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Chris Rock finally addressed the Oscars slap and made Netflix history on Saturday, with the platform\u2019s first live\u00a0global streaming event.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to try to do a show tonight without offending nobody. I\u2019m going to try my best, because you never know who might get triggered,\u201d Rock said as he opened his set from Baltimore. \u201cPeople always say words hurt \u2026 anybody who says words hurt has never been punched in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n
After that quick apparent reference to\u00a0Will Smith slapping him on stage\u00a0at last year\u2019s Academy Awards, Rock saved his jokes about the incident until the last ten minutes of the show.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou all know what happened to me, getting smacked by Suge Smith,\u201d Rock said. \u201cIt still hurts. I got \u2018Summertime\u2019 ringing in my ears. But I\u2019m not a victim, baby. You\u2019ll never see me on Oprah or Gayle crying \u2026 I took that hit like Pacquiao.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rock suggested Smith\u2019s response to his Oscars joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, was more about their relationship than him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love Will Smith, my whole life,\u201d Rock said. \u201cI have rooted for Will Smith my whole life \u2026 now I watch \u2018Emancipation\u2019 just to see him get whupped.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smith plays an enslaved man in the period drama, \u201cEmancipation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018How come you didn\u2019t do nothing back that night?\u2019\u201d Rock said people have asked him. \u201cBecause I got parents. You know what my parents taught me? Don\u2019t fight in front of White people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Titled \u201cChris Rock: Selective Outrage,\u201d the comedian hit on a wide range of topics in the first 50 minutes of the special, including addiction, abortion, racism in America, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, the Kardashian family and \u201cwokeness.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no problem with the wokeness. I have no problem with it at all. I\u2019m all for social justice. I\u2019m all for marginalized people getting their rights. The thing I have a problem with is the selective outrage,\u201d Rock said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know what I\u2019m talking about. One person does something, they get cancelled. Somebody else does the exact same thing, nothing. You know what I\u2019m talking about \u2026 the kind of people who play Michael Jackson songs but won\u2019t play R. Kelly. Same crime, one of them just has better songs.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cChris Rock: Selective Outrange\u201d marked the first live-streaming event for Netflix. (Kirill Bichutsky\/Netflix)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Tackling the country\u2019s division, Rock said, \u201cAmerica is in horrible shape right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got it worse than Ukraine. Yeah, I said it. You know why? Because Ukraine is united and America is clearly divided,\u201d Rock joked. \u201cIf the Russians came here right now, half the country would say, \u2018Let\u2019s hear them out.\u2019 We\u2019re in a bad place right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rock also delved into his romantic life, saying when he noticed his pillowcases were dirty, he realized how much women do for men.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m trying to date women my age, which is 10 to 15 years younger than me,\u201d he said. \u201cDon\u2019t hate the player, hate the game. I didn\u2019t get rich and stay in shape to talk about Anita Baker. I\u2019m trying to f\u2014 Doja Cat.\u201d<\/p>\n
The performance was Rock\u2019s sixth standup special and his second for Netflix after 2018\u2019s \u201cTamborine,\u201d directed by Bo Burnham.<\/p>\n
A pre-show event kicked off with comedian Ronny Chieng live from Los Angeles, where he told the crowd, \u201cWe could have pretaped this whole thing and nobody would have cared, but we are doing this for a noble cause: To finally try to kill off traditional TV and put it out of its misery. In fact, if you listen hard you can hear Baby Boomers cancelling the last cable subscription packages.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was also a post-show special with comedians Arsenio Hall, Dana Carvey, David Spade, Yvonne Orji and more.<\/p>\n
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Chris Rock finally addressed the Oscars slap and made Netflix history on Saturday, with the platform\u2019s first live\u00a0global streaming event. \u201cI\u2019m going to try to do a show tonight without offending nobody. I\u2019m going to try my best, because you never know who might get triggered,\u201d Rock said as he opened his set from Baltimore. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n
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