HBO’s “Actual Time With Invoice Maher” tackled the notorious Oscar slap Friday evening, with the eponymous host cracking that Jada Pinkett Smith ought to “thank God” that alopecia is the worst she’s coping with.
“In case you are so fortunate in life as to have that be your medical drawback, simply say ‘thank God,’” Maher cracked to his friends, lawyer Laura Coates and former presidential and New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Andrew Yang.
“It’s not life threatening. It’s a part of — for most individuals, 80 p.c of males, 50 p.c of ladies — it’s a part of ageing.”
“Growing old is, belief me I do know, it’s the degradation of the flesh. It occurs to all of us,” the 66-year-old political comic added.
“And you recognize, simply placed on a f–king wig like all people else on the Oscars if it bothers you a lot.”
Maher mentioned Will Smith’s viral smackdown of Chris Rock over a joke about Pinkett Smith’s bald head uncovered ugly “points of society,” like “poisonous masculinity, sufferer tradition and liberal hypocrisy,” as he claimed that almost all Individuals affiliate the Academy Awards with the Democratic celebration and coastal elites.
The left-leaning comedian’s friends agreed they have been distressed {that a} theater stuffed with “woke” film stars would stand and applaud Smith’s finest actor trophy moments after his assault.
“I bear in mind as a prosecutor prosecuting fairly a number of assault and batteries they usually didn’t stand by and be like ‘no no I’ve acquired the remainder of my child’s soccer recreation, I gotta keep for this,’” Coates mentioned.
“So the truth that he was there to be like ‘right here’s my award’ in and of itself was stunning, not to mention a standing ovation.”
Yang mentioned he thought Smith would have had a thicker pores and skin.
“I do really feel prefer it’s a part of the job of a world well-known superstar attending an award present to soak up gentle insults directed at you and yours,” the businessman-turned-Democrat mentioned.
“I ran for workplace and other people mentioned issues round me I didn’t like and I didn’t rise up and smack anybody.”
