“But I assumed there was a bigger picture, a more complex joke given all the emphasis placed on diversity at the Oscars this year”.
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What are your thoughts on Smith ignoring Rock’s monologue diss? But a joke of Rock’s in the middle of the ceremony, using three Asian children as props, is drawing ire over its use of stereotypes to make a punchline. Rock joked that she does television roles nowadays, not film roles, so the Academy Awards shouldn’t concern her.
“If anybody’s upset about that joke, just tweet about it on your phone that was probably also made by these kids”.
Taiwanese-American NBA player Jeremy Lin says he wasn’t impressed by Chris Rock’s visual gag that showed three Asian children (right) representing accountants of PriceWaterHouseCoppers at the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday.
“Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, and director Spike Lee were among the big names to boycott the event, which also carried a Twitter hashtag of “#OscarsSoWhite”. It’s not fair that Will was this good and didn’t get nominated. What you see on TV, that is so influential.
Comedian Chris Rock said during one of his HBO specials that if they found a way to make hockey warm, black people would overtake that sport too. There is an unofficial rule in comedy that jokes should “punch up” and not “punch down” – that insults and mockery should be directed at those with more power than you, and never at those with less power.
He then went further to stoke the flame.
“Three little Asian kids went up on stage in front of thousands of Hollywood millionaires and were laughed at – not with – due to their race”.
The Oscars organization has yet to comment about Kung and her complaints.
The joke comes with the stereotype plaguing the Asian race – that they are hard-working and smart. The other people mentioned ethnic succession theory to explain why Asians are discriminated in the U.S. society.
He added: “In acting, you look at Asian roles, they always seem to be in similar roles”. Some could say that Rock was rightfully pointing out the hypocrisy of people in the United States who are reliant on products created through unethical labor practices.
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It premiered in the U.S. on the FYI Network last summer, but when Lifetime Asia began to air the show this year, they sent the biracial Kung (her mother is white, her father is Chinese American) on a press tour to Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.
