Most of the things I deemed brilliant at 11 don’t quite hit the same anymore. So when HBO Max dropped the first two seasons of the show at the end of June, I was excited to revisit each segment, from Rock’s opening monologues to his man-on-the-street investigations and unfiltered celebrity interviews.īut I found myself pausing before hitting play and asking if I really wanted to revisit comedy I had loved decades ago when I was in middle school. Other than a few DVD releases a few years after it aired, The Chris Rock Show has mostly lived on in short YouTube clips. But Rock’s ability to cut to the core of race in America, and bring out the most biting, funniest truth lured me into his brilliance and taught me so much about how to analyze and synthesize Blackness. I would sneak-watch any episode I could catch with the volume too low for my parents to hear the F-bombs or the skits I was too young to fully understand. I was a preteen when The Chris Rock Show originally aired on HBO for five seasons from 1997 to 2000.
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