Here’s What You Need to Know About Chris Rock’s Live Netflix Special: He Has Not Seen ‘Shark Tale’
Most comedy specials don’t have pre- and post-game shows, but Chris Rock is not most comics — he also has definitely not seen Shark Tale.
This evening, Rock regaled a packed Baltimore theater with his first special since 2018, which Netflix streamed live for the first time in its history. Just one week before the Will Smith storming the stage and slapping Rock at last year’s ceremonies.
Smith as he said, “Even in animation this motherfucker’s bigger. I’m a zebra, he's a shark.”
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There’s one small problem – Jack Black played the shark in Shark Tales. Will Smith was a fish. Either Rock never watched the movie, or he’s still concussed from The Slap.
Despite the Super Bowl-esque fanfare surrounding Selective Outrage, complete with an entire of comedy analysts that confusingly included J.B. Smoove and freaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the special itself wasn’t particularly special. The unique livestream and the highly-anticipated Smith jokes aside, Rock’s 10-minute rants about having sex with twentysomethings and riffs on Lululemon yoga pants didn’t justify the spectacle of the special.
Though the rest of Rock’s ridicule of Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith was either unremarkable or spoiled by the sneak peeks, Rock ended the set on a salient note regarding The Slap, saying, “People always ask me, ‘How come you didn’t do nothing back?’ Because I got parents. I was raised. You know what my parents taught me? Don’t fight in front of white people.”