Jim Carrey Is Finally Right About Something
It was bound to happen sooner or later
I don’t know the last time I said this, but… I agree with Jim Carrey!
Like everything else in 2022 America, we’re all expected to split up into two opposing sides and defend our positions on Slapgate. We must fight, if not to the death, at least to the point of “blocked on Twitter and not invited to my dinner parties anymore.”
For reasons that escape me, a lot of people in Hollywood are defending Will Smith even after he apologized for hitting Chris Rock. But Ace Ventura ain’t one of ‘em.
“I was sickened by the standing ovation. I felt like Hollywood is just spineless, en masse. It felt like this is a really clear indication that we’re not the cool club anymore… I’d have announced this morning that I was suing Will for $200 million, ‘cause that video’s gonna be there forever. It’s gonna be ubiquitous.”
Jim Carrey is absolutely, positively, 100% correct about this. Also, props for using “ubiquitous” properly in a sentence.
Carrey also rejects Gayle King’s idea that the violence was an “escalation.” As if Rock had done something to deserve it. Nope. Wrong. She sure wouldn’t like it if somebody responded to her that way, would she?
It’s good to see comedians standing up for each other, if you’ll pardon the pun. America cannot condone this. Getting up in front of people and telling jokes is hard enough without having to worry about some asshole movie star normalizing this sort of hands-on heckling.
You do not have the right to attack someone for pissing you off with their words.
That’s how you know Stephen Colbert isn’t really a comedian:
If I were allowed to hit Stephen Colbert every time he said something I didn’t like, he’d run out of teeth before I ran out of examples. But that would be wrong, which he obviously doesn’t realize.