Chris Rock’s most controversial jokes: As the comedian is SLAPPED by Will Smith at the Oscars for poking fun at wife Jada’s alopecia, MailOnline takes a look at the star’s most shocking remarks from ‘Asian discrimination’ to Whitney Houston drug digs
Will Smith slapping Chris Rock after he made a joke about the actor’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith is no doubt the most talked about moment of the 94th annual Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday.
The physical assault occurred after the event’s host, 57, quipped about the ‘GI Jane’ shaven haircut of Jada – who suffers from alopecia – leading the Hollywood star to furiously stride on-stage and attack him.
And while shockwaves are felt around the world by showbiz fans, MailOnline takes a look back at all the times Chris caused offence with his near-the-mark jokes.
Chris Rock’s most controversial jokes: As the comedian is SLAPPED by Will Smith at the Oscars for poking fun at wife Jada’s alopecia, MailOnline takes a look at the star’s most shocking remarks from ‘Asian discrimination’ to Whitney Houston drug digs
2016 – Belittling three children of east Asian descent on stage at the Oscars
Despite the controversy, Chris is certainly not known for biting his tongue and acknowledged cancel culture while presenting the 2019 New York Film Critics Circle Awards.
He told a star-studded audience: ‘If it was five years ago I could say something real offensive and funny right now but I can’t do that anymore, so hey!’
While presenting the ceremony back in 2016, the stand-up star introduced three children of east Asian descent who had put together the Oscars’ results on stage as ‘the accountants’ before dubbing them ‘Ming Zhu, Bao Ling, and David Moskowitz’.
Defiantly continuing with his jibes, he added: ‘If anyone is upset about that joke you can tweet about it on your phone, which was also made by these kids,’ referring to devices being produced in the continent’s sweatshops.
Oh dear: He said in 2019: ‘If it was five years ago I could say something real offensive and funny right now but I can’t do that anymore, so hey!’
Belittling: While presenting the ceremony back in 2016, the stand-up star introduced three children of east Asian descent who had put together the Oscars’ results on stage as ‘the accountants’ before dubbing them ‘Ming Zhu, Bao Ling, and David Moskowitz’ (pictured, far right, in 2016)
Ouch: During the same night, Chris said of the the #OscarsSoWhite movement: ‘You’re damn right Hollywood’s racist but no burning cross racist! It’s a different type of racist…’
Sandra Oh and George Takei, who both descend from Asia, brazenly signed a letter which criticised the Academy in protest against the joke.
2016 – Joking about racism in the 1960s during the #OscarsSoWhite movement
During the same night, Chris said of the #OscarsSoWhite movement: ‘You’re damn right Hollywood’s racist but no burning cross racist! It’s a different type of racist…’
Will and Jada had boycotted the prestigious ceremony since it marked the second consecutive year where people of colour had not been nominated.
The former SNL cast member continued on-stage: ‘Why this year? Because we had real things to protest [in the Sixties]. Too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won Best Cinematography.
Get ready for the memes: Will slapping Chris after he made a joke about the actor’s wife is no doubt the most talked about moment of the 94th annual Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday
Wow: The physical assault occurred after the event’s host, 57, quipped about the ‘GI Jane’ shaven haircut of Jada – who suffers from alopecia – leading the Hollywood star to furiously stride on-stage and attack him
‘When your Grandma’s swinging from a tree, it’s hard to really care about Best Documentary or Foreign Short.’
2016 – Poking fun at his late friend Whitney Houston’s admission of drug use
Chris’ appalling comments are not always made to a gawking crowd. In the same year, he referred to his late friend Whitney Houston’s admission of drug use.
He shared a meme which read, ‘Me sitting in a meeting that could’ve been an e-mail,’ along with a photo of the singer wearing sunglasses.
But it was his caption that caused a stir, which read: ‘Hurry up I gpt crack to smoke.’
Not funny: Chris (left) found himself at the centre of his fans wrath once again when a resurfaced video from 2011 saw him and the now-disgraced Louis CK (right), a white comedian who has since been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women, repeatedly use the N-word
Incredulous: During HBO’s Talking Funny special at the beginning of the last decade, Louis can be heard saying: ‘You’re saying I’m a n*****?’ in front of a shocked Jerry Seinfeld and Ricky Gervais
It caused her ex husband Bobby Brown to comment: ‘During this time of women empowerment you chose to use your time to try and humiliate our QUEEN!!! I thought you was a friend of the family.’
The I Have Nothing songstress had confessed years prior that her former husband had ‘laced marijuana with rock cocaine’ and that her drug addiction worsened after she was catapulted to further success after starring in The Bodyguard.
2011 – Encouraging white comedian Louis CK to use the N-word
Chris found himself at the centre of his fans wrath once again when a resurfaced video from 2011 saw him and the now-disgraced Louis CK, a white comedian who has since been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women, repeatedly use the N-word.
During HBO’s Talking Funny special at the beginning of the last decade, Louis can be heard saying: ‘You’re saying I’m a n*****?’ in front of a shocked Jerry Seinfeld and Ricky Gervais.
Tragic: Chris’ appalling comments are not always made to a gawking crowd. In the same year, he referred to his late friend Whitney Houston’s admission of drug use
Defending: It caused her ex husband Bobby Brown to comment: ‘During this time of women empowerment you chose to use your time to try and humiliate our QUEEN!!! I thought you was a friend of the family’ (pictured in 2003)
Chris had called him the ‘blackest white guy’ he knows before adding, ‘Yes, you are the n****rest f****ing white man I have ever met.’
An uncomfortable Jerry soon made it clear he wouldn’t use the term anywhere.
2019 – Claiming mass shooters as likely white, alongside a meme of Betty White
And finally, the Grown Ups star posted another meme – this time about mass shooting – and claimed the gunman is likely white in 2019.
Alongside a photo of Betty White, which sounds like ‘Bet he white’ when read aloud, the text read: ‘The first thing people say when a mass shooting is announced.’
Embarrassing: And finally, the Grown Ups star posted another meme – this time about mass shooting – and claimed the gunman is likely white in 2019 alongside a photo of Betty White, which sounds like ‘Bet he white’ when read aloud
During the Oscars, Will tearfully apologised as he won Best Actor after an ugly physical row with Chris over a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.
The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air star earned the honor for his work as father of Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard.
He beat out Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos, Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog, Andrew Garfield – tick, tick… BOOM!, and Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth.
It came just minutes after the awkward altercation in which he appeared to strike the comedian with an open hand. Chris has declined to press charges.
‘Love makes you do crazy things’, the rapper and actor admitted as he accepted his Best Actor Oscar statuette.
Oscars slap: Chris has declined to pursue criminal charges against Will after being struck by the actor on Sunday during the 94th Academy Awards in Los Angeles
He added that being a Hollywood star means you should be able to ‘have people disrespecting you and that ‘you just gotta smile and pretend it’s ok,’ he said.
But he added that he admired Richard Williams who ‘was a fierce defender of his family.’
‘I’m being called on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a river to my people,’ he explained.
Smith went on to issue a tearful partial apology for his emotional outburst, but did not apologize to Rock. ‘I want to apologize to the Academy, I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees. This is a beautiful moment,’ he said.
‘Art imitates life. I look like the crazy father,’ said Smith.
Journalists covering the awards ceremony from the press area were instructed not to ask any attendees about Smith slapping Rock, according to BBC correspondent David Sillito.
Late Sunday night, the LAPD issued a statement saying that Rock had not filed a police report against Smith, but that if he chooses to do so, police will investigate.
‘LAPD investigative entities are aware of an incident between two individuals during the Academy Awards program,’ the statement said. ‘The incident involved one individual slapping another.’
It was not immediately clear whether the Academy would penalize Smith in any way for his outburst.
OSCARS 2022: WINNERS
BEST PICTURE
Belfast (Focus Features)
Coda (Apple) – WINNER
Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
Drive My Car (Janus Films/Sideshow)
Dune (Warner Bros)
King Richard (Warner Bros)
Licorice Pizza (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
Nightmare Alley (Searchlight Pictures)
The Power Of The Dog (Netflix)
West Side Story (20th Century Studios)
History: Coda became the first ever streaming film to win Best Picture as it upset The Power Of The Dog
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story – WINNER
Judi Dench – Belfast
Kirsten Dunst- The Power Of The Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – Coda – WINNER
Jesse Plemons – The Power Of The Dog
J.K Simmons – Being The Ricardos
Kodi Smitt-McPhee – The Power Of The Dog
Amazing: Troy Kotsur became the first male actor to win an Oscar for Coda
COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella (Jenny Beavan) – WINNER
Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini)
Dune (Jacqueline West)
Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira)
West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND
Belfast
Dune – WINNER
No Time To Die
The Power Of The Dog
West Side Story
ORIGINAL SCORE
Don’t Look Up (Nicholas Britell)
Dune (Hans Zimmer) – WINNER
Encanto (Germaine Franco)
Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CODA (Sian Heder) – WINNER
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe)
Dune (Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve)
The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
Shining moment: Sian Heder earned Best Adapted screenplay for the film as it went three for three on the night
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) – WINNER
Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay & David Sirota)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
King Richard (Zach Baylin)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt)
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Affairs Of The Heart
Bestia
Box Ballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper – WINNER
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye – WINNER
On My Mind
Please Hold
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Drive My Car – WINNER
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dune (Zsuzsanna Sipos & Patrice Vermette) – WINNER
Nightmare Alley (Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau)
The Power of the Dog (Grant Major & Amber Richards)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Stefan Dechant & Nancy Haigh)
West Side Story (Rena DeAngelo & Adam Stockhausen)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick… BOOM!
Will Smith – King Richard – WINNER
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye – WINNER
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
All eyes on her: Jessica Chastain finally won her first Best Actress trophy for her titular role in The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
DIRECTING
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
FILM EDITING
Don’t Look Up (Hank Corwin)
Dune (Joe Walker) – WINNER
King Richard (Pamela Martin)
The Power of the Dog (Peter Sciberras)
Tick, Tick… Boom! (Myron Kerstein & Andrew Weisblum)
MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes Of Tammy Faye – WINNER
House Of Gucci
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Encanto – WINNER
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells VS The Machine
Raya And The Lost Dragon
ORIGINAL SONG
Be Alive — Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Darius Scott (King Richard)
Dos Oruguitas — Lin-Manuel Miranda (Encanto)
Down to Joy — Van Morrison (Belfast)
No Time to Die — Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell (No Time to Die) – WINNER
Somehow You Do— Diane Warren (Four Good Days)
Not a bad guy: Billie Eilish and brother FINNEAS earned Best Original Song for No Time To Die from the James Bond film of the same name
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball – WINNER
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – WINNER
Writing with Fire
VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune – WINNER
Free Guy
No Time To Die
Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Epic: Dune swept the technical awards as Greig Fraser is shown accepting the Best Cinematography gong
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dune (Greig Fraser) – WINNER
Nightmare Alley (Dan Lausten)
The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)
West Side Story (Janusz Kaminski)
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