Chris Rock

Comedian Chris Rock gave a glimpse of the provocative humor he may bring as host of the Oscars ceremony with a tweet about sports and reality TV celebrity Lamar Odom that drew both scorn and applause.

The controversial tweet came in the week that Odom, 35, and his estranged wife Khloe Kardashian, 31, called off their divorce as the former basketball star recovers from collapsing into a coma at a Nevada bar after reportedly using cocaine.

Rock, 50, was named this week as host of the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony in February. It will be his second stint at the helm of the movie industry’s biggest night after a 2005 performance that made headlines for his barbed comments about race and politics.

Odom, a former National Basketball Association star player, is said to be making progress but faces a long period of rehabilitation with concerns over his kidneys and other organs, celebrity media have reported. TMZ.com said he underwent two emergency surgeries in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Odom’s and Kardashian’s 2009 courtship and marriage were featured in the reality shows “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and “Khloe and Lamar.” The couple split up in 2013 amid rumors of cheating and drug abuse by Odom but divorce papers signed in July were never finalized and were withdrawn earlier this week.

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