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Comedy Quotes by Chris Rock

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Chris Rock says anyone on stage in front of a crowd is a comedian, and real comedy can’t be faked like a movie. He says many funny people were bullied, and that they turn anger or arguments into jokes that make people laugh even when they are serious. He notes that comedians are drawn to each other's flaws, using shared imperfections to create humor that helps everyone cope.

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A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

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Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

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Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

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When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

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By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

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If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go.

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I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

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You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

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I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

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Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what…

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Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional…

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I like talking about subjects that aren't funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is…

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Stand-up is the only career like that where once you get really big at it, people kind of encourage you not to…

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You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in…

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If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.

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Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

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I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality…

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We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think…

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I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I…

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When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests…

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I don't think my comedy is that political. It's more social. But whatever. When you make comedy and you do stand-up, you…

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There's always a moment in any stand-up show I do where people are booing. They kinda boo a premise. And then I…

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I try to stay with it and I try to stay in contact with comedians and just keep comedians in my life…

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It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do…

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I've told Michael Jackson jokes. If you got really technical, you could say those are jokes about child molestation. You could, if…

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I never wanted to churn it out. Comedians tend to work all the time. They never put it down like musicians who…

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Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get…

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For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get…

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That's all we had when I was a kid: Robitussin. No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it. "Daddy, I got…

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Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

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For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

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Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV.

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I'm pretty good at getting over people throwing stuff at me. If you've been doing stand up long enough you know how…

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Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

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You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.

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Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day -…

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Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

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I think all the funny people were bullied. When they talk about outlawing bullying, it's like, what? You want no Comedy Central?

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A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage,…

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Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

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I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

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I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black shows were…

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Men Quotes 38
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