In the Oscar travesty last weekend, Chris Rock felt the sting of a slap on global TV, Will Smith watched his stellar reputation marred by a lack of self control, and the Academy Awards suffered the…
watched his stellar reputation marred by a lack of self control, and the Academy Awards suffered the shame of doing nothing about it and now catching up with the threat of banishment. But tonight proved there was at least one winner: ticket scalpers, who landed upwards of $1000 for balcony seats.
Rock tonight gave his first standup comedy performance since the Oscars, and this time, he ducked. As in, he declined to use the embarrassing episode for comic fodder. Dressed all in white, Rock did make sure to bask in a very long standing ovation — around two and one-half minutes by my count, and longer than the one that Smith received when his name was called in the Best Actor category. After stopping the adulation by saying, “let me do a show,” Rock asked the crowd how was their weekend.
Rock then stepped into a lively routine that ranged from nasty sexting from a woman named Candice, to being a divorced dad raising his daughters, to Covid and his plans to get a vasectomy after seeing a mid-70s Robert De Niro picking up his young daughter, to the sexual prowess of Elon Musk, and Meghan Markle. Wow, did he take after the latter. In fact, had Prince Harry been in the front row as Rock railed about his wife’s skin color…well, never mind.
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