/ 06 March 2023

Chris Rock hits back

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Chris Rock, the superstar comedian who inked a deal with Netflix worth $40 million for 2 specials, has delivered the 2nd instalment in spectacular fashion, with the streamer broadcasting its first-ever live show yesterday. He’s the man 2022 Oscar-winner Will Smith belted on stage after delivering a joke about the actor’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Since then, the comedian has kept his powder dry, telling his story to a global audience a week from the next Academy Awards. “I am not a victim. You will never see me on Oprah or Gayle crying,” he said. He added that Smith’s anger that night had nothing to do with him. “I didn’t have any ‘entanglements’… His wife was forking his son’s friend, OK? I normally would not talk about this stuff, but for some reason … [they] put that stuff on the internet,” he said. And, yes, we might have substituted a couple words there… So far, there’s been no response from the Pinkett Smiths.

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