The audience isn’t always going to laugh. They just aren’t making comedy in a vacuum. Instead they want to keep the conditions that gave rise to their success forever preserved so they can say whatever they want and trust that their audience will love them for it.Īs they come to terms with the impossibility of achieving that stasis, they direct their frustrations at woke culture and lament the freedoms they once had without realizing they still have freedoms they think they’ve lost.
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He and his peers have achieved immense success, but still don’t know how to cope with the cultural shifts that naturally occur over a long career. Rock has previously had a fair amount to say about wokeness, like many successful comedians of his generation.
But while those jokes were amusing, it was a bit bewildering that this is what he was spending his time on. He had a good bit about the Kardashians and poked fun at Lululemon’s $100 yoga pants juxtaposed against the company’s woke marketing. There were not nearly enough of the kind of jokes - prescient, hilarious, sometimes uncomfortable but relatable sociocultural observations - that were once Mr. The mic drop might have been a triumphant ending if the comedy that preceded it wasn’t so uneven, and often stale, certainly unfunny. Rock gave the impression that he nailed the punchline. In the awkward void of his mistake, I was struck by just how terrible the last joke was: silly and unartful, not at all profound. Smith back was because, “I got parents, and you know what my parents taught me? Don’t fight in front of white people.” And then, he dropped his mic. Rock tried to recover, and retold the joke correctly before proudly declaring that the reason he didn’t hit Mr. In a moment, all our anticipatory energy dissipated. Rock was apparently still so rattled by the slap incident, he flubbed the joke I imagine he spent a year crafting and perfecting. Rock’s new show “Selective Outrage.” But when he was supposed to deliver one of his fiercest blows, Mr. His rejoinder was set up as a climactic moment at the end of a live Netflix performance of Mr.
And then, just over a week before the 2023 Oscars, at a taping for his Netflix special in Baltimore - which happens to be Jada Pinkett Smith’s hometown (a particularly petty choice) - Mr. After Will Smith slapped Chris Rock in front of the entire world at the 2022 Oscars, we wondered how Mr.
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