Chris Rock verbally smacked back at Will Smith during a live Netflix stand-up special Saturday, nearly a year after the infamous Oscars night assault, Rolling Stone and other outlets reported.
"Nobody was picking on her," 58-year-old Rock said of Jada Pinkett Smith, live broadcasting from Baltimore in the "Chris Rock: Selective Outrage" Netflix stand-up comedy special.
Actor Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith's husband, infamously walked up on stage and slapped Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Pinkett Smith's hair while Rock was hosting the Oscars in April 2022.
"She said me, a grown-a** man, should quit his job because her husband didn’t get nominated for 'Concussion,' and then this n***a gives me a f****** concussion, OK? What the f***, man!” Rock said, in a 10-minute, expletive-drenched evisceration of Will Smith streamed live from Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre.
Rock goes on to explain, in his characteristic, no holds barred fashion, exactly what drove the infamous slap heard 'round the world. Until this point, Rock had said very little about the assault. Saturday night, that all changed.
Rock began by saying he took Smith's hit like boxer Manny Pacquiao, the Washington Post reported. He blamed Smith's assault on his wife's "entanglements." Namely, the couple's well-publicized embrace of marital infidelity.
"Everyone called [Will Smith] a b****," Rock said. "And who's he hit? Me. [Someone] he knows he can beat."
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences banned Smith for 10 years after he slapped Chris Rock, as TheBlaze reported last year.
Speaking out about the slap was just one portion of Rock's 68-minute special.
Dressed in all white, the comedian also took aim at the hypocrisy of "woke business," the "selective outrage" of canceling some people but not others, the Kardashians, and more. Even Elon Musk could not duck Rock's metaphorical jabs.
"Women should have the right to kill a baby until he's four years old," Rock said, joking about the very serious topic of abortion.
For good or ill, that particular comment seems to have hit a nerve.
"He's crotchety. He's mean. He's predictable and boring," USA Today writer Kelly Lawler said of Rock's special.
"[Chris Rock has] started sounding like the guy at the end of the block screaming about kids these days ... If he's going to joke about abortion and killing babies, the punchline has to be better than 'children are annoying.'"
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Will Smith released an emotional video apology for slapping Chris Rock during the 2022 Oscars four months ago, and Rock responded on the comedy stage at the Fox Theatre Atlanta.
“Everybody is trying to be a f***ing victim. If everybody claims to be a victim, then nobody will hear the real victims," Rock said. "Even me getting smacked by Suge Smith ... I went to work the next day, I got kids," he added. "Anyone who says words hurt has never been punched in the face."
On "Fearless with Jason Whitlock," BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock praised Chris Rock's response, saying the comedian "can take a punch and deliver a punchline."
“Chris Rock is more manly than many black professional athletes. The 57-year-old comedian is barely 150 pounds. As a child, bullies ran him out of his high school. But now he’s more courageous than men who are allegedly gladiators,” Jason said.
\u201c.@ChrisRock \u201cIf everybody claims to be a victim, then nobody will hear the real victims\u201d\u201d— Jason Whitlock (@Jason Whitlock) 1659394800
Jason wondered how we have come to a point where a comedian is more courageous than an NFL quarterback. Deshaun Watson defenders will line up to play the race card over his six-game suspension for sexual assault allegations. Kyler Murray is so fragile, he needed Warren Moon to render aid after the Cardinals dared ask him to actually study for games as part of his $46 million dollar contract.
"The NFL is full of victims, and they're ruining the sport," Jason stated.
Steve Kim joined the show to discuss the victimhood mentality and whether all parties received a happy ending in the Watson saga, and Shemeka Michelle dropped in to examine Will Smith’s odd YouTube apology video and offer her approval rating on Chris Rock.
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Howard Stern tore into Hollywood and said that the entertainers are hypocritical in how they handled the incident between Chris Rock and Will Smith when compared to the attack on comedian Dave Chappelle.
A crazed male suspect stormed the stage at the Hollywood Bowl earlier this week and assaulted Chappelle, who was in the middle of a set.
During Wednesday's broadcast of "The Howard Stern Show," the namesake host said that Hollywood showed its true colors in its response to the two incidents.
“This guy jumped up on stage and attacked Dave Chappelle,” Stern said. “As soon as that happened, did they let him go back to his seat and laugh and sit next to his wife and then give them an award? No! They took him backstage, they broke his arms and hands so bad.”
He added, “They f***king beat the s*** out of him!”
Stern pointed out that Hollywood appeared to cater to Smith after he slapped Rock during the Oscars live broadcast.
“Unlike the Academy Awards, Jamie Foxx came running out on stage and helped Dave Chappelle,” Stern continued. “At the Academy Awards, everyone came over and consoled Will Smith — because it was live television and Hollywood didn’t know what to do about Will Smith.”
Hollywood, he fumed, shouldn't have treated Smith any different when compared to Chappelle's attacker, who was later identified as 23-year-old Isaiah Lee. Following the attack, videos showed EMTs transporting Lee — who appeared to have sustained severe injuries as a result of security manhandling him — in an ambulance to a local hospital.
“The audience at the Oscars gave Will Smith a standing ovation after the attack, that’s the truth,” Stern continued, pointing out how "f***ed up" Hollywood is. “It’s on film, it’s not fake news. They didn’t break Will’s hands, they shook them, and it’s wrong.”
“Some people in the audience at the Academy Awards still should be very ashamed of themselves," he insisted. "I hope they are."
Following the slap heard round the world, the Academy banned Smith from its annual ceremony for a period of 10 years.
Earlier during his broadcast, Stern said, "I hate to say it, but I’ve always thought, I told you I used to do live — 'America’s Got Talent.' I always thought it’s these live shows and everything, it’s crazy because people are getting nuttier and nuttier and they’re going to use these opportunities to attack people."
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\u201cThey didn\u2019t break Will\u2019s hands, they shook \u2018em.\u201d Howard Stern talks about how \u201cfu*ked up Hollywood\u201d is for not treating Will Smith when he attacked Chris Rock the same way security treated Dave Chappelle\u2019s attacker.pic.twitter.com/9Q4KOIEiUg— Mike Sington (@Mike Sington) 1651683122
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