Chris Rock is a professional comedian and I came up with better comebacks…
“That was a GI Jane joke. If I wanted to make fun of your wife’s illness I would have said the upside of having a wife with alopecia is that the carpet matches the drapes.”
“Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth.”
“She’s already been in the mouths of half the people on this room, how the fuck does one more make a difference.”
Chris Rock built his career on snappy comebacks and when he really needed some he waffled.
Sad.
Apparently Chris Rock did not come up with that joke himself, it was written by one of the program writers.
Watch the video. Chris Rock leaned forward and grimaced even before Will Smith started his sloppy slappy-slap. Rock even kept his hands jammed in his pockets to keep himself from automatically blocking the slap. The same hands he was waving around a few seconds before
This was as poorly scripted as the Zip-Line into the audience stunt from a few years ago.
Yeah … I don’t care the teensiest, eeensiest, most minutest bit.
I was thinking it’d be great if Chris broke out in song:
“I got into one little fight and mom got scared, ‘you’re moving in with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air!”
West Philadelphia, born and raised
Tried to get an Oscar for so many days.
Got in one little fight over my wife’s lost hair,
She said go slap Chris, or I’ll have another affair.