Chris Rock
Appearances
Hidden Brain
How to Harness Your Feelings
Keep my wife's name out your mouth! I'm going to, okay? Greatest night in the history of television. Okay.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Wendy Suzuki: 2 Powerful Tools To Use When You Feel Stressed Out (This Will Lower Your Anxiety in 1 Minute)
The greatest comedians in America end to be black. It's because you had to work these two systems in a world that everybody else has to work one.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
7 Ways to Train Your Brain to Go From Insecurity to Confidence
The greatest comedians in America end to be black. It's because you had to work these two systems in a world that everybody else has to work on.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
And wound up killing 20, 30,000 people or so before it was over with.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
People go, well, does it bother you that everybody does an impression? And I go, no, because that's the most American thing there is, which is people make fun of the boss. They don't do that in Canada?
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
I don't know. In Canada, I don't know because nobody's ever that successful. But I think that what happened with it is people tell stories about me and then they take on a mythic thing and then they become true.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
I said, get yourself an apartment you don't believe you deserve. So when you're After you've worked 14, 15 hours, you get to your door and you go, who lives here? This is amazing. And you go, you do. And you feel good about yourself. And the fear that it will all go away, which your parents are giving you, I'm telling you it won't go away. And I'm your boss.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
And I can tell you that we'll be here next year and the year after and the year after that. And you will only make more money each year. So treat yourself well because it's the beginning of how you can adjust to other levels of show business.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
There's an old Stanley Myron Handelman joke that I told the first time we got a Peabody. It used to be a straight line that you could take 50 monkeys, put them in a room with typewriters, and sort of later they'd write the word Shakespeare. And his was, I let them in there, you know, and I checked, and then I came back and I realized they're just fooling around.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
My point with it is, is that's what we do. It looks like we're not doing anything, because they're just throwing jokes around or whatever, and you don't know, and they don't look serious, and they don't look that, but you create a culture with walls around them where they can be that.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
I have so much to say on this subject.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
When the music changes, you have to change. You know, by 1968, you can't do Love Me Do, which worked perfectly in 1965. And... We're, it's Vietnam, it's, we're in the writing offices when they raid Patty Hearst's Sinque thing, you know, gunfire and they kill, you know, all of that chaos of 74, we're watching Watergate every day, you know, it's like...