That the slap still “f***ing hurts,” he says. Or the betrayal he felt when an actor he admired, who he had never taken cheap shots at, hit him. He pulled no punches about Jada Pinkett-Smith, or the fact that her husband was the butt of jokes from rappers, athletes and boxers. Unlike celebrities and politicians who try to whitewash the most controversial, hurtful or even embarrassing episodes from their past, who pass on “approved” questionnaires, there is no hard place Rock did not meet head on. And that it can distract from things that really deserve our anger, from people who are genuine victims. He can say that putting up with the righteous certainty of some people all the time is just bloody annoying. His job allows him not to pretend to be indulgent of ridiculousness as the rest of us are - at workplaces, homes and family and alumni WhatsApp groups. He is willing to say that not all inequalities are equal, and that going through the world calling every bad experience a traumatic one is a bit much. Even if he hadn’t addressed being assaulted by Will Smith on one of the most watched global television events a year ago, the special would have held up.īecause he is okay calling Meghan Markle’s poor-little-rich-girl persona what it is. Rock hints at the elephant in the room throughout the show, especially when he talks about “fake” victimhood, the exaggerated sense of persecution that has become a mark of the privileged. Unfortunately, the end of the year is a big time for removals from the streamer.Īs a result, you’ll see a more extensive list than usual.For the first three-quarters of the performance, though, the audience is left guessing about whether one of the greats will shy away from the topic the world is most curious about. If you don’t know, every month, Netflix is forced to remove a variety of content due to licensing deal expiration dates or other factors. Netflix is removing a shocking number of movies and television shows beginning on December 1.
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