Away from the slap scandal, things don’t seem to be going well for Will Smith either: The stand-up comedy series “This Joka” he produced will not be returning to the Roku streaming platform for a second season. The format only started in March of this year. In it, various up-and-coming and established comedians had set themselves the goal of fathoming the essence of their artistic genre. “This isn’t a competition, this is a laugh,” Smith proclaimed in the trailer.
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As the trade journal “Deadline” reports, the decision should have nothing to do with Smith’s freak out during this year’s Oscars. Rather, the hiring stems from a rather unusual timing issue: It’s rumored that Roku never really had the option to go into a second season with This Joka because the renewal option expired before the series even started. The streaming service simply had no way of analyzing viewer data.
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Regardless of the end of “This Joka”, “Deadline” also claims to have learned that another Smith’s comedy project has been put on hold. Netflix is said to have refrained from a comedy variety show that the 53-year-old should have moderated. Again, the actor would have been executive producer.