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It was the weirdest fisticuffs at a live TV award show since Tommy Lee and Kid Rock got into a bitchslap tango over Pam Anderson at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. Back then, Sean Puffy Combs immediately reacted on the air, joking, We gotta stop the violence in rock & roll! History repeated itself, since Diddy had to go on right after Smiths outburst and make awkward quips. And maybe, just maybe, Diddy also remembered the jokes Rock made about Mo Money Mo Problems in 1997: Im comin out? What does Puff mean? Suges in jail, now I can leave my house?'
Historical context: Theres some bad blood in the combination of Rock, Smith, and the Oscars. The last time the comedian hosted the Oscars, in 2016, he said, Jada Pinkett Smith boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihannas panties I wasnt invited!
Chris had a lot of fun that night with those two, as he usually does with celebrities at award shows. (Can you imagine Tobey Maguire or Jude Law or Tim Robbins attacking him mid-ceremony? He was a lot meaner to them.) In 2016, he quipped, Jadas mad her man Will was not nominated for ConcussionShe said, Its not fair that Will was this good and didnt get nominated! Youre right! Its also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for Wild Wild West, okay?
When Smith won Best Actor for King Richard, as was expected, he made a speech about how he was just doing Gods work, along with a few of the usual clichs that men say after violent tantrums. It was a far cry from his famous 1999 VMAs speech where he boasted about he didnt use profanity or rap about killing people on his records a moment so iconic at the time, Eminem made fun of it in The Real Slim Shady.
But the whole night was a buffet of Hollywood crazy. I thought this Oscars had already set an all-time record for mind-blowingly tasteless decisions until they had a cheerleading squad sing Spirit in the Sky for the In Memoriam montage. Right, what better way to honor Lina Wertmller or Stephen Sondheim or Jean-Paul Belmondo than jazz dancers chirping about Jesus? Why bring on poor Jamie Lee Curtis to make her recite lines like Betty White was more than a Golden Girl she was a legend!
Timothe Chalamet showed up in a sparkly ensemble with no shirt, and admirably kept his smile going all through the soul-numbing depths of the show. He managed to give sincere-looking enthusiasm maybe the first person ever to earn a Best Actor award during the actual ceremony.
Megan Thee Stallion made a glorious appearance during the all-star We Dont Talk About Bruno performance. Billie Eilish sang the Bond theme No Time To Die, which in no way explained that goofy 60 Years of Bond montage earlier in the evening. Amy Schumer had a clever joke about the fact that Dont Look Up was nominated: I guess Academy members Dont Look Up reviews! Also there was a beautiful moment on the red carpet where Chloe and Halle were holding hands, as the interviewer asked what celebrity they were most excited to see. Chloe said, Halle!
The nights most touching moment came at the end: Lady Gaga and Liza Minnelli, a shocking reminder that celebrities can also be kind, empathetic, generous human beings. When Liza fumbled briefly with the envelope, Gaga simply said I got you what a real and powerful moment. On an Oscar night like this one, it couldnt have felt more out of place.
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