Chris Rock paid tribute to Adam Sandler at the Kennedy Center—and managed to tell a few more slap jokes in the process.
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the only guy who knows how I felt,” Rock quipped to uproarious laughter at the ceremony, which was taped March 19 and aired on CNN Sunday. “Just me and you, Paul! Just me and you, babe!” Rock then regaled the crowd with a story about growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s and being one of only three Black kids at his school. “How many times do you think a kid asked me to hang out at his house after school?" Rock asked the audience. “Once. Once in like sixteen years," said Rock. "Rock then told the story of how he first met Sandler when both were aspiring comics.
Like the expert comedian that he is, Rock then tied his relationship with Sandler back to his lonely grade school days. “[Sandler says] the greatest thing in the world to the guy that no one wanted to play with. Adam goes, ”Hey, we're going over to my dorm wanna hang? And he's been letting me hang ever since."
Rock couldn't help but end his tribute to Sandler with one more dig at the Oscars. “The Oscars are, you know, they're fucking assholes,” Rock quipped, touching on both the slap and Sandler being
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