Over a decade ago, Chris Rock said he would only host the Oscars again if the awards ceremony confronted its lack of racial diversity.
“If there’s a lot of black people on it, I will host the show again,” he joked on the Late Show With David Letterman after hosting the Oscars back in 2005.
But more than ten years later, Rock is back to host the show for the second time.
Despite pressure to boycott the Oscars over its lack of racial diversity - not one black actor was nominated in any of the main categories this year - Rock has chosen to go ahead and address the race row head on.
Having already called the Oscars “The White BET Awards”, the 51-year-old comedian has never been one to shy away from issues of race, politics and relationships and is known for his razor-sharp candid sense of humour.
1. Welcome to the Oscars, otherwise known as the "White People's Choice Awards"
Chris Rock started the show as he meant to go on - with hilarious, but pointed, jokes at the 'sorority racism' of Hollywood
2. "Things are changing, we've got a black Rocky this year!And this is outstanding because Rocky takes place in a world where white athletes are as good as black athletes - it's a science fiction movie!"
This is true. He then said Star Wars was more realistic.
3. "Of all the girl-on-girl movies I've seen this year, Carol was the third best"
This was anger-inducing, but got a good chuckle. CAROL WAS ROBBED.
4. "How come only unemployed tell you to quit something? No-one with a job tells you to quit. I thought about quitting, I thought about it real hard but then I thought they are going to have the Oscars anyway and the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart."
Strong words about #OscarSoWhite got everyone chucking.
5. "Jada's gonna boycott the Oscars? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties. I wasn't invited."
Oooops, This was a slight burn.
6. Hollywood is “sorority racist, like ‘We like you, Ronda, but you’re not a Kappa.’”
7. “You get mad that Will was this good and didn’t get nominated” [for his role in Concussion]. “It’s also not fair that Will was paid $20m to do Wild Wild West.”
8. “If they nominated hosts I wouldn’t even get this job so you’d be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now.”
9. "Robert De Niro’s never said, ‘I have to slow this acting down so Meryl Streep can catch up.’”
10. “You’re not allowed to ask women what they’re wearing any more. Everything’s not sexism; everything’s not racism. They ask the men more because they’re all wearing the exact same thing. If George Clooney came in a lime-green tux with a swan coming out of his ass they’d say, ‘What are you wearing George?’”
11. “This year, things are going to be a little different. This year, in the In Memoriam package, it’s just going to be black people that were shot by the cops on their way to the movies … yes I said it!”
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12. "You don’t pay taxes. They take taxes"
13. "Yeah, I love being famous. It’s almost like being white, y’know?"
14. "I used to work at McDonald’s making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? Hey, if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law."
15. "The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they're not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, “If you'd done that in the movie, you'd have won an Oscar, girl.”
16. 've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day."
17. "Ever see a list of the richest black people in the country? Oprah's on there. Cosby. Michael Jordon. Magic Johnson. Tiger Woods. Movie stars. But you can't get past number eight without running across a brother who just hit the Lotto jackpot last week."
18. "Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people."
19. "Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders."
20. "I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot."
21. "So, you can say “black people have made progress”, but to say “black people have made progress” would mean we deserved to be segregated. The reality is: white people got less crazy."
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