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You know, anybody that says words hurt has never been punched in the face. He started off with Japs and then got Juggy with it, right to the jugular. And for Jada, she hurt him way more than he hurt me. A year of pent-up silence from Chris Rock erupted on stage.
But everybody, the real person that Will should be mad at is his wife, after she cheated on him with R&B singer August Alsina. That his wife was her son's friend. Okay, what? Bam! Okay, now Will and Jada had addressed that affair on Red Table Talk back in 2020. "I got into a different kind of entanglement with August." An entanglement? Yes. A relationship? Yes. It was a relationship. Will Smith practices collective outrage. "I didn't have any entanglements." Everybody in here has been cheated on. None of us have ever been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television. I tried to call them, give them my condolences, and pick up for me. Everybody call them. And who's he hit me? Chris also appeared to single out Will's tearful appearance last year on The Daily Show. "That's not who I want to be. I'm not a victim, baby. You will never see me on Oprah or Gail crying. You will never see it. Never gonna happen." I couldn't believe it, and I loved it. In black, no.
Now, Chris did not stop with Will. In fact, he ended the show with it. Before that, he took on Meghan Markle's claims of racism in the royal family. "I'm like, hey, if you black, accepted by then, you need to marry a Kardashian because they accept everybody." Chris's live show was all the talk at LA's Fame, The Comedy Store, where Arsenio Hall gave us his take on the title, selective outrage. "It means that you could say something to me right now and I could kiss you. And somebody say the same thing to me later and I say, I kill you. You know, uh, that's selective outrage." Is a producer at Extra right now saying, "Can't use none of that." Not fellow SNL alum David Spade told us Chris was ready for Netflix's first-ever live event. "Chris is one of the top-tier best out there. He had an hour ready. It's not always the case." Dana Carvey weighed in on the timing of the stand-up show. "Was it an accident? It's right before a one-year anniversary of the slap, hurt around the world." Even Alex Murdoch is trying to get this show.
And today, the man whom Will played in his Oscar-winning role in King Richard, Serena and Venus Williams' father, is speaking out on Good Morning Britain. "Do you still stand by him?" "Yeah, I will stand back. I think he done the best way he needed to do. But I knew we discussed with Mr. Smith by the fact I appreciate Mr. Smith." Just last week, Will made his first award show appearance since the slap at the African-American Film Critics Association, where Will shared the lessons that he learned playing a former slave in Emancipation. "I will come back to you. It makes me teary right now. That was grateful, right? That I got to really understand." Courtney B. Vance and wife Angela Bassett attended the event. He spoke with Melvin at the American Black Film Festival Honors event last night. "Do you think now, as a community, now that he said his thing, Will said his thing, do you think that we'll be able to finally like, just let this go?" "It'll go when it's go. It's time to go. It was a very traumatic thing we all went through, um, for as a community, black, why, whatever, as a Hollywood community. It was a very big thing, and it's not going to go away just because we wanted to go away." A lot of people go, "Chris, how come you didn't do nothing back?" Cause I was raised. I got parents, and you know what my parents taught me? Don't fight in front of white people.
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