Are Celebs Having A Tone-Deafness Contest? We Can't Believe What Amy Schumer Said About The Oscars
Celebrities might very well be having a competition to see who can be the most tone-deaf following the Slap situation at the Oscars - you know, the one where Will Smith cracked Chris Rock right across the face for a joke about wife Jada Pinkett-Smith's alopecia.
The fallout from this event has been nothing short of insane, but perhaps the most unexpected insanity is the uncanny ability for random celebrities to make it all about them.
We get it for people like Questlove, who was literally directly upstaged by the mega-event that took place right before he recieved the award for Summer of Soul, but when it comes down to people like Billy Bush deciding to speak out, we have to begin to be thankful for celebrites like Daniel Radcliffe who just point-blank refuse to contribute further to the tornado of a discussion.
We can even understand the hosts complaining, to an extent - after all, this was their night. Wanda Sykes said in an early interview that Chris Rock apologized to her first thing after the Slap. But even with that allowance, Amy Schumer has still somehow managed to do something tasteless.
At a gig at the Mirage Theater in Vegas following the event, she said the following about the Slap:
"It was just a f**king bummer. All I can say is that it was really sad, and I think it says so much about toxic masculinity. It was really upsetting, but I think the best way to comfort ourselves would be for me to say the Oscar jokes that I wasn't allowed to say on TV."
(It...it was not.)
"I want to preface these Oscar jokes by saying that my lawyer said not to say these. Don't tell anybody, and don't get mad at me."
"Don't Look Up is the name of a movie? More like don't look down the barrel of Alec Baldwin's shotgun,'
"I wasn't allowed to say any of that, but you can just come up and [slap] someone."
First of all, Amy: No, no it WASN'T okay for Will Smith to come up and do that. That's kind of what literally everything following that moment has been consumed by. The difference is that he acted on an impulse, wheras you planned ahead and had the chance to have someone warn you, 'actually, I think that joke about the death of Halyna Hutchins, a literal person whose family will be watching tonight, would read as insensitive.'
And look! Now you've acted on impulse and said the offensive and insensitive thing anyway!
The lesson here, as we've been learning repeatedly from the beginning: Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Better yet, maybe nobody should throw stones. Or slaps. Or opinions about slaps.
