Chris Rock’s botched Will Smith joke edited out of Netflix special

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slap heard around the world — but the world won’t get to hear one of Chris Rock’s jokes about it.A joke about Will Smith in Rock’s Netflix special “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage” was edited out after the comedian messed it up during the live show.Rock, 58, was joking about Smith, 54, and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, 51, toward the end of his March 4 show, specifically discussing a conversation he claims to have had with them about his hosting gig for the 2016 Oscars when he botched the joke.“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!” Rock said during Netflix’s first-ever global live-streaming event. “No, not ‘Emancipation,’ I f–ked up the joke.”The comedian meant to refer to the 2015 sports drama “Concussion,” a film based on the true story of neuropathologist Dr.

Bennet Omalu, played by Smith, who was the first to discover CTE, a football-related brain trauma.Rock went on and continued the joke correctly: “She started this s–t.

She said that me, a f–king grown-ass man, should quit his job because, ‘My husband didn’t get nominated for ‘Concussion.””This part of the special has now been edited out, and a source told The Hollywood Reporter that Rock is aware of the edit and worked with Netflix on the final cut that is now available to people streaming.The 2016 Oscars was the same year that Pinkett Smith boycotted the ceremony for the #OscarsSoWhite movement, which protested the Academy’s history of lack of diversity.Last year, Smith slapped Rock after the comedian made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s hair — which Smith took as a jab at his wife’s struggle with alopecia.