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Chris Rock was the host of the 88th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, February 27th. Right away he jumped into the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.
“Why are we protesting this Oscars? It’s the 88th Academy Awards, which means this ‘no black nominees’ thing happened at least 71 other times," he joked. "You've got to figure that it happened in the 50's, in the 60's. One of those years Sidney didn’t put out a movie. I’m sure there were no black nominees some of those years, say ‘62’ or ‘63. And black people did not protest. Why? Because we had real things to protest at the time. We were too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won best cinematographer. When your grandmother’s swinging from a tree, it’s really hard to care about best documentary foreign short.”
Rock was able to walk that fine line between pointing out facts about the Oscars history regarding black actors without being offensive.
Nobody was spared during the comedian's 10 minute monologue, regardless of race.
One of his funniest jokes took aim at Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
"What happened this year? People went mad," Rock said. "Spike [Lee] got mad, [Al] Sharpton got mad, Jada went mad and Will went mad. Everybody went mad. Jada said he's not coming. I'm like 'Isn't she in a TV show?' Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties. I wasn't invited. Ohhh, that's not an invitation I would turn down. I understand Jada's mad. Your man Will was not nominated for Concussion, I get it. You get mad saying, 'It's not fair that Will was this good and didn't get nominated.' You're right. It's also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for Wild, Wild West."
Overall, he was quite effective and funny. Check out the monologue below.
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