Name: Chris Rock's Comedy Post Will Smith Incident
Uploaded: 2022-08-12T17:31:44.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Chris Rock's Comedy Post Will Smith Incident' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Chris Rock's Comedy Post Will Smith Incident' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-12. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- That dude's been famous for so long, too,
that like, if you're in a circle--
- Yeah.
- I think he's like one of the best,
if not the best ever.
- Well, 100% one of the best ever.
If you go back and watch "Bigger and Blacker,"
you know, you go back and watch "Bring the Pain,"
those are fucking classic specials.
They're as good as anybody's ever done.
Those are two absolute rock-solid, classic,
all-time great stand-up comedy specials.
- Yeah, it's crazy.
- Undeniably.
- But I liked it 'cause it was like,
that was like when you were saying something
and it was in the form of jokes.
So you're saying these big points
and it's done in the form, it's rapid boom, boom, boom.
Like, that's what, that's why, that's why to me,
like, it's like he is just, it's another planet.
Like, I mean, he's pacing the stage.
You can see him like, even like, he was on Letterman,
like the Letterman stuff with the women
and he went on Letterman and like,
he's like, "What are you doing with these girls?"
And like starts yelling, like when Letterman got in trouble,
the cheating on his wife or all that stuff.
Did he get in trouble, right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Like a long time ago.
- And Chris went on and was making fun of it.
- And Chris was a guest and just talked about it.
I think it saved Letterman.
'Cause it was just being talked about in the open.
- Right, right.
- And he went in and I was like, with Chris, you can see like,
he gets like a zone in his eyes where you can just tell like,
he's not even really looking at anybody.
It's just like comedy.
- Yeah, it's comedy.
- He's in the groove.
- He's in the groove of just, you know,
if an elephant walked in front of him, he would be like,
I never saw it.
Like, it's just, his eyes are just like, you know, just pacing.
- He's really funny again right now, man.
- That's what I've heard.
I wanna go see it.
- I saw him at the store before the whole Will Smith thing
and he was working out his material.
He was fucking good, man.
He was really good, like classic Chris Rock shit.
'Cause you know, went through a hard divorce,
lost a shitload of money and it was a lot of pain and so,
and then came out of it.
And then on the other side of it, it's like,
he's really good right now.
- Yeah, I heard someone,
someone told me about his hour now, they heard it's great.
- Yeah, well I first heard from my friend Eddie Bravo.
He saw him at the store and he texted me.
He goes, brother, this guy is on fire right now.
He goes, he's so good right now.
I go, really?
He goes, you gotta see him.
And then I was there like a week later
and I got a chance to watch the set.
It's nice to see.
It's because, you know, there's always that drop off point
with a lot of like great comics.
Like they'll have a couple of really good specials
and then they'll have one that's not that good.
They'll have another one that's not that good.
And you're like, you're like, ooh, is he falling off?
- I feel like you need to be an underdog.
Like you want, you almost like,
you want to have people doubt you.
- Right.
- And that's the whole beginning of comedy
is you go on stage and this crowd doubts you.
So the very,
your first time on stage is talking to 20 people
that don't think you can do this.
- Right.
Every time you go on stage is just proving something.
- Right.
- And then maybe you get too big to a point
to where now they're there.
And if you're not aware of it, like they said,
like the, I think you said like the self audit,
or if you're constantly just reminding yourself
that you're not like, almost like you hear me on stage,
you're like, dude, I'm nobody, I'm an idiot.
I don't think I know how to do comedy, to be honest.
Like you think that all is, you know, like I,
once you tape an hour, you're like,
I don't know how I could ever do it ever again.
I should quit honestly and get a regular job.
And probably is going to happen.
Like you just this panic of just all this stuff.
And so if you don't have that,
then you can kind of get lost.
And then you're like,
and that's when I think specials can get bad.
You're just cramming them out.
And you're like, oh, you may do one.
I'll do it tomorrow.
I'll go.
And you just are pounding them out.
And then you need that back to like,
and almost like with,
not saying Chris was at that point,
but like the resurgence of now he's a true,
he had that happen at the Oscars.
So now everybody's going to be like,
expecting a lot from him.
If he comes and does something, whatever,
it's like, I mean, it's, it's, it's not,
there's no payback.
There's no nothing.
It's like, oh dude, who cares?
But if he comes back with his next special
and it's, it's, it's what it,
what I'm hearing, it's supposed to be,
it's going to be.
- It's right back where he was at his best.
- Oh, oh.
- When I saw him, he was killing.
I mean, killing.
And you know, it was a drop-in set.
It wasn't, you know, it wasn't announced.
- You gotta find that,
I think you gotta find that motivation.
- Yes.
- The motivation that makes you,
you know, Sinbad said that,
I remember reading a book and he's talking about,
he's like, cause it's hard to go.
You ride, he was riding Greyhound buses to shows.
And so Sinbad's like laughing with the bus driver.
I mean, he's just like the most funny career.
And then you're in limos or something.
And then everything kind of changes
and you lose that, that hang where you lose that perspective
of like that kind of outside world.
And you think like, well, I walked to my show
and my coffee wasn't where I thought it was going to be.
And then, and you're like, well, that's someone's job.
You're like, you're like, you go,
well, all I do is ask for that to be right there.
I don't think that's crazy.
Am I being crazy saying that I would like my coffee
right on that stool when I walked past it?
You know, and you, you don't go, what?
You know, you don't go get it, dude.
Go get, it's across the street.
There's a Starbucks, walk over there,
go grab whatever you want to grab.
And you're like, but I don't,
but people recognize me and stuff.
You're like, no one's gonna recognize,
just go over there and go do your dumb thing.
And like, bring yourself back to like some kind of reality
to go like, all right.
- You get insulated.
- You get insulated.
- Yeah, and when you're Chris Rock,
how do you not get insulated?
Everywhere you go, everybody says,
oh, that's Chris Rock.