A year after Will Smith smacked him on the Academy Awards stage, Chris Rock is poised to finally have his say.
The 58-year-old comedian on Saturday night will perform his first stand-up special since last year's Oscars. He's doing it in"Chris Rock: Selective Outrage," streaming live on Netflix at 10 p.m. EST. Not only will Rock present about an hour of stand-up from the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, but Netflix — in its first ever live show — will bookend the special with star-studded commentary.
While Smith has apologized and repeatedly spoken about the incident since last March, Rock has avoided all the usual platforms where celebrities often go to air their feelings. He never sat down with Oprah Winfrey, and turned away the many media outlets that would have loved to land an exclusive in-depth interview.
On the road, Rock has often worked in jokes and reflections on the slap, though it's never been more than an element of his shows. There's no guarantee that he will talk it about Saturday night, but he's widely expected to and has long suggested this would be his chosen forum. Now, after plenty of processing, Rock will be taking the cultural spotlight just a week before the March 12 Oscars, where the slap is sure to revisited by this year's host, Jimmy Kimmel. In the aftermath of last year's events, Smith resigned his membership to the film academy. The academy board of governors banned Smith from the Oscars and all other academy events for a decade.
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