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In his live Netflix comedy special over the weekend, Chris Rock finally addressed the Will Smith Oscars slap drama. He told the audience...

He said, "I got parents! A ni**a he know he can beat, that is some bi**h a** sh*t." View this post on Instagram

Chris Rock has taken aim at Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, almost a year to the day that Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.

[Smith shocked social media fans by making a joke about the Chris Rock Oscars slap](https://www.cityam.com/will-smith-shocks-by-making-joke-about-chris-rock-oscars-slap/). “And for people that don’t know what everybody know(s)… Rock added: “Everybody in here [has] been cheated on. “Cause everybody knows what the f— happened. Now, I normally would not talk about this s— but for some reason, these n—– put that s— on the Internet.” Everybody that really knows, knows I had nothing to do with that s—.

A year after Chris Rock was slapped in response to a joke he made about Will Smith's wife, the comedian is finally ready to talk about it.

While it provided a suitably pithy ending to the special, it also offered a glimpse of what could have been, had Rock talked a bit more about what it means to be a Black man beneath the crushing glare of the spotlight. In Rock’s view, the cause of the slap was Smith’s misdirected anger over his wife’s affair with musician August Alsina, and the humiliation of it becoming public knowledge. “The last thing I need is another mad rapper,” he says as he ponders Snoop Dogg’s excess of endorsement deals and pokes fun at Jay-Z’s ability to attract a woman as sublime as Beyoncé. A shock to viewers of the broadcast, the altercation overshadowed the night’s winners and completely shattered the facade of awards-season camaraderie. Smith’s experiences post-slap have been well documented—the actor has since released a public apology, undergone a formal inquiry by the Academy, and received a decade-long ban from the ceremony for his conduct—but Rock, a master of the comeback, has remained mum. It’s been nearly a year since Smith interrupted Rock’s presentation of best documentary feature by storming the stage and striking him across the face in response to a joke directed at Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

In his new Netflix Special, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage, the comedian took a direct dig at the royal family and Meghan Markle's claims of racism.

Prince Harry and Meghan tied the knot on May 19, 2018, and have two children -- Archie and Lilibet. They're the Sugarhill Gang of racism. They're the OGs of racism. It's the royal family, they're the original racists. It's so hard, it's very hard — but it ain't as hard as a white girl trying to be accepted by her Black in-laws. (Also read: [Chris Rock on Will Smith's Oscars slap in Netflix special: ‘I’m not a victim baby, you will never see me on Oprah...'](https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/chris-rock-on-will-smith-s-oscars-slap-in-netflix-special-i-m-not-a-victim-baby-101678001986669.html))

There were, of course, Will Smith jokes in Chris Rock's new Netflix show. Here's what he said about the 2022 Oscars slap, plus all of the other highlights.

During the closing segment, Rock also responded to the vocal minority of people who bashed him for not retaliating in the moment. “Will Smith played Muhammad Ali in a movie. “Now, I watch Emancipation, just to see him get whupped.” “She hurt him way more than he hurt me,“ Rock said. Coming out to Baby Keem’s “Family Ties,” dressed in all white and commanding the stage with signature aplomb, Rock was clearly charged up. The comic also drew attention to the size disparity between himself and Smith, who is known for playing muscular action stars.

People have called out Chris Rock over getting a fact about Will Smith wrong for a joke he made during his Netflix special where he addressed 'slapgate'.

And a disservice to Jack Black, Robert De Niro, and Michael Imperioli who did play the sharks in it'. Don't fight in front of white people.' Will Smith played Muhammad Ali in a movie.' [Meghan Markle](/tvshowbiz/meghan-markle/index.html)'s who was spotted laughing backstage, according to [Page Six. 'Everybody called him a b**ch, and who's he hitting? Will Smith does movies with his shirt off.

In a stand-up special on Netflix, Chris Rock finally addresses the moment when Will Smith slapped him across the face at the Oscars after a joke about ...

"She hurt him way more than he hurt me." "Anybody who say words hurt has never been punched in the face." Like didn’t she hit the light-skinned lottery?”

Chris Rock said "some of that s*** [Meghan Markle] went through was not racism. It was just some in-law s***," in the latest swipe by a high profile ...

"Well, I certainly don't see myself as a victim," he said. No one's rooting for us but you'll tune in to watch anyway." It's so hard, it's very hard—but it ain't as hard as a white girl trying to be accepted by her Black in-laws. comedians to take aim at [Prince Harry](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/prince-harry) and Meghan in his Baltimore show, which was broadcast live on the streaming platform on March 4. "I'm like, 'That's not racist,' cause' even Black people want to know how brown the baby gonna be. "Because she's complaining, I'm like, 'What the f--- is she talking about?' 'Oprah, they're so racist, they wanted to know how brown the baby was going to be.' "Black girl trying to be accepted by her white in-laws. We check behind them ears." There was like a hunt for the royal racist. "Unconscious bias, yes. Acting all dumb like she didn't know nothing. [Netflix](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/netflix) stand-up comedy special as he said: "Didn't she hit the light-skinned lottery?"

He shows that an artist at the top of his game can take being a victim of assault, and beat his perpetrator with the truth he wrings out of the experience.

If nothing else, Rock gave us the bedrock from which we can build a fantasy of the power of free speech – and enjoy, vicariously, the most ridiculous and dangerous forms of selective outrage being taken down. As does the fact that Will Smith chose to hit the one person he could physically overpower while the latter was just doing his job — not the rappers who could thrash him, or athletes who could pummel him with ease. He is willing to say that not all inequalities are equal, and that going through the world calling every bad experience a traumatic one is a bit much. He pulled no punches about Jada Pinkett-Smith, or the fact that her husband was the butt of jokes from rappers, athletes and boxers. Or when he points to the Capitol riots, and how white people are trying to overthrow themselves – “take the country back from who? A magician’s trick consists of three parts, at least according to Michael Caine in The Prestige (2006): The first is the Pledge, when you are shown something ordinary – say, a rabbit.

Meghan Markle: Close friend Janina Gavankar seen laughing at Chris Rock's Netflix special as he mocks Prince Harry and his wife.

I speak for myself." "So, she's happy for you to be talking today?" But I will say, I don't speak for them. And there are many emails and texts to support that." We watched the special together actually," Janina said. "I'm like, 'What …

According to Rock, Pinkett Smith tried to get him to step down from hosting that year's Oscars ceremony as her husband failed to secure a Best Actor nomination ...

[Rock made a glaring mistake about Smith when he was roasting the actor](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/chris-rock-will-smith-error-shark-tale-b2294745.html). “Keep my wife’s name out your f***ing mouth,” he bellowed after returning to his seat. He also said: “It’s not fair that Will was this good and didn’t get nominated. [ejected from the Academy for 10 years](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/will-smith-chris-rock-oscars-slap-b2050278.html) as a result of the slap. [who he claims “started” their feud back in 2016](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/chris-rock-jada-pinkett-will-smith-concussion-b2294679.html). [Chris Rock](/topic/chris-rock) made about [Jada Pinkett Smith](/topic/jada-pinkett-smith) at the [Oscars](/topic/oscars) in 2016 has resurfaced after his latest [Netflix](/topic/netflix) special.

The comedian used his Netflix live special “Selective Outrage” to hit back at Will Smith, who struck Rock during the 2022 Oscars. Rock had previously declined ...

However, [when we went hands-on with the tool](https://www.prdaily.com/hands-on-with-bings-chatgpt-integration-for-pitching-and-more/), we found it to be a big improvement over the standard ChatGPT. And be aware of the power you wield over a younger, more trusting audience. Tyson Foods, in particular, jumped on the trend early in 2019. Don’t ask your more senior audience to put a great deal of faith in social media. He told his story in his way (we can’t quote most of it due to his trademark profanity), on his terms and on his timeline. We could wind up in a Betamax/VCR situation where one tool becomes completely dominant, and the others evaporate. The notoriously censorious Chinese government is already pressuring the company to shut the tool down, concerned that it could spread unapproved information within the country. Why it matters: Rock took an unconventional choice in waiting so long to address one of the biggest news stories of 2022. Its rollout is expected in “coming weeks,” The Verge reported. The name “ChatGPT” has become synonymous with the clever AI bots who are doing everything from writing code to writing recipes and planning your next vacation. But it’s a calculated communications risk based on available data. We could wind up in an Apple/Android duopoly.

Social media had plenty to say about Rock's comments during his live Netflix special, 'Selective Outrage.'

Chris Rock slammed businesses for attempting to embrace woke culture in his new Netflix special 'Selective Outrage.' See what he said about Lululemon and ...

Rock's reported [net worth is about $60 million](https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/richest-comedians/chris-rock-net-worth/). Me." [poor](https://ew.com/tv/chris-rock-daughter-kicked-out-school-selective-outrage/)." To illustrate his point, he called out people typing their criticism tweets "on a phone made by child[ren]." Now, if somebody wants your job, they just wait for you to say some dumb s**t," he said within the first couple minutes of his set. [Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/chris-rock-sets-netflix-stand-938106/).

A year after Will Smith smacked him on the Academy Awards stage, Chris Rock finally gave his rebuttal in a forceful stand-up special, streamed live on ...

“You’ve got to give it to the tech companies for inventing something that existed for decades,” said Chieng. He added that he was “still kind of processing what happened.” Rock said the reason why he didn’t physically retaliate at the Oscars was because “I got parents.” “I did not have any entanglements,” said Rock. Netflix added pre- and post-show bookends of star-studded live programming with, as host comedian Ronny Chieng said, “every comedy legend who owes Netflix a favor.” Bono lent a opening introduction. The comedian on Saturday referenced Pinkett Smith’s earlier confessions of having an “entanglement” with another man while married. If I’m in a movie getting open-heart surgery, I got on a sweater.” Rock, who also riffed on how he’d respond if his father transitioned to a woman (he would support him, Rock said), made clear “Selective Outrage” was not going to be just a Will Smith show. I got ‘Summertime’ ringing in my ears.” This guy does movies with his shirt off,” said Rock. “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage,” streamed live from the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, marked Netflix’s first foray into live streaming. Everybody knows,” Rock said.

Chris Rock filmed his new Netflix special, Selective Outrage, in Baltimore, but apparently the location was not chosen at random, as it is the birthplace of ...

"I've been rooting for Will Smith all my life...now I watch 'Emancipation' just to see him get his ass kicked." I'm going to try my best, because you never know who you might provoke," Rock said as he opened his show from Baltimore. "Everybody knows what happened to me, getting slapped in the face by Suge Smith," Rock said. 'It felt like Chris Rock did his show in Baltimore just to be able to close on Jada Pinkett Smith in her hometown. I took that punch like Pacquiao." "I'm going to try to do a show tonight without offending anybody.

Chris Rock slammed Meghan Markle, the Kardashians, and Will Smith in his new Netflix comedy special "Selective Outrage," which aired on Saturday.

Rock joked that God appeared to Robert Kardashian and said that his daughters will only date "crazy" Black people after he committed "the sin of helping to free O. "Kris Jenner is like the Statue of Liberty," Rock said. Rock ended the round of jokes by saying: "The Kardashians are inclusive. "I need you to kick my daughter out of this school," he recalled telling the dean. "And now, I watch The comedian then added: "I believe women should have the right to kill babies. I believe you should have the right to kill as many babies as you want. They wanted to know how brown the baby is going to be.' I'm like, that's not racist because even Black people want to know how brown the baby going to be." They're the Sugarhill Gang of racism." I'm like, what the fuck is she talking about," Rock said." He gets his dick sucked," Rock said. Rock continued: "They're the original racists.

Smith slapped Rock during the 94th Academy Awards after the comedian joked about Smith's wife. Rock said his parents taught him not to fight "in front of white ...

](https://www.insider.com/4-women-with-alopecia-share-how-theyve-faced-bullying-discrimination-2022-3) [Sheila Bridges, who spoke with Rock about living with alopecia for his 2009 documentary, "Good Hair," wrote in a now deleted Instagram post](https://www.insider.com/chris-rock-oscars-joke-criticism-good-hair-alopecia-sheila-bridges-2022-3): "Shame on you @chrisrock Didn't we sit down and talk at length about how painfully humiliating and difficult it is to navigate life as a bald woman in a society that is hair obsessed? [David Dennis Jr., an author and Andscape senior writer, wrote](https://twitter.com/DavidDTSS/status/1632373072752721920): "The most Chris Rock thing about all of this is him screaming that you don't fight in front of white people but not even considering what it means to make jokes about a BW and her hair in front of white people." As he wrapped up, Rock spoke about why he didn't hit Smith back: "A lot people go, 'Chris how come you didn't do nothing back? Sure." [Philly Mag editor Ernest Owens tweeted](https://twitter.com/MrErnestOwens/status/1632462934541586432): "Misogynoir in comedy is Chris Rock joking that Black people don't fight in front of white people while proceeding to call a Black woman a bitch in front of white people after being slapped for disrespecting a Black woman's hair in front of white people at another event. [fight back against Will Smith at last year's Oscars because he was "taught" not to fight "in front of white people" by his parents](https://www.insider.com/oscars-2022-will-smith-hits-chris-rock-after-jada-joke-2022-3).

A year after Will Smith smacked him on the Academy Awards stage, Chris Rock finally gave his rebuttal in a forceful stand-up special, streamed live on ...

“You’ve got to give it to the tech companies for inventing something that existed for decades,” said Chieng. He added that he was “still kind of processing what happened.” Rock said the reason why he didn’t physically retaliate at the Oscars was because “I got parents.” “I did not have any entanglements,” said Rock. “How was your weekend?” he asked the crowd. Netflix added pre- and post-show bookends of star-studded live programming with, as host comedian Ronny Chieng said, “every comedy legend who owes Netflix a favor.” Bono lent a opening introduction. The comedian on Saturday referenced Pinkett Smith’s earlier confessions of having an “entanglement” with another man while married. This guy does movies with my shirt off,” said Rock. I got `Summertime’ ringing in my ears.” If I’m in a movie getting open-heart surgery, I got on a sweater.” Everybody knows,” Rock said. Only occasionally did Rock’s material dovetail with the 2022 Oscars, like it did when Rock joked about the oddity of Snoop Dogg becoming such a venerated pitch man for advertisers.

Not holding back. Chris Rock weighed in on Meghan Markle's allegations about experiencing racism within the royal family during his new Netflix stand-up ...

Chris Rock at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore. The problem with “Selective Outrage,” Chris Rock's new Netflix special, is that much of the material feels ...

The problem with the new special is that much of the material feels like mere pretense, a half-thought prelude to the evening’s main draw, which has been strategically left for the end—the better to retain a rubbernecking viewership. Meanwhile, a white C student just happens to be the President of the United States.” From “Selective Outrage”: “Beyoncé is so fine that if she worked at Burger King she could still marry Jay-Z. The weakness of “Selective Outrage” lies not just in the spectre of obsolescence that looms over certain aging comedians these days. Dating women “his age”—that is, women at least a decade younger than his fifty-eight years, he clarifies—takes maintenance. Gushing about his new job, a friend tells Rock that he feels “seen” and “heard.” Rock scrunches his face. He takes us on a tour of the topical—more (Ukraine, Elon Musk) and less so (Caitlyn Jenner, the attention economy)—and the eternal (miscegenation, O. What, you think I’m wearing a wire or some shit?’ ” Rock smirks at the anti-hate signposting of an upscale brand like Lululemon: “They sell hundred-dollar yoga pants. He had the assistance of guests such as Arsenio Hall and [Leslie Jones](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/27/glam-room-dish-with-leslie-jones), who were there, as Chieng said, to “emphasize how live we are right now” and to rain hosannas on Rock—“You are the shit,” Jones said. Somebody else does the exact same thing: nothing.” The “N” lands with a guttural thud. His last special, “ [Tamborine](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/watching-chris-rock-and-america-fumble-toward-transformation),” also released by Netflix, came out in 2018, and besides a starring turn in the fourth season of Fargo it’s been a minute since we’ve seen him on the proverbial marquee. “You never know who might get triggered.” Yeah, yeah, sure, “words hurt,” he parrots, but—“anybody that says ‘Words hurt’ has never been punched in the face.” Here is his first coy reference to we-all-know-what. First, “Selective Outrage” has a thesis, which Rock puts forth early on in the set.

In a new Netflix special, the comedian finally let loose about Will Smith. The moment was fascinating, angry, and raw.

Directed by Bo Burnham and filmed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, it was introspective and intimate, delving into the dissolution of his marriage and his mistakes as a partner. A whole segment about the Kardashians felt a little warmed-over, while an incredulous run about Meghan Markle’s professed surprise at the institutional racism of British monarchy was far funnier and more inventive (he pronounced the royals the “Sugarhill Gang of racism”). [get to the fireworks factory](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get_to_the_fireworks_factory#:~:text=(fandom%20slang%2C%20idiomatic)%20To,important%20part%20of%20a%20storyline.),” to quote a memorable Simpsons line. At one point, he fumbled a line, naming the wrong Smith movie (Emancipation) for a joke that was centered on another (Concussion). Indeed, the most fascinating aspect of Rock’s new special, Selective Outrage, was the fact that it aired live on Netflix Saturday night—an attempt to tap into the immediacy of onstage comedy in a time when audiences can choose their evening’s entertainment from a hefty menu. [bizarre interviews](https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/jada-pinkett-august-alsina-affair-red-table-talk-1234703531/) that Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, did about their relationship in the years before Smith’s Oscar win.

Chris Rock was applauded Monday by the co-hosts of 'The View' for hitting back at Will Smith a year after the slap at the Academy Awards ceremony that ...

He says what he thinks and he takes the consequences,' she said. 'None of us have ever been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television. 'Because I was raised,' Rock said in response to those who asked why he didn't hit Smith back. That is a really powerful moment,' Haines said. For me, there are certain things that are sacred that you don't joke about. Don't fight in front of white people' ... Why the f**k would you do that s**t? I'm a reflection of the ones that raised me and I'm an example for the ones I'm raising. Alyssa Farah Griffin said Monday she thought it was 'smart that he [Rock] waited a year,' to deliver his brutal response and that he 'nailed it' after taking time to grapple with the situation 'I thought Chris Rock nailed it. Farah Griffin said Monday she thought it was 'smart that he [Rock] waited a year,' to deliver his brutal response and that he 'nailed it' after taking time to grapple with the situation. Chris Rock was applauded Monday by the co-hosts of 'The View' for hitting back at Will Smith a year after the slap at the Academy Awards ceremony

Nearly one year after the infamous slap, comedian Chris Rock performs Netflix's first live show. Did it live up to the hype?

[Someone] he knows he can beat.” Then there were more jokes aimed at the “Emancipation” star and his wife, a Baltimore native who didn’t appear to have any hometown fans at the Hippodrome on Saturday night. Then there was the long list of things that made it difficult to concentrate on the actual punchlines. on the internet,” Rock said, as the crowd was sent over the edge. “It felt like an opportunity to participate as a community,” said Smith. “They coming for him,” whispered a woman to her friends, certain that another fan was on his way out the door. It didn’t seem to matter much how tired some of the material felt. “Someone could like transmit a signal or something.” What in the Mission: Impossible? A middle-aged man in a Crocodile Dundee hat and low-hanging plumber jeans could not control the occasional urge to lift his T-shirt up over his stomach. “Sit down,” demanded Rock from the stage as the audience, all too happy to be rid of this outlier, cheered. Nary a joke had been told or celebrity score settled (more on that later), but the crowd was Rock’s to lose from the second the 58-year-old comedian and actor stepped foot on the stage. Instead, it was a on-the-nose set full of some good jokes, some major whiffs — until, of course, he finally got to the slap for about eight minutes. A mix of walking down the aisle and birthday shenanigans.

During his March 4 special the comedian, who is known for courting controversy, turned to an issue that most celebrities won't touch: abortion.

I believe you should have the right to kill as many babies as you want. “I believe women should have the right to kill babies,” Rock said. Kill them all, I don’t give a [expletive].

One year after the infamous Oscars slap, Chris Rock finally hit back at Will Smith during his livestreamed Netflix standup special, 'Chris Rock: Selective ...

It’s so hard, it’s very hard — but it ain’t as hard as a white girl trying to be accepted by her Black in-laws.” Rock claimed that everyone nowadays, including Markle, is “trying to be the victim,” even when they are not. “Black girl trying to be accepted by her white in-laws,” Rock said. Kris Jenner is like the Statue of Liberty.” If I’m in a movie getting open-heart surgery, I got on a sweater.” I got Summertime ringing in my ears.” (The song Summertime was released by Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff in 1991.) Smith shouted for Rock to “keep my wife’s name out of your f–-ing mouth!” “I’m going to try my best, because you never know who might get triggered,” he joked. [pleaded no contest](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/suge-knight-a-timeline-his-768773/) to armed robbery and assault with a firearm in 1995. In the profanity-laden segment, Rock said he’d always admired Smith before being slapped. The actor was [banned from the Academy Awards](https://globalnews.ca/news/8746647/will-smith-oscar-ban-10-years/) for 10 years. During last year’s Oscars ceremony in March, Rock was slapped by Smith after he made a G.I.

Chris Rock's Netflix stand-up special, which streamed live on Netflix on Saturday, was criticized for its misogynoir. He talked about abortion, ...

[Oscars](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/21/will-smith-oscars-diversity-boycott), which Rock hosted, over the [lack of diversity](https://www.thecut.com/2022/03/the-oscars-long-history-of-disrespecting-black-women.html) in its nominations (Smith was among the many people of color left off the slate after his widely praised lead role in Concussion). Several major Hollywood figures, including the Smiths, Spike Lee, and Michael Moore, [boycotted](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/18/spike-lee-boycott-2016-oscars-nominations-academy-awards-lack-of-diversity) the Oscars that year over its largely white list of nominees, and [many celebrities](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/50-cent-tyrese-gibson-call-857844/) publicly asked Rock to step down as host. [not well received](https://www.theroot.com/did-chris-rock-go-too-far-black-twitter-has-thoughts-1850190924). “Will Smith practices selective outrage,” he said on Saturday night, referencing the name of the special. For some reason, Rock targeted Pinkett Smith specifically at the time — his opening monologue that year included the [joke](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/oscars-2016-everyone-boycotting-the-academy-awards-and-why-from-jada-pinkett-smith-to-spike-lee-a6902121.html) “Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties. [Jada Pinkett Smith](https://www.thecut.com/2022/06/jada-pinkett-smith-addresses-oscars-slap-on-red-table-talk.html)’s bald head. “I didn’t have any entanglements,” Rock said, seeming to suggest Smith took out his own anger at his wife for cheating on him by slapping Rock at the Oscars six years after the affair. “Years ago, his wife said I should quit the Oscars ’cause her man didn’t get nominated for Concussion. [Chris Rock](https://www.thecut.com/2022/03/chris-rock-addressed-the-oscars-slap-at-a-stand-up-show.html)’s much-hyped stand-up special aired live on Netflix to a significant amount of backlash. ” He did, however, acknowledge that the Windsors are the “OGs of racism.” “Everybody in the world called him a bitch,” he said, referencing the fallout from the 2020 interview in which Alsina confirmed he and Pinkett Smith had a relationship. Others took issue with Rock’s flip jokes about abortion, which he repeatedly likened to murdering children.

A live comedy special wants to be electric, but with Chris Rock's 'Selective Outrage,' Netflix's first attempt at the form fails to meet its own moment.

As a demonstration of whether a live broadcast special is the best way to experience stand-up, Netflix should go back to the drawing board. Selective Outrage is a special struggling to assert itself against the impossible headwinds of its own live gimmickry, and as a demonstration of Netflix’s live broadcast technology, it is a success. Rock is trying to give us a little bit of how raw and weird this last year has been for him, but the special has filmed it like a re-creation scene from a true-crime documentary. Instead, the special’s visual approach is Here is Chris Rock once again at the scene of the awards show crime, nakedly capitalizing on all the attention he claims to disdain. None of it happened, and as a result, the biggest failure of Selective Outrage is not Rock himself, but everything around him — the direction, the staging, and the abysmal pre- and post-shows. Yet the biggest and most frustrating misstep is the direction of the special itself. In fact, the special improves steadily from about the halfway point, as the audience starts to relax from the defensive posture it assumes during his stretch of dude-comedian-with-a-podcast material and as Rock shifts into a slower storytelling style rooted in anecdotes about his children and family life. Instead, the direction treats him like a presenter at the Oscars, where the main goal is simply to see him clearly, in a mid-length shot, at the center of the frame, at all times. The structure of that pronoun joke, for instance, is so instantly overfamiliar that the impulse is to groan in dismay. The goal is to warm up the audience, get them ready for the main event, and establish the mood for the evening. At one point David Spade mutters, “We’re treading water and we’re starting to drown.” It’s pitched like a joke, but it plays like a confession. The Kardashians material seems to begin from the premise of his frustration with the digital attention economy but instead finds its way toward seeing them as an atypically inclusive American family.

Hosts on 'The View' are sharing their thoughts on Chris Rock's Netflix special, where he addresses Will Smith's Oscar night slap.

[Goldberg theorized what may have provoked](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/whoopi-goldberg-will-smith-oscar-chris-rock-slap-1235120992/) the actor’s behavior at the time, saying, “I think it was a lot of stuff probably built up. “By the way, he kept her name out of his mouth [during the special],” she added jokingly. Goldberg, who’s a board of governors member for the Academy, has previously addressed one of the unforgettable nights in Oscar history. “His ability to say what he sees is great and, you know what, this situation is never going to find a really good way to calm down. “That was his truth, that’s how he experienced it.” It’s just not,” she added. Ana Navarro seconded that statement, saying, “He’s entitled to say his truth. … I think he had one of those moments where it was just like, ‘Just stop.’ I get it, not everybody acts the way we would like them to under pressure. While the hosts mostly praised Rock for many of his jokes, some thought certain topics should have been off-limits. I’m even happier that he’s making money out of it. [Whoopi Goldberg](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/whoopi-goldberg/) concluded the discussion by also commending the comedian, saying, “He’s not afraid of saying how he feels.” [Netflix](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/netflix/) special, which I think is brilliant,” Sunny Hostin started off by saying during [Monday’s episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXuBBc4hjG4) of the daytime talk show.

Almost a year later, Chris Rock is still seething about "The Slap." During his Netflix special, he told an audience how much he now despises Will and Jada ...

Chris Rock just released his 'Selective Outrage' stand up on Netflix, and the comedian opened up about the infamous 'Oscars Slap' that happened almost a ...

I didn't have any 'entanglements.' " referring to the fact that sometime before the ceremony Jada and Will openly discussed Jada Pinkett's affair with her son's friend. Bennet Omalu, a doctor that came up with the NFL's concussion protocol. However, Rock underlined that the real reason was that Jada was angry that Will Smith was not nominated for his role in "Concussion" where he played the role of Dr.

Will Smith and Chris Rock's relationship is far from what it was before the infamous 'Oscars slap'. It seems that although Smith is feeling remorseful for ...

Much was said at the special about what happened, from stating that Chris Rock "is not a victim." He is better but still remorseful." It seems that although Smith is feeling remorseful for what he did, he has not been able to make amends.

Chris Rock just released his latest Netflix stand-up special "Selective Outrage" where he finally addresses the 'Oscars slap' However, a source close to ...

In his special, Rock said that she began the fight and that he was going to finish it, "I did some jokes about her. The source added another point of view "She never asked Chris to not host the Oscars ever. That's how it is: She starts it, I finish it," Rock said. Rock filmed the special in Baltimore which is where Jada is from, "Look where he chose to film his Netflix special. Nobody was pickin' on her." the source complemented.

A source close to Jada Pinkett Smith told PEOPLE exclusively that Chris Rock's focus on her has "been going on for almost 30 years."

Nobody was pickin' on her." And then he gives me a f–––ing concussion." Will, 54, was shut out of the Best Actor race that year for his performance in Concussion. "Jada has had no part in all of this other than being heckled," the source says. That's how it is: She starts it, I finish it," Rock said. the source adds.

A year on, Chris Rock is said to still be snubbing Will Smith's grovelling attempts to “make amends” for assaulting him at the Oscars.

Chris Rock mocked 'entanglements' in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's marriage during stand-up special.

We agreed that she had to make herself happy and I had to make myself happy,” he said. After the “Oscars slap”, Smith was In 2018, Smith admitted in an episode of TIDAL’s Rap Radar podcast that he and his wife “refer to ourselves as life partners”. While the two have fielded rumours about an open relationship in the past, both Smith and Pinkett Smith share the belief that they have a non-conventional marriage. “There’s never been infidelity in our marriage,” he said. “The only person who could give permission in that particular circumstance was myself,” she said. He then elaborated on their complex dynamic in his 2021 self-titled memoir, Will, writing that they were “suffering the brutal death of our romantic fantasies, the burning away of the idealistic illusion of the perfect marriage and the perfect family. I can be foolish, too!’ So, in the interest of redundant, repetitious, over and over-again-ness… This does NOT mean we have an open relationship...this means we have a GROWN one.” The GI Jane star went on to use the term “entanglement” when describing her involvement with Alsina. In July 2020, Jada Pinkett Smith confirmed during an episode of her Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk, that she had a relationship with Alsina. None of us have ever been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television.”

The statement came after Rock made comments about the couple during his Netflix live comedy set, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage. "Jada has had no part in all of ...

The source added: "She never asked Chris to not host the Oscars ever. Chris is obsessed with her, and that's been going on for almost 30 years," they said. "Jada has had no part in all of this other than being heckled. "Look where he chose to film his Netflix special. "Everybody that really knows, knows I had nothing to do with that. I didn't have any entanglements," he said, referring to Pinkett Smith's