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Ticket Sales for Chris Rock's Comedy Tour Soar After Oscars Altercation Ticket resale website TickPick said they sold "more tickets to see Chris Rock overnight" than they had "in the past

month combined" following Sunday's Oscars telecast

By Greta Bjornson Greta Bjornson Greta Bjornson is a staff editor at PEOPLE.People Editorial GuidelinesPublished on March 29, 2022 09:28AM EDT Chris Rock.Credit : Neilson Barnard/Getty

Everybody wants to see Chris Rock.

Ticket sales for the 57-year-old comedian's upcoming comedy tour are reportedly surging after he was slapped onstage by Will Smith during Sunday's Oscars telecast.

Secondary ticket seller TickPick tweeted Monday that they saw an increase in sales to see Rock perform following the incident, which aired live during the awards show. Rock is scheduled to

perform at Boston's Wilbur Theater Wednesday through Friday before his Ego Death World Tour begins Saturday.

"We sold more tickets to see Chris Rock overnight than we did in the past month combined," TickPick revealed on Twitter.

The online marketplace told PEOPLE that over 50% of its sales for Rock's tour "have come since the Oscars." Tickets first went on sale on Feb. 24.

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Brett Goldberg, TickPick co-founder and co-CEO, told PEOPLE in a statement, "The circumstances surrounding the incident at the Oscars continue to cause demand to surge for Chris Rock's tour.

More than 50 percent of tour sales on our platform have come through since Sunday's Oscars and we expect this trajectory to continue."