More than a year has passed since the debacle at the 2022 Academy Awards when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage after the comedian made comments about Jada Pinkett Smith. It was the talk of Tinseltown for quite a while, with an unsurprising resurgence after the 2023 Academy Awards with Jimmy Kimmel hosting and Chris Rock’s Netflix comedy special earlier this year. Now, The Masked Singer host Nick Cannon has brought the incident up again in relation to the cancellation of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk show.
Red Table Talk ran for five seasons as a talk show hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, daughter Willow, and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris. News that the program had been cancelled broke on April 26, when Deadline announced that all Facebook Watch Originals would not return for more seasons. Production company Westbrook Studios is reportedly shopping Red Table Talk around for a new home, but Nick Cannon wasted no time in commenting on the cancellation and how he sees it related to the Will Smith/Chris Rock incident.
