Saw Chris Rock at the Academy of Music Wednesday night. Pretty good show, and it was the first time I've seen him live. Jokes fell into surprisingly compact categories: politics, race, class, relationships (I like the man but his comments about women, damn) and sex. Has a lot of good material on societal rules about when one person can criticize another, or complain about how hard they have it to another person. Paraphrasing: "Some of you all have jobs, and some of you have careers. You people who have careers, when you're around people who have jobs, just keep your complaints to yourself."
His political stuff was not as developed as I expected it would be, but he had two good ones.
"George Bush has fucked things up so bad, a white man is having trouble getting elected president. 'No, not another white man, did you see what the last one did? Give us anything else, anything, a white woman, a black man, a giraffe, a zebra, anything.'"
"How fucked up is it that Hillary wants a job where she will be working in the same office where her husband got blowjobs? Has anything thought this through? There's no amount of redecorating that's gonna make her forget that."
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