{"id":78436,"date":"2023-03-07T04:43:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T04:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/chris-rock-berates-will-smith-for-oscars-slap-takes-on-meghan-markle-racism-claims-national\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T04:43:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T04:43:12","slug":"chris-rock-berates-will-smith-for-oscars-slap-takes-on-meghan-markle-racism-claims-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/chris-rock-berates-will-smith-for-oscars-slap-takes-on-meghan-markle-racism-claims-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Rock berates Will Smith for Oscars slap, takes on Meghan Markle racism claims – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If comic Chris Rock<\/a> needs folks to know one factor about \u201cthe slap heard around the world<\/a>,\u201d it\u2019s that he can take a blow identical to Manny Pacquiao.<\/p>\n

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Rock, 58, lastly hit again at Will Smith<\/a> throughout his livestreamed Netflix standup particular, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage <\/em>on Saturday night time, a 12 months after the notorious Oscars slap.<\/p>\n

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The comic instructed the group on the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore that he was going to do his greatest to carry out standup \u201cwithout offending nobody.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to try my best, because you never know who might get triggered,\u201d he joked. \u201cPeople always say words hurt. Anybody who says words hurt has never been punched in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During final 12 months\u2019s Oscars ceremony in March, Rock was slapped by Smith after he made a G.I. Jane<\/em> joke about Smith\u2019s spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, who suffers from the pores and skin situation alopecia. Smith shouted for Rock to \u201ckeep my wife\u2019s name out of your f\u2013-ing mouth!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Smith later apologized<\/a> for slapping Rock. The actor was banned from the Academy Awards<\/a>\u00a0for 10 years.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Rock, who has principally averted commenting on the Oscars slap, stated the entire world watched as he \u201ctook that hit like Pacquiao.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou all know what happened to me, getting smacked by Suge Smith,\u201d Rock stated, referencing former document govt Suge Knight, who pleaded no contest<\/a> to armed theft and assault with a firearm in 1995. \u201cIt still hurts. I got Summertime<\/em> ringing in my ears.\u201d (The music Summertime\u00a0<\/em>was launched by Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff in 1991.)<\/p>\n