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Netflix's 'Chris Rock: Selective Outrage' reveals a lot of anger for Will Smith

Almost a year later, Chris Rock is still seething about 'The Slap' and he told an audience how much he now despises Will and Jada Pinkett Smith
Chris Rock at the Hippodrome Theater Saturday in Baltimore.

Turns out, Chris Rock is still really angry at Will and Jada Pinkett Smith.

"His wife was f---ing her son's friend...she hurt him way more than he hurt me," Rock said of Will Smith Saturday night during his live standup special for Netflix from Baltimore, Selective Outrage.

The last eight minutes or so of the special was focused on Rock's reaction to Smith slapping him onstage at last year's Oscars ceremony, with the comic unloading a deluge of expletives and bile while contending the assault was the actor's reaction to all the criticism he had taken for accepting his wife's very public affair.

"Everybody called that man a b----," Rock added of

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