Selective Outrage: what Chris Rock says about Will Smith and the Oscars in new Netflix special

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Chris Rock ended his new Netflix special with a series of jokes about the incident
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Chris Rock has broken his silence over his altercation with Will Smith at last year’s Oscars in a new Netflix special called Selective Outrage.

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Jamie Timson is the UK news editor, curating The Week UK's daily morning newsletter and setting the agenda for the day's news output. He was first a member of the team from 2015 to 2019, progressing from intern to senior staff writer, and then rejoined in September 2022. As a founding panellist on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast, he has discussed politics, foreign affairs and conspiracy theories, sometimes separately, sometimes all at once. In between working at The Week, Jamie was a senior press officer at the Department for Transport, with a penchant for crisis communications, working on Brexit, the response to Covid-19 and HS2, among others.