Samantha Bee Says Will Smith’s Slap Helped Her ‘Understand Why People Hate Hollywood’

Comedian Samantha Bee says she understands why people “hate” 🎬Hollywood after 🎬Will Smith slapped 🎬Chris Rock at the Oscars.

During an exchange on the “Offline” podcast, Bee told host Jon Favreau she watched the Oscars with her children and “we watched the bit where the host – one of the hosts was like patting down all these men on stage.”

“Called all those actors up and was like patting them down, and I was like ‘ha hey kids,’ you know you’re always trying to impart a boring lesson to your children when you’re watching TV with them. ‘Just so you know, this is fun and all but don’t put your hands on other people,'” she continued.

She added, “Then this big slap and I’m like ‘well, that underlined the premise of my boring lecture.’ Don’t put your hands on people – my god. I’m really trying to not like clutch my pearls, like mommy’s said bad things about people, I can’t deny that, like whatever it’s comedy.”

Listen to the exchange below:

Favreau went on to share how he felt it was “really strange” that it seemed “easy” for people to “downplay” and “move on” from Smith slapping Rock.

However, Bee disagreed with the assertion that it was easy for people to move on.

“I think people were freaking…probably a lot of people were like really quaking like ‘I don’t know what to do’ like paralyzed with fear,” she said.