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Emmy Awards host Kenan Thompson and the ceremony’s producers are predicting a conflict-free zone, unlike the Oscars show that was marred by an on-stage slap. Thompson said the confrontation last March in which Will Smith attacked presenter Chris Rock over a joke directed at Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, was…

Emmy Awards host Kenan Thompson and the show’s producers are predicting a conflict-free zone

‘There are families behind this tragedy,’ she said

The 57-year-old comedian reportedly made the quip during a stand-up show in Arizona when he revealed he had turned down an offer to host next year’s Academy Awards

The comedian is said to have compared returning to the Oscars to revisiting a crime scene

During a standup set Rock said that to return after Will Smith attacked him at this year’s awards would be like returning to the scene of a crime

He jibed how going back to the biggest night in Hollywood would be like asking Nicole Brown Simpson “to go back to the restaurant,” referencing the events that led to her death and the subsequent OJ Simpson murder trial.

Comedian Chris Rock is said to have made a joke about being offered to host next year's Oscars during a gig in Phoenix, Arizona

Rock said returning to the Oscars would be like Nicole Brown Simpson going ‘back to the restaurant’ where she left her glasses the night she was killed