Oscars 2022: Covid Jokes, Snubs And Cringe Moments That Enraged Twitter
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Oscars 2022: Turns out, Will Smith-Chris Rock moment wasn't the only problematic thing this year
Like every year, this edition of the Oscars too managed to offend quite a few people for different reasons. While, Chris Rock's distasteful humour about Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith responding with a slap have been singled out as the most problematic moment of the 94th Academy Awards, the ceremony also received flak for the inappropriate jokes made on the pandemic, host Regina Hall's cringe moments with male actors on stage and the snub of a few actors, especially Timothee Chalamet, who was one of the attendees at the show but was not nominated in the Best Actor category. Here's what offended Twitter this year: ehhh that little "covid testing" interlude on the oscars was unnecessary and inappropriate and went on too long Me whenever there's a COVID joke #Oscarspic.twitter.com/WuSuU9Qyfe Can we not do COVID jokes? How cringey is it to make entire joke about something that has killed millions and millions of people? #Oscars Who wrote this awkward bit for #reginahall#Oscarspic.twitter.com/Rt4m5vWUKO What a mess.Inappropriate oogling and groping men #ReginaHallnger management issues #WillSmithWay to keep it classy #Oscars i'm sorry but regina hall doing that bit was disgusting. how was that approved?? you could tell everybody was so uncomfortable!! #oscars#reginahall two of timothée chalamet's best perfomances, and both were snubbed by the #Oscars. time to cry pic.twitter.com/vJmInKGStY Tick, tick, BOOM deserved SO much more attention. #snubs#Oscars
The Oscars returned with a host (3 in today's case) after a gap of three years and Regina Hall's gig, in particular, received major flak online. To begin with, it involved a couple of jokes about COVID-19. As a part of her gig, Regina Hall joked that some of the COVID test results of attendees had been lost and that she would need some guests to do some emergency testing backstage. She called "totally random" stars including Bradley Cooper, Timothee Chalamet, Tyler Perry and Simu Liu on stage and said that they needed a "deep PCR" test. "It's simple. I'm going to swab the back of your mouth with my tongue," she said. Twitter flagged it as "inappropriate" and this is what some of them tweeted.
