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Bill Maher Says Jada Pinkett Should “Just Put On A F***ing Wig” At The Oscars
It’s said the moment really “showed broken morals.”
Bill Maher and his panelists, Andrew Yang [a former presidential and NYC mayoral candidate] and attorney Laura Coates on the HBO Real-Time Show have dived into the Oscars controversy, which saw Will Smith smacking Chris Rock over a hair joke.
In Maher’s opinion, Jada Pinkett Smith should thank God that alopecia is her biggest medical concern.
The host also argued that Smith’s sensitivity over his wife’s hair loss was utterly misplaced.
Pinkett Smith suffers from alopecia, a hair loss autoimmune disorder distinct from androgenic alopecia, the pattern of baldness that often accompanies aging in many men and some women. So as Oscars presenter Chris Rock made a joke about Jada’s shaved head at Sunday’s ceremony, saying that she could star in GI Jane 2, her husband Smith stormed the stage and slapped the comedian.
“If you are so lucky in life to have that be your medical problem, just say ‘thank God. I mean, alopecia, it’s not leukemia, Ok? Alopecia is when your hair falls out, there are worse things,” Maher told his panelists.
The 66-Year-Old added: “It’s not life threatening. It’s part of – for most people, 80 percent of men, 50 percent of women – it’s part of aging. Aging is, trust me I know, it’s the degradation of the flesh. It happens to all of us. You know, just put on a f****ing wig like everybody else at the Oscars if it bothers you so much.”
Coates dived in and claimed she couldn’t believe Smith received a standing ovation when he won the Best Actor Award just minutes after the infamous slap.
“I thought, ‘Why is he even there to get the award?” Coates, a CNN legal analyst, questioned, to which Yang responded: “Part of it was he’s Will Smith. Anyone else would have been ushered out.” Of the celebrities who applauded Smith, Maher said they’re always talking about micro-aggressions, but suddenly, they were OK with what happened.
The host then stated: “Thank you all for coming and putting on a brave face,” adding that everyone was still processing the events of the Oscars.
He continued: “To Will Smith: stay strong and I got your back.” Maher paused and added: “April Fools. You’re a d**k. Look I’m not here to humiliate Will Smith. He gets enough of that at home. Every single person in America was talking about the sucker punch heard round the world so that whole “keep my wife’s name out of your mouth” didn’t really work out.”
“And the Oscars, wow – There was more action in three seconds than in three hours of The Power of the Dog,” referring to the lengthy Benedict Cumberbatch Western. “Who would have thought the moving out of the Oscars with all the buzz was GI Jane.” However, over the weekend, Smith gave a shocking announcement that he was resigning from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in the wake of his on-stage assault on Rock.
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