Netflix special, “Selective Outrage,” the comedian finally let it rip in front of a surely huge at-home audience about the infamous 2022 Oscars at which Will Smith slapped him onstage.
A brilliant Rock pummeled Smith harder than the movie star did to that alien in his hit 1996 action movie — and to, well, Rock himself at the Academy Awards.“Everybody called that man a b—h,” Rock, 58 years old and in top form, said about the media’s reaction to Smith’s well-reported marital problems in the lead-up to the Oscars. “And who’d he hit?
Me! A [N-word] he knows he could beat. That is some b—h-ass s–t.”He joked of the physical pain: “It still hurts! I got ‘Summertime’ ringin’ in my ear!”However — and this was a through-line of Rock’s material all night — he refuses to give in to our 2023 culture of perpetual victimhood. “Right now we live in a world where the emergency room is filled with motherf—ers with paper cuts,” he said.“You will never see me on Oprah or Gayle crying.
You will never see it. Never gonna happen. ‘I couldn’t believe it! And I loved ‘Men in Black’!’,” Rock mockingly whimpered. “No!
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