HBO’s “Actual Time With Invoice Maher” tackled the notorious Oscar slap Friday night time, with the eponymous host cracking that Jada Pinkett Smith ought to “thank God” that alopecia is the worst she’s coping with.
“If you’re so fortunate in life as to have that be your medical downside, 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 getting older.”
“Getting older 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 already know, simply placed on a f–king wig like all people else on the Oscars if it bothers you a lot.”
Maher stated Will Smith’s viral smackdown of Chris Rock over a joke about Pinkett Smith’s bald head uncovered ugly “elements of society,” like “poisonous masculinity, sufferer tradition and liberal hypocrisy,” as he claimed that almost all Individuals affiliate the Academy Awards with the Democratic occasion and coastal elites.
The left-leaning comedian’s friends agreed they had been distressed {that a} theater filled with “woke” film stars would stand and applaud Smith’s greatest actor trophy moments after his assault.
“I keep in mind as a prosecutor prosecuting fairly just a few assault and batteries and so they 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 stated.
“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 stated 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 celeb attending an award present to soak up gentle insults directed at you and yours,” the businessman-turned-Democrat stated.
“I ran for workplace and other people stated issues round me I didn’t like and I didn’t rise up and smack anybody.”
