Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.

Chris Rock went from a guy whose name you knew from SNL to a legendary comedian by working his ass off.

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.

I'm just looking for a little mystery in life... like things you can't explain. Like, you go to Mexico, they tell you don't drink the water. You go to any diner here, who brings you the water? It's a mystery.

Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.

I belong to a gym now... well, let me rephrase that: I don't belong there at all, but I go.

Comics can definitely be subversive on the whole, but it's a stylistic thing.