“How was your weekend?” Chris Rock asked fans at his first stand-up show since being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars, acknowledging the incident only briefly during his set
by Will Smith at the Academy Awards over a comedy bit, Chris Rock acknowledged the incident only briefly before moving on to his planned stand-up routine.
“Let me do a show,” he opened, before asking, “How was your weekend?” He had taken the stage at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre to about two minutes of cheering from a sold-out audience of over 1,000 fans. A few audience members repeated an expletive-filled chant directed at Mr. Smith.
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