It looks like Chris Rock is healing just fine. A source told ET in June that the veteran comedian barely registered Jada Pinkett Smith’s call for reconciliation on a June 1 episode of “Red Table Talk.” “He’s not concerned with the Smiths at the moment,” the source told the outlet. “He’s touring and he’s preparing for a comedy special.”
The comic has yet to directly address Will Smith slapping him at the 2022 Oscars. He has, however, made facetious allusions to it during recent comedy shows. After his pal Dave Chappelle was tackled on stage by an audience member during the “Netflix is a Joke” festival in May, Rock took the mic and said to the crowd, “Was that Will Smith?” Rock continued the lighthearted jabs about his Oscars incident during Chappelle’s secret show at The Comedy Store two days later. With the two onstage, Chappelle joked to Rock, “At least you got smacked by someone of repute! I got smacked by a homeless guy with leaves in his hair” (via NME). Rock replied, “I got smacked by the softest n***a that ever rapped.”
Rock has been on his Ego Death World Tour since April, making it clear during shows he won’t freely discuss the March altercation. “Don’t expect me to talk about the b******t,” he told a London crowd in May (via The Telegraph), jokingly adding, “I’ll talk about it at some point … on Netflix.”
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