


MaAn earlier version of this review stated that “Saturday Night Live” has been on the air for nearly 60 years.

(If you are the one person who somehow does not know, at last year’s Oscars ceremony, Will Smith attacked Rock over a bad joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith - though Rock has his own theory about that, see below.) This contretemps has refused to evaporate, perhaps exactly because the world was waiting for Rock to address it.ĩ:49 p.m. Had “Selective Outrage” not gone out live, a fact that Netflix could not emphasize too much, it would have been news - as indeed it had been successfully sold as such for weeks before its arrival - given that Rock was expected to address the Slap, whose first anniversary is nigh. back East - where the show took place, at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre - a little on the late the rest of the world - the show streamed to 90 countries - made its own accommodations.) (West Coast viewers got Rock a little on the early side, at 7 p.m. Chris Rock took to the ether Saturday night for “Selective Outrage,” the second of two stand-up specials for which Netflix paid $40 million: an event whose specialness, not to say its costliness, was emphasized by bracketing it within a pre-show and an after-show, and by putting it out live.
