Chris Rock Finally Slams Will Smith Over The Infamous Slap Last Year At The Academy Awards

Netflix held its first livestreaming event on Saturday night at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland, featuring Chris Rock's special "Selective Outrage." The comedian in the final minutes, unleashed a barrage of blistering verbal attacks on actor Will Smith, 54, and wife Jada Pinkett Smith, 51, nearly a year after the actor slapped him across the face onstage at the Academy Awards.

Rock, 58, addressed the infamous incident, referencing former rapper Suge Knight, who is serving a 28-year prison sentence after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter in 2018.

"You all know what happened to me, getting smacked by Suge Smith," the comedian began. "Everybody knows! Everybody fucking knows! Yes, it happened. I got smacked. A year ago, I got slapped at the fucking Oscars by this motherfucker and people are like, ‘Did it hurt?’ It still hurts! I got ‘Summertime’ ringing in my ear! But I'm not a victim. You will never see me on Oprah or Gayle, crying."

Rock continued, "No, it's never gonna happen. No. Fuck that shit., I took that hit like Pacquiao motherfucker!" Remarking on their size difference, he noted, "Will Smith is significantly bigger than me. We are not the same size."

"This guy does his movies with his shirt off!" the comedian exclaimed. "You've never seen me do a movie with my shirt off. If I'm in a movie getting open-heart surgery, I got on a sweater. Will Smith played Muhammed Ali in a movie. You think I auditioned for that part? I played Pookie in 'New Jack City.' I played a piece of corn in 'Pootie Tang'…even in animation, he's bigger. I'm a zebra, he's a shark."

Rock accused Smith of practicing "selective outrage," name-checking the title of his special; and referenced Jada's "entanglements." "And for people who don't know what everybody knows -- Will Smith, his wife was fucking her son's friend," he said.

The comedian then mocked Smith for his appearance on Jada's Facebook Watch show "Red Table Talk" in which they discussed her infidelity. "We all been cheated on. Everybody have been cheated on," he said. "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," Rock added. "I tried to call the motherfucker and give him my condolences; he ain’t pick up for me. Everybody called that man a bitch, fucking Charlamagne [tha God] called him a bitch, 'The Breakfast Club' called him a bitch and 'The View' and 'The Talk,' and every rapper, they called him a bitch, his wife a predator, everybody called him a bitch. Everybody! Everybody! And who does he hit? Me!"

The comedian accused Jada of telling him that he shouldn't host the Oscars after Smith wasn't nominated for his performance in 2015's 'Concussion.'

"So did I do some jokes about it, who gives a fuck?" Rock said. "That's how it is. She starts it, I finish it. That's what the fucking happened. Nobody's picking on this bitch. She started this shit."

The comedian reiterated that Jada told him that he should "quit his job" because her husband didn't get nominated for 'Concussion.' "And then this nigga gives me a concussion," he quipped.

Referring to Smith's 2022 Apple+ movie, in which he plays a slave, Rock said he previously admired the actor's movies: "I rooted for Will Smith my whole life. And now I watch 'Emancipation' just to see him whooped."

Rock explained why he didn't physically retaliate after being slapped by Smith: "A lot of people go, 'Chris, how come you didn't do, nothing back?' 'How come he didn't do nothing back that night?' Because I've got parents. That's why. Because I was raised. You know what my parents taught me? Don't fight in front of White people!"

During the show, which Netflix promised earlier in a press release that the "seven-second delay button is taking a night off," the comedian lobbed jokes at a number of famous figures including Meghan Markle, the Kardashians, O.J. Simpson, Elon Musk, Snoop Dogg, Dave Chappelle, Beyoncé, Doja Cat and Draymond Green. He touched on "wokeism," "cancel culture," transgenderism, abortion, politics, victimhood and the division in America among other topics.

Rock’s special followed a pre-show at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles that was hosted by Malaysian comedian Ronny Chieng and featured performances from Arsenio Hall, Leslie Jones and J.B. Smoove.

WATCH part of Chris Rock's remarks about Will Smith