A pair minutes after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Oscars, and it turned clear that the entire thing was not some form of elaborate joke gone very improper, a pal texted me to ask what I considered what had occurred. My response:
“Chris Rock’s subsequent standup particular goes to be unbelievable.”
Whereas Rock did his first standup comedy gig because the Oscars tonight on the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, he’s not fairly prepared with that particular simply but. Largely, he carried out a brand new set of unrelated materials that he’d written and developed earlier than the Academy Awards. So any form of jokes about Will Smith or King Richard are nonetheless a methods off.
Nonetheless, Rock did briefly deal with the controversy and the incident publicly for the primary time. As he first got here on stage for the night, Rock quipped “how was your weekend?”
“I don’t have a bunch of s— about what occurred, so should you got here to listen to that, I’ve a complete present I wrote earlier than this weekend,” he continued, including “I’m nonetheless form of processing what occurred.” Aren’t all of us.
Shortly earlier than Rock took the stage in Boston, the Academy launched an announcement saying it had “initiated disciplinary proceedings in opposition to Mr. Smith for violations of the Academy’s Requirements of Conduct” and that after a vote by the Board of Governors of the Academy subsequent month, Smith may face suspension or expulsion from the group for his actions. In addition they claimed that Smith had been “requested to depart the ceremony and refused.” As an alternative, he remained on the present, and when his identify was introduced because the winner of this 12 months’s Finest Actor Oscar, he was allowed to gather it and provides an acceptance speech.
Again in Boston, earlier than launching into his deliberate materials, Chris Rock promised “In some unspecified time in the future I’ll discuss that s—. And will probably be critical and humorous.” We are able to’t wait.
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