Woman seen in Chris Rock's audience responds to criticism she was 'laughing too hard'

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By stefan armitage

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A female audience member who was heavily featured in Chris Rock's latest Netflix special has taken to social media to respond to criticism she has faced.

Rock, 58, has made headlines this week following the release of his new Netflix comedy special, Selective Outrage.

Despite saying at the top of the show that he wanted to get through the night "without offending" anybody, the comedian divided viewers with his jokes about Meghan Markle, Will Smith, and Jada Pinkett Smith.

As well as claiming that Markle won "the light-skinned lottery" and that the accusations of racism from members of the Royal Family were unjust, Rock also reignited his feud with the Smiths.

Following the infamous "Oscars Slap" last year, Rock took the opportunity to vent his frustrations about Will and Jada - going as far as to criticize their relationship and reference the latter's "entanglement" with rapper August Alsina.

Check out the infamous Oscars moment below:

"For people that don’t know, well everybody knows, but Will Smith’s wife was f***ing her son’s friend. Okay? I normally would not talk about this s**t, but, for some reason, they put it on the internet," Rock said in his show. "She hurt him way more than he hurt me.

"Everybody in the world was calling him a b***h, and I tried to call him up and he didn’t pick up the phone to me. Everybody was calling him a b***h, everybody, everybody, and he slaps me? That is some b***h a** s**t."

The very public scathing led to some viewers taking to Twitter to say that Rock went "too far" with his "disgusting" jokes.

However, there were many other people that found Rock's gags funny - such as TikTok user Fely Yigle (@lifeof.fay), who has since revealed herself on the social media platform.

The 21-year-old college student was seen several times throughout Rock's special, laughing along and appearing to have a fun time. She even took to the video-sharing platform to joke about the cameraman focusing on her throughout the gig.

"POV: You were the girl in the audience of the Chris Rock comedy special that the cameraman kept showing," she wrote.

But upon revealing herself, many other social media users called her out for laughing "too hard" at Rock's jokes, with one person commenting: "Amazing Acting cuz baby ain’t no way that laughter was real cuz that special was HORRIBLE".

A second wrote: "You looked amazing but you know you was not that entertained."

A third added: "No way I would be proud to be in that audience laughing."

In the first of too follow-up videos, Far wrote in overlay text "when people say I was laughing too hard in the audience at the Chris Rock's comedy special on Netflix", as she lipsynced the words: "Okay... you got me there... but that is not a crime".

She also captioned the clip: "[I'm] sorry but the little racist jokes made me giggle".

In her second video, Fay said that - as a political science student - she found Rock's jokes perhaps "the best way to make the truth more digestible".

She also responded to Rock's jokes about Black women, saying: "I knew what I signed up for. I did not come to watch a presidential campaign or debate. I came to laugh and I came to not get offended.

"So I did not put myself in a place to get offended - so I didn't take anything he said seriously."

Fay then used the title of Rock's comedy against her critics, telling them: "Some of y'all got 'selective outrage'; you pick and choose when to be mad and when to not be mad. You made [Rock's] point."

"Overall, if you didn't think it was funny, to each their own. But don't be getting mad at somebody else because they decided to laugh," she added.

Featured image credit: Entertainment Pictures / Alamy

Woman seen in Chris Rock's audience responds to criticism she was 'laughing too hard'

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By stefan armitage

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A female audience member who was heavily featured in Chris Rock's latest Netflix special has taken to social media to respond to criticism she has faced.

Rock, 58, has made headlines this week following the release of his new Netflix comedy special, Selective Outrage.

Despite saying at the top of the show that he wanted to get through the night "without offending" anybody, the comedian divided viewers with his jokes about Meghan Markle, Will Smith, and Jada Pinkett Smith.

As well as claiming that Markle won "the light-skinned lottery" and that the accusations of racism from members of the Royal Family were unjust, Rock also reignited his feud with the Smiths.

Following the infamous "Oscars Slap" last year, Rock took the opportunity to vent his frustrations about Will and Jada - going as far as to criticize their relationship and reference the latter's "entanglement" with rapper August Alsina.

Check out the infamous Oscars moment below:

"For people that don’t know, well everybody knows, but Will Smith’s wife was f***ing her son’s friend. Okay? I normally would not talk about this s**t, but, for some reason, they put it on the internet," Rock said in his show. "She hurt him way more than he hurt me.

"Everybody in the world was calling him a b***h, and I tried to call him up and he didn’t pick up the phone to me. Everybody was calling him a b***h, everybody, everybody, and he slaps me? That is some b***h a** s**t."

The very public scathing led to some viewers taking to Twitter to say that Rock went "too far" with his "disgusting" jokes.

However, there were many other people that found Rock's gags funny - such as TikTok user Fely Yigle (@lifeof.fay), who has since revealed herself on the social media platform.

The 21-year-old college student was seen several times throughout Rock's special, laughing along and appearing to have a fun time. She even took to the video-sharing platform to joke about the cameraman focusing on her throughout the gig.

"POV: You were the girl in the audience of the Chris Rock comedy special that the cameraman kept showing," she wrote.

But upon revealing herself, many other social media users called her out for laughing "too hard" at Rock's jokes, with one person commenting: "Amazing Acting cuz baby ain’t no way that laughter was real cuz that special was HORRIBLE".

A second wrote: "You looked amazing but you know you was not that entertained."

A third added: "No way I would be proud to be in that audience laughing."

In the first of too follow-up videos, Far wrote in overlay text "when people say I was laughing too hard in the audience at the Chris Rock's comedy special on Netflix", as she lipsynced the words: "Okay... you got me there... but that is not a crime".

She also captioned the clip: "[I'm] sorry but the little racist jokes made me giggle".

In her second video, Fay said that - as a political science student - she found Rock's jokes perhaps "the best way to make the truth more digestible".

She also responded to Rock's jokes about Black women, saying: "I knew what I signed up for. I did not come to watch a presidential campaign or debate. I came to laugh and I came to not get offended.

"So I did not put myself in a place to get offended - so I didn't take anything he said seriously."

Fay then used the title of Rock's comedy against her critics, telling them: "Some of y'all got 'selective outrage'; you pick and choose when to be mad and when to not be mad. You made [Rock's] point."

"Overall, if you didn't think it was funny, to each their own. But don't be getting mad at somebody else because they decided to laugh," she added.

Featured image credit: Entertainment Pictures / Alamy