“I’m OK, if you’re wondering …” Of course, Chris Rock broaches right at the start of his show the incident we’re all thinking about: The Slap, as administered to Rock onstage at the Oscars by a wayward Will Smith.
The disappointment – expected, but disappointing nonetheless – is that he does no more than that. “I’ll get to it at some point, on Netflix,” says the 57-year-old, and fair enough – unless you nurse any attachment to the idea of standup as an art form more fleet-footed than that.
