  Things That Suck Part Deux I worked security at the Chris Rock show last night. I was supposed to work the second show tonight, but I had to cancel because I had to work late at my real job. It's just as well, since I was supremely disappointed in the show last night. I had never seen Chris Rock's stand-up, however, he seemed funny in his movies and interviews.
I realize now that he was faking. It was only pretend funny. Frankly, I was bored to tears last night. His ninety minute set consisted of approximately 12, nonconsecutive, minutes of funny, 39 minutes of "white/cracker" jokes (incidentally, isn't he married to a "white" lady? ), 22 minutes of political rants (not even jokes, just rants), 11 minutes of (excuse the word here) "pussy" jokes, and, in my estimation, 6 minutes of Oprah name-dropping (he must have said her name at least a dozen times - again, not even within the context of a joke). And all of this was punctuated by at least 792 occurrences of the F -word...give or take. He was getting maybe a smattering of laughs here and there, and people began to trickle out of the theater in the middle of his set.
And the ticket prices? Holy crap! The center floor seats were $60 a piece! I've seen comics come in at less than half that price (e.g. Mitch Hedberg, Dave Attell, and Lewis Black on the Comedy Central Live tour) and maintain deafening levels of uproarious laughter throughout their entire sets. Chris...dude...just be funny. Nobody gives a rat's ass what you think about our foreign policy, or even freaking Oprah, for chrissakes. Sheeeesh! 
