The comic’s first recorded special in 10 years is a sharp combination of social commentary and self-analysis deftly covering race,politics and relationshipsIn a comedy landscape with rapidly changing standards of taste, new stand-up specials from elder statesmen of taboo-poking humor arrive with a faint sense of queasiness. Whether they’ll wreck with propriety to challenge the status quo or jam their foot in their mouth is anyone’s guess, and Chris Rock likes keeping his audience in suspense. During his latest special Tamborine (and that’s not a typo),he comports himself like a man who knows his audience is hanging on his every incendiary word, even going so far as to tease with a Yeah, and I said it!” on two occasions. Related: Don’t tumble for it. Chris Rock’s consume of the N-word on television is not OK | Edward Adoo Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk