If comedian Chris Rock wants people to know one thing about “the slap heard around the world,” it’s that he can take a blow just like Manny Pacquiao.
Rock, 58, finally hit back at Will Smith during his livestreamed Netflix standup special, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage on Saturday night, a year after the infamous Oscars slap.
Read more: Bruce Willis’ wife pleads with paparazzi to ‘give him space’ amid dementia struggle The comedian told the crowd at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore that he was going to do his best to perform standup “without offending nobody.” “I’m going to try my best, because you never know who might get triggered,” he joked. “People always say words hurt.
Anybody who says words hurt has never been punched in the face.” During last year’s Oscars ceremony in March, Rock was slapped by Smith after he made a G.I.