Chris Rock apparently takes private stand-up gigs for the money. Many entertainers do the same, especially musical artists. Rock got paid to do a comedy set at a billionaire’s Christmas party, and according to the NY Post, something happened right after Rock made a stupid, unfunny and racist joke.

Chris Rock “stormed out” in the middle of his comedy set at billionaire Anthony Pratt’s Christmas party. The 59-year-old comedian did a surprise set at Pratt’s holiday party over the weekend, according to The Post.

However, his set was cut short after he joked, “Our new push will be outer space. We’ll put all the Mexicans on the rockets.”

The Post’s Cindy Adams, who attended the soirée, said Rock “saw something the audience did not” that “upset him.”

He shouted that “he wasn’t supposed to be taped, videoed, reported or whatever else wasn’t supposed to happen.”

Rock then “[barreled] quickly, forcefully, through people to the exit doors” without explaining why.

“Without a second’s hesitation, stormed out — never to return,” Adams described the incident. Page Six has reached out to Rock’s reps but did not immediately hear back.

[From Page Six]

According to the Mail, Rock cut his set short because he saw kids in the audience and he worried that his material would be inappropriate for them. That explanation makes zero sense. What makes perfect sense is that Rock has lost his comedy juice and he now makes racist and insensitive jokes for money, and he didn’t want anyone filming him during his side-gig. All of the sh-tstorm around Chris Rock and the “Oscars slap,” I’m still sort of shocked that no one has really talked about Rock’s dated material and his inability to adapt his comedy with the times. The whole reason Will Smith slapped him is because he compared Jada to G.I. JANE, a movie which came out in 1997.

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