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Chris Rock Talks Obama, Comedy And More With Frank Rich

Posted on December 1st, 2014
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Chris Rock sat down with Vulture’s Frank Rich for a two-part conversation. Initially to talk Rock’s upcoming movie Top Five where he handles the roles of director, screenwriter and leading star, the comedian divulged in topics spanning the unrest in Ferguson to Bill Cosby and the new challenges he faces in performing stand-ups.

“It is scary, because the thing about comedians is that you’re the only ones who practice in front of a crowd. Prince doesn’t run a demo on the radio. But in stand-up, the demo gets out. There are a few guys good enough to write a perfect act and get onstage, but everybody else workshops it and workshops it, and it can get real messy,” he explains on the changing shift in comedy. “It can get downright offensive. Before everyone had a recording device and was wired like fucking Sammy the Bull,4 you’d say something that went too far, and you’d go, “Oh, I went too far,” and you would just brush it off.”

Talking plenty of politics, Chris Rock reveals that having President Obama as the first black president is not black progress but white progress.”So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years.”

Read the full interview at Vulture and catch Top Five in theaters Dec. 12.

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