Chris Rock

Chris Rock (born on February 7th 1965 in Andrews, South Carolina) is a Humoriste and American Acteur .

Elder of a family of seven children, it grew with Brooklyn, New York and followed its secondary studies in Stuyvesant High School, where he was president of the team of failures. It gives up the college to be devoted to the comedy.

Whereas Chris Rock occurs in stand-up with the New York Comedy Strip , Eddie Murphy notices it and finds a small role in to him the Cop of Beverly Hills 2 which launches its career to the cinema; Murphy also recommends it for Saturday Night Live , emission which will make it possible Rock to show its comic talent and will give him ideas for its one man show. It will carry out these two careers of comic of scene and movie actor in parallel.

Scenic and televisual career

Of 1990 with 1993 it appears in an about sixty episodes of Saturday Night Live (SNL), one of the comic programs most famous of the United States, diffused on the chain NBC. It leaves SNL in spring 1993 and takes then share with the program declining In living room color for three episodes.

Competition is hard for obtaining roles, Rock thus carries out also a career in the stand-up and launches its first album as a comic heading suspect Born . In 1993, it is head of poster in a program " special comiques" chain HBO entitled Big Ass Jokes , in which it makes watch the extent of its talents for the one man show. Its second passage in 1996 entitled Bring the bread reveals it like one of comic more in sight in the trade, in particular its sketch Niggas vs. black people which will become most famous and more discussed its sketches. Diffusion on the chain Central Comedy of a " reportage" where it incarnates a journalist covering the American presidential elections of 1996 still added to its popularity.

Since, Rock occurred in two other emissions " special comiques" : Bigger and Blacker in 1999, and Never Scared in 2004. The critical articles of the Times and Entertainment Weekly qualified it d'" the funniest man of the " United States; for these two passages. HBO also diffused its talk show The Chris Rock Show , which gained a critical success for the interviews that Rock realizes with the celebrities and the politicians.

All these emissions and sketches did of Chris Rock one of comic the most appreciated its generation. Its work on television was worth to him to gain three Emmy Award S and fifteen nominations for its interpretations and its writing.

In 2004, Rock was classified 5th on one man shows of all times by the chain Comedy Central. Rock'n'roll also transcribed its sketches in writing in the entitled book Rock This and left two comic albums to success Roll with the new and Bigger and Blacker .

Its sets of themes mix the relations interraciales with the United States, the music, the love and the differences between social classes. The education of Chris Rock to also a great influence on its style as comic - often corrosive -; his/her very strict parents, worried by the bad quality of the schools of proximity of Brooklyn, send it in a school to white majority to Bensonhurst (a district with Italian-American majority which was at the time not very famous for its ethnic co-education). Rock'n'roll affirms to be stopped four times: once for dangerous driving in the car on a young person which had dévalisé it, and three times for offenses of the circulation, of which led without license and " control too lente".

In beginning 2005, Rock animates the ceremony of the Oscars. The choice of Rock'n'roll to animate this prestigious ceremony at summer perceived by much like a chance to give some " tranchant" with a ceremony become pompeuse, like making it more attractive with respect to the young public. During the ceremony, Rock scratches Jude Law while exclaiming: Who is this man? Why is it in all the films which I saw these four last years? Even in films or he does not play, if you look at the credits of end, it is him which made the cakes . Almost two hours later, a Sean Penn on the defensive (which at that time turned the insane ones of the king with Jude Law) goes up on the scene and answers him: " in answer to the question of our organizer, Jude Law is one of our more brilliant young people acteurs".

With the autumn 2005, the cabled television channel UPN lance the series TV Everybody Hastes Chris , based on the youth of Chris Rock. It is the Executive producer and the narrator.

It is also him which presents the song Snow ((Hey Oh)) of the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the GRAMMY 2007.

Career of actor

After his appearance in the cop of Beverly Hills , Rock is made better know thanks to small roles in films such as I' m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) or New Jack City (1991). But it is especially thanks to its notoriety acquired on scene and on television that Chris Rock with opportunity of holding of the roles in major films. Among these roles appear Dogma , Beverly Hills Ninja , Lethal weapon 4 , Nurse Betty , and the first role in Down to Earth . Rock'n'roll also slipped behind the camera, carrying out Head off State , I think I coils my wife , and written CB4 .

It has the very rare merit to appear in two films which left the same day to the United States: The Longest Yard (Half-time with the cooler) and Madagascar (cartoon film in which it makes to the voice of Marty the zebra in V.O).

He declares moreover that Eddie Murphy is its professional model and that which pushed it to become actor.

Personal life

Chris Rock is married in Malaak Compton since November 23rd, 1996. It is the founder and the director of the hairdressing salon Styleworks (with not-lucrative goal) which offers its services free to women who leave the welfare (kind of American RMI) to enter the active population. The couple has two children: Lola Simone (4 years) and Zahra Savannah (2 years).

The actor Tony Rock is the brother of Chris. Their Julius father is deceased in 1989.

Everybody Chris Hastes

It is a series telling the autobiography of Chris Rock, with of course, of the modifications in order to make the latter funnier with its comedy situation and repetitions. In the series, the history begins in 1982, and Chris is thirteen years old, whereas actually, Chris Rock had of them already 17.

Catalog of films

Discography

  • Suspect Born (1991) Atlantic

  • Bring the Bread (1996)
  • Roll With the New (1997) DreamWorks
  • Bigger & Blacker (1999) DreamWorks
  • Never Scared (2005) Geffen

Anecdotes

  • In addition to his/her six brothers and sisters, Chris Rock has a half-brother of the first marriage of his father; half-brother who spent much time in prison.

  • Although he is married, Rock has one day comparable the marriage with the fact of " to draw a ball in the tête".
  • It declared that the Red Hot Chili Peppers is its preferred group, and that it was going to be the realizer of the clip of their song entitled Hump of bump . He also loves artists as various as Jay-Z, DMX, Boy George, Elvis Costello, Eminem and the Smashing Pumpkins.
  • It shares its date of birthday with Ashton Kutcher.
  • It declared that its preferred rappor is Eminem.
  • It measures 1,80m.
  • It is often described like next the Richard Pryor for his racial humor.
  • He is a fan of the team of baseball of the New York Yankees.
  • It is often confused with Chris Tucker because they have both of the acute voices.
  • It currently resides at Alpine, New Jersey.
  • the March 12th 2003, it accepted a star on the " Hollywood Walk off Fame".

Quotations

  • The women are as the police force, they could have all the evidence of the world, it would be necessary a confession nevertheless for them

  • I do not do much exercise. It is not really funny. Jim Carrey with the air to be in the fine shape but traditionally, the comic ones were never balèzes. Why people make do yoga? That clears up the spirits to them. I like to apprehend the disorder in my head. Which kind of comic is perfectly healthy of spirit?
  • I adore the music. The music is the band its film which is my life.
  • It is my true name. The name of my mother is Pink Rock. They was worst names to be carried being child. They called off me Piece the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones of English words. Now they call me MR Rock.
  • I am never suitable or careful, but I never swear in front of my mother, either.
  • I never wanted to connect work without stop. The comic ones tend to work all the time. They are never posed as in the music where an album is made and then one can take two or three years to reload the batteries. The comic ones tend to connect the projects and they lose of their freshness. Even when I did not have much money, I did not do something unless having something to say again.
  • People want to see comic the being funny. I want to say, I like Jim Carrey in Eternal sunshine off the spotless mind but it is not a better interpretation than in Dumb and Dumber . I can from time to time make serious roles in films of the others but never in mine. I do not want to ask the fans to come and not to laugh at me: " He, come, one will see Chris Rock not being funny!
  • The United States is the most powerful country of the world and I think that any intelligent country should be concerned by what occurs. I do not have a reproach to make when the British dispute the result of our election. I applauded that. I say it to you, American are not concerned with what occur in the other countries .
  • I am not a superstar. Jim Carrey touches twenty million dollars per film. I make funny head when they say it to me. I must pay 8.50$ to see one of them.

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