Chris Rock Beats His "Rich Kids" | Full Interview | Friday Night With Jonathan Ross

I'm here, I love knowing it. I'm glad to be here. Thanks for coming. You've been to the UK before. I guess I know you. I'll be there for life. It was your first trip. I was here before you were here before you did stand-up here years ago, a little gig, right? uh I've never done it, this is the first time I've played in a taxi, I was on stage here before I came in. clubs and a bit messy but this is the first time I've put tickets on sale and how are you enjoying the UK and what do you think of the UK?

Are there preconceived ideas you had about it that are not actually what you had? Thought and vice versa are the things you expected to find and that are not the case. I think people drink a lot here, any place that has darts as a sport obviously people are in a bar too much. Wow, darts and money. and I am a

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man in America. I have to drive a taxi when I'm here. We really like the fact that you are referring to dollars not being worth much dollars anymore. Nothing is like that, ladies and gentlemen, but it's great for us homeless people, pay me back, so you're here.

You are touring a property for the first time. Yes, yes, sir. I'm playing in the UK somewhere in London. I'm in Manchester and Birmingham. I mean, I'm all over the place. put in all the big cities you're doing, yeah I know it's completely sold out, oh it's going pretty well and how's your stuff going here, can you change it for the UK or do you do the same kind of set? You do it right now. You know you have to change some of the references. I mean, no one really cared about my Barry Bonds jokes for the most part at this point.

Who is Bobby Bones? You know. Okay, that's how you were doing it, but could you do it? You say it's okay? That didn't work here. Let me find an English name that works and just place that body. Yes, strange. If you saw me to

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, there's something disinfectant there. He even got Frank Bruno in there last

night

. Yeah, well, that's it. That's a big sit down for Mike. I think Keira Knightley is a reference now, so you'll get your angular size from your hand, yeah, yeah, and the old ones are pretty much the same, they laugh in the same places pretty much, I just have to do it.

Slow it down enough for people to understand what I'm saying because I guess when you went

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because your style is kind of like yeah, I know the honors well, you based it on some kind of preaching from the United States, nothing from a family of preachers. and I kind of like my dad broke the mold and then I kept breaking the mold so I grew up a lot around preachers and I guess some of that comes into the work and when you see the kind of it was kind of a stomp of the gospel that was coming, oh .

No, they actually worship the devil, but it's like it's very crowded there, yeah, yeah, get the crowd up and please give us some money, okay, so we can buy Cadillacs, so you go as well as you. I would expect it to be, I guess it's going even better than I thought, no one shot me or threw anything at me, so we don't make it much louder, it's American, that's American, yeah, I just had to call Obama and tell him. to get around, you need to get away from that because right now it seems like the news in America is dominated by not even the elections as such, it's the fight to find someone to head the various parties before they go head to head. yeah, yeah, it's good, although there will be a change, yeah, you know, Bush has screwed it up so much that it's hard for a white man to run for president, people say, "give me a woman, a black, a giraffe, a coyote , TRUE?" get involved in Punxsy stuff because you're your high position in an hour Oprah Winfrey has put her name behind Barack Obama she's been like lobbying Oprah Winfrey is so

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she bought Barack Obama and built him he's a random robot that I never used to Whether he did I met Barack or Obama, he is the first, he is at the beginning.

I like the United States. Did you meet him? Ma'am, I call him on the phone every time I see him. I tell him, "When you come back with a new addition, get the band back together." What's going on Bobby Brown? These cute bubbles. Oh, I don't know, but I'm sure the crack is related to Whitney. take the white

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at the first sign of do you really think there's a chance that if Barack Obama wins against Hillary Clinton? Do you think he could be chosen? Do you think we would have our first moment? Are you a black president of the United States Thank you, so yeah, unless you know that people made him bleach his skin or something, so there's a good chance you think he has it.

I think he has a lot of possibilities. I mean Hillary's formidable word and she wasn't married to the president yeah so she's much more popular yeah dinner I think I don't think you should be allowed to run for president if you're married to one. Yeah, I think well, I've seen the lottery if someone in your family works with someone. a lot oh yeah, well it's not like she could face them, you see what happened, God bless you, though yeah, yeah, okay, let me ask you, uh, extra Middle East, well, you know, it's interesting because the new Tom's movie I don't know if.

Have you seen, have you seen Charlie Wilson? I haven't seen everything, what do you mean, you haven't seen everything, after the jacuzzi scene, he was wandering around the set. I have to run into him a couple of times. times in Los Angeles on set so I actually saw the song I see so yeah you know what happened yeah okay who are you currently waiting for? As for the comedian, who's out there doing stand-up, who do you think he's got what it takes, who. Do you like to see the work? I love Chris Tucker. I think it's very funny.

I wish Adam Sandler did it. More people don't even realize what a funny guy he is. What about the old guys that inspired you when you started? uh, Eddie Murphy Pryor Sam Kinison, who actually dated George Carlin. I think that's probably what Colleen will be, he was from the '50s. Rodney Dangerfield is probably the funniest guy to ever walk the earth. Let me ask you something when you do comedy. You will use language and phrases. I know you did a whole section on the show a long time ago about how you don't like it, you're a black person and you don't like it, you refer to people as yeah, now you call me the name that ghost saw?

It was the difficulties for you in using that kind of comparison on stage and, in fact, Garce's question is or would it ever be okay for a white person to use the word that Tom was saying early in the Tom? He calls me all the time to criticize me, I guess if you know, if a black person you know hits you in the head with a brick and runs away, hey, because what you're saying, of course, wasn't even about using the The word was kind but it was the definition of a joke. People laughed. Does that worry you?

Is there material that you avoid from other areas that you don't want to go into because it could be misunderstood or people would be upset by pretty much anything. I don't, I don't have any Oprah jokes, just because why piss off the only black billionaire like he might need some money? Could it be that million, hey Oprah, could you go to your couch? and bring me tonight yeah, yeah, she's a phenomenal success, oh she's the best, she's the closest thing we have to God, this is what I fear God, who I talk to, I hope she can be president, surely He could be if he ever leans forward.

If people have time, she could just back out so he could close this whole thing if she wanted. Would you be interested in doing that? Would you be interested in politics? No, no, I've had too many affairs, drugs, did you have? well, actually you, your father with you, you calm down now yes, two daughters, you know how old they are, they are five and three, yes, you smoke around them, it's you. I hit them and I hit them, yes, that's my right. If he had hit someone else. hit and hit them I get angry I get angry nice show Hey, don't hit my

kids

there, you hit them like that, how do you feel?

But how different is it for you to raise your children because it's something I struggle with? a little bit, I guess you weren't born into a rich family, son, no, but they were essentially born broke, so they're going to have, regardless of what you don't do about it, a very different upbringing. vision of the world you've been, yes there are rich kids and the strange thing is that no matter what I do my kids are like rich kids and I've never liked rich kids so there's a part of me that really hates my own children. Deep down, you lucky bastard, but do you still like to go out?

Because now I have three children and I'm an older man than you, but I don't want to go out much anymore. I don't want to, no, no. No, no, when you get into show business, every place you stay is better than your house, yeah, so you start making money and then they put you up at the Ritz Inn like I can't believe this shit, so I really don't likes to go out. when you're in people there are new people you want to be funny yeah just a little pressure just a little pressure sometimes I give it to them sometimes I just give them money I don't have any jokes but here's a few quid okay what do you do?

You have something as great as a career plan You have an idea of ​​where you want to be next year Five years from now 10 years You have that kind of wheel Oh, I'm happy every day because I'm still in show business Yes, really yes, Every time you're in show business you want yeah, hey, still there, hey, do you want me to make a movie? I'll make a movie, let me make a TV show. I will do it, do you want me to do it? be the door host Yes, I can stay in show business, yes, thank God, how long do you think you would be doing stand-up?

Do you think there is a type of life? I recently read over Christmas with a fabulous book. Steve Martin bought a book. Oh, his stand-up career is a brilliant book and it really made it clear to me why he stopped doing that. Do you think there's a period when you wouldn't want to do stand-up anymore? No, I like to do I have to leave the house. You know, Steve Martin just got married. Look, he'll be on stage. So these Mars are on tour for the first time. I wonder what it is about you being very observant in your comedy about men and women. that little clip that we showed earlier about um, you know, we might want that women like to talk in a different way than men and they love to talk, it was an Olympic event, they would get gold every year and they have kind of of focus. you in a different way, I mean men talk about things, women just like to talk, they think about everything and they know they want everything, so if you want everything, you have to talk, I get it. but I like to listen to women talk because it makes me work up there maybe they might one day find out what they are thinking.

I like it yeah, the women talked dirty yesterday, it's nice to meet you, it's nice to have you on the show, good luck. with the rest of the tour, thanks for your trip, then you'll be doing a bit more here in London, yeah, and then I guess now that you know you've established yourself as a comedian here on stage, you'll be doing more I'll be here more often yes, do you wish you had started coming here sooner? doing uh, yeah, yeah, that's amazing like I don't. I had no idea we received this kind of response. What is it?

There is a large audience for comedy hegemony, but there are many fans of his and I am sure it will only grow, ladies and gentlemen, will you join me in thanking mr. Chris Rock