Ricky Gervais says Will Smith 'wanted to feel like a man' in new comments over Oscars slap

he said: "That joke that Will Smith slapped someone for was the lamest, sweetest joke in the world. No disrespect to Chris Rock, it wasn’t an insult.

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"I was trending for two days and I wasn’t even there. And I had a gig that night, a new material night.

‘I’ve got no Will Smith material.’ And it got a big laugh, just because they were thinking it.

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It was trending on Twitter ‘What would happen if Ricky was hosting it?’ And I said ‘Nothing because I wouldn’t have made about his wife’s hair.

I’d have made a joke about her boyfriend.’ And then that trended and made the papers.

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He added: "That’s a big thing though. To slap someone at the Oscars, it’s insane. And I still don’t quite know what he was thinking, why he was doing it.

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