Inside Chris Rock's Emotional First Stand-Up Shows Since Will Smith Incident at Oscars

spoken out about the incident, which resulted in Smith resigning from the Academy and getting banned from attending the Oscars (and all other Academy events) for 10 years.

Shortly after Will Smith, 53, walked on stage and slapped comedian Chris Rock, 57, in the head for a joke he made about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, 50, at this year’s Oscars, LAPD said that Chris would not be pressing charges against Will — a decision that left many stunned. However, just because Chris did not choose to press charges against the fallen Best Actor winner when the incident occurred does NOT mean that he can’t still pursue such action, as Los Angeles-based criminal attorney Lara Yeretsian told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that Chris has “one year to change his mind!”

Chris Rock is ready to speak about the slap heard ’round the world. Appearing Friday at the Fantasy Springs Resort-Casino in Indio, Calif., Rock broached Topic A right from the start of his show.

It appears that Chris Rock will only open up about getting slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars if he’s compensated for it.

Staying quiet. Chris Rock told an excited crowd that he wouldn’t be speaking out about getting slapped by Will Smith just yet.

Chris Rock still hasn't discussed his encounter with Will Smith at the Oscars, but he is referencing the moment during his comedy shows. During a tour stop at the Borgata Event Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Saturday the comedian joked that he was too close to Smith's hometown of Philadelphia to «get into it.»«Chris' show started really late due to the no cell phone policy.

Tatyana Ali wasn’t happy to see the altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars last week.

Chris Rock faced some hecklers during the second night of his comedy tour. Less than a week after Will Smith slapped the comedian at the Oscars over a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, audience members made their feelings about the incident known during Rock's second night of shows in Boston, Massachusetts. A source tells ET that two hecklers interrupted Rock's set.

Leave the heckling at home. Chris Rock reportedly shut down a fan’s negative comment about Will Smith during a live show days after the duo’s Oscars drama.

Oscars producer Will Packer is breaking down what went down at the 94th Academy Awards before and after Will Smith approached the stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock for joking about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head. In a televised interview on Friday, Packer revealed he was watching offstage when Rock took the stage to present the best documentary feature award. "I said, ‘Watch this, he’s going to kill.’ I knew he had an amazing lineup of jokes that we had, we had them in the prompter.

People still have plenty of questions about Chris Rock and Will Smith’s feud after the King Richard actor issued an apology to the comedian for smacking him across the face at the 94th Annual Academy Awards. Among them is whether or not the pair have even officially spoken after the incident—and now, Rock is letting us know the truth.

Chris Rock made his first statements about Will Smith and what went down at the 2022 Oscars during his Ego Death Tour on Wednesday evening (March 30) in Boston, Mass.

A man is being accused of assaulting a police officer after he was allegedly forcibly removed from the audience of Chris Rock‘s Wednesday night comedy show at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts.

Chris Rock appeared to be in good spirits as he prepared for his stand-up show days after Will Smith slapped him at the Oscars. On Wednesday night, the 57-year-old kicked off a comedy tour at The Wilbur in Boston.The venue’s owner, Bill Blumenreich, said the star was "in a great mood" as he rehearsed. "What happened [at the Oscars], he handled it so well," Blumenreich told People magazine.

Comedian Chris Rock has been spotted looking serious and deep in thought as he continues to "process" getting slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars on Sunday night. The 57 year old funnyman had made a G I Jane joke about the Seven Pounds actor's wife Jada Pinkett Smith, 50. Jada suffers from the autoimmune disease alopecia and recently decided to shave her head to take control of the hair loss.

Setting the record straight. Chris Rock appeared to deny that Will Smith has reached out after slapping him at the Oscars.

The fallout from Will Smith's altercation with Chris Rock at Sunday's Oscars is still rumbling on. The star-studded audience and people watching across the world were left stunned when the Fresh Prince and Men In Black actor walked up on stage a struck comedian Rock in the face.

While Will Smith issued a public written apology to Chris Rock on Instagram following his on-stage attack at the Oscars, it appears that he has not done it in person yet and the two have not spoken since the incident.