{"id":1406057,"date":"2022-03-28T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406057"},"modified":"2022-03-28T22:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:00:24","slug":"chris-rock-comedy-tour-ticket-sales-surge-following-will-smith-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-rock-comedy-tour-ticket-sales-surge-following-will-smith-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Rock Comedy Tour Ticket Sales Surge Following Will Smith Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-rock-comedy-tour-ticket-sales-surge-following-will-smith-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Comedian Chris Rock\u2019s comedy tour saw a surge in ticket sales after actor Will Smith slapped him across the face at the Academy Awards on Sunday night after Rock told a joke about Smith\u2019s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sold more tickets to see Chris Rock overnight than we did in the past three months combined,\u201d the online marketplace for ticked events TickPick revealed in a tweet on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We sold more tickets to see Chris Rock overnight than we did in the past month combined.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TickPick (@TickPick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TickPick\/status\/1508453636862627844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The surge in ticket sales have also caused ticket prices to rise since Sunday night, going up from a minimum of $46 per ticket on March 18 to a minimum of $341, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/shop\/chris-rock-comedy-tour-tickets-will-smith-slap-1235217103\/\">report<\/a> by <em>Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The skyrocketing ticket sales for Chris Rock\u2019s comedy tour appear to have been inspired\u00a0by Will Smith shocking Oscars audience members and viewers on Sunday night, when he got out of his seat to attack the comedian for making a joke about his wife.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cJada, I love ya. G.I. Jane 2, can\u2019t wait to see ya,\u201d Rock said while on stage at the Oscars \u2014 an apparent joe about\u00a0Pinkett Smith\u2019s hair loss, which she revealed is due to her having\u00a0alopecia.<\/p>\n<p>Will Smith, however, did not appear to take the joke lightly, as the actor marched onto the stage, where he smacked Rock across the face. Then, when the actor retook his seat in the audience, he twice shouted, \u201cKeep my wife\u2019s name out your fucking mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>***LANGUAGE WARNING***:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Full video\/audio of Will Smith vs. Chris Rock. (NSFW language obviously.) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oscars?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Oscars<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k7pX27lI3J\">pic.twitter.com\/k7pX27lI3J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Silverstein (@SilversteinAdam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SilversteinAdam\/status\/1508271139461771271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Later, Smith addressed his cringeworthy outburst during his acceptance speech for Best Actor, in which he apologized to the Academy Awards and all of his \u201cfellow nominees,\u201d but refrained from mentioning Rock in his apology.<\/p>\n<p>Rock is scheduled to perform six shows at Wilbur Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, from March 30 through April 1. The comedian will then kick off his Ego Death World Tour on April 2. Rock will also ne visiting more than 30 cities for the North American leg of his tour.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian currently has 38 dates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/chris-rock-tickets\/artist\/702631\">scheduled for the tour<\/a>, traveling to cities like Las Vegas, Denver, Seattle, New York, Chicago, and Toronto. Rock will wrap up his comedy tour on November 18 in Hollywood, California.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Chris Rock\u2019s comedy tour saw a surge in ticket sales after actor Will Smith slapped him across the face at the Academy Awards on Sunday night after Rock told<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}