Chris Rock addresses Will Smith slap on Netflix special; ‘The whole world called him a bitch, and he slapped me!?’

Chris Rock addresses Will Smith slap on Netflix special; ‘The whole world called him a bitch, and he slapped me!?’

“It still hurts,” said Chris Rock — but discussing the slap seen around the world during his latest stand-up special, he said he took Will Smith’s blow like a pro boxer.

Rock discussed the incident during the show “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage,” which aired Saturday night on Netflix, which the streaming service said was its first live event. It came a year after Smith slapped Rock on live TV at the 94th Academy Awards.

“Everybody knows what happened to me,” Rock said. “People ask, ‘Did it hurt?’ It still hurts! … But I’m not a victim … I took that hit like Pacquiao.” Manny Pacquiao is a former professional boxer.

Rock also said, “Will Smith practices ‘selective outrage.’ I didn’t have anything to do with that s—. I didn’t have any ‘entanglements,’” he said, referring to allegations Smith’s wife Jada cheated on her husband.

Rock claimed that Jada Pinkett Smith started the whole feud when she told Rock he shouldn’t work the Oscars because her husband didn’t get nominated for the movie “Concussion.”

Rock also joked he watches the movie “Emancipation” now, just to see Smith “get whipped.”

The show was aired live from the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore in front of a sell-out crowd.

“I’m gonna try to do a show tonight, without offending nobody, because you never know who might get triggered,” Rock said near the start of the show.

“I have no problem with the wokeness,” the comedian continued. “The thing I have a problem with is the selective outrage. One person does something, they get canceled. Another person does the exact same thing — nothing. You know, the kind of people who play the Michael Jackson songs but won’t play R. Kelly. Same crime, one of them just got better songs.”

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Rock also talked about corporate virtue signaling and took shots at Meghan Markle, implying she should have known the British royal family would be racist toward her.

“It’s the royal family! You didn’t Google these motherf—s?” he quipped.

He also touched on abortion, saying there’s a “part of him that’s pro-life,” but that he wants his daughters to “live in a world where they have complete control over their bodies.”

“I think you should be able to kill a baby until you get that first report card,” Rock joked.

Before Rock’s live stand-up show, there was “The Show Before the Show,” presented by Netflix’s comedy arm, “Netflix is a Joke,” and hosted by comedian Ronny Chieng.

“You gotta give credit for the tech companies inventing something that’s already existed,” Chieng joked before the event. “We’re doing a comedy show on Saturday night, live.”

Comedians Dana Carvey and David Spade hosted a post-show roundtable live after Rock’s special.

Evan Rosen

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