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Chris Rock Finally Addresses Will Smith Oscar Slap During Explosive Netflix Special!
Revenge is Best Served Cold and Chris Rock certainly gave the audience Goosebumps with his response to Will Smith and the now infamous Oscar Slap!
This post contains affiliate links. If you click on the links and shop any items Pharaoh Diaries Magazine gets a commission. Welcome to todayâs episode of The Gossip Diaries podcast! We are discussing Chris Rockâs explosive Netflix Special where he finally addresses the Will Smith Oscar Slap after nearly a year of pretty much staying silent, we are also talking about The Real Housewives ofâŠ
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#first the secret gay eskew episode got me downloading APPLE PODCASTS on my ipad#now i watched the whole chris rock netflix special to see him mention saw. which he doesnt#poison.txt#harmless misinformation is always funny UNLESS im the one falling for it
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Chris Rock Selective Outrage On Netflix Review | The G.A.B. Episode 112 (SAF Segment)
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Wow Smart Move Chris Rock Why Not Make Money Off The Slap A Year Later
Checkout SELECTIVE OUTRAGE ON NETFLIX WITH CHRIS ROCK HILARIOUS đ
Chris Rock Finally Decided To Speck About Will and Jada Smith We were all treated to a rather bizarre night of television on Saturday. At the Kidsâ Choice Awards, Chris Pine and his stunning pink suit received a slime treatment. Travis Kelce, who hosted Saturday Night Live!, managed to perform about twice as well as Woody Harrelson, who served as host the previous week. As everything was goingâŠ
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Selective Outrage: Chris Rock in live Netflix special. The.Last.Ten.Minutes! Powerful!
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A Year in Review: All the times Meghan Markle been publicly called out in 2023. Highlights and favorite #MarkleMoment from last year? đPart 1 of 2
These are her humiliating moments over past year that sheâs been publicly called out for in some way. All with proof, all archived from media reports around the world. Get cozy, save this post, and as always, appreciate the upvotes so it doesn't get targeted for downvotes! Posting it now as many of us will be celebrating Christmas with our loved ones. Although we are a diverse bunch, this unites us all :)
Hereâs some from 2022 to inspire you:
Harry and Megan of âoverseasâ
the Funeral candle
no Jubilee balcony
voetsek Megan
I love the part whereâŠ(YouTube comments on their Netflix trailer)
Marriott Meg
12% Rotten Tomatoes rating for Netflix flopumentary, with her cutesy (mocking) curtesy
What was your favourite from 2023?
Air New Zealandâs epic trolling tweet re Sussex Class (a truly underrated gem). Proves Meg never bought Thomas Markle his flights for the wedding, as Harry claimed in Spare. https://archive.ph/wip/chjhf
'Live to Lead' quietly dumped on Netflix New Yearâs Day. Jacinda Arden's PMO puts out a statement that when she filmed it years earlier it wasnât affiliated with Harry and Meghan. https://archive.ph/DiDzT
South Park, Worldwide Privacy Tour episode.https://archive.ph/Sqc99
Frogmore no more. KCIII evicts Harry and Meg from Frogmore. Toad Abode eviction, just leave your spare keys on the bench.https://archive.ph/PeCPQ
9 edits on a Telegraph article about Harry and Meg's 'appalling treatment' from the Royal family. https://archive.ph/wip/suU7g
Chris Rock blasts their victimhood (on Netflix special, extra irony). Points out all families speculate on what the baby will look like. https://archive.ph/3NdgW
The underrated British Vogue moment, where they posted a pic of the best wedding veils of all time of Meghan, intentionally on William and Catherineâs anniversary. The public response was epic. They were not having it. Trolled by posting pics of Catherine in her veil. https://twitter.com/BritishVogue/status/1652309496482394116
Coronation weekend: Montecito Meg will never appear in that historical record. Claims a 4 years olds birthday is more important (hot tip: kids are portable. Just like Lili was for her birthday during the Queens Jubilee). Weak PR attempt about lemon cake with lemons from her tree, and somehow Harry defying the laws of physics and time to make it back in time for Archieâs alleged party. Close second: her urban safari hike PR pap walk the next day. Honourable mention: Anneâs feather. https://archive.ph/m0fcH https://archive.ph/9BsWW https://archive.ph/7UNDp
Queen of Hertz; flees via high speed ânear catastrophic car chaseâ papped taxi âchaseâ that the taxi driver, Backgrid, and NYPD deny. 4 paps, with 1 on a bike. For 2.5 hours. Yes, a bike. https://archive.ph/EBmZ9
Spotify, bye-bye to âf$&@ing griftersâ. https://archive.ph/OWTI2
Publicly manifesting Duchess of Dior? Dior source is ânonplussed as to how the story came about.â Dior firmly stares - No Deal! Update: a few months later, Princess Maria Olympia of Greece has a Dior and Aquazura contract. Repeats the process with Cartier page six article Aug 6th. Nothing. Camilla wears Dior a few days later. https://archive.ph/wip/k0hiA
Netflix manifesting: rom coms, Bad Manners feminist Miss Havisham, Harry saves Africa (sarcasm on it not being a country), Meg to offer advice of safe birthing practices, buying the rights to a Princess who dies in a car crash https://archive.ph/wip/W9xQg https://archive.ph/wip/8COXT https://archive.ph/JDspD
âTurns out Meghan Markle was not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talentâ - United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer. https://archive.ph/wip/4TnM6
Taylor Swift turned down Archetypes Spotify appearance. https://archive.ph/VjC07
No Emmy nomination for Harry and Meghan, "devastated". Scoreboard: Meg = 0 nominations. Thomas Markle = 2 Emmy wins. https://archive.ph/wip/m3PQS
UnSussexful trends on Twitter after Harry and Meg blame their lack of success on "bad luck."https://archive.ph/CauG3
Report surfaces that Sussexes tried to bum a ride on Air Force One following QEIIâs funeral. Access denied. Also tried to tie Jill Bidenâs lemon dress the day after the Oprah interview to Meg as a sign of support. Meg sends Jill a basket of lemons. https://archive.ph/ZofTQ
Celeb âfriendsâ bail. Public reports the Beckhams arenât friends after no invite to Brooklynâs wedding, no celeb studded InterMiami game. Serena holds a baby shower, no Meg to be found.https://archive.ph/k02N8 https://archive.ph/6rfSO
No birthday wishes from the Royals. Confirms no Balmoral for the one year anniversary of the Queenâs death, despite the Sussexes confirming they will be in Germany the day after for Invictus.https://archive.ph/0IAaO
Sussexes claim to be friends with John Travolta! And he noped that one in record time.https://archive.ph/dPjLW
Meg attempt to convince everyone she was at the Taylor Swift concert in LA while Harry is in Japan/Singapore but no pics exist. Despite many actual celebs having pics there. Not a single one. Outside of the one helpfully provided to Page Six thatâs a cropped version of her pink linen suit from the Lakerâs game, Harry cropped out. Later, the pic is updated with Harry back in it after it's pointed out on this sub. https://archive.ph/DhvlY
Meg dresses in beige coat, scarf, in August. In California. Attempts to merch them, including the Nucalm (aka sticker) on her wrist, with only that cuff of the coat helpfully rolled up to show it off better. Note she has not managed to elude the pap on her âcasual walkâ, yet there is nary a pic from the Swift concert. Skills. Despite posting it on their own Insta with a promo code, one day later NuCalm denies that they are affiliated with Meg. Ouch. https://archive.ph/MVGfP
A) Meg and Harry attend Beyoncé to deflect for on the Heart of Invictus flop and rumours their marriage is in trouble. Harry manages to make Beyoncé with Meg look like he's a sulking toddler. B) Meg attempts to change the SEO results and attends Beyoncé a second night in a row, takes pics with Kerri Washington and Kelly Rowland. Kerri Washington crops Meg OUT of the pic on her Instagram.https://archive.ph/As4RZ https://archive.ph/wip/NOL8m
Megâs Backgrid planned pap, inside the restaurant, at In N Out. Allegedly buying milkshakes for a 2 yr old and 4 yr old an hour away. Which is why she's 'late' to Invictus. (Still think this was likely her assistant who hopped out of the car, went inside to take the pic, and then met her after the drive through, and they sold the pic via Backgrid.) https://archive.ph/wip/bvgjX
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Oh Dear, Oh Dear NOprah's Friend Chris Rock!đ Updated with Text
While Rock devoted his final ten minutes to the Smith scandal, the first hour brilliantly tore into touchy topics such as performative wokeness and Meghan Markle.
The comic nimbly eviscerated Prince Harryâs wifeâs never-ending outrage over the British royalsâ alleged racist tendencies.
âItâs the royal family!,â he said. âYou didnât Google these motherfâ-ers? What the fâk is she talking about âShe didnât knowâ?!âÂ
He went on: âThatâs like marrying into the Budweiser family and going, âThey drink a lot.ââ
And as for allegations about a particular member of the royal family inquiring about what Markleâs first baby, Archie, would look like: âThatâs not racist,â Rock insisted. âBecause even black people wanna know how brown the baby is gonna be!âÂ
Meghan in Montecito:
#chris rock#tom bower#worldwide privacy tour#waaagh#megxit#meghan markle is a nightmare#meghan markle is a bully#meghan markle is a liar#south park#NoOprah#revenge#TRG
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WWE Report October
Bad Blood Atlanta is done. Cody/Owens post-show altercation was lame. Looks bad, you can really tell they weren't hitting each other.
Bad Blood: Hell in a Cell going first was a good move. It got the crowd engaged early and kept the buzz going throughout the show. Great match and story telling by the two. It's up there in the top five cell matches of all time in my opinion.
The main event was wild. Hyped up from the go and what a way to bring Cody and Roman together. The run in's towards the finish of the match made sense, the fans were going nuts, Jimmy Uso returns and The Rock makes his presence felt. It had everything, it had star power. Best PPV of the year outside the Big 4.
The RAW after Bad Blood will have the world heavyweight title match, Gunther vs Sami Zayn. Not having all major titles defended on every Premium Live Event makes a lot of sense. It helps lessen the sensory overload of match stipulations, match interferences and special guests in PLEs and gives RAW and Smackdown that "oomph" it needs to be watchable.
The 6 part Mr McMahon documentary series on Netflix shed new light on the man behind the most successful professional wrestling promotion of all-time, the WWE. From the early years after taking over the business from his father to helping create some of the industry's biggest stars like Steve Austin and John Cena. McMahon has been the industry's big boss since the 80's when he launched sports entertainment's version of the Super Bowl, WrestleMania.
There isn't anything new revealed in the series but with the ongoing trial, lawsuits and McMahon's departure from the WWE, it gives a new twist to the controversies of the past and gives the viewers a reason to think, how everything unravelled for the industry's kingpin was nothing to be shocked.
New stars are on their way to make their WWE debuts like Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin, former Impact Wrestling stars.
There are new championships like the men's and women's Speed championship that's exclusive on The X platform. The Crown Jewel championship is when the top champs of the men's and women's, Raw and Smackdown, face off to decide who gets the new title on The Crown Jewel show.
Next year's SummerSlam will be a two day event with Cardi B featured.
#wwe#wwe bad blood#hell in a cell#cody rhodes#roman reigns#cm punk#mr mcmahon#the rock#summerslam#cardi b
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On Comedy and Comedians
In recent years, there's been a lot of debate about comedy and comedians, and about whether specific comedians are funny. So I thought I'd put some of my thoughts down, these are of course only my subjective opinions. I'm sure there must be a well-researched book on this matter.
Comedy is a performing art
It's very audience-based, and comedians learn how to work their audience: selecting the right jokes, presenting them in the right order, using specific inflections to deliver the punchline etc. It's no wonder that when on tour, comedians add a few jokes to their routine that are about the specific location they're in. (For example, watch Katt Williams' opening monologue at a show in Jacksonville.)
So if you listen to a comedian and don't think they're particularly funny, the first question you should ask yourself is whether you're a part of the audience they're speaking to. There are a wide range of comics doing very different types of comedy: Jerry Seinfeld does observational, everyday humour; Sarah Silverman likes to shock and takes pauses for effect; Michelle Wolf does conversational, quick-paced bites; Dave Chapelle does bit-wise comedy where you have to remember the full set; Aries Spears is great at mimicry; Jeff Ross is great at roasts; the list goes on...
In addition, comics build on the artistry of others: Seinfeld developed his niche based on Cosby, Eddie Murphy took some bits from Richard Pryor. So if you do not like one comic, there are many more you could like. One might simply not be for you, it doesn't mean they are not funny.
Jokes can be mean
The only requirement for a joke is to be funny, it might be mean, maybe tone-deaf, maybe even ignorant, but it should be funny. It might be funny in ways people are ashamed to admit, but that's what comics play on - that's their entire reason for existing.
Comics do not do shows to make people mad. It's counter-intuitive for a comic to try to displease their audience, it makes no sense on their part. They gain absolutely nothing from doing that, and they've thought about their jokes long before they say it. So trust me, they're not trying to be mean when they say something mean, they're being funny.
I agree that there's a thin line though. It gets mean when they continuously punch down on the same person, but typically comics direct a one or two jokes at a person then move on. So it's always good to think about intent. For example, Chris Rock's GI Jane joke at the Oscars was funny and relevant. It was a joke about a movie to an audience celebrating film and it was delivered perfectly.
No subject is off limits
Off-limit subjects are antithetical to comedy as an art form. You can not have a subject that people are afraid to make jokes about. It defeats the whole purpose of comedy. If you're offended by a joke because it's insensitive to something you hold dear, it's important to consider if it could be funny to someone who has no idea how dear you hold the subject matter.
You might also want to think about why you're very offended by it, most times it has nothing to do with the comedian. And I say this as a Nigerian (scams are a popular joke) and a Catholic (take your pick) who stutters (I mean...).
You have to evaluate a comic's full set
Long before comics record their specials that appear on Netflix or HBO, they go on tour. They test each joke at comedy clubs and nights they MC, they adjust and fine-tune each joke, gauging the laughs they get and how people respond to them.
When they record their specials, the jokes are ready. They know how to deliver them, when to back off, and when to double down. They also know how the audience will respond. So when evaluating a special, you can't take one joke and analyze it, you have to analyze the whole body of work. You shouldn't see a clip online and judge it, it's a bit like listening to only one song off a musician's album and passing judgement on it. You're unlikely to know what they were trying to do.
So, how do you know a joke is funny?
Comics usually play up a scene from reality and deconstruct it. It might be something they've witnessed or something imagined, they might focus on the scene's actors, the characters behind the scene, or the scene itself. They might ponder on what the outcomes of the scene were or should've been.
Then, they have to select an aspect of the scene for comedic rendering. To do this, they employ some language devices: analogy, onomatopoeia, symbolism, etc, as well as some elocution strategies. They may enlist some audience participation.
The only test for whether a joke is funny is whether the devices employed fit the aspect of the scene selected. And it's a valence test, i.e., how funny was it, as opposed to a content test, i.e., was it funny or not. The difference between a published comic and your funny friend is that the former's jokes are typically of high valence and the latter's jokes are of low valence. Whether a joke needs to be explained has no impact on whether it's funny or not, but typically the higher the valence, the less explanation is needed.
Finally,
There is the chance that you're listening to someone who just isn't funny, but unless you're in a comedy club that takes on unknown comics still trying to hone their craft, it's very unlikely.
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whether you like Jada or not, it's still harsh for Chris Rock to still make fun of her and Will in his live Netflix special
I've never been mad at Jada and like I've been watching her since Set It Off. But its crazy how acceptable it is to hate Jada you know? Like there's no sympathy for her at all. And I've never really been a fan of Chris truly since like the only thing of his I liked was Good Hair and he basically stole that from another Black woman.
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Watch "Chris Rock finally Goes Off on Will Smith slapping him at the Oscars" on YouTube
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How is brand Harry & Meghan faring in the US? Not good | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
Is America finally getting bored of Harry and Meghan? Itâs starting to look that way. Only a few months ago the pair were media darlings in the US; now they have become a bit of a joke. The animated sitcom South Park gave the first big blow to their stateside brand a couple of weeks ago with an episode featuring a couple bearing an uncanny similarity to the Sussexes. In the episode, titled The Worldwide Privacy Tour, the pair travel the globe with placards saying: âStop looking at us!â and chanting: âWe want privacy!â Harryâs memoir, Spare, is parodied as âWaaaaghâ. The couple also get advice from a PR expert who tells them to portray themselves as victims. Not terribly flattering stuff.
Now the comedian Chris Rock has taken aim at the couple in his new Netflix special, Selective Outrage. He dismissed Meghanâs claims about racism in the royal family, saying: âSome of that shit she went through was not racismâ, but âin-lawâ behaviour. He also joked about how it was odd Meghan seemed surprised by the fact the royal family might harbour archaic views. âItâs the royal family! Theyâre the original racists. They invented colonialism,â Rock said.
Polls also reflect a shift in US-based attitudes towards the pair: their approval ratings have plummeted since the South Park episode. According to polling commissioned for Newsweek, Harryâs popularity has dropped 48 points since December and Meghanâs is down 40. Now Prince Andrew, the guy who palled around with a convicted sex offender, has higher US approval ratings than the Sussexes. Though, to be fair, that seems to be because fewer people in the US know about Andrewâs tawdry dealings than they do in the UK. Because Andrew isnât parading himself on the US media 24/7 like Harry and Meghan, itâs easier for someone stateside to forget who he is. If only we all had that luxury.
How are Harry and Meghan responding to this seeming shift in attitudes? Well, letâs just say they havenât exactly put out a statement saying they think Rock and South Park are hilarious and they love nothing more than laughing at themselves, ha ha ha. On the contrary, there were rumours that they were so upset by the South Park episode that they were considering legal action. While theyâre certainly fans of calling their lawyers, a representative for the couple told the Guardian that reports the pair might sue were âbaselessâ and âboringâ.
Iâll tell you whatâs really boring: the neverending pity-me-please performance the two are foisting upon us. As a staunch anti-royalist I was sympathetic to the couple to begin with â my enemyâs enemy is my friend and all that â but the constant oversharing has jumped the shark. Particularly since it becomes more obvious by the day that their grievances are less to do with systemic inequality and more to do with feeling they didnât get a big enough slice of the born-with-privilege pie. I mean, come on, you canât go around complaining about how backwards the royals are while insisting that we plebs refer to you as Duke and Duchess. You want some credibility?Â
Give up your stupid titles.
Another unsolicited piece of advice for Duke and Duchess: read the socioeconomic room! You may have noticed that ïżœïżœeat the richâ storylines are a big theme on TV at the moment. From the latest season of Netflixâs You to the White Lotus to Succession, there are more rich-people-are-awful-sociopaths storylines on the telly than you can shake a silver spoon at. This isnât a weird coincidence. Itâs been noted that storylines about rich people tend to vary depending on the economic climate: in good times onscreen obscene wealth can be enjoyable escapism; in bad times itâs more of a hate-watch. And, I donât need to tell you, the world is currently going through âyou need to take out a second mortgage to buy eggsâ sort of times.
Finally, Harry: I know you werenât exactly the most committed student, but maybe pick up a history book. The US has something of a reputation for losing patience with British aristocrats.
Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist
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#revenge#tom bower#strip the sussex titles#worldwide privacy tour#megxit#frogxit#fraud and fraudess#spare us#like a spare
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newsone_official If Will was wrong for slapping Chris, he was wrong because it was violent and uncalled forânot because he did it in front of white people. When is the last time you heard about white people ceasing violent white shenanigans because theyâre afraid of embarrassing the white race in front of Black people?
Many people on social media pointed out, Chris Rock can bash a Black woman, joke about poor Black people and produce a whole documentary about Black hair in mixed company, but God forbid white people see him hit a Black man who hit him first.
That would be a travestyâif you care way too much about what white people think.
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Rock can bash a Black woman, joke about poor Black people and produce a whole documentary about Black hair in mixed company, but God forbid white people see him hit a Black man who hit him first.
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Iâm not sure when Chris Rock became such a controversial figure among Black people, but it must have been before Will Smith smacked himin front of the entire world from the Oscars stage last year. And it must have been some time after the mid to late â90s when he was churning out comedic classics like his specials Bring the Pain and âBigger & Blacker, because back then it really seemed like we were pretty unified in our love for the comedic stylings of Pookie from New Jack City.
And, content-wise, his comedy really hasnât changed much.
So, on Saturday, Rockâs latest Netflix standup special Selective Outrage premiered. Was it any good? Well, that depends on who you ask. In my not-so-humble opinion, most of the live-streamed set, which he performed at Baltimoreâs Hippodrome Theatre, was pretty unremarkable. Not necessarily bad, I just didnât find myself laughing out loud as much as I did when I watched Rock specials back in the day.
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Maybe itâs because, like Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr and pretty much every straight male comedian over 45, he started off his set lamenting largely fictitious âcancel culture.â It just gets tiresome to hear comedians moan about how no one can say anything even remotely offensive without getting in trouble, just before saying those very offensive things on stage without any fear of getting in trouble for it. Iâm also always baffled when Black people use the word âwokeâ in the same context white people use it.
Or maybe I just wasnât terribly interested in things like his thoughts on Meghan Markle or his family life or being single and trying to date and find love despite being a âhoe,â or his continued loud and wrong claim that women experience more social privilege than men or how everyone these days is always playing the victim. Because once it leaked that he was going to be talking extensively about Will, Jada and the slap, that was pretty much all I was tuning in for. And he didnât get to that until the last 10 minutes of the special.
Now, there are some folks on Black Twitter who think Rock should have been over it by now. Itâs been nearly a year. Chris needs therapy, not a stage. He should have addressed it when it happened, not now.
Hereâs the thing: Even if Rock wasnât still worked up over the slap, which he clearly is, he still would have HAD to address it in his first special since it happened. If he didnât, everyone would have been wondering why he didnât. The think pieces would have been about how he declined to talk about it and a million writers, Twitter users and other assorted media people would have been analyzing to death his continued lack of transparency and unwillingness to open up regarding his feelings on what happened.
I think a lot of folks are âselectiveâ in their ability to remember how the drama-addicted media actually works. Even as someone who honestly thought folks were overreacting to the slap, I wouldnât try to tell Rock how to feel about it or when he should be over it, and I would have been surprised if he stood on a stage and talked for an hour with nary a mention of the thing everyone was waiting for him to talk about, whether theyâre willing to admit it or not.
And talk about it he did.
Seriously, Rock went full 2Pac âHit Em Upâ with this one.
âYâall know what happened to me, getting smacked by Suge Smith,â Rock began before praising himself for taking the hit like boxer Manny Pacquiao and then going in on Jada Pinkett-Smith and her âentanglements,â which he blamed for all the fanfare surrounding their marital woes in the first place.
âHis wife was fâking her sonâs friend,â he said. âI normally would not talk about thisâŠbut for some reason, these nâ-s put that sh-t on the internet!â
From the Washington Post:
Rock said Smithâs masculinity was then called into question, but it was Rock who wound up paying the price. âEverybody called him a bâ-,â he said. âAnd whoâs he hit? Me. [Someone] he knows he can beat.â
Pinkett Smith was not spared from Rockâs criticism, either. Rock said it all started after comments she made in 2016, when he was hosting the Oscars a previous time. âShe starts it ⊠I finish it,â Rock said. (His version of all of this is sure to be finely combed over and debated in the days ahead.)
Again, Rockâs Ice Cube âNo Vaselineâ-style rant against Will and Jada got mixed reviews among watchers, and especially among Black people.
People, of course, noticed that he was still so affected by the slap that he messed up his final joke on the matter by momentarily mixing up Smithâs movie Concussion with his newest film Emancipation.
Speaking of which, a lot of Black people took issue with Rock saying he watched the film just to see Will get whipped. (Which, I mean, I get that itâs a slave movie and it wasnât a good look for Chris to be ârooting for massaâ as he put it, but weâre talking about an actor playing a slave getting whipped by an actor playing massa. Itâs not like Chris is cheering on slavery. Itâs just a movie and it was just a joke.)
Personally, I only had one real issue with Rockâs Dr. Dre âDre Dayâ-like roast of Will and Jada, and it came at the very end when he was explaining why he didnât hit Will back that night.
âI got parents. And you know what my parents taught me? Donât fight in front of White people,â he said.
Seriously, WTF?
Look, regardless of whether youâre âTeam Chris,â âTeam Willâ or âTeam Jada,â you have to admit Rock was on his way to giving his special a strong finish with his clap back. Why sully that by signing off with a shucking and jiving, borderline sunken place expression of fear of the white gaze? Itâs like, he came so close to sticking the landing, but, at the last second, he started tap dancing for Caucasian approval instead.
If Will was wrong for slapping Chris, he was wrong because it was violent and uncalled forânot because he did it in front of white people. When is the last time you heard about white people ceasing violent white shenanigans because theyâre afraid of embarrassing the white race in front of Black people? Rock even talked about the Jan. 6 World War White People rebellion at the U.S. Capitol, which he cited as an example of white men wrongly thinking theyâre losing power in America and playing the victim because of it. What he didnât mention is that those white people should have felt ashamed for behaving the way they did for non-white people to see.Â
And as many people on social media pointed out, Chris Rock can bash a Black woman, joke about poor Black people and produce a whole documentary about Black hair in mixed company, but God forbid white people see him hit a Black man who hit him first.Â
That would be a travestyâif you care way too much about what white people think.
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Iâve loved every single Chris Rock special so I was excited! Maybe I was too excited because it wasnât anywhere near as funny as Iâd hoped. And all the Will Smith references were spoiled by clips in the news. Ugh⊠boring & i know he could have killed it. Same oldâŠâwokenessâ complaints, âp****â jokesâŠthen FINALLY the $40 million bit & it was at the end & super short & already shown on news outlets.
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