Oscars 2022: How Will Smith’s slap impacted Chris Rock’s Comedy Tour ticket sales

Chris Rock’s distasteful humour about Will Smith’s wife and actor Jada Pinkett Smith and the actor responding with a slap shadowed everything else that happened at the 94th Academy Awards, including Will Smith’s Best Actor win for King Richard. Later, while receiving the Best Actor trophy, Will Smith apologised to the Academy and its nominees but not to Chris. He apologised to him a day later on social media.

An online marketplace for events tickets called Tick Pick tweeted, “We sold more tickets to see Chris Rock overnight than we did in the past month combined.” Meanwhile, Variety reported that the platform “claim that ticket prices have surged since Sunday night, going up from a minimum of $46 per ticket on March 18 to a minimum of $341.” Chris Rock is supposed to perform six shows at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre from March 30 through April 1.