Chris Rock
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, because we know.
No, I knew him before I got on SNL.
We were doing clubs.
Yeah, I knew Adam like a year and a half, two years in the stand-up.
So I've known Adam like 40 years or something.
It's like, okay, I'll tell the story again.
So at any comedy club,
You start stacking chairs.
First, the privilege is to just be allowed in the club.
And then, okay, we're going to let you clean off tables.
And then, okay, we're going to give you late night spots during the week.
So you can go on at 1 o'clock in the morning on a Wednesday, right?
Yeah.
And then you get weak spots during the week.
And then the greatest thing you can do after a couple of years of working is they let you work the weekends, right?
So, and that is like you're a top comic, right?
And so I'm at the club.
Pre-SNL.
I meet Eddie Murphy at the club.
I meet Eddie Murphy at the club one night as I was stacking chairs.