American comedian Chris Rock has used his live Netflix comedy special Selective Outrage to speak at length for the first time about being slapped by Will Smith during last year's Oscars ceremony.
Becoming the first person to perform live on Netflix, Rock entertained an audience in the US city of Baltimore.
It was almost a year since the slap incident, and only a week out from this year's Oscars, and Rock did not hold back.
Here are the key moments from the show which addressed the slap incident.
What did Chris Rock say about Will Smith's slap?
Rock has been relatively quiet about the slap since it happened, aside from briefly testing some slap-related material at recent shows.
In Selective Outrage, he hinted towards the incident at the beginning of the show, but it wasn't until the final five minutes that he addressed it directly.
"Y'all know what happened to me, getting smacked by Suge Smith," Rock said, comparing Will Smith with record producer Suge Knight, who was jailed for a fatal 2015 hit-and-run.
"I got smacked like a year ago … I got smacked at the Oscars by this motherf***er.
"People are like, 'Did it hurt?' It still hurts! I got Summertime ringing in my ears," he said, referring to a song released by Smith when he played the lead role in TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
"I'm not a victim, baby. You will never see me on Oprah [Winfrey] or Gayle [King], crying," Rock said.
"F*** that s***. I took that hit like [boxer Manny] Pacquiao, motherf***er."
Rock went on to say that Smith was "significantly bigger" than him.
"Will Smith played Muhammad Ali in a movie. You think I auditioned for that part? I played Pookie in [1991 film] New Jack City," he joked.
Rock then discussed the Smiths' open relationship — something which the couple have previously discussed in interviews — and accused Will Smith of practising "selective outrage".
"Everybody that really knows, knows I had nothing to do with that s***. I didn't have any 'entanglements' … She hurt him way more than he hurt me," he said.
Referring to a 2020 interview in which Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith discussed their open marriage, Rock said "everybody in the world called [Will Smith] a bitch".
"I tried to call the motherf***er and give him my condolences — he didn't pick up for me," he said.
"Everybody called him a bitch … and who does he hit? Me — a n***** he knows he can beat. That is some bitch-ass s***."
Rock claimed he was only continuing a stoush which kicked off when Pinkett Smith called for him to not host the Oscars after Will Smith was not nominated for the 2015 film Concussion.
"That's how it is. She starts it, I finish it, OK? That's what the f*** happened," he said.
"No one is picking on this bitch. She started this s***."
In closing, Rock said, "A lot of people go, 'Chris, how come you didn't do nothing back that night?'
"Because I got parents. Because I was raised. I got parents.
"And you know what my parents taught me? Don't fight in front of white people," he said, before dropping his microphone and ending the show.
How did we get here?
Will Smith slapped Chris Rock in the face during the 2022 Oscars broadcast after the comedian joked about the physical appearance of Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who has a hair-loss condition called alopecia areata.
If you need a reminder, here's what was said directly after the slap:
Rock: "Oh wow, wow, Will Smith just smacked the s*** out of me."
Smith: "Keep my wife's name out of your f***ing mouth."
Rock: "Wow dude, it was a GI Jane joke."
Smith (louder): "Keep my wife's name out of your f***ing mouth."
Rock: "I'm going to, OK … That was, ugh … the greatest night in the history of television. OK … OK."
It wasn't the first time Rock had joked about Pinkett Smith, but the moment shocked audiences so much that many people initially thought the slap was acted and pre-rehearsed.
Rock reportedly did not want Smith arrested over the incident, and did not file any legal proceedings against him.
He broke his silence about the slap three nights after the Oscars ceremony, telling a crowd in Boston that he was "still kind of processing what happened".
Twelve days after the slap, Will Smith was banned for 10 years by Oscars organisers The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Smith also resigned from the academy, and his role in the Apple TV+ show\ Emancipation has been snubbed from this year's awards.
Smith apologised to Rock and Oscars viewers later in March before releasing a video apology in July, in which he said his behaviour was "unacceptable" and he was open to talking with Rock about it when he was ready.
Rock reportedly turned down many interview requests about the incident, including an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Instead, he delivered some new material over the past year as part of his Ego Death tour, which was announced before the 2022 Oscars.
Rock made some brief remarks about Smith's slap during the tour but was expected to say more about it during his Selective Outrage show.
The Netflix special took place a week out from this year's Oscars on March 12, when the slap could well be revisited by this year's host, Jimmy Kimmel, who recently told People.com that Rock "should be proud" for keeping his cool at last year's ceremony.
