Chris Rock Jokes About Watching 'Emancipation' Just to See Will Smith Get Whipped

Last year Will Smith starred in the Apple TV movie 'Emancipation' based on historic events of an enslaved person who decides to escape after being beaten nearly to death by his owner [click here if you missed that]. 

Apparently, in Chris Rock's new stand-up routine he jokes about watching Emancipation just to see Will get whipped...

From Page Six

“I rooted for Will Smith my whole life,” he recently told a packed theater. But now, Rock added, he’s hate-watching Smith’s latest movie, in which he plays a tortured, escaped slave.

“The other day, I watched ‘Emancipation’ just so I could watch him getting whipped.”

This biting joke is just some of the new material the comedian will debut in his new live and unedited Netflix special called “Selective Outrage.” When it airs Saturday at 10 p.m. ET., Rock will reportedly speak out about the night Smith smacked him onstage at the Oscars.

A source told Page Six that “the comedian is waiting to spill his humorous take on it” in his major stand-up show.