hand. “No one wants to hear from you on this.”
“Especially, when you seem to be coming live from the Covid patio of a Señor Frog’s. You can just sit this one out,” Oliver added.
The British American comedian then compared O.J.’s often-controversial hot takes to disorderly women ordering at brunch.
“Think of this situation like a rowdy bachelorette ordering a mimosa. We want as little juice involved here as humanly possible,” Oliver said.
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John Oliver is holding nothing back as he takes on Dr. Oz.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis has become the latest star to respond to Will Smith’s viral slap of Chris Rock at last month’s Oscars.Last month, Smith struck the comedian on-stage during the Academy Awards ceremony following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Following numerous apologies over the incident, Smith resigned from the Academy and described his actions as “shocking, painful, and inexcusable”.Asked by Howard Stern what he thought of the incident, Kiedis originally replied that “too much has been said already.”The band’s guitarist John Frusciante then stepped in, saying: “We love Chris Rock and I’ll stand forward and say he should not have been slapped.” Rock inducted the band into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.Kiedis then did give his take though, telling the host: “I love comedy.
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Not here for it. John Oliver heard O.J. Simpson‘s opinion about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars — and the late-night talk show host quickly shut the commentary down.
Zack Sharf John Oliver took a moment during the April 3 episode of his HBO talk show “Last Week Tonight” to shut down O.J. Simpson, who posted to social media earlier in the week a defense of Will Smith following the Oscars. Smith slapped presenter Chris Rock during the ceremony after the comedian made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head.
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Daniel Radcliffe has had enough! The British actor is currently promoting his recent movie ‘The Lost City’ and during his latest appearance on Good Morning Britain he was asked about his thoughts on the controversial altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars.“I’m just so already dramatically bored of hearing people’s opinions about that,” the 32-year-old star responded, explaining that he has had enough, “I just don’t want to be another opinion adding to it.”Radcliffe, who recently opened up about his transformation portraying Weird Al Yankovic in his upcoming biopic, says he recalls how it feels to have a joke made at his expense, as he has attended many award ceremonies from the start of his successful career.“When you’re going on stuff as a kid you’re never quite sure if the joke’s with you or you’re the butt of the joke,” he shared, explaining how he dealt with those uncomfortable moments, “you sort of have a mode of just being like, ‘I’ll just keep smiling and laughing and maybe it’ll end soon.‘”And about his experience working with Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock on the set of ‘The Lost City’ in the Dominican Republic, Daniel said he was “very sweaty and it was a job to keep me from looking just drenched the whole time,“ however he “had actually a much easier time of it compared to Channing and Sandra and the crew.