Will Smith gets asked about Chris Rock’s Oscar jabs

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Sunday evening, Chris Rock took a couple blatant jabs at Jada Pinkett-Smith during his opening monologue at the 88th Academy Awards show.

“What happened this year?” Rock asked in response to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy and Pinkett-Smith’s vocal boycott of the broadcast. “Jada’s going to boycott the Oscars. Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties. I wasn’t invited! It’s not an invitation I would turn down.”

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“It’s not fair that Will Smith was this good and didn’t get nominated,” Rock continued, turning his attention to her husband. “It’s also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for Wild Wild West.”

While the joke got a hearty laugh from the audience, when TMZ ran into Smith, they couldn’t help asking him to share his thoughts on the comedian’s  comments.

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Check out the awkward exchange below.