Chris Rock is Back - With a Scathing Comment for Will Smith, Too
Chris Rock is back...and with a scathing comment for Will Smith, too.
Will Smith allegedly slapped the stand-up comedian, 57, onstage during the 94th Academy Awards, when Chris Rock made a bald joke about the actor's wife, Jada-Pinkett Smith, who has shared her struggles with alopecia in public.
Since then, Rock has largely declined to mention the incident. However, on Thursday, at his new live comedy performance "Ego Death," he joked that words are not as painful as being punched in the face.
According to the Times of London, Rock made this sarcastic comment during his performance at the Royal Albert Hall in the United Kingdom, "I'm OK, if anybody was wondering, I got most of my hearing back."
Rock however stopped here, and said he had no plans of further delving into the controversy right now. Maybe in the future, and only with Netflix, he joked.
"People expect me to talk about the bulls - - t. I'm not going to talk about it right now. I'll get to it eventually - on Netflix," he said, laughing.
This joke is not made for the first time.
The comedian earlier indicated that he wouldn't discuss the incident until he received a cheque in his name.
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Earlier this month, Steve Harvey addressed the event that occurred during the Oscars telecast at a speech at Georgia State University.
The "Family Feud" host, age 65, referred to the "King Richard" actor's slap as a "punk gesture" and stated that he had "lost a great deal of respect for him.
The author of "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man" then stated how his faith would have helped him in a similar circumstance. He said his faith probably will not restrain him from hitting back. He called himself "undeveloped" with regard to his Christian faith and said if he was the one slapped, Jada or Will Smith's wife, would have to move out of the way because he plans to retaliate.
Will Smith's slap is still controversial even if some time has already passed, more so because the Oscars is acting all weird about it.
The full remarks from this year's Oscars telecast have been posted on the Oscars YouTube page for the past week, over a month after a hectic ceremony concluded. But it took a while for Will Smith's acceptance speech for best actor for his performance in "King Richard" to be uploaded. For a while, many reported that it was glaringly removed from the earlier uploads.
Ultimately, after many journalists wondered why this is he case, the Academy uploaded Smith's video clip.
