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They managed to turn their onstage attacks into “punch”-lines.
Comedy icons Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock demonstrated the power of “standing up” to violence after cracking wise about the respective times they got attacked on stage this year. They dropped their assault-based sets during the Liverpool, UK leg of their current European standup tour, Deadline reported.
“Did that s–t hurt?” Rock, 57, who went first, asked the audience regarding getting slapped by Will Smith at this year’s Oscars. “Goddam right… the motherf—ker hit me over a bulls–t joke, the nicest joke I ever told.”
The Grammy-winning comedian was referring to the now-infamous incident at the 2022 Academy Awards in March, when Smith, who won win Best Actor for “King Richard” later that evening, smacked Rock for making a bald wisecrack about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who suffers from alopecia. In light of the incident, Rock says he declined to host the 2023 Oscars.
Fortunately, it appears that the comic didn’t let the attack derail his career too badly: During the recent set, Rock claimed that he returned to work the day after getting Hitch-slapped.
