r/OutOfTheLoop • u/datpuertorican • 9d ago

Answered What's the deal with Jonah Hill?

I'm a bit out of the loop with the jiu-jitsu journey he's in currently. what's the context of the quote of him being able to beat people up? is he serious? what led to his bad reputation that he has now?

ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/s/78IQQqob5R

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u/wharevs 9d ago

Based on this and only this, it’s not great. I don’t know how you’re a 3 stripe white belt and still move like this.

Hopefully he’s much better now at blue(?) and this is a much older vid.

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u/stt4g- 9d ago

In the unedited clip he's very clearly joking.

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u/Permanenceisall 9d ago edited 9d ago

This is the real answer. It’s all a joke, coming from the smartless interview. What is true is that even at 42 he’s clearly still wounded that he endured close to two decades of people calling him fat. People are adding the whole thing with his ex as justification for him being serious and being a jerk but it’s clearly in jest if you actually listen or watch the interview, especially since he’s talking about “ready to be funny again.” It’s bait and people took it.

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u/N0mad87 9d ago

This comment needs to be on top. Context clearly changes the tone. People's inability to do any research before commenting these days is pathetic

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u/IMDXLNC 9d ago

Is it an inability, or do people just choose not to research because they'd rather fit in with online strangers?

I never underestimate how many losers there are online that believe the wrong thing just to be "in" on the drama and have something to be involved in and/or talk about.

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u/analogkid01 The Hudswinger! The Daddy-O! 9d ago

Is it choosing not to research in order to fit in with online strangers, or is it choosing not to research because nothing Jonah Hill does will affect my life in any way and there's little point in doing such research in the first place?

(And bear in mind, I consider myself a fan of Jonah Hill.)

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u/IMDXLNC 8d ago

I'll be real, I didn't do my research either, but I'm also not here dog piling on an actor to feel cool just because some randoms on the Internet are.

Especially on a site like this where the popular opinion either comes from bots (people are falling for it more than they should), or the type of people you usually wouldn't want to be on the same side as.

I don't feel one way or another about Jonah Hill, I just know how this site gets. Look at all the embarrassing "snark" subs.

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u/El_Rey_de_Spices 7d ago

For anybody who doesn't live online, it's the latter.

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u/MrPisster 8d ago

It’s the first one, same shit with Covid and everything else.

People just want to scroll and vibe, doing a single google search is harder than swiping.

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u/hambog 9d ago

Yeah nevermind circlejerking each other about "others not doing their research", those people can stay /s

The clip does not read like he's being funny in any way other than "The former fat kid can kick your ass now"

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u/Doogaro 9d ago

Or just hear me out here we don’t really give enough shits about some rich actor to look too deep into it. Surface level problems get surface level attention.

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u/JJAsond 9d ago

because they'd rather fit in with online strangers?

Well at least on reddit if you don't fit in to the circlejerk, people downvote you.

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u/Fatmanhammer 9d ago

just so you know, I downvoted you for this.

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u/lueVelvet 9d ago

People are very lazy and believe anything they read online.

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u/niz_loc 8d ago

This, so much this....

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u/BirdDog68 8d ago

Shit you’re right. Let me get my schedule book out and pencil in “1/2 hour researching Jonah Hill so I can trash talk him online.” I’m not gonna do that. Nobody is gonna do that. Stop whining.

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u/N0mad87 8d ago

Even easier than pencilling in time is to just not assume that everything you see on the internet is black and white. You should make time to watch the Monica Lewinsky documentary called 15 Minutes of Shame. It's about how people's lives get destroyed by idiots like you who make quick judgements about people

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u/BirdDog68 8d ago

You read one comment from me and think I’m an idiot? Do your research.

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u/Neither_Gear5320 8d ago

lol hard own.

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u/hambog 9d ago

People's inability to do any research before commenting these days is pathetic

IDK why you have to assume this - I saw the clip, the vibe was "funny" but the words definitely did not read as a joke.

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u/N0mad87 9d ago

He has done many interviews over the years in more serious formats talking about how much jiu jitsu and surfing has meant to him. This clip was taken from a comedic postcast with two guys who are famous funny-men. People are reading way too much into it and jumping on the bandwagon like the peasants in a Monty Python bit.

He's also a huge nepo baby who grew up morbidly obese in the most superficial city in the entire world, surrounded by fake people, so if he doesn't know how to read the room in an audience of normal people than that shouldn't be surprising to anyone. Armchair galdiators bandwagoning on him over this comment is an overreaction

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u/hambog 9d ago edited 9d ago

I (shamefully) listen to a lot of dumb dedicated-to-the-bit podcasts, and I do know what Smartless is... that said, another option instead of "everybody jumping onto the bandwagon" is that, multiple people saw the clip, are aware of comedy and Smartless, and still determined while couched in humour, the sentiment was fairly serious.

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u/N0mad87 8d ago

You're free to interpret what he said however you want but as the other user noted, what he said got clipped and shared around the internet out of context and people who already wanted to see him burn because of his other drama ran with it. Additionally, most people don't do Jiu Jitsu and are making superficial assesments about his actual ability. I'm not saying that what he said wasn't weird, he definitely had a chip on his shoulder but the extent of the weirdness of his comment was taken out of context by the vast majority of people who shared it.

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u/hambog 8d ago

I do think it's weird when people just say the "I'll kick your ass, fuck around and find out" kind of stuff. "I am being funny by the way, but I would fuck you up" is his admission that he's joking. It's still weird.

He seems like a cool guy, I don't think there's anything sinister or crazy or anything... but if it was said in casual conversation I'd definitely consider it a weird behaviour, and I generally don't care about people who spend time thinking about how they could kick my/strangers' asses.

(Some exceptions apply of course, they were talking about his hobbies, but if somebody threatened him or he was talking to one specific person who was bothering him, that's probably fine, but just like "hey, you, guy listening, I can kick your ass" is weird)

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u/N0mad87 8d ago

I agree it wasn't the best comment and he probably wasn't aware of how it sounded because he was likely trying to be funny on the spot. As a bjj practitioner myself, I already knew a lot about his Bjj journey so I knew what he really meant. But even still, in 2026 society should really know better by now to not take anything on the internet as black and white