Chris Rock is always good for spot-on soundbite, or in this case block-quote, but during his sit-down with Esquire he drops more than a few good ones. On Lebron James: CR: I don’t even see what the big story is. SR: Cleveland’s hurting, Chris. CR: Cleveland deserves to hurt. I said that wrong. Deservedly so, hurts. But I’m telling you, weather alone should’ve been cause for panic. SR: He’s got a LOYALTY tattoo. CR: Loyalty to friends. And all his friends are right there. God bless him. SR: They all wanted him to stay. CR: No, they didn’t. They all wanted to go. And by the way, he’s surrounded by six 25-year-old black guys — where do you think they want to be? They want to be in Miami. SR: I know that you’re right. I’m just having a hard time getting over it. CR: It’s the weather, dude. I can’t believe no one’s written that article. If Dwyane Wade played in Milwaukee, LeBron would not be in fucking Milwaukee. On the level ambition of other comics compared to his own: SR: The comics I’ve talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it’s the most intense thing they’ve ever done. CR: Yeah. A lot of guys are great, but they don’t want to hit hard. To hit like Tyson up there, that shit is — I just presented some award to Oprah at the Kennedy Center. I probably did four minutes, five minutes. It’s weird — you go up there, it’s like, what’s the guy in Lord of the Rings who puts on the ring and he’s invisible? Then he lets it off and he’s sweating, like it’s so hard to be fucking invisible. It’s hard to hit homers. I try to hit homers. I’m not a singles hitter. I’m swinging like Sheffield every fucking time. As hard as I can. On the the Tea Party: SR: Like many nice Caucasians, I cried the night Barack Obama was elected. It was one of the high points in American history. And all that’s happened since the election is just a shitstorm of hatred. You want to weigh in on that? CR: I actually like it, in the sense that — you got kids? Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep. And when I see the Tea Party and all this stuff, it actually feels like racism’s almost over. Because this is the last — this is the act up before the sleep. They’re going crazy. They’re insane. You want to get rid of them — and the next thing you know, they’re fucking knocked out. And that’s what’s going on in the country right now. Chris Rock is definitely the master of tickling your funny bone, while at the same time making you think. Source
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Quotes Of The Day: Chris Rock’s Interview With Esquire Magazine
