Chris Rock Jokes About Being Slapped By ‘Suge Smith’ Hours After Will Smith’s Apology Video

Chris Rock remains to be cracking some jokes concerning the notorious slap from Will Smith.

As you understand, the 53-year-old actor stormed the stage and smacked Chris throughout the face throughout the Academy Awards earlier this 12 months after the comic poked enjoyable at Jada Pinkett-Smith’s shaved head, evaluating her to a personality within the film G.I. Jane. The 50-year-old discuss present host has been open about her struggles with alopecia prior to now, so Will clearly didn’t take the joke too kindly. Since then, Chris has not been shy about making some jokes right here and there concerning the messy state of affairs all through his Ego Loss of life World Tour — and that was no totally different when he took the stage this week.

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Hours after Will dropped an apology video for the incident on Friday, the 57-year-old carried out on the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. Though he didn’t immediately handle the newest assertion from the King Richard star, he did make it clear he doesn’t see himself as a sufferer following the slap. He mentioned on the time:

“Everyone is making an attempt to be a f**king sufferer. If all people claims to be a sufferer, then no person will hear the actual victims. Even me getting smacked by Suge Smith … I went to work the following day, I acquired children.”

It appears to be like like Will has a brand new nickname, now. In case you didn’t know, the “Suge Smith” half is in a play on the identify of Marion “Suge” Knight, the previous CEO of Loss of life Row Information who’s at present spending time in jail for voluntary manslaughter. Chris continued:

“Anybody who says phrases harm has by no means been punched within the face.”

As we talked about, the brand new feedback got here shortly after Will made a private video message through which he apologized to Chris and his household for what went down on the Oscars. The Aladdin star claimed that he acquired phrase that the Madagascar star was “not prepared to speak” and would “attain out” when he was prepared to take action. Will went on so as to add:

“I’ll say to you, Chris, I apologize to you. My conduct was unacceptable, and I’m right here everytime you’re prepared to speak. I wish to apologize to Chris’s mothe. I noticed an interview that Chris’s mom did. And that was one of many issues about that second I simply didn’t understand. I wasn’t considering however how many individuals acquired harm in that second. So I wish to apologize to Chris’s mom. I wish to apologize to Chris’s household. Particularly Tony Rock. We had a terrific relationship. Tony Rock was my man. And that is that is most likely irreparable.”

Hopefully, the 2 can transfer previous this example quickly. Ideas on what Chris needed to say after the apology video, Perezcious readers? Tell us within the feedback under.

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