Chris Rock takes to comedy mic, still processing Oscar slap
31.03.2022 - 07:47
/ msn.com
slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars, received several standing ovations at a soldout show in Boston before he even told one joke. But Rock only briefly addressed the slap, saying he was “still kind of processing what happened" Sunday. He never mentioned Smith nor his wife by name.
“Other than the weird thing, life is pretty good,” Rock said at one point midway through his first of two sets. The nighttime performances in Boston came just three days after Smith struck the comedian for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Rock wore all white for his performance and seemed to be almost embarrassed by the multiple standing ovations he received.
As the applause carried on for minutes — with fans yelling “I love you, Chris!” — the comedian appeared to be getting emotional, a guest seated near the stage told The Associated Press. “How was your weekend?” Rock joked before getting into his set. Ticket prices skyrocketed after the Oscar confrontation, but the comedian made clear he wasn’t going to talk at length about it Wednesday.
“If you came to hear that, I’m not . . .
I had like a whole show I wrote before this weekend,” Rock said. Though he never touched on the Smith confrontation at the Academy Awards, he spent much of the night skewering celebrities and politicians. Among them were the Duchess of Sussex, the Kardashians, as well as President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and former President Donald Trump.
Members of the audience shouted their support for the comedian. At least one person yelled that Rock should sue Smith. Outside the venue, a fan showed off a T-shirt featuring the “G.
I. Jane” logo and Pinkett Smith’s face. Another had a shirt he made that showed Smith's face and displayed a crude joke about the
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