PHOENIX, ARIZONA - American comedian Chris Rock has turned down an invitation to host next year's Academy Awards, comparing a return to the Oscars like returning to a crime scene. Rock, 57, was
PHOENIX, ARIZONA - American comedian Chris Rock has turned down an invitation to host next year's Academy Awards, comparing a return to the Oscars like returning to a crime scene.53, during the Oscars ceremony in March after the comedian joked about Smith's wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, who has alopecia and appeared with a shaved head.
During a show at Arizona Financial Theatre in downtown Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday , Rock said returning to the Oscars would like asking Nicole Brown Simpson"to go back to the restaurant". He was making a reference to the murder trial of disgraced American football star O.J. Simpson, whose ex-wife's death began with her mother leaving her glasses behind in a restaurant.
Rock said the slap from Smith hurt and made reference to Smith's role as late boxer Muhammad Ali in the movie Ali . "He's bigger than me. The state of Nevada would not sanction a fight between me and Will Smith," he said.
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