We’re now on day five discussing anything but the infamous altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards, and it seems like no one is ready to stop talking about it just yet. Rock made an insensitive joke about Jada Pinkett Smith, causing her husband to walk on stage and slap Rock in the face on national television. We’ve seen every angle of the action at this point, and we’ve heard from everyone in Hollywood with an active Twitter account, but the cycle continues. The incident has now made its way onto the rock’s new stand-up comedy tour, though he hasn’t talked about it.
When Rock first took the stage on Wednesday, he made it clear that he was “still processing” the incident with Smith and that he would share his feelings again. During this show, someone in the crowd yelled “F—Will Smith” while the rocker was on stage and the comedian simply ignored it. On Thursday, at the same place in Boston (The Wilbur), another member of the audience shouted the same phrase, but this time Rock quickly shut it down.
After an audience member mocked Smith during Thursday’s rock group, the comedian made it clear that he didn’t want that to continue. Pause to address the crowd by repeating “No, no, no, no, no.”
At the start of the Boston Show Wednesday, Rock briefly addressed the situation, realizing it would be impossible not to say anything in his first public appearance since Sunday’s Oscars. LAPD approached Rock right after Smith slapped him during the awards ceremony but he refused to press charges.
“how was your weekend?” Rock asked the crowd on Wednesday. “I don’t have a lot of bullshit about what happened, so if you come to hear that, I have a whole show I wrote before the end of this week. I’m still processing what happened. So at some point we talk about this bullshit. And it’s going to be serious and funny.”
“Violence in all its forms is toxic and destructive,” Smith wrote on a social media post on Monday. “My behavior at the Oscars last night was unacceptable and unwarranted. The jokes on my account are part of the job, but the joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to handle and her reaction was emotional.”
“I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris,” he added. “I was out of line and I was wrong. I feel embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I wanted to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.”
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