Chris Rock has finally addressed the infamous Oscars slap he received from actor, Will Smith after he made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett on stage.

Comedian, Chris Rock has finally addressed the infamous Oscars slap he received from actor, Will Smith after he made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett on stage.

Rock addressed the assault for the first time in a Netflix special, in which he roasted Smith and Pinkett.

Since the incident happened last year, Rock had refrained from talking openly about it.

But on Saturday night, Rock addressed the issue when his new Netflix stand-up – Chris Rock: Selective Outrage – live-streamed on the platform, making the comic the first artist to perform a live show on the service, The Metro UK reports.

During the hour-long show, Chris, 58, explained how the title for his Netflix special had connections to Will, 54, for his ‘selective outrage’ and poked fun at the actor’s wife Jada, 51, for admitting in 2020 that she had an ‘entanglement’ with singer August Alsina while she and Will were on a break, a revelation the pair later discussed on her Red Table Talk show.

“Will Smith practices selective outrage,” Rock told the audience. “Outrage because everybody knows what the fuck happened. Everybody that really knows, knows that I have nothing to do with that shit. I didn’t have any entanglements.”

He continued, “His wife was fucking her son’s friend. OK, now, I normally would not talk about this shit, but for some reason, these n—-s put that shit on the internet. I have no idea why two talented people would do something that lowdown. What the fuck? And we’ve 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.”

“She hurt him way more than he hurt me. Everybody in the world called him a bitch. I tried to call the motherfucker, I tried to call that man and give him my condolences, he didn’t pick up for me.” He continued by listing all the people who called Smith a “bitch” after that interview on Red Table Talk, including Charlamagne Tha God and The View. “Everybody called him a bitch, and who did he hit? Me — a n—a he knows he could beat. That is some bitch ass shit.”

While this is not the first time Rock addressed Smith’s slap — much of Saturday’s material was present in his shows as he toured the country over the past year — they were the first comments before a wide audience as Rock headlined Netflix’s first foray into live programming, a global event that featured a pre-show and post show with guests that included Arsenio Hall, Amy Schumer, J.B. Smoove, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dana Carvey and others.

“I’m gonna try to do a show tonight without offending nobody,” Rock said, kicking off his stand-up special from Baltimore. “I’m gonna try my best because you never know who’s going to get triggered.”

He added he didn’t mind “wokeness” but isn’t a fan of the “selective outrage,” the kind of people who will listen to Michael Jackson but not R. Kelly: “same crime — one of them just got better songs.”