It was the slap heard around the world — but the world won’t get to hear one of Chris Rock’s jokes about it.
” was edited out after the comedian messed it up during the live show.
“Years ago, his wife said I should quit the Oscars; I shouldn’t host ’cause her man didn’t get nominated for ‘Emancipation,’ the biggest piece of s–t ever!” Rock said during Netflix’s first-ever global live-streaming event. “No, not ‘Emancipation,’ I f–ked up the joke.”The comedian meant to refer to the 2015 sports drama “,” a film based on the true story of neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu, played by Smith, who was the first to discover CTE, a football-related brain trauma.
Chris Rock was discussing a conversation he claims to have had with them about his hosting gig for the 2016 Oscars when he botched the joke.A joke about Will Smith in Rock’s Netflix special “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage” was edited out after the comedian messed it up during the live show.The 2016 Oscars was the same year that Pinkett Smith boycotted the ceremony for the #OscarsSoWhite movement, which protested the Academy’s history of lack of diversity.
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