Chris Rock apologized to Wanda Sykes after the Oscars: "It was supposed to be your night"
"I'm so sorry," Rock told Sykes at an after-party, "Because now this is going to be about this."
Three days on, the Online Panopticon continues to have its watchful and infinite eyes trained almost exclusively on the Will Smith/Chris Rock incident at Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony. Somewhere, deep in the laboratories of Twitter, fifth and sixth-generation Takes are already gestating, scalding in their heat, and in the sheer rush to be wrongest, loudest, set of alleged thoughts about that particular half-minute of TV.
At the same time, we’re all busy setting ourselves up as a sort of emotional Warren Commission, attempting to recreate the movements and, more importantly, the mindsets of everyone even tangentially involved with the moment: Audience members; hosts Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, and Regina Hall; and especially the three people at the center of the moment, Smith, Rock, and Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
