Michael Jackson’s nephew, Taj Jackson, has hit out at Chris Rock #ChrisRockLive @chrisrock over a joke he made during his Netflix comedy special, and thanked Will Smith for the infamous Oscars slap.
The no-holds-barred comedy show, titled Chris Rock #ChrisRockLive @chrisrock: Selective Outrage, aired on Netflix on Sunday, and sees the 58-year-old comedian talk about the slap, his opinions on ‘being a victim’, and took aim at Meghan Markle.
In the opening few minutes, Chris compared Jackson to disgraced singer R Kelly, who was convicted of six out of 13 charges brought against him in Chicago last September, including three counts of coercing minors into sexual activity and three of producing sex tapes involving a minor.
Last month, the 56-year-old, who is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence over sex trafficking and racketeering charges in New York, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for child sex crimes.
Jackson, who died in 2009 from a cardiac arrest brought on by a propofol overdose, was acquitted of child molestation charges in 2005.
Addressing the joke about his late uncle, Taj fumed on Twitter: ‘Chris Rock #ChrisRockLive @chrisrock has used my family as punching bags for his entire career.
‘Yet I am supposed to feel bad for him getting slapped and humiliated on the Oscars.
‘After seeing a new clip of him attacking my dead uncle in the first minutes of his “Retaliation-I’m still relevant ”special, I have 3 things to say.
‘1. What did my family ever do to you to warrant these decades of harassment and your constant bullying disguise as jokes?
‘2. Just because you were bullied early on in life doesn’t give you the excuse to bully others now.
‘3. Thank you Will Smith.’
In the special, Chris says: ‘The thing I have a problem with is the selective outrage. You know what I’m talking about.
‘One person does something, they get cancelled. Somebody else does the exact same thing, nothing.
‘You know what I’m talking about, like the kind of people that play Michael Jackson songs, but won’t play R Kelly.
‘Same crime, one of them just got better songs.’
Elsewhere, Chris addressed the infamous slap, and explains how the title for the special had connections to Will, 54, and poked fun at the actor’s wife Jada, 51, making the bombshell admission in 2020 that she had an ‘entanglement’ with singer August Alsina while she and Will were on a break, a revelation the pair later discussed on her Red Table Talk show.
‘Will Smith practices selective outrage. Everybody that really knows knows I had nothing to do with that s***. I didn’t have any entanglements,’ Chris told the audience who were in hysterics throughout the whole bit.
He continued: ‘His wife was f****** her son’s friend. Now, I normally would not talk about this s***, but for some reason, these n***** put that s*** on the internet. I have no idea why two people that talented would do something that low-down.
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