chris rock has finally spoken up about
his violent encounter with will smith at
the academy awards what did he have to
say keep watching for how he addressed
being slapped by the star in his first
stand-up set since the oscars smith
slapped rock at the academy awards after
the comedian made a joke about the
actor's wife jada pinkett smith right
after he had taken the hit rock kept his
composure and managed to make light of
the situation he said will smith just
smacked the out of me that was the
greatest night in the history of
television he went on to present the
best documentary award which went to
summer of seoul while plenty of people
didn't care for his joke about pinkett
smith many viewers admired that he
seemed to keep his head after being
slapped many of his industry peers sided
with him too including adam sandler jim
carrey and amy schumer rock notably
declined to press charges against smith
after the incident but in his first
stand-up show following the oscars he
finally let people in on some of his
thoughts during his show in boston on
march 30th rock was met with
overwhelming support from the audience
he winkingly asked the crowd how was
your weekend it didn't take him long to
address the elephant in the room but he
didn't dwell much on it he said i'm
still kind of processing
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what happened he added that he hadn't
written much material about the slap yet
and wanted to do the set he had prepared
before any of it happened he did however
say he will discuss it at length
sometime in the future at some point
i'll talk about that and it will be
serious and funny variety spoke to a few
members of the show's audience one of
whom admitted he bought tickets right
after the oscars telecast he said i
didn't watch the oscars live but i
watched the clip plenty of times i hope
he leads his set with the whole
situation and he can find the humor in
it i think it would have been
interesting to see what he had to say
but also i'm kind of glad that he's
taking his time according to various
ticket selling platforms tickets for
rock's upcoming tour are selling like
hotcakes with some tickets being resold
for as much as eight thousand dollars on
march 28th ticket marketplace tick pick
shared on twitter we sold more tickets
to see chris rock overnight than we did
in the past month combined rumors have
been swirling that rock and will smith
could have had some interpersonal drama
before things exploded at the march 27th
oscar ceremony a source told people when
chris hosted the oscars in 2016 jada was
boycotting because of oscar so white in
his monologue he made fun of her saying
she can't boycott something she wasn't
invited to will was still mad about that
there are differing reports about where
smith and rock stand now page six
reported that the day after the oscar
ceremony sean diddy combs when asked if
there was continuing drama between the
two said that's not a problem that's
over i can confirm that it's all love
they're brothers however combs later
claimed what he said was taken out of
context telling tmz on march 30th i
never confirmed they had reconciled i
said as brothers they will work it out
and let's move on with love tmz also
claimed the day after the incident that
will and rock hadn't spoken since the
oscars telecast the academy of motion
picture arts and sciences has confirmed
that smith could face serious
repercussions for the slap seen around
the world in a statement issued to
people on march 30 it confirmed that
smith was actually asked to leave after
his outburst but refused to do so the
statement said in part things unfolded
in a way we could not have anticipated
we also recognize we could have handled
the situation differently the academy
also noted that consequences for smith's
actions could include him being
suspended from the organization the
academy's president david rubin and its
ceo don hudson were among the members
who sought to remove smith from the
dolby theater tmz reports the situation
was reportedly very tense with the
request to leave being issued very
quickly after the slap occurred smith
apologized to the academy as he gave his
speech for his best actor award his
apology to rock came later in a march 28
instagram post he wrote in part i was
out of line and i was wrong
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