Will Smith’s Oscar slap continues to bounce in not-so-comedic ways, and The View hosts are right there to offer their comment.
In their latest gossip, they address how Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene R-Ga. took offense at a joke comedian Jimmy Kimmel made on his late-night show earlier this week. Referring to Greene, who called three senators “pro-pedophiles” for their support of Deputy Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown, Kimmel said, “Where’s Will Smith when you need him?”
Of course, he’s referring to how “King Richard” Oscar winner Chris Rock slapped his face on stage after Rock insulted Smith’s wife in a monologue.
Greene responded on Twitter by calling Kimmel’s line a “threat of violence” and writing that she reported him to Capitol Police.
On The View, host Joy Behar, a comedian herself, put it on record that she thinks comedians should feel more protected when they’re joking and not expect an overreaction — like Smith hitting Rock, or in this case that Greene notified authorities.
As if to prove her point, Behar repeats Kimmel’s Will Smith line and, after the audience giggles, remarks, “See? They laughed. Don’t be so funny to her, okay? … [Greene] is a joke, and yet she can’t take a joke,” she later said, “sensitive, sensitive, sensitive”.
Behar and Greene have their own story, which the presenter reminds the audience to demonstrate how not to take comments too seriously.
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Earlier this year, Behar said despite (or because of) the relaxation of mask mandates and the CDC’s inconsistent messages, she plans to continue wearing a mask in certain situations “indefinitely” to help prevent the spread of COVID and other diseases: ” Why do I even need the flu or even a cold? And that’s why I’m listening to myself right now. I guess it’s not 100% sure yet.”
That decision sparked Greene, who wrote on Twitter: “When it comes to Joy Behar, Americans would just prefer it She wears duct tape indefinitely.”
In “The View,” Behar first points out the hypocrisy of how Greene supposedly feels threatened by Kimmel’s violent wit, while actually threatening Behar herself. “I could get upset about something like that, couldn’t I?” says Behar. The implication, of course, is that she didn’t call Greene’s comment violence and overreacted by calling the police. She thought it was the (very bad) joke it was.
Meanwhile, The View debates whether or not politicians like MTG can be funny (no, was the consensus) and the notion that comedians like Kimmel and maybe Rock “don’t care if you’re offended by their jokes.” Especially not when you’re a politician like Greene.
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Guest co-host Ana Navarro also reminds viewers that on Jan. 6, Greene did not feel the need for the Capitol police, but instead defended the deadly violence of the insurgents. But for Kimmel telling a TV joke? For sure.
“I’m really glad that Marjorie Taylor Greene is remembering that the Capitol Police are there,” says Navarro. “She should be very thankful that there is a Capitol Police there that are there to protect members of Congress — not from jokes, but from insurgents.”
Navarro also mentions Greene’s harassment of gun violence survivor David Hogg and others. “Really darling, you can give it out but you can’t take it?” she says, before suggesting Greene is a “snowflake,” the derogatory term used primarily by the right to demean liberals.
Watch the full discussion on YouTube below.
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