We’re closing in on a year since Will Smith infamously slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards, and now that we’re in full-fledged 2023 awards show season … well, it seems as though we are no closer to ever hearing the end of it.
Case in point, nearing the third hour of the 80th Golden Globes, host Jerrod Carmichael made the requisite slap joke, which not shockingly seems to have aged like warm milk. “During the commercial break we gave Will Smith the Rock Hudson award for best portrayal of masculinity on television,” Carmichael quipped, after cutting back to the ceremony.