Chris Rock: comedian extraordinaire or douchebag sycophant?

I'm not sure how or why this asshole is still relevant, but the MSM simply refuses to let him drift quietly from the celebrity scene. His acting is on par with the that of Jessica Alba and his comedy routines grow more mundane by the hour. Yeah, the up/down hummina hummina cadence and whiny delivery were mildly amusing once upon a time, but what have you done for us lately? I hope you'll dig deep and come up with something better than this:

 

While I'm normally the biggest fan imaginable of raw sarcasm and good ol' fashion hostility, his schtick seems to be in a constant state of tired rehash. His world view is hopelessly obscured with questions of race and the myriad ways in which it renders his privileged life infinitesimally more difficult. Rock also proves that bigotry isn't the sole provenance of Caucasians with every thinly veiled "Yes Massa" joke" he spouts for the self-deprecating politically correct "crackers" who lap that shit up. Rock is a master at couching his hatred for "the white man" in humor, but that doesn't change the fact that he's a prick in his own right, and no number of Rock apologists will change that. People feel obligated to laugh at his clumsy race relations diatribes as if they were being elbowed in the ribs by the producers and threatened with banishment to the unenlightened comedic netherworld.

His latest remarks about Barack Obama confirm what many of us have suspected: making fun of Barack Obama will be strictly off limits, and not for a lack of good material, but rather because he's black. Welcome to post-racial America, right? I'm sure if we dug deep enough in the Chris Rock archives, we could find him cracking on Mother Theresa, the Pope and Stephen Hawking. But busting on Obama? Perish the thought!

   

CNN: I watched the special last night, and I noticed that you did a lot of jokes about John McCain -- his age, his war hero story -- but not so many about Barack Obama. Is it harder to make fun of Obama?

Chris Rock: He's just one of those guys, you know, like Will Smith. There's no Will Smith jokes. There's no Brad Pitt jokes. You know, what are you going to say? "Ooh, you used to have sex with Jennifer Anniston. Now you have sex with Angelina Jolie. You're such a loser." What do you say? "Ooh, your movies are big. You make $20 million." There's nothing to say about Brad Pitt.

CNN: Why is Obama like that?

Rock: It's like "Ooh, you're young and virile and you've got a beautiful wife and kids. You're the first African-American president." You know, what do you say?

I'm gonna sleep on this one, Chris, and get back to you tomorrow . . .

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