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azhazhellfire	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 4:42 PM sorry, no joke here. just a rant and a cry for help. Pretty much every other day someone i know says something like "holy shit did you see Chris Rock last night? I pissed myself before he even said his name". I watched Chris Rock for an hour last week and during that hour, i didn't laugh once (i've begun to watch him several other times but was forced to go do something more entertaining like putting a shotgun to my head). I understood all the jokes, i got all the stereotypes and cliches but they just weren't even mildly funny. I feel wrong just posting this in the comedy thread. Please will someone find an example chris rock joke for me that you consider funny, and explain why you find it funny. Basically the purpose of this is so that i can make sure there arn't any bits of chris rock that i accidentally missed out, so i can either come to relate to why chris rock is funny, or, if none of you can come up with anything, rid my home city of him.
kingo	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 4:49 PM 1. if you have to ask, you don't get the joke 2. if you don't think something's funny, and someone else does, you're wrong. 3. if you get all upset because of some comedy thing that a bunch of people say is funny and you don't think it's funny at all, and then you have to prove your point by sitting through an hour of the thing and not laughing, and making a note about not laughing, then you probably need to go do something else. 17c. I have been, in the past, in the exact same boat as you about such things as: The Kids in the Hall. Everybody Loves Raymond. 17 other things I can't remember. 12b. Eat a cider.
LordTrey	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 4:53 PM I think Chris Rock is rather funny myself...some of his humor is moreso racial humor which alot of people do not find funny, but he makes fun of the african american community simply because thats what he knows so well..IE...If you want to hide your money in da hood, just put in a book..no N***** is going to open up a book...Chris Rock came from exactly what he talks about which really is something to think about..is the African American community that stereotypical or not..for some its funny for others its not..Guess its a matter of opinion and you are entitled to yours
LordTrey	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 4:55 PM I suppose what Im trying to say is that his humor is designed to raise eyebrows more than belly busters..Its politically and racially charged humor...
K3VIN	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 4:55 PM Chris Rock has so funny crap, but sometimes his whole race thing goes out of hand.
GeneHilbert	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 5:13 PM I don't remember ever seeing successful male white comedians do white jokes – except the redneck crowd – but I’ve known black rednecks so I don’t count that. I'm not talking about family or work related. But Jews do jew jokes, blacks do black jokes and Mexicans do mexican jokes, Koreans do korean jokes and women do women jokes. If dogs did stand they would make jokes about licking there asses and kissing their owners. Come on…….. Just tell the fucking jokes – if you have to qualify them – what’s the point... What's the difference between a cow and a lesbian? Fifty pounds and a flannel shirt.
LordTrey	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 5:15 PM yeaaaa...what Gene said...Right On Gene
K3VIN	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 5:27 PM how can there be a black redneck?
LordTrey	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 5:30 PM generalizations are normally confined to one race or culture therefore the classification is generalized..though "stereotypically" rednecks are white...generalizations and stereotypes do indeed get dangerous at times..sometimes stereotyping a generalization becomes quite messy...Ohhhhhhh that was deep
K3VIN	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 5:42 PM redneck comes from sunburnt white people.
farfor44	Date: April 1, 2006 @ 10:48 PM But only in the southern US,right??to me a redneck is someone who loves to drink,fight,race cars and carry guns in the gunracks in their pick-up trucksdont see many blacks doin that..hell they dont wanna go to jail!!I'm killin myselfthis is the kind of humor Chris Rock uses,he knows people stereotype and generalize,and he uses it in his humor...seems to work very well for him,hes fairly successful as a comedian..I personally like his comedyhowever I also realize the subjective nature of this subjective..some do some dont
Jennae	Date: April 2, 2006 @ 10:33 AM Az~ you are a trip .. you make me laugh far more than Chris Rock ever did
sinai	Date: April 2, 2006 @ 12:07 PM I'm still trying to figure out the big deal with monty python... chris rock has his moments, that tv is (was i imagine by now, it wasn't doing that great ratings wise) was some assy ass ass
GeneHilbert	Date: April 2, 2006 @ 12:29 PM oh man..... monty python - John Cleese with the canary..... what a riot http://www.thejohncleese.com/
desiderata	Date: April 2, 2006 @ 4:52 PM
TruonGLe	Date: April 2, 2006 @ 5:04 PM i think dave chapelles thing gets more out of hand than chris's. but hey, thats y its sooooo great. i love the over dosage.
K3VIN	Date: April 2, 2006 @ 6:51 PM dave chapelle and chris rock have the same humour, the whole skeet skeet lil john thing.. same writer probably.
azhazhellfire	Date: April 4, 2006 @ 6:44 AM nothing? ok then. annihilation of chris rock is underway. And i was FORCED to watch his show for an hour.
Svensta	Date: April 4, 2006 @ 10:15 AM smacking Sinai upside his head I came in here because I thought Az was singing Duran Duran.
MonnieB	Date: April 4, 2006 @ 12:01 PM I happen to like Chris Rock very much... I think he's a no nonsense comic that tells it like it is... To tell the truth, though, at first I thought he was annoying... It's a matter of opinion if you do or don't like him... My example: "I live in a neighborhood so bad, that you can get shot while you're getting shot..."
K3VIN	Date: April 4, 2006 @ 12:11 PM his bullet thing was good too, how the proble isnt guns, its bullets, if they charged a lot ofor bullets there would be less crime... it would be like ima kill you, first i gotta work for a few months, get another job... blah blah, then ima kill you... he tends to say motherfucker too much which istracts fro mthe joke at times.
GeneHilbert	Date: April 4, 2006 @ 1:09 PM Much like a lack of proof reading......
Israfel	Date: April 4, 2006 @ 8:53 PM Better yet...explain this...why is Chris Rock sitting in the audience on American Idol tonight? And why is he sitting next to Whoopi Goldberg??? see? that right there? now that's FUNNY!!
K3VIN	Date: April 4, 2006 @ 9:20 PM very funny gene -_-
St-Fu	Date: April 5, 2006 @ 12:58 AM Tupac Shakur Boulevard?
BIR	Date: April 5, 2006 @ 2:33 AM Tupac and Chris Rock=2 kick arse people that told/tell it like it is with out self censoring.
PrincessTast...	Date: April 5, 2006 @ 10:23 AM lovely wonderful monty python is hip (shiznit)
TameasDust	Date: April 5, 2006 @ 12:23 PM maybe your just tired of being told what is funny by comedians who have lost the edge of true comedy
tooles	Date: April 5, 2006 @ 2:23 PM Chris Rock is a hilarious guy, and if you don't find him funny, I don't know what to tell you, although I'm sorry for your loss.
K3VIN	Date: April 5, 2006 @ 4:10 PM Tupac is overrated... he was praised for his flaws... being an asshole.
azhazhellfire	Date: April 6, 2006 @ 2:06 AM In response to reading the 'you can get shot while you're getting shot' quote (which I found hilarious) I realised that when I tried to imagine the joke being told by Chris Rock's voice, it became immediately bland. So, to check it wasn't a fluke: I watched another ten minutes of his show and typed the jokes as he said them (couldn't handle more than ten minutes). And lo and behold, they were way funnier when I read them in my head. So the mystery is solved: It's his voice that pisses me off. There are two logical conclusions that come to mind here (feel free to submit your own): 1. everyone except me is deaf 2. when someone who has grown up around accents and voices like Chris Rock's (I grew up around english accents), your mind is accustomed to the accent and it becomes a non-factor when listening to american comedians. I prefer number one. /continues singing Duran Duran.

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