New York, Europe Brief News – Chris Rock tore into Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith during his historic comedy special while addressing the infamous slap at last year’s Oscar’s ceremony.
During a stand-up comedy routine streamed live Saturday night, Chris Rock, 58, delivered a series of rhetorical blows reminiscent of the haymaker that Smith, 54, used to knock out an alien in his hit 1996 sci-fi movie “Independence Day.”
Rock accused Smith of venting anger over wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s May-December affair with singer August Alsina, which the couple later discussed on her online “Red Table Talk” show.
“Everybody in the world called him a bitch,” Rock said of Smith. “Everybody, everybody. And who’s he hit? Me. A n—a he know he could beat. That is some bitch-ass shit.”
Rock’s nearly eight-minute rant capped his “Selective Outrage” show at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore and came little more than a week before the scheduled 95th Academy Awards presentation on March 12.
“Everybody f–king knows. Yes! It happened. I got smacked like a year ago,” the comedian said. “I got smacked in the f–king Oscars by this motherf–ker!”
At one point, Rock likened Smith to imprisoned gangsta rap producer Marion “Suge” Knight, who’s locked up for a fatal 2015 hit-and-run with a truck.
“People like, ‘Did it hurt?’ It still hurts! I got ‘Summertime’ ringing in my ears!” Rock said, referring to Smith’s 1991 hip-hop hit with former musical partner DJ Jazzy Jeff.
