Chris Rock Addresses Will Smith Oscars Controversy For First Time At Comedy Show: ‘I Am Still Processing’
etcanada.comChris Rock is back onstage and back to telling jokes after getting slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars on Sunday. Rock performed two shows at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on Wednesday night to a sold-out crowd.
Rock was met with a standing ovation once he entered the stage. After taking a seat, the crowd stood up again and did a second standing ovation in support of the comedian, ET can confirm. “Sit down I have jokes to tell, and now you’re making me misty eyed,” an overwhelmed Rock said to the crowd.
Rock began his set by asking the crowd how their weekend was, but as far as addressing Sunday night’s incident, it wasn’t going to happen at Wednesday night’s show. “I have a whole show… that I wrote before the weekend, so, if you came here for that I’m still processing it,” Rock shared. “I will talk about it, and it will be serious, and it will be funny, but not tonight,” he continued.
ET has learned that Rock started the day with a workout at a gym near his hotel in Boston and that many of the biggest names in Hollywood have reached out to the comedian and have been checking in on him since Sunday night’s incident.
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