The 57-year-old Oscar-winner and fire-cracker to comedians Jamie Foxx took to none other than Sean "Diddy" Combs in his latest scandal cleaning, spitting his words of wisdom with his signature comic venom at the rap mogul's latest legal woes and was anything but shy about it.
"You hear that Diddy s##t? That s### is crazy, huh?" Foxx began, with just enough of a pause for the stunned crowd to grasp what had happened. "I don't know if he's going to jail, but he's a real m###########." The audience howled, half laughing, the other half in disbelief.
Diddy, 55, faces federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering charges he's denied. But Foxx's interpretation did not pull punches or go for the cheap laugh. Instead, he pressed deeper into the heartbreak that these allegations have created, particularly within the Black community.
"For white folks, it's cool," Foxx added, "but Black people are like, that was our hero." And then, turning the knife with comic precision, he said, "All that g###### baby oil, boy. Then, the urine."
If that didn't leave the audience gobsmacked, the following bit certainly did. Foxx slipped in an allusion to the 1999 comedy Life, playing off of Martin Lawrence's character in a manner that spun awkward truths into stark, well-aimed satire. "Why you so nasty, Diddy?" Foxx continued, in a line-read of the scene. “’Cause I’m a nasty m###########. Take that, take that, take that.'"
He waited for the punchline to breathe and then metaphorically dropped the mic. "That makes you hear that differently," Foxx said. "What are we taking? Cause I don't want none of that."
The dynamic between the two stars, Jamie Foxx and Sean' Diddy' Combs, has been rocky. Foxx's 2023 hospitalization has sparked wild conspiracy theories on the web, some even pointing fingers at Diddy. Foxx later set the record straight, vehemently denying the rumors, but things still seem tense.
As Foxx was wrapping up the bit, he pondered the cultural whiplash that Diddy's fall from sainthood has inspired. "For the Black people here, you know that breaks us," he added. "Diddy still should be because it's all about the Benjamins. That was our whole culture. Now, it's all about the baby oil.
Jamie Foxx has always been a part demented ham, part comedy virtuoso, and that's what you saw here. He made them laugh and face a discomfiting reality: that a once-revered cultural icon now comes with unseemly baggage.
Laughing or squirming, one thing we can be certain of is that Foxx is not in the business of subtlety. Last week, he let it be known that nobody, not even Diddy, is safe.
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