The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more than once, anything you see happening to you that you see happening to a friend, you go, Hmmm, that's a situation I can make funny.
Chris RockRelationships, easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Because itโs hard to keep up the lie! โCause you canโt get nobody being you. You got to lie to get somebody. You canโt get nobody looking like you look, acting like you act, sounding like you sound. When you meet somebody for the first time, youโre not meeting them. Youโre meeting their representative!
Chris RockThere are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down South, and so on with Asian, Latino, Indian, midgets, etc. The previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh.
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