{"id":1407015,"date":"2022-03-29T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407015"},"modified":"2022-03-29T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:44:41","slug":"after-oscars-slap-flap-ticket-prices-for-chris-rocks-comedy-tour-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-oscars-slap-flap-ticket-prices-for-chris-rocks-comedy-tour-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"After Oscars Slap Flap, Ticket Prices For Chris Rock\u2019s Comedy Tour Soar"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fafter-oscars-slap-flap-ticket-prices-for-chris-rocks-comedy-tour-soar%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=1407015&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/WSCR-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The slap heard \u2019round the world might turn out to be a boon for comedian Chris Rock.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Will Smith stormed the stage at the 94th Academy Awards on Sunday, stomping toward Rock and, in a shocker, slapped him for a joke the comedian had made about his wife. The stunt didn\u2019t help the flagging show: Although ratings went up compared to last year, they were still the second-lowest in history, Deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/03\/2022-oscars-tv-ratings-rise-academy-awards-abc-disney-will-smith-chris-rock-1234989041\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rock is set to kick off his \u201cEgo Death World Tour\u201d on April 2, just a few days from now, and there was unusual fallout from \u201cthe slap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTickets prices for the tour, which includes stops in 30 North American cities, rose from a minimum of $46 per ticket on March 18 to a whopping minimum of $341 on secondary market platform TickPick since the Academy Awards drama,\u201d the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/29\/chris-rocks-comedy-tour-ticket-prices-skyrocket-after-will-smith-slap\/\">reported<\/a>, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/shop\/chris-rock-comedy-tour-tickets-will-smith-slap-1235217103\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Variety.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe on-screen altercation is one of the most dramatic unplanned events to occur in Academy Awards history, made even more peculiar by Smith accepting the award for best actor less than an hour after his outburst,\u201d Variety reported. \u201cHowever, the dramatic moment did seem to inspire some viewers to buy tickets to see Rock perform live; one secondary ticketing marketplace, TickPick, reports that they have sold more tickets to the comedian\u2019s tour overnight than they did in the past month combined.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" 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>Rock was on the stage Sunday cracking wise about all the celebrities in the star-studded theater. Then he got to actor Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJada, I love you, G.I. Jane 2, can\u2019t wait to see it. All right?\u201d Rock said with his trademark laugh at his own punchline. The joke was a reference to a movie that starred Demi Moore as a Navy lieutenant in which the actress sports a shaved head. Jada Pinkett Smith, too, has a shaved head, because she suffers from alopecia.<\/p>\n<p>While she rolled her eyes a bit and didn\u2019t laugh, her husband guffawed heartily, a big smile on his face. \u201cThat was a nice one, OK?\u201d Rock said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m out here \u2013\u201d Rock then said before breaking off. \u201cUh oh. Richard?\u201d he said, referring to Will Smith\u2019s part playing the father of Serena and Venus Williams\u2019 father in \u201cKing Richard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Viewers couldn\u2019t see yet, just Rock\u2019s face on the TV screen, but as the camera pulled back, Smith, 6\u20192\u2033, was striding up the stage toward Rock, 5\u201910\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Smith took a mighty swipe, not with a fist but an open hand, toward Rock, still jutting his chin out and to the left. Slow-motion clips show it was a glancing blow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh wow,\u201d Rock said. \u201cWow. Will Smith just smacked the s*** out of me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The camera then cut to Smith, by now back in his seat. While TV bleeped what he was saying, uncensored versions show he said: \u201cKeep my wife\u2019s name out your f***ing mouth!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slap heard \u2019round the world might turn out to be a boon for comedian Chris Rock.Actor Will Smith stormed the stage at the 94th Academy Awards on Sunday, stomping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"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-1407015","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\/1407015","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407015\/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=1407015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}