Women Callers Weigh In on the Will Smith-Chris Rock Slap

CLAY: By the way, I asked for women to weigh in. We finished off last hour with Will Smith and Chris Rock discussion. Let us get a couple of these calls in from women. Haley in southern Utah, what did you think about what you saw last night, the slap heard ’round the world?

CALLER: Hey, guys, how you doing? Love your show. Thank you. I just… The comparison came to me how Sarah Huckabee Sanders was treated at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. They, of course, were making fun — and that’s what they do, they make fun — of her, but they went after her appearance, all these things.

CLAY: That’s right.

CALLER: And she sat there, and she took it with dignity, and he could have done that and talked to them afterwards, but he chose to make a scene and choose violence out of it. So again, it’s that liberal privilege. I think nothing nice will happen with it, and it just keeps happening in Hollywood.

CLAY: Great call. Roberta in Florida, I think, also wants to weigh in. What have you got, Roberta?

CALLER: So, I just wanted to make a point. You know, when the female commentators at the very beginning — Wanda Sykes, I believe — made a comment about Jada and Will and their open marriage and that was all okay. Nobody got upset about that.

CLAY: Yeah.

CALLER: And, you know, she was smiling. They were laughing. They thought that was all funny. So to me, this comment… I mean, now they’re saying, “Oh, she has some issue with her skin. That’s why she’s bald.”

BUCK: Alopecia is what they’ve been saying.

CALLER: Right, and I don’t think Chris Rock knew that, first of all. I don’t think he would have… You know. And so it’s just showing the classlessness that we’ve got with this. You know, I wasn’t even gonna watch last night and I thought, “Oh, I’m gonna watch it,” you know. But it just goes to show you, it’s more like a Jerry Springer show than, you know, somebody like — some actor with class like — Kevin Costner goes up there and says a nice speech, but then it’s overshadowed by something like this.

CLAY: Great call.

BUCK: Yeah.

CLAY: Great call. I agree. Michelle in Draper, Utah, also wants to weigh in. What you got for us, Michelle?

CALLER: Hey, Clay and Buck. Thanks for taking my call. Doing a great job, guys. I just wanted to say that I just thought it was just shocking and disturbing that, you know, he has decades in this business, and to lead up to this big moment… You know, this is like a defining moment in his career.

CLAY: Yep.

CALLER: To finally get an Oscar for best actor? I mean, all the actors dream of that, and then he ruins it by behaving that way? I just… I was shocked. At first, I thought, “Is this a bit? Is this a joke?”

CLAY: I think most people did.

BUCK: I had to watch it back three times before I thought it was actually real that he even got hit. I just sort of assumed, although he did look… Everyone says, “Oh, he’s an actor.”

CLAY: He looked shook.

BUCK: Yeah.

CLAY: He looked shook, Chris Rock did.

BUCK: Chris Rock is not that good of an actor.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: He’s a good comedian, folks. Like, I think that’s a different skill set, and he looked shaken up after that one. And everyone said afterwards that, you know, they had to figure it out. And I know… By the way, I totally agree with our caller. So there’s that. Good call.

CLAY: (laughing) Well, you know, Buck, some people tried to say, “Oh, this is him st…” That’s why I wanted to hear from women, because some people tried to argue, “Oh, this is standing up for his wife.” I don’t think most people felt like that. He’s 53, overreacting like he did is way too much.

BUCK: Some guy, like, puts his hand on your wife or says something to her at a bar in a public place, you don’t know what’s going on and you square off, and if you think you have to throw the first one maybe you could… This is at the Oscars, folks. Everyone’s in black ties. The guy’s making a joke; he’s a comedian.

CLAY: Yes.