During a packed stand-up set in Arizona, Chris Rock reveals the Academy has reached out to him with an offer to host the Oscars again in 2023. This comes after Will Smith infamously slapped Rock during this year's ceremony.
At a recent stand-up performance, Chris Rock reveals he turned down the opportunity to host next year's Oscars. Since leaving Saturday Night Live, Rock has remained one of the most successful stand-up comics in the business. After making waves in the late '90s with a series of well-loved stand-up specials, Rock made the leap to the big screen, appearing in hits such as the Madagascar films, and directing his own Top Five in 2014.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Despite Rock's success as the award show's emcee, any future hosting appearances were put in jeopardy during 2022's ceremony, where Will Smith infamously slapped Rock across the face after Rock made a joke at the expense of Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. The fallout from this event has been extensive for both parties, especially after Smith received a 10-year ban from attending the Oscars several months after the incident.
Rock's decision to cut ties with the Oscars is a predictable but still upsetting end to his reign as one of the more energetic hosts of the last 20 years. At the 2005 ceremony, Rock took aim at his fellow Hollywood stars, even going so far as to call out Jude Law for his ubiquity during the 2004 awards season. In 2016, Rock was not afraid to call out the Academy for its near-nonexistent display of diversity and representation, spending the majority of his monologue discussing this injustice.
The revelation that Rock was approached to host this year's Oscars, while an example of the consequences that have reached Smith but largely avoided Rock, ultimately illuminates the fact that, once again, the Academy is having trouble filling its hosting position.
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