Everything about hollywood “awards” is staged, melodramatic bullsh*t.
That’s why we all don’t watch it.
Here’s the entire scene, you decide whether it was real or staged :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z4t1CC7-UFE
That and he’d look like a big wussy if he did.
Notice that Smith was laughing like everyone else at the joke.
Well, they are actors, after all - actors on the stage at an acting awards show.
So we should assume they are acting.
I never enjoyed watching the insiders adulate each other. Well, maybe I enjoyed it once or twice when Billy Joel was the host long ago.
They’re desperate...although why they chose to put this up is beyond me. Next year will be 2 homos kissing...or worse. They started writing the script this morning!
If I want to watch actors I can watch my kids:-)