An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed a Dave Chappelle comment on Chris Rock. The headline and story have been updated to reflect this correction.
Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle were on tour in the U.K., where they slapped Will Smith. Chappelle claimed that Smith used to be family-friendly. “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star had “ripped his mask off”Rock in March, when he famously slapped Rock
“Will did the impression of a perfect person for 30 years, and he ripped his mask off and showed us he was as ugly as the rest of us,” Chappelle said at the Liverpool’s M&S Arena on on Thursday.
Chappelle observed that Smith’s Oscar-night act of violence actually made him more relatable. “Whatever the consequences are… I hope he doesn’t put his mask back on again, and lets his real face breathe. I see myself in both men,’”Both the “perfect”Star of “Men in Black”The angry actor who punched him.
Chappelle started things by asking Rock. “Did that s— hurt?’”
“Goddamn right… the motherf—er hit me over a bulls— joke, the nicest joke I ever told,”Rock replied. The joke, if you need reminding was a dig at Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith’s baldness, comparing her to Demi Moore in “G.I. Jane.”
Rock claimed later that he didn’t know about Jada’s struggles with alopecia.
Smith apologized to Rock for his actions in an emotional video. Rock still hasn’t accepted Smith’s apology. Smith was banned from Academy events over the next 10 year and has voluntarily resigned as a member. Smith did not have to return his Best Actor Oscar. “King Richard.”
Rock also took aim, during his set, at Meghan Markle who just launched Archetypes, her podcast. He accused her, among other things, of using her complaints regarding the British royals to be famous.
