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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…

The comedian addressed Will Smith’s apology for the Oscars slap during his gig in London

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

LOS ANGELES — Five months after Will Smith slapped him onstage at the Academy Awards, stunning millions watching around the world, Chris Rock delivered another sort of slap back at the Oscars.

In Look at Me, Rock is thrown to the floor by Javier Bardem. Potter discusses male anger in her film and the similarities between that and Rock’s real-life experience of being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars