Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, and producer Chris Rock’s ticket sales have reportedly spiked after the 2022 Oscars slap incident involving him and Oscar Award-winning actor and rapper Will Smith.
According to ticket resale website TickPick, ticket sales for Rock’s upcoming show, “Ego Death Tour,” on Mar. 30 at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, Mass., have surged.
On Mar. 28, The company’s social media team took to Twitter to announce their observation.
“We sold more tickets to see Chris Rock overnight than we did in the past month combined,” they wrote.
We sold more tickets to see Chris Rock overnight than we did in the past month combined.
— TickPick (@TickPick) March 28, 2022
Ticket prices for the “Ego Death Tour” have also reportedly jumped from $46 a ticket to a minimum of $341 on TickPick. There has even been a mezzanine-level ticket up for sale on their website for $900.
The news came just three days after Smith walked up on stage and smacked Rock in the face following a joke the comedian made about the King Richard star’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, calling her G.I. Jane. She recently shaved her head due to suffering from a scalp condition called alopecia, which made her husband upset at the joke and prompted him to hit Rock.
After the televised slap went viral and broke the internet, Smith released a statement via Instagram on Mar. 29, apologizing to the 57-year-old.
“My behavior at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable…a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear, and I reacted emotionally. I would like to publicly apologize to you Chris…there is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness,” he wrote.
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Rock has not yet publicly commented on the incident nor Smith’s apology. However, his brother, actor and comedian Tony Rock said he didn’t forgive the 53-year-old via Twitter.
“Do you approve of the apology?” a user asked him on the platform before he responded, “No.”
— Tony Rock (@TONYROCK) March 30, 2022
He added, that everyone should check out his older brother’s 2009 documentary Good Hair to prove that he wouldn’t disrespect Black women intentionally.
“Be sure to watch Good Hair since the narrative is now changed to all my bro does is disrespect women of color,” he said.
Be sure to watch 'Good Hair' since the narrative is now changed to all my bro does is disrespect women of color.
— Tony Rock (@TONYROCK) March 30, 2022
The comedy giant’s Live Nation-produced “Ego Death Tour” around the U.S., starting with his show in Boston, has 38 dates scheduled thus far. The tour will hit–pun not intended–major cities, including New York, Chicago, Seattle, Las Vegas, Denver, and Oakland. It will also be in Los Angeles, where the 2022 Oscars recently took place.
“Ego Death World Tour 2022. All [the] new material [is] introspective, very personal, and very funny. [I] can’t wait to show you. The link for tickets is in my bio,” he initially announced to fans via his Instagram page on Feb. 22.
Rock is also set to do a joint tour with Kevin Hart called Only Headliners Allowed in Summer 2022, which he also announced via his Instagram on March 7.
“Once again, it’s on,” he wrote underneath a poster of him and Hart. The poster revealed that all the shows for Only Headliners Allowed would solely take place in New York and New Jersey.
