13-Time Oscar Loser Diane Warren Tweets Cringeworthy Chris Rock / Will Smith Slap Joke

Diane Warren chose violence. Literally.

The famed singer-songwriter, who lost her 13th consecutive Academy Awards competition last night, took to Twitter this afternoon after apparently spending the last 12 hours workshopping this cringeworthy joke.

Warren, for those who are unfamiliar, is well on her way to becoming the Susan Lucci of the Oscars. Lucci, as some of your older readers might remember, famously lost out on 18 Daytime Emmy Awards before finally winning the prized statuette on her 19th attempt back in May 1999.

Warren, an accomplished if somewhat schmaltzy songwriter, has been nominated for 13 Best Original Song Oscars over the years for tracks like Celine Dion’s “How Do I Live” (from Con Air), Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing” (Armageddon), and Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” (Mannequin, if you can believe it!). Her song from 1996’s Up Close And Personal, the Celine Dion balled “Because You Loved Me,” actually took home a Grammy Award in 1997 for the Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television; however, it lost the Oscar to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s execrable and wholly forgettable Evita track “You Must Love Me.”

Last night, Warren was nominated for “Somehow You Do,” a song that appears in the Mila Kunis drug addiction drama Four Good Days, but deservedly lost out to the brother/sister songwriting duo Billie Eilish and Finneas for their top-notch Bond theme “No Time To Die.” She appeared to be on the verge of hyperventilating as her name was called as presenters Jake Gyllenhaal and Zoe Kravitz read the list of nominees, and looked “stunned” (according to the Daily Mail) when her name was not called.

From there, instead of dusting herself off and putting pen-to-paper in an attempt to write another song that would get a 2023 nomination (and win!), Warren chose violence by referring last night’s historic, shocking, violent confrontation between Will Smith and Chris Rock. Maybe next time, stick to the songwriting and leave the generation of stand-up material to the professionals, Diane.