Some things we know to be true without a doubt include the sun rising every morning, water being wet, and Chris Rock not holding back on jokes.
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why he turned down the offer to host the 2023 Oscars during a Sunday set in Phoenix, Arizona, was blasted up and down Twitter on Monday for the tasteless joke.“Chris Rock spends way too much time punching down on women. It wasn’t the first time he said nasty crap about Jada Pinkett Smith, and it isn’t the first time he made vile remarks about Nicole Brown Simpson.
(a murdered woman) I’m done with this pos. Srsly,” tweeted Linda Coats.Kaz Waida wrote, “If this misogyny surprises you, welcome to the world Chris Rock been living in this whole time.
Here he is in 1996 doing a set where he sympathizes with OJ and argues Nicole Brown Simpson had it coming.” She shared a clip from his “Bring the Pain” special, where he says (at about three minutes in, “I’m not saying he shoulda killed her. But I understand.”Several people suggested that Will Smith “didn’t slap him hard enough,” with one person calling for the comedian to be suspended by the Academy, as Smith was.
“Can the academy suspend Chris Rock over his Nicole Brown Simpson remark?… I think I understand where Will Smith was coming from better.”As we all know, at the ceremony in March, Smith took exception to Rock’s dig at wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s lack of hair, which is due to alopecia and not a desire to look like Demi Moore in “G.I. Jane.”A Twitter user named Jen argued that, with the reference to Nicole Brown Simpson, Rock had lost any sympathy he’d gained for being on the receiving end of violence.
“The same people who were legitimately triggered by the Chris rock slap are also triggered by the jokes about Nicole Brown Simpson. I hope domestic abuse survivor and victims are ok tonight.”Others argued that Rock was “still damn funny” and within his rights to make any joke
.Some things we know to be true without a doubt include the sun rising every morning, water being wet, and Chris Rock not holding back on jokes.
Chris Rock appears to have directly addressed the joke that resulted in Will Smith slapping him at the 2022 Oscars, a controversial incident that will forever be remembered as the slap heard 'round the world.During his and Dave Chappelle's co-headlining European tour at Liverpool's M&S Bank Arena on Friday night, Rock reportedly opened up about the severity of the slap and the joke's harshness, or lack thereof, according to the comedian.«Did that s**t hurt? Goddamn right,» Rock said. «The motherf***er hit me over a bulls**t joke, the nicest joke I ever told!»The controversial episode went down at the 94th annual Academy Awards earlier this year after Rock took the stage to present an Oscar.
Chris Rock addressed the Will Smith Oscars slap during his latest comedy show with Dave Chappelle in England. Rock and Chappelle began their joint tour at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena on Thursday where they both discussed being attacked while performing shows. "Did that s--t hurt?" Rock told the audience, according to The Times, who shared a review of the evening.
Nicole Brown Simpson's sister, Tanya Brown, expressed her anger over Chris Rock's recent joke about her sibling's brutal murder. During Rock's Sunday night show in Phoenix, the 57-year-old comedian reportedly cracked that if he were to return to the Academy Awards after the infamous Will Smith slap incident, it would be like asking Simpson "to go back to the restaurant" where she left her eyeglasses before she was killed, per the Arizona Republic. "Nothing funny about his joke towards Jada as she suffers from a physical condition and nothing funny about equating an Oscar host invitation to a double homicide," Tanya wrote on Instagram.
Will Smith slapping him at this year’s Oscars. The 57-year-old comedian reportedly made the quip during a stand-up show in Arizona last Sunday when he revealed he had turned down an offer to host next year’s Academy Awards. Rock was infamously slapped by Will Smith at this year’s Oscars after making a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith while presenting an award.
Chris Rock's latest joke. On Tuesday, Tanya Brown took to Instagram to slam Rock for mentioning her sister's murder during a recent comedy set.As ET previously reported, Rock made the joke in question during a recent show in Phoenix, Arizona.
made about her sister’s murder.Tanya Brown told TMZ that the joke wasn’t only not funny, but it didn’t make sense.The 57-year-old comedian was performing in Phoenix, Ariz. on Sunday when he revealed that he was asked to host the 2023 Oscars after he was slapped by Will Smith.Rock then said that he would not go back to the Academy Awards because it would be like asking Nicole Simpson “to go back to the restaurant” where she left her eyeglasses before she was killed.Simpson was killed in 1994 at age 35 in a brutal double homicide.
Chris Rock to be opening up about the infamous Oscars slap anytime soon. ET spoke with January Harrison, founder of January Designs and Creations, who was in attendance at Rock's show in Phoenix on Sunday, where she said he not only discussed the incident between him and Will Smith at the 2022 Academy Awards, but was adamant about not speaking publicly about the slap.As many will remember, it was at the Academy Awards that Smith slapped Rock in the face after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith before presenting the award for Best Documentary Feature. Harrison said that Rock told the audience that Oprah Winfrey asked him to do a sit-down interview with her to discuss the incident, but he declined.«During the evening, he did describe that he declined an offer to go onto Oprah to do to a sit-down interview and even a Super Bowl commercial with Will Smith himself,» Harrison shared.
Open mouth, insert foot. Chris Rock is at it again with the insensitive jokes, and this time Twitter is COMING to slap him!
Chris Rock is getting slapped back once again.
Chris Rock told an audience in Phoenix, Arizona that he turned down the opportunity to host the 2023 Academy Awards. Rock was at the center of arguably the most famous moment in Oscars history earlier this year when Will Smith slapped him in the face for making jokes about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Chris Rock was once again asked to host the Academy Awards, following the televised and controversial slap by fellow actor Will Smith during the 2022 ceremony.The 57-year-old comedian revealed details of the offer during one of his comedy sets in Phoenix, Arizona, over the weekend. He explained to the audience that going back to hosting the Oscars would be like returning to the scene of a crime.Rock even made a reference to the 1995 murder trial of O.J.
Ethan Shanfeld After being slapped by Will Smith onstage at the Oscars, Chris Rock says the Academy has asked him to host next year’s award ceremony. Performing a show in Phoenix on Aug. 28, Rock told the crowd that he turned down the offer, per The Arizona Republic. The comedian apparently joked that his return to the Oscars would be like asking Nicole Brown Simpson “to go back to the restaurant,” a reference to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife, who left her glasses at an Italian restaurant before being killed. Throughout his 90-minute stand-up comedy show, Rock said the Oscars slap hurt, noting that Smith played boxer Muhammad Ali in the 2001 movie “Ali.”
Chris Rock hasn't shied away from any public appearances – or speaking out – since the now infamous 2022 Oscars, when Will Smith walked up on stage and slapped him.MORE: Will Smith jokes about difficulty of returning to social media after Oscars slapThough the comedian has appeared to try his best to move on from the incident, continuing with his stand-up shows and even joking about the altercation, one stage he isn't quite ready to face again is the very own Oscars' stage.During one of his own comedy shows on Sunday, 29 August, Chris opened up about where he stands with the Academy, and made the shocking revelation that he had been offered the hosting position for the next year's awards show.WATCH: Chris stars in AmsterdamMORE: Chris Rock shares exciting personal news after Will Smith's emotional apology videoThe confession came during his stand-up show at the Arizona Financial Theatre in downtown Phoenix, and was first reported by the Arizona Republic.Per the publication, the 57-year-old revealed that he had been asked by the Academy to host the 2023 Oscars, though he declined the offer.It would have been Chris' third time hosting the awards ceremony. He previously led the show in 2005 and 2016.