For Chris Rock, Saturday night was like his own “Independence Day.”
During his hysterical life Netflix special, “Selective Outrage,” the comedian finally allowed himself to burst out in front of what was surely an enormous audience at home in regards to the infamous 2022 Oscars where Will Smith slapped him on stage.
Good Rock hit Smith harder than that alien movie star in his 1996 blockbuster motion movie – and, well, Rock himself on the Oscars.
“Everyone called this man ab-h,” Rock, 58, and in top form, said of the media response to Smith’s widely reported marital problems within the run-up to the Oscars. “Who did he hit? I! AND [N-word] knows he can beat it. This is a few bd-dup-st.
He joked in regards to the physical pain: “It still hurts! I’ve got “Summertime” in my ears!”
Yet – and that was all Rock’s stuff all night long – it refuses to succumb to our perpetual victim culture in 2023.
“Immediately we live in a world where the emergency room is crammed with bitches with pieces of paper,” he said.
“You may never see me cry on Oprah or Gayle. You may never see it. It’ll never occur. I could not consider it! And I loved Men in Black!” Rock whimpered mockingly. “NO! Fk is st. I took that hit like Pacquiao!
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While Rock devoted his last ten minutes to the Smith scandal, the primary hour brilliantly cut into sensitive topics like performative revival and Meghan Markle.
The comic deftly gutted Prince Harry’s wife’s infinite outrage over the alleged racist tendencies of the British royal family.
“They’re royalty!” he said. “Didn’t you google those motherfuckers? What the hell is she saying “She didn’t know”?
He continued, “It’s like marrying into the Budweiser family and saying, ‘They drink quite a bit.'”
As for the allegations about a selected member of the royal family asking what Markle’s first child, Archie, would seem like: “It is not racism,” Rock insisted. “Because even black people wish to know the way brown the infant will likely be!”
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A few of Rock’s most vicious – and imaginative – material involved what he called “selective outrage,” or the tendency of society to decide on whom to question for committing kind of the identical acts.
“One person does something, they get canceled. One other person does the very same thing, nothing,” he said. He’s furious with “individuals who play Michael Jackson songs but don’t need to play R. Kelly. Same crime – considered one of them only has higher songs.
Rock can be fed up with corporate brands taking empty positions on necessary issues to realize awakening points. He said he saw an indication on the Lululemon sportswear store denouncing racism and hatred.
“Who gives af-k?” he said. “You are just selling yoga pants!”
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But this was the section of Smith everyone had been waiting for, and you may feel Rock’s double nuclear energy as he insisted that the “King Richard” star’s anger was completely unrelated to anything the comic had ever done.
“Everyone knows I had nothing to do with it,” he said, suggesting that Will’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s well-known affair with rapper friend of her son Jaden August Alsina in 2015 was the source of Smith’s uneasiness towards him.
“For individuals who do not know – everyone knows! — his wife fucked her son’s friend, okay? – he said. “Normally I would not speak about this shit, but for some reason these [N-word] put that shit on the web! I had no idea why two talented people would do something so rattling low!
The incredible special was an enormous win for the extremely talented Rock, airing almost a 12 months after the hit and just over per week before the 2023 Oscars telecast. On this Hollywood matchup, he’s the undisputed winner.
It was also a tragic reminder that next week’s awards show would offer us with three hours of yawning and boredom as this truthful comedian delivered 60 thrilling minutes of fearlessness and fire.