Jerry Seinfeld requested Chris Rock to parody Oscars slap in ‘Unfrosted’

Unfrosted‘s Bowl and Spoon Awards virtually had a second that might have upstaged its shocking Mad Men reunion, Jerry Seinfeld has revealed. 

Seinfeld initially requested Chris Rock to host the film’s faux awards present, suggesting he parody the notorious 2022 Oscars second when Will Smith slapped him in the course of the ceremony. 

“The different factor I needed to do, that I virtually did, was Chris Rock was gonna be the emcee of the Bowl and Spoon Awards,” Seinfeld mentioned on Dana Carvey and David Sapde‘s Fly on the Wall podcast. “We shot that proper after the Will Smith slap, and I used to be gonna have someone come up on the stage and have Chris punch them out.”

That parody did not come to fruition. Unfrosted, Seinfeld’s directorial debut on the fake origin of Pop-Tarts, wound up casting Cedric the Entertainer because the award present host. “Chris wasn’t … he wasn’t as much as carry out. He was nonetheless somewhat shook from the occasion,” Seinfeld mentioned. “But that was what the scene was going to be. But Cedric saved the day.”

Unfrosted stored the awards present, which was sponsored by Pop-Tarts purveyor, Kellogg’s. That sponsor firm — led within the film by Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, and Melissa McCarthy — received the entire awards over its company rival, Post.

Seinfeld requested the comedy veterans — and Rock’s former Saturday Night Live costars — in the event that they thought the joke would have landed because it was initially written. “Without the Will Smith factor, I believe it is humorous,” Carvey mentioned. “It’s simply type of, there’s nonetheless sort of a residual darkness round that second.”

Seinfeld was unsure about how it will have performed out. “Yeah, is not that what we’re drawn to greater than something? Residual darkness?” he mentioned. “I do not know if it will have labored.”

“If Chris is there and needs to do it, you get it,” Carvey added. “You can at all times trim it. Always get the shot.”

Representatives for Rock didn’t reply to Entertainment Weekly’s request for remark.

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Rock, in accordance with Seinfeld, wasn’t prepared to handle the Oscars second when Unfrosted filmed, however he did handle it later throughout his Netflix comedy particular, Selective Outrage, the platform’s first reside occasion.

 “He’s in motion pictures together with his shirt off. If I’m in a film getting open coronary heart surgical procedure, I bought on a sweater. He educated and performed Muhammad Ali, I performed Pookie in New Jack City. We aren’t the identical!” Rock mentioned towards the top of his set. “Even in animated motion pictures, I’m a zebra, he is a f—ing shark.”