Looks like Chris Rock is determined to get his ‘lick’ back no pun intended with a series of jokes aimed at Will Smith on his Netflix special.
According to the NY post Rock recently told a packed theater “I rooted for Will Smith my whole life,”
But now, Rock he’s hate-watching Smith’s latest movie, in which he plays a tortured, escaped slave.
“The other day, I watched ‘Emancipation’ just so I could watch him getting whipped.”
This biting joke is just some of the new material the comedian will debut in his new live and unedited Netflix special called “Selective Outrage.”
When it airs Saturday at 10 p.m. ET., Rock will reportedly speak out about the night Smith smacked him onstage at the Oscars.
A source told Page Six that “the comedian is waiting to spill his humorous take on it” in his major stand-up show.
He’s already been testing the waters. The 58-year-old comic has been trying out vicious new material about the infamous incident onstage for audiences during his “Ego Death” tour in the days leading up to the broadcast. And, according to the Baltimore Sun, Rock pulls no punches.
“Will Smith practices selective outrage,” Rock told a 2,300-strong crowd Friday, Feb. 17, at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre, the newspaper reported. “People who are in the know, know that s–t had nothing to do with me.”
Rock threw more stones. “He is significantly bigger than me,” Rock said. “You will never see me on camera with my shirt off. Will played Muhammad Ali. I played Pookie [in 1991’s ‘New Jack City’].”
According to a Deadline report, Rock previously joked at London’s O2 Arena with Dave Chappelle, “He played Ali! I can’t even play Floyd Mayweather.”
And, just as he did in the UK, he again referred to the “Bad Boys for Life” actor as “Suge Smith,” invoking the first name of the founder of Death Row Records, Marion “Suge” Knight Jr., who is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter after a fatal 2015 hit-and-run.
“Who gets smacked by Suge Smith?” Rock asked.
The juicy special will air just short of one year after Smith, 54, sensationally stormed the stage of the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 27, 2022, and assaulted Rock in full view of the audience and TV cameras because the “Down to Earth” star made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
“Jada, I love you,” Rock cracked while presenting the award for documentary feature. “‘G.I. Jane II’ — can’t wait to see it.”
Rock was referencing Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, which was a result of her suffering from the hair-loss condition alopecia.
Enraged, Smith shouted at Rock from his seat, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth” twice, stomped up to the stage and smacked Rock so hard the impact was audible.
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