I Took Will Smith’s Slap Like Manny Pacquiao – Chris Rock

Chris Rock mockingly said that Will Smith “took that hit like Pacquiao” after the Oscars smack.

During his Netflix show Chris Rock: Selective Outrage, which was the company’s first attempt at live streaming, the comic delivered the remark at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre.

The 58-year-old made light of his goal to perform a concert without offending anyone as he began his stand-up routine. You never know what will set someone off.

“Anybody that says words hurt have never been punched in the face.”

Rock’s material immediately dovetailed into the 2022 Oscars, joking about “wokeness”, hypersensitivity, and what he called “selective outrage”, after Hollywood actor Smith stormed the stage and slapped him.

He said: “You all know what happened to me, getting smacked by Suge Smith. Everybody knows. Yes, it happened, I got smacked like a year ago.

“People were like, did it hurt? It still hurts. I got Summertime ringing in my ears.

“But I’m not a victim baby, you’ll never see me on Oprah crying. You will never see it. Never going to happen.”

Joking about former boxer Manny Pacquiao, Rock said: “I took that hit like Pacquiao. Will Smith is significantly bigger than me, we are not the same size.

“This guy does most of his movies with his shirt off, you’ve never seen me do a movie with my shirt off. Will Smith played Muhammad Ali in a movie, you think I auditioned for that part?

“But, Will Smith practices selective outrage. Because everybody knows what the f*** happened. Everybody that really knows, knows that I have nothing to do with that shit. I didn’t have any entanglements.”

Rock also spoke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk interview in which she admitted having a relationship with rapper August Alsina while married to Smith.

He said: “His wife was f her son’s friend. I normally would not talk about this, but for some reason, they put that shit on the internet.

“I have no idea why two talented people would do something that lows down. We have all been cheated on. Everybody in here has been cheated on.

“None of us have ever been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television. She hurt him way more than he hurt me. Everybody in the world called him a bitch. I tried to call him to give him my condolences, but he didn’t pick up for me.

“Everybody called him a bitch, and who did he hit? Me. That’s what happened.”

A lot of Rock’s anger was also directed towards Pinkett Smith, highlighting her calls to boycott the Oscars amid the #OscarsSoWhite controversy in 2016 – the year that Rock went on to host the show.

Rock said: “She started this shit. Nobody was picking on her. She said that I, a grown-ass man, should quit my job because her husband didn’t get nominated for Concussion, and then he gives me a concussion.

“I loved Will Smith. My whole life, I loved Will Smith. He’s made some great movies. I have rooted for Will Smith my whole life. And now I watch Emancipation just to see him get whooped.”

He used the last moments of the special to explain why he did not retaliate to Smith’s slap.

Rock said: “Because I got parents, that’s why, because I was raised. And you know what my parents taught me? Don’t fight in front of white people.”

The episode of Rock also covered a wide range of other subjects, such as the Kardashians, the Capitol riot, and the Duchess of Sussex.