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Psych Legal Pop Podcast

Chris Rock: Selective Outrage and the Will Smith Oscar slap

Psych Legal Pop Podcast

Tess & Brooke Brigham

Relationships, Tv & Film, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.2610 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we discuss Chris Rock's latest Netflix comedy special - Selective Outrage. For the first time Rock publically adddresses the infamous incident that happened at the Oscars one year ago, when Will Smith walked on stage after Rock made a joke about his wife Jada and slapped him. We weigh in with our own thoughts about that incident and discuss the careers of Will Smith and Chris Rock. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. So today we're going to be talking about the latest Chris Rock comedy special on Netflix.

0:22.6

It's called Selective Outrage.

0:24.5

Yes, the comedy concert.

0:26.0

Comedy concert.

0:29.4

Yeah, so Chris Rock, I think we're both big fans.

0:34.3

We're also going to talk at the end because the, the comedy concert culminates at the end with him talking about what

0:42.8

everyone's been waiting to hear about for the last year is his reaction to when Will Smith

0:48.7

one year ago got up on stage at the Oscars and slapped him across the face.

0:53.9

So we're going to talk about that whole thing. Okay. got up on stage at the Oscars and slapped him across the face.

0:57.1

So we're going to talk about that whole thing.

1:03.5

But first, you know, yeah, I really like Chris Rock.

1:08.8

I think there's something about him that, to me, is very vulnerable, you know,

1:16.9

because like when you look at a lot of comedians, a lot of comedians are really cocky and can, you know, I don't know, I just think he's very vulnerable.

1:17.2

Yeah.

1:20.0

Which makes him very relatable and understandable.

1:26.5

And even when he says stuff and you're like, oh, God, you know, it's still like, okay, I get where you're coming from. And many years ago, I watched, have you ever seen the show on PBS?

1:32.2

It's called, well, I think it used to be called Finding Your Roots or African American stories or something like that.

1:42.1

So, you know, Professor Henry Lewis Gates, Jr., the Harvard

1:45.7

professor? So he hosts this show on PBS where they take very famous African Americans,

1:51.1

like Oprah and Chris Rock, and they help them find out more about their ancestors because, you know, people who were enslaved, they have

2:02.9

very poor records. Like, most people don't even know where they came from in Africa. They don't

2:08.3

know, like, their family history because they were slaves and they were bought and sold and

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