*Chris Rock apparently didn’t give a crap about the rules laid down by producers of Saturday night’s NAACP Image Awards and went in on Jussie Smollett, anyway.
As we reported earlier, Smollett was a no show despite being nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a drama series for his work on “Empire.” He had flown to even L.A. for the event, and planned to attend, but ultimately decided to not show. It’s a good thing he did ’cause he would’ve had to deal with getting talked about by Rock to his face.
No matter ’cause Rock was ready. He had jokes:
“They said no Jussie Smollett jokes … I know. What a waste of light skin. You know what I could do with that light skin? That curly hair? My career would be outta here! I’d be f*cking running Hollywood!”
Yes, there was more …
“What the hell was he thinking? From now on … you’re ‘Jessie’ from now on, you don’t get the ‘u’ no more. That ‘u’ was respect, you ain’t getting no respect from me.”
JUSSIE SMOLLETT DID NOT WIN AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD + COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS
The crowd loved it, especially Trevor Noah, who laughed hysterically.
On the other hand, Jussie did have somelove. When “Black-ish” won Outstanding Comedy Series, Yara Shahidi told the crowd, “I stand with Jussie.”
Oh yeah, in case you didn’t hear … Jussie lost to Jesse Williams for his work in “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Speaking of which, check out the complete list of winners, here.
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