In his Netflix comedy special "Selective Outrage," which was released on March 4, Rock addressed the Oscars incident from every angle imaginable. "A year ago f*cking last week, I got smacked at the f*cking Oscars by this mothef*cker. And people are like, 'Did it hurt?' It still hurts. I've got 'Summertime' ringing in my ears," he began (via NME). "But I'm not a victim, baby. You will never see me on Oprah or Gayle crying . . . I took that hit like [Manny] Pacquiao."
Rock took jabs at Smith for slapping someone who is significantly smaller than him. "I know you can't tell on camera," he said, "but Will Smith is significantly bigger than me. We are not the same size, OK? We are not. Will Smith does movies with his shirt off. You have never seen me do a movie with my shirt off. If I'm in a movie getting open heart surgery, I got on a sweater. Will Smith played Muhammad Ali in a movie. You think I auditioned for that part? He played Muhammad Ali, I played Pookie in 'New Jack City.' I played a piece of corn in 'Pootie Tang.'"
Rock went on to call out Smith for practicing selective outrage, suggesting the real reason he slapped him at the Oscars was about his relationship issues with Pinkett Smith, not the joke he made that night. "Everybody knows what the f*ck happened, everybody really knows I had nothing to do with that sh*t. I didn't have any entanglements, I didn't. I did not have any entanglements," he said, alluding to Pinkett Smith's relationship with August Alsina that she famously called an "entanglement" in a 2020 episode of her talk show, "Red Table Talk." Rock continued, "We've all been cheated on. Everybody in here has been cheated on. None of us have ever been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television. None of us. 'Hey I was sucking somebody else's d*ck. How did that make you feel?' Why the f*ck would you do that sh*t? She hurt him way more than he hurt me, OK."
Rock circled back to accuse Smith of kicking down. "Everybody in the world calls him a b*tch . . . F*cking Charlamagne [tha God] called him a b*tch and 'The Breakfast Club' called him a b*tch, and 'The View,' and 'The Talk,' and every rapper, and the 'Drink Champs' . . . Everybody, everybody. And who's he hitting? Me. A n***** he knows he can beat. That is some b*tch ass sh*t."
Rock concluded the segment by explaining why he didn't fight back, sharing, "A lot of people say, Chris, why did you do nothing back? How come you didn't do nothing back? Because I got parents, that's why. Because I was raised. I got parents, and you know what my parents taught me? Don't fight in front of white people."
