A year after Will Smith smacked him on the Academy Awards stage, Chris Rock finally gave his rebuttal during his stand-up special, streamed live on Netflix.
The 58-year-old comedian on Saturday night performed his first stand-up special since last year's Oscars.
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage streamed live from the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore in the US, marked Netflix’s first foray into live streaming.
Rock, performing in all white and with a Prince medallion around his neck, immediately touched on last year’s Oscars while riffing on "wokeness", hypersensitivity and what he called "selective outrage".
"You never know who might get triggered," said Rock.
"Anybody who says words hurt hasn’t been punched in the face."
But Rock then launched into a series of wide-ranging topics examining contemporary issues, including virtue signalling, high-priced yoga pants, the Duchess of Sussex, the Kardashians, the Capitol riot and what he called America’s biggest addiction: Attention.
"We used to want love, now we just want likes," said Rock.
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage is currently streaming on Netflix
Source: Press Association
