Trevor Noah Takes A Shot At Will Smith & Questlove Addresses The Slap During Grammys
04.04.2022 - 18:31
/ perezhilton.com
Time to address the elephant in the room!
Considering the Grammys happened just one week after the Oscars, it was impossible that the immediately infamous altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock wouldn’t come up. After all, Hollywood spent the entire week discussing, dissecting, and criticizing The Slap. The subject simply couldn’t be avoided at another awards show.
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So how did host Trevor Noah tackle the issue? Well, all things considered, he took a light touch. Introducing some of the big stars set to perform, he said:
Pretty subtle, and not bad advice either… since Chris joking at Jada Pinkett Smith’s expense is what caused The Slap in the first place.
Honestly, Trevor could have done a lot more Slap material, but it was probably a classier route to make one light joke about it and move on. There was only one other reference to the drama during the broadcast, this time from Questlove. (The Slap happened immediately before The Roots member won his Oscar, so he definitely earned the right to bring it up.) The musician joked:
LOLz!
Seriously though, with all the harsh takes about Will out there over the past week, these jokes weren’t so bad at all. We’re surprised the situation didn’t get more airtime — but perhaps, as Jerrod Carmichael said on Saturday Night Live, people are getting sick of talking about it.
There was one other major dig at The Fresh Prince during the Grammys, but it happened before the broadcast began. Queuing up the Best Comedy Album award, Reading Rainbow star LeVar Burton snarked:
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Comic Nate Bargatze then came onstage wearing a