Here are some of the Will Smith jokes Chris Rock is testing for his live Netflix special
In case you were wondering: Yes, Rock's live stand-up special this Friday is probably going to talk about "The Slap"
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Chris Rock has a new comedy special coming out this weekend on Netflix, a rare live-streaming event for the video company. The stream is set to be Rock’s biggest public performance since, well, his last one—i.e., his stint as a presenter at the 2022 Academy Awards, during which eventual Best Actor winner Will Smith took the stage and slapped the comedian, after he made jokes about his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith. And while Rock has been relatively quiet about “The Slap” in the intervening year, it’s also been pretty clear that that was as much about wanting to preserve potential material as anything else, telling audiences back in March of last year that he was “still kind of processing” the event.
Said processing appears to have run its course, though, as multiple outlets are reporting leaked jokes that Rock has been trying out in front of audiences in shows leading up to the Netflix special. And, no, in case you were wondering, Rock doesn’t seem to be in an especially forgive-and-forget mood.
Per The Wall Street Journal: “The thing people wanna know … did it hurt? Hell yeah it hurt. He played Muhammad Ali! I played Pookie (in New Jack City). Even in animated movies I’m a zebra, he’s a fucking shark.” CNN reported that Rock also said, “Will Smith is a big dude. I am not. Will Smith is shirtless in his movies. If you see me in a movie getting open heart surgery, I’m gonna have a sweater on.” And, of course, there’s a widely reported bit in which Rock says he watched Smith’s movie Emancipation “just so I could watch him getting whipped.” (That’s to say nothing of Rock’s treatment Jada Pinkett Smith; although he apparently hasn’t mentioned her by name—apparently as a nod to Smith’s yells to “Keep my wife’s name out of your mouth” at the Oscars—he has apparently been bringing up “Will Smith’s wife” and the revelation of the pair’s open marriage in derogatory ways.)
Anyway: It’s not clear how much of this material will appear on the Netflix special, which goes live on the service at 10 p.m. Eastern on the evening of Friday, March 4. But if you were wondering if Rock was going to address the elephant in the room: Absolutely. And it doesn’t sound like he’s going to be pulling any punches.
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Did Will Smith do him a favor? I feel like I’ve heard Chris Rock’s name more in the last year than I have in the last decade. Be thankful you got bitch slapped son.
That’s to say nothing of Rock’s treatment Jada Pinkett Smith
That clause is garbled.
How many celebs who cried over this said nothing over celebs performing at the superbowl? When the NFL turns its head away from so much domestic violence…
C’mon, Chris! We all saw your tuchis in Dogma
And he was in his prime!
Anyway: It’s not clear how much of this material will appear on the Netflix special, which goes live on the service at 10 p.m. Eastern on the evening of Friday, March 4 I assume that should be Saturday, March 4.
Thanks. Thought I missed it!
Aw I hoped the header pic meant they were frands again
He got in one little fight and the Oscars got scared.
This is probably a reference I don’t get, but he didn’t “get in a fight.” Someone hit him while he was on stage at a show. The reason the Oscars got scared is because they failed to do the most basic thing you do in response to that, and eject the person who did violence from the venue.
a reference I don’t getDon’t worry, it’s an obscure one:
I shamefacedly admit I forgot the line before “You’re moving with your auntie and your uncle in Bel-Air.”
You’re right, it is a reference you don’t get.
Yeah, someone beat you to it by like, three days. And I’ve already admitted I’m sad I forgot the line that kinda-rhymes with “You’re moving with your auntie and your uncle in Bel-Air.”
Man those two are wringing the last drop of blood from that stone. New rule. After this year’s Oscars, no mention of it by either of them, or anyone else. Period.
You, sir, are destined for disappointment.
I think this is the first time Chris Rock has made fun of Will Smith and being slapped in his standup.
Not to mention the AV Club, which included all of these jokes in another story about the same special by the same comedian posted on the same day.
Cool. We’re now at the point where it’s too much for the AV Club to correctly match a date and the day of the week.
to say nothing of Rock’s treatment Jada Pinkett SmithI am shocked, shocked, that a comedian would tell a joke.Shocked.
Good for him. Most people replay arguments they’ve had in their heads for the rest of their lives and never get to revisit for the perfect come back. Chris only had to wait a year.