Netflix appears to have corrected a joke about Will Smith that Chris Rock made during his stand-up special, Selective Outrage.
Will, 54, smacked the former SNL player, 58, across the face after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett-alopecia Smith’s at the 2022 Academy Awards.
Everyone Despises The creator hadn’t publicly addressed the terrible occurrence, which made headlines across the world, but now revealed his perspective on the matter in the hour-long set a year later.
Chris mocked the pair, claiming that Jada “started everything” by demanding that Chris “leave” hosting the Oscars since Will was not nominated for his picture Concussion.
But, in the original version of Selective Outrage, which was live-streamed on Wednesday, Chris mispronounced the title of the film, destroying his punchline about the smack.
He said: ‘Years ago, his wife said I should quit the Oscars. I shouldn’t host ’cause her man didn’t get nominated for Emancipation.’
‘The biggest piece of s**t ever. Okay, so the n****r gives me a f***ing concussion. No, not Emancipation, I f****d up the joke. Concussion.’
But, if you watch the Netflix special today, you’ll see that Emancipation has been changed to Concussion, and the part in which the Grown Ups actors admit to messing up the joke appears to have been removed.
Fans with keen eyes had caught the gaffe, with several criticising on Twitter that he had ‘botched’ the joke.
One wrote: ‘Feel so bad for Chris Rock. He waited a year to get his revenge against his bully and wrote an AMAZING final 10 minutes to his live special… then fumbled the last joke delivery on Concussion/Emancipation. Still spectacular of course but could’ve been out of this world.’
‘Chris Rock really did have a year to practice that Will Smith concussion joke and choked on stage,’ another lamented.
Several viewers pointed out that Netflix has ‘corrected’ the Concussion-Emancipation gaffe in the days following Selective Outrage debuted.
Several speculated that Netflix ‘removed’ the error, with one social media user questioning, ‘Did Netflix edit the Chris Rock show to remedy the Concussion joke?’
Chris also made a joke about Jada revealing in 2020 that she had a ‘entanglement’ with musician August Alsina when she and Will were on a hiatus, which the two subsequently discussed on her Red Table Talk programme.
‘Will Smith practices selective outrage. Everybody that really knows knows I had nothing to do with that s***. I didn’t have any entanglements,’ Chris told the audience who were in hysterics throughout the whole bit.
He continued: ‘His wife was f****** her son’s friend. Now, I normally would not talk about this s***, but for some reason, these n***** put that s*** on the internet. I have no idea why two people that talented would do something that low-down
‘We all been cheated on. Everybody in here has been cheated on. None of us have ever been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television. None of us. … Why the f*** would you do that s***? She hurt him way more than he hurt me, okay?’
Nevertheless, a source told Entertainment Tonight that the joke hasn’t gone down well with Will, who is ’embarrassed and wounded’ by the routine.
Source My Celebrity Life.