Over 22 weeks have passed since Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars,

still can't quit discussing it.

Before a Phoenix crowd on Sunday night, the comic cleared up

 he turned down a greeting for have next March's Oscars function,

Rock contrasted his circumstance and the fierce homicide of Nicole Brown Simpson in a semi-cognizant joke, 

saying that getting back to the entertainment expo would resemble 

asking Simpson "to return to the café" where she ate hours before her passing.