2008 · comedy · political
Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger
Directed by Marty Callner1h 19m2008
An HBO special edited from three performances from Chris Rock's 2008 comedy tour: London (dark suit, dark shirt), Johannesburg (black suit, white shirt) and New York (shiny jacket). Topics include the ongoing presidential campaign, the possibility of a black president, George W. Bush, gas prices, low-paid jobs, ringtones and bottled water, sex, relationships and the correct use of the n-word
Our read: Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger (2008) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded comedy · political entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, gentle comedy / political, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- kinetic
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