Monday, 29 February 2016

'Hollywood IS racist': Chris Rock skewers his Oscars audience and killer cops in rip-roaring monologue at 2016 Oscars

Telling it like it is: Chris Rock tackled the #OscarsSoWhite controversy head on and did not shy away from the race row which dominated the run up to the Oscars
Chris Rock
Chris Rock did not disappoint as he accused white dominated Hollywood of racism during the most eagerly anticipated opening monologue in recent history at the 88th Academy Awards.

Addressing the huge elephant in the room, the acid-tongued comedian, 51, compared Tinseltown to a bitchy racist sorority and jibbed at cops for killing black men as he riffed on the #OscarsSoWhite race row, which overshadowed this years ceremony.
All eyes on Chris: The comedian tore into white dominated Hollywood - but also put this years race controversy into a historical perspective by referencing the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s

'Is Hollywood racist? ... you're damn right,' said Rock to the audience in the Dolby Theater while he excoriated the film industry for its racial bias on the biggest night in show business.

Indeed, from almost his very first words to his last, Rock brutalized Hollywood for the lack of diversity, with the host finishing the entire ceremony by saying 'Black Lives Matter' 'Everyone wants to know in the world, is Hollywood racist?' said Rock. 

'Is it 'burning cross racist'? No. Is it 'fetch me some lemonade racist'? No. It's a different type of racist…. Hollywood is 'sorority racist.' It's like, we like you Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.' 

He was referring, of course, to the fact that every acting nominee was white for the second year running, a development that led to the OscarsSoWhite backlash. 

However, despite his strong words for Hollywood, the white tuxedo-clad Rock held special opprobrium for Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith - deriding them for their much publicized boycott of the Oscars.

'It's not fair that Will Smith was this good in 'Concussion and didn't get nominated. It's also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for 'Wild Wild West!', was one of Rock's first zingers aimed at the Hollywood power couple.

He then launched into a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith, so lewd that some who heard it beforehand thought he wouldn't use it at the primetime ceremony.

'What happened this year? Jada's going to boycott the Oscars,' said Rock.

'Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties. 
'I wasn't invited! 

'It's not an invitation I would turn down.'

Source: Dailymail




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