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Chris Rock makes comedy history as he performs stand-up in real time for Netflix’s first global live-streaming event.
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
2023 Directed by Joel Gallen
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“Snoop Dogg sells reverse mortgages and calls them Doggages” is the worst joke I've ever heard a comedian tell, and I've gone to over 500 open mics.
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I think it rocks that all the most famous and successful comedians now just do the same exact very tired material, it saves time
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Another in a long line of pretty depressing specials from talented aging standups who should know better. Opening with talk of being “triggered” and “safe spaces” is so fucking tired that Roseanne (also formerly talented) was saying the same shit on Fox Nation a month ago.
A whole bit about how the Kardashians date black guys? Devoting precious time out of your hour to saying Elon Musk “has no cum left” because he gets his dick sucked so much(??) Listen it takes a lot for me to not like a cum joke.
Sometimes when I tweet about how I hate a new Rock or Chappelle special, Neal Brennan will DM me about being too performatively woke. It’s sad. These guys are all the same guy, and they’re all turning into our uncles. You hate to see it.
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I saw him work this out at the Altria in Richmond. He did ~2 hours (way too long for a comedy show, but our phones were in a bag so we couldn’t keep track, and he didn’t give a fuck - there was a Netflix deadline to meet) and he barely played with The Preacher, so it’s interesting to see which bits made it, which had been fleshed out more since, and the topics he settled on to fit the themes when constricted to a single hour (his previous three specials were all 80 minutes). I was also thrilled to be in on the process of seeing exactly how much The Preacher elevates everything. There’s a massively different context here…
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Every new comedy special is titled something like canceled or triggered or some shit its so boring
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EDIT: I wrote the following in a comment elsewhere and it sums up my thoughts on this better than my review I wrote:
With the rise of social media, people who have traditionally been marginalized and voiceless in our society have been given a platform to advocate for themselves. “Cancel culture” has risen commensurately as a direct result of Trump’s election and Weinstein’s downfall. The reason “cancel culture” isn’t a big deal and those marginalized groups have a right to be offended and speak their voice is because they are wholly incapable of causing anywhere near the level of damage to a handful of pissy comedians as the powers that be are able to to do to the rights of…
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Chris Rock: Selective Outrage. 2023. Directed by Joel Gallen.
Chris Rock delivered some knock out insult, observational, and sarcasm/satire related standup jokes. In his latest docu-comedy that shed light on “the slap heard/felt around the world” when Will Smith leapt from his table onto the Oscar stage and slapped Chris Rock. So, we have been in suspense since this freak occurrence where Chris Rock could have filed charges and put Will Smith in jail. In fact, we were shocked he was not removed from the stage. The actual reason for the slap was “selective outrage” when a person randomly chooses an individual to vent their anger onto via verbal assault, physical assault, etc. In this case according to Rock, the…
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The height of passive aggression.
Some laughs but mostly had me wondering why Netflix chose this to be one of their first epic live events.
I know, I know ... They knew they would get the numbers with this one, especially during Oscar week.
I have just seen far better sets of his.