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*Here’s a message for activist Najee Ali and singer/actor Tyrese Gibson who both  have been lobbying for Chris Rock to walk away from his Oscars hosting gig: it ain’t gonna happen. At the 47th NAACP Image Awards Nominee Luncheon on Saturday, ET’s Nischelle Turner got the scoop straight from Academy Awards producer Reginald Hudlin. And […]

*Michael Ealy has opened up about his “cold” encounter with Chris Rock when the two met for the first time years ago when the actor was just starting out in the business. Rock and Ealy worked together on the 2002 film “Bad Company,” and the comic had some not so savory words for the budding […]

Comedian/actor Chris Rock performs his stand-up comedy routine during a stop of his Total Blackout tour at Park Theater at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino on June 10, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. *Chris Rock took his new material about the current wave of women speaking out about sexual harassment allegations to New York’s Comedy […]

Chris Rock (Getty) *If this were a presidential contest, Chris Rock would be winning in most states, according to an article published on The Hill. As of now, he has 41 states under his belt against Will Smith’s 9 states. And yes, this is about the Oscar ceremony incident where Will Smith ended up […]

Chris Rock performs during the Movement Voter Project comedy benefit at The Bell House on October 24, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Source: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images North America) *Chris Rock made a play on Betty White’s name while joking about the latest mass shootings that took place over the weekend, […]

*(CNN) — Chris Rock made an emotional return to the stage on Wednesday night for the first time since Will Smith slapped him at the Academy Awards. (Scroll down to HEAR it.) Rock made his first public remarks about the incident. In his first of two shows, he was greeted by the audience at Boston’s […]

Will Smith smacks Chris Rock on stage at the 2022 Academy Awards *According to Leslie Jones, Chris Rock went to counseling after Will Smith slapped him at the Oscars. Jones told People that she was so f*cking mad” after Smith assaulted the comedian at the awards show.  “I would’ve been running around that stage like […]

[…] reconcile the Will Smith they had come to know, love and support through his movies and music, with the person who stormed the Oscar stage and slapped Chris Rock. Surreal, right? Smith fans may be mourning the goodness that always seems to exude from Smith. Saint-like behavior. Remember, his fans were on this Oscar ride […]

* Chris Rock’s rep has shot down talk that the Oscar host has rewritten his opening speech for the Feb. 28 awards, as show producer Reginald Hudlin said over the weekend. “Regarding Reggie Hudlin’s comments about Chris Rock’s Oscar hosting duties, neither he nor anyone else speaks for Chris,” his publicist, Leslie Sloane, said in […]

Will Smith smacks Chris Rock on stage at the 2022 Academy Awards *Chris Rock’s brother Tony Rock is speaking out about Will Smith’s Oscars slap, and he claims the attack stemmed from Jada Pinkett Smith’s relationship with the late Tupac Shakur.  During the 94th Academy Awards in March, Rock made a “G.I. Jane 2” joke […]

* Chris Rock is not a fan of historical civil rights movies because they “make racism look very fixable.” “I hate all Civil Rights movies,” Rock said recently on the How Neal Feel podcast with Neal Brennan. “Don’t get me wrong, I applaud the effort and they should exist. The problem is they only show the back […]

screenshot of Chris Rock at Burning Man / Instagram *Chris Rock and Diplo were among the thousands of attendees at the Burning Man festival in Nevada who were stranded after torrential rains shut the event down three days early. Burning Man takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert, about 100 miles north of Reno. […]

Will Smith slaps Chris Rock – GettyImages *Deion Sanders asked some of his players during a Jackson State football practice about the Will Smith slap incident at the Oscars on Sunday.  Sanders got behind the camera and asked players and staff: “If you were Chris Rock, how would you have handled ‘The Slap?’” Per The […]

* Chris Rock is coming back as narrator and executive producer of the upcoming animated series called “Everybody Still Hates Chris.” The series has been described as a “reimagined animated version” of the original “Everbody Hates Chris” which starred a young Tyler James Williams. According to a press release issued Tuesday, the new, animated version […]

 *An extended cut of Chris Rock‘s “Tamborine” comedy special is being re-released on Netflix.  The streaming giant teased that the Grammy-nominated 2018 stand-up special will include “never-before-seen jokes, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.” “I’m releasing a new, extended version of the Tamborine special called Total Blackout,” Rock says in the special’s trailer, see above.  “For […]